I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your desire to inhale the pages of every book you pick up is something you never need to apologize for. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn’t belong in your circle of friends.

Right. Here's my big pitch: Muppet James Bond James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye Dominic Cooper as Bond Kermit M Frog Mrs Moneypiggy Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

This is so me. 😭

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

In my non archaeology life I'm a massive folklore fan and love creating needle felt sculpture based on Welsh mythology

There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate

But not transgender men? Wow, it's almost like there's no actual scientific basis for banning ANY trans people from sports. 🙃 NB: trans women have been able to compete in the Olympics for over 20 years. So far only one has qualified. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #discrimination #LGBWithTheT #TransRightsAreHumanRights

While testing a top secret aircraft design during WWII, pilot Jack Woolams wore a gorilla suit and a bowler hat so that any witnesses who reported back would not be believed.

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

New proposal for the Modern Pentathlon just dropped...

Christmas should feel magical for all children. And every child deserves to experience the joy of stories. Will you help to share the #MagicOfBooks with the children who need it most? ✨ https://bit.ly/3LxZycG

*explaining to my son my idea of having a giant dog rescue where all the dogs are trained to sniff out various diseases and you can pay $100 to walk through and have a dog diagnose you by scent* my son: you could call it “plague dogters” me: I have given birth to a genius

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

All I want is a humble castle on the Irish coast, a crackling fire, a vintage mystery novel, an emotional support raven, a raging thunderstorm, a few purring cats, endless cups of tea, and a scandalous amount of freshly-baked pastries.

Happy Sunday! 🦛 💙 Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Today I met the world's most spherical robin. #birds #nature #RoundRobin 😂

Flowers currently blooming in my garden include roses, dahlias, cosmos, bidens, stocks - and tulips. 🤨 Oh, and the strawberries are fruiting for the second time. 🍓 #gardening #plants #MixedUpSeasons

The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"

✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨ LEAP! Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day! #happy #reptile #animal #funny #cute #joyousjoyness #repost

Sharing the final version of my Ceffyl Dwr for #FolkloreFriday. Absolutely loved making this needle felt creation and getting really into the wire frame modelling

That’s a wrap for sandwich guy.

Three new species of tree toads from Tanzania have been discovered. 🐸 These amphibians don’t lay frogspawn or have a tadpole phase like most other toads, but instead give birth to live young! Find out how museum specimens helped scientists to discover these species. 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

People who object to terms like "birthing person" think they're being used as synonyms for woman, but they're not - that's the whole point. A childfree woman like me would never be called a birthing person. A 12-year-old giving birth wouldn't be called a woman.

Yes, yes we do.

frankly why tf are we doing fireworks at all. It’s called Bonfire Night. get your ex’s photographs and your childhood Harry Potter books and light that shit up

Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s. Which is your favourite? From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain. Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia 📷 by me #Archaeology

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Don't forget to show your support for antifa drag queens this remembrance sunday

A reminder that Classic FM start their bonfire night calming playlist for pets at 5pm

I'm seeing so many excellent memes and screencaps today missing their alt text! Please include *everyone* in your joy! Go to Settings > Accessibility, and turning on "Require alt text before posting." This way a reminder will pop up if you try to post an inaccessible image

Britain doesn't just have a racism problem, it has a bigotry problem. All bigotry is rooted in a belief other people who are different to you are somehow "less human" and "inferior" than you and people like you. As soon as you see one group of people that way it ends up extending to all the others.

This is also true of #foodbanks in the UK.

mugger: *points gun* your money or your life me: sure thing *hands him my id* you got 2 kids and didn’t actually understand the matrix mugger: no i mean- me: *already running away* you’re late for steph’s recital

Who could do with one of these?

Well-meaning Americans in my mentions: kindly do not recommend extremely illegal actions that could land people in the UK with a ten year prison sentence

“Am I alone in thinking, by the way, that it doesn’t add to the status of the University to have an ape on the faculty?” “Yes,” said Ridcully flatly. “You are. We’ve got the only librarian who can rip off your arm with his leg. People respect that.” - Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

Join me on BBC Radio Three at 9:45pm this Tuesday, as I take you on a journey to the cave of St Robert of Knaresborough, to explore if a place of faith such as this can ever, truly, be abandoned. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It's me! Except my name's not Tom.

Day 3 of #Museum30 is all about #Eyes and these artificial glass eye lenses fit the bill perfectly. They were manufactured c.1900 and are stored in a tiny wooden box.

I've just discovered the existence of the Crab Museum in Margate. My 16yo is slightly obsessed with crabs. I'm now wondering how unreasonable it would be to do a 190 mile round trip to take him there. 🤔🦀 #crabs #museums #parenting #Margate

The famous #Hove trilithon towers over the coast.

"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."

For the National Year of Reading, I'd like to see a publisher-neutral pro-reading campaign on the scale of the library one from the 80s and 90s please. Who would be your top choices of celebs to get kids reading now? Rights would be a nightmare but what a bout a k pop demon hunter drawn reading...

And lo it was declared, that today, this very day, we shall subsist on the offerings of the season, roasted pumpkin seeds and leftover Halloween sweets...

We're taking part in #Museum30 this year and today's prompt is 'introduction' 👋 Hello, we're Art UK – the online home for UK art (check us out at https://artuk.org) 'The Introduction' by Frederick Walker (1840–1875) 📷 The Fitzwilliam Museum

Hello, if you're joining us through #Museum30, we're the Mary Rose Museum, home of the wreck of Henry VIII's warship, which sank in the Solent after a long career, and was recovered in 1982. #Introduction MaryRose.org