Liz Kendall urges UK public to embrace Wayne, their annoying cousin who keeps turning up unannounced and saying stupid shit and is very difficult to shrug off

AHRC - Objects of Care: The Role of Museum Collections in Supporting Young Adults’ Mental Health | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester University of Leicester Dr Nuala Morse PhD AHRC - Objects of Care: The Role of Museum Collections in Supporting Young Adults’ Mental Health

Great PhD opportunity here on object-based learning and young adults’ mental health le.ac.uk/study/resear... - might appeal to #GLAMCares people @glamcares.bsky.social

In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways

Ooh, Hungary. Niiiiiiiice. 👍🏽

I have just learned of "Occam's Kazoo" heuristic to understand the actions of Trump; basically the most likely explanation of his actions is the stupidest. (Original RT didn't have alt-text)

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Happy Friday! 😀

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Fair dos. He does look... tongueable.

Would absolutely break a molars on the amber gummy. Tasty, tasty artefacts!

With over 3000 specimens, this Flickr collection is still unrivalled when it comes to vintage hotel luggage labels.
www.flickr.com/photos/waves...

Type & illustration gold.

That was one of the bestest tweets. I don't see it quoted often enough, so thank you!

A Morrisons Belgian white and blonde chocolate egg box with a picture of the egg on the front, which basically looks like a potato.

what’s the matter, you’ve barely touched your easter potato

Meanwhile, on the moon...

David Hughes tweet, 2015 Judas: still on for Friday? Jesus: Friday? Judas: yeah, the last supper Jesus: the what? Judas: supper. Normal supper with the fellas

Talking of banger tweets

He gonna do crimes.

Sad times, indeed. Sad times.

*shudders*

My grandparents had a Friday fish man - this was on the fringes of Bristol. In Camberwell in 2022,I was most surprised to have a strange guy turn up on my doorstep asking me if I wanted any fish. There was no sign of a van either so I initially thought he was just a chancer. Or a surrealist.

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Oh, please, can this happen.

Modest proposal

Conscript everyone complaining about badgers replacing Churchill and send them to the Strait of Hormuz in a rubber dinghy.

Nature innit.

Also, heard and saw a woodpecker. By the time I went to take a photo it was gone, natch. Got a blurred pic of two parakeets snagging, instead.

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Walked through the woods ner my house a couple of days ago and saw a man actually properly hugging a tree. Nice.

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Instagram has just shown me a 'retro' necklace of a compact disc.

Feel a bit old.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project:

'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies

www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April

Help us test the “Whose Bias? Ways of Seeing” pilot, a new community-led approach to handling outdated and biased language in collections:

17 March, 13.30 – 14.30: https://bit.ly/3OD48bi
24 March, 13.30 – 14.30: https://bit.ly/4r58mFX

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Some good news this morning!

Skeleton in wide stance holding what look like guns with the words 'vitamin d' emblazoned across the centre of the image in rainbow colours

It me.

My new year's resolution to stop making old people noises is NOT going well.