Nicky Getgood
@getgood.bsky.social
Postgrad #arthistory & #creativewriting OU student. #Hyperlocal veteran. Scribbler. Lucky Orkney ferry-louper. Mum and Museum Custodian. Getgood on 🧵 📷 too 🏴🎨📚🏛🖌
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Nicky Getgood
@getgood.bsky.social
· Aug 21
Top Ten artefacts in Stromness Museum
Explore the captivating world of history with our blog highlighting the top ten artefacts in Stromness Museum and learn more about them.
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Top ten artefacts in Stromness Museum, including Buddo! www.northlinkferries.co.uk/orkney-blog/...
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many social media managers will encourage you to spread your posts throughout the day but why do that when you have 500 thoughts and you could just literally post them all at the same time
September 14, 2026 at 9:32 AM
many social media managers will encourage you to spread your posts throughout the day but why do that when you have 500 thoughts and you could just literally post them all at the same time
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Janey is somewhere applauding this one!
Protesters at the Irish Open.
shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland.
Thank you, Doonbeg!
shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland.
Thank you, Doonbeg!
September 13, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Janey is somewhere applauding this one!
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#Discover This Child Vaccination Poster from c. 1950s offers a fascinating glimpse into the history of public health communication. What can this poster tell us about attitudes towards childhood vaccination — then and now?
Explore the item: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
Explore the item: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
September 7, 2026 at 1:06 PM
#Discover This Child Vaccination Poster from c. 1950s offers a fascinating glimpse into the history of public health communication. What can this poster tell us about attitudes towards childhood vaccination — then and now?
Explore the item: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
Explore the item: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
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"As part of #NightTales, I worked with the NHM Entomology Department to photograph specimens from the museum’s collection, using colored light to transform them into images for the show," says Featured Artist Maggie West. — 🧵
September 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
"As part of #NightTales, I worked with the NHM Entomology Department to photograph specimens from the museum’s collection, using colored light to transform them into images for the show," says Featured Artist Maggie West. — 🧵
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I for one yearn to don a frock simply to torch any instrument of oppression in Cymru.
Being gay is just a bonus.
Being gay is just a bonus.
September 10, 2026 at 7:29 PM
I for one yearn to don a frock simply to torch any instrument of oppression in Cymru.
Being gay is just a bonus.
Being gay is just a bonus.
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Scot, 70, took 40 years to cross-stitch Bayeux Tapestry replica on his daily commute. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bayeux Tapestry replica goes on display in Aberdeenshire
Ian Williams' work - about a third the size of the original - is on show in Macduff in Aberdeenshire.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 10, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Scot, 70, took 40 years to cross-stitch Bayeux Tapestry replica on his daily commute. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Loving the lgbt AND Welsh representation in this week’s The Orcadian letters page. #InclusionMatters #RebeccaRiotersRocked 🏳️🌈 🏴
September 10, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Loving the lgbt AND Welsh representation in this week’s The Orcadian letters page. #InclusionMatters #RebeccaRiotersRocked 🏳️🌈 🏴
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September 9, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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My new spirit animal…
September 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
My new spirit animal…
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Illustrations of jellyfish from A. G. Mayer’s Medusae of the World (1910) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mayer-medusae
September 8, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Illustrations of jellyfish from A. G. Mayer’s Medusae of the World (1910) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mayer-medusae
I made myself a nudibranch friend at an Orkney Science Festival creative workshop with artist Jenny Pope 🌊 it was great to learn so much about plankton from Elaina Rose Kelly @heriotwattuni.bsky.social 🔬
September 8, 2026 at 2:53 PM
I made myself a nudibranch friend at an Orkney Science Festival creative workshop with artist Jenny Pope 🌊 it was great to learn so much about plankton from Elaina Rose Kelly @heriotwattuni.bsky.social 🔬
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What's everyone researching at the moment? 🌠
September 8, 2026 at 11:17 AM
What's everyone researching at the moment? 🌠
According to my husband, me screaming my head off and explaining that “the pirates are coming!” EVERY SINGLE TIME I see one of these ships through the window isn’t funny. I disagree. 🏴☠️ 😱
September 6, 2026 at 1:36 PM
According to my husband, me screaming my head off and explaining that “the pirates are coming!” EVERY SINGLE TIME I see one of these ships through the window isn’t funny. I disagree. 🏴☠️ 😱
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Nigel Farage is very lucky that he didn't know what was being discussed at the lunch where he was discussing it
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Nigel Farage is very lucky that he didn't know what was being discussed at the lunch where he was discussing it
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Well let me just blow your mind here a moment. What if...what if a lasagne is just a meat trifle
September 3, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Well let me just blow your mind here a moment. What if...what if a lasagne is just a meat trifle
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Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
September 3, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
The kids have given me their back-to-school plague 🤒
Ren and Stimpy Tired on Bed
ALT: Ren and Stimpy Tired on Bed
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September 3, 2026 at 8:12 PM
The kids have given me their back-to-school plague 🤒
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a little masterpiece
September 3, 2026 at 4:09 PM
a little masterpiece
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Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.
August 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.
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Prehistoric ‘shaman's puppet’ at the Moravian Museum in Brno.
August 27, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Prehistoric ‘shaman's puppet’ at the Moravian Museum in Brno.
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It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world, and #DollyParton sure was proof!
In 1978, the Goldberger Doll Mfg. Company released the first commercially manufactured celebrity doll in the icon’s appearance, one of which made its way into the NHM Collections pictured here.
In 1978, the Goldberger Doll Mfg. Company released the first commercially manufactured celebrity doll in the icon’s appearance, one of which made its way into the NHM Collections pictured here.
August 25, 2026 at 11:46 PM
It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world, and #DollyParton sure was proof!
In 1978, the Goldberger Doll Mfg. Company released the first commercially manufactured celebrity doll in the icon’s appearance, one of which made its way into the NHM Collections pictured here.
In 1978, the Goldberger Doll Mfg. Company released the first commercially manufactured celebrity doll in the icon’s appearance, one of which made its way into the NHM Collections pictured here.
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Hat tests for 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971) 📽️
August 25, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Hat tests for 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971) 📽️
Watched Gladiator II last night, which tied up all the lose ends apart from a glaringly obvious one: WTF happened to Dondus? 🐵
August 23, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Watched Gladiator II last night, which tied up all the lose ends apart from a glaringly obvious one: WTF happened to Dondus? 🐵