Joe Vaughan

@joevaughan.net

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writer, museum person, trying https://joevaughan.net

Joe Vaughan at the Barbican
"You should leave Twitter Uncle Ben told us that with great power comes great responsibility. It was a beautiful aphorism to coin especially before a young boy who he didn't know would soon develop the power of becoming a spider; who would save New York and become seemingly the most powerful person in the world. Museums are also powerful and also full of cobwebs. Except we don't have Uncle Ben. We have massive technological challenges and constraints, a world that keeps telling us we can do more with less, and an appetite to do so because we care about our work so deeply."
David Hayter, the voice actor of Solid Snake, liking a tweet that says 'colonel....this is The MERL'
Humpty Dumpty looking very whimsical dancing along a wall
A poster with graphics of hedgehogs, that reads 'hedgehog extravaganza. Hedgehog info + facts. Hedgehog crafts. Guess the name of hedgehog. Tombola. Raffle. Hedgehog t-shirts 4 sale. Village hall 1st Saturday of June. What do you know about hedgehogs? What do I eat? Am I a rodent? Why am I called a hedgehog? Come and find out.'
Joe Vaughan at the Battle of Helm's Deep
Joe Vaughan, a man in his 30s, standing in front of a red curtain performing standup
Joe Vaughan, a man in his early 30s, speaks in front of a red curtain
Joe Vaughan (a man in his early 30s with white glasses and curly hair) performs at Healing Comedy Club, Ealing
Arms of Rhys ap Thomas
Keir Starmer issuing a message warning the fly-tippers 'blighting our towns and villages'. He says 'We'll use drones and new tech to identify your vehicle. Then we'll crush it'
An absolutely giant bunny
Apple Podcasts history charts, showing MERL at number 55.
A screenshot from our podcast platform, showing episode 2 is now live.
Bookshop with a model train running along the shelves
Screenshot of Apple Podcasts rankings, showing MERL podcast at rank 85
Emirates Stadium, close to the pitch
A bottle of Lucky Saint beer with an absolute unit sticker
a crab shooting lasers out its eyes with the caption HELLO BRAND
Adam Mosseri: We’re starting a small test for ads on Threads with a handful of brands in the US and Japan. We know there will be plenty of feedback about how we should approach ads, and we are making sure they feel like Threads posts you’d find relevant and interesting. We’ll closely monitoring this test before scaling it more broadly, with the goal of getting ads on Threads to a place where they are as interesting as organic content.
YouTube music showing that I listen to Chappell Roan, Gregorian Chant, k-pop, and Wicked
Two skeets - one is The MERL referencing Wicked song Defying Gravity, the other is Sacha Coward asking 'how can you not think Elphaba and Glinda are going to snog'
Joe Vaughan wearing a black turtleneck and wool beanie
A life-size replica guillotine, from a play (wink wink I promise)
Museums Association with 5k followers (!!)
Joe and Beth in front of a mountain
Edwardian Doll, Reading Museum collection