Grrrbecca
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Boring lady. Reads lots, posts little. Oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor, how do you get this dumb song out of my head my sweet
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In school, I learned that Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great.
No one ever mentioned Aspasia, a woman, taught Socrates.
No one ever mentioned Aspasia, a woman, taught Socrates.
December 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
In school, I learned that Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great.
No one ever mentioned Aspasia, a woman, taught Socrates.
No one ever mentioned Aspasia, a woman, taught Socrates.
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The Chicago Christmas Tree in Millennium Park. Last night in downtown.
December 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Chicago Christmas Tree in Millennium Park. Last night in downtown.
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Time for my annual sharing of this super weird, super ‘80s Les Miz Christmas carols video
youtu.be/iMUvtsKqowg?...
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Les Miserables Cast
YouTube video by mimibarthez
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December 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Time for my annual sharing of this super weird, super ‘80s Les Miz Christmas carols video
youtu.be/iMUvtsKqowg?...
youtu.be/iMUvtsKqowg?...
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The shorteste daye
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
December 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The shorteste daye
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
Creating one the maternal way costs that much and you have no problem forcing people to pay for that, even if they'd rather not hit through with it
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Creating one the maternal way costs that much and you have no problem forcing people to pay for that, even if they'd rather not hit through with it
Those of us who still refer to the Sears Tower will not be playing these little Kennedy Center games
December 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Those of us who still refer to the Sears Tower will not be playing these little Kennedy Center games
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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
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New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
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This really is, as Sara says, INSANE memory-holing: Minutes after FCC Chairman Carr told Congress that the FCC "is not" an independent agency (see video below via @atrupar.com), the FCC website started getting scrubbed to remove that description.
December 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This really is, as Sara says, INSANE memory-holing: Minutes after FCC Chairman Carr told Congress that the FCC "is not" an independent agency (see video below via @atrupar.com), the FCC website started getting scrubbed to remove that description.
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This is an important moment, and we need to explain to the public why it's important.
An agency with the power to decide who gets to broadcast is supposed to be independent from the president so it won't abuse that power. If it's not, then we are letting the president seize the power to censor.
An agency with the power to decide who gets to broadcast is supposed to be independent from the president so it won't abuse that power. If it's not, then we are letting the president seize the power to censor.
LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency?
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
December 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is an important moment, and we need to explain to the public why it's important.
An agency with the power to decide who gets to broadcast is supposed to be independent from the president so it won't abuse that power. If it's not, then we are letting the president seize the power to censor.
An agency with the power to decide who gets to broadcast is supposed to be independent from the president so it won't abuse that power. If it's not, then we are letting the president seize the power to censor.
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Toad woke up. “Drat!” he said. “This house is a mess. I have so much work to do.”
Frog looked through the window. “Toad, you are right,” said Frog. “It is a mess.”
Toad pulled the covers over his head.
Frog looked through the window. “Toad, you are right,” said Frog. “It is a mess.”
Toad pulled the covers over his head.
December 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Toad woke up. “Drat!” he said. “This house is a mess. I have so much work to do.”
Frog looked through the window. “Toad, you are right,” said Frog. “It is a mess.”
Toad pulled the covers over his head.
Frog looked through the window. “Toad, you are right,” said Frog. “It is a mess.”
Toad pulled the covers over his head.
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
We need a buddy system where very rich or powerful people get a normal-dormal family to shadow. Come join the Joneses on grocery shopping day or making a doctor appointment day. Now the Joneses join you on your medical appointment, just to see how that goes
December 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
We need a buddy system where very rich or powerful people get a normal-dormal family to shadow. Come join the Joneses on grocery shopping day or making a doctor appointment day. Now the Joneses join you on your medical appointment, just to see how that goes
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Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
You just know that these lummocks are trying to hoist their chins up in the direct path of some poor woman hauling a two bags and a carseat and dragging a toddler riding on a carryon
December 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
You just know that these lummocks are trying to hoist their chins up in the direct path of some poor woman hauling a two bags and a carseat and dragging a toddler riding on a carryon
Lindsey Graham or Brett Kavenaugh maybe. Still a lot of questions I'd love to see someone dig into.
That’s a new dinner party conversation: Who is someone that you hate so much that, if given the time, energy, and crew, you’d produce a 4-part documentary on them?
December 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Lindsey Graham or Brett Kavenaugh maybe. Still a lot of questions I'd love to see someone dig into.
Let not young souls be smothered out
Before they do quaint deeds, and fully flaunt their pride.
Before they do quaint deeds, and fully flaunt their pride.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Let not young souls be smothered out
Before they do quaint deeds, and fully flaunt their pride.
Before they do quaint deeds, and fully flaunt their pride.
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Coldest air on Earth today is in the US with temps up to 40 degrees below normal in the Midwest/ Great Lakes. Actual lows are as low as -20F there.
Cold US is due to widespread relative warmth in the Arctic, with record low Arctic Sea Ice extent. This “warmth” displaces the polar cold pool south.
Cold US is due to widespread relative warmth in the Arctic, with record low Arctic Sea Ice extent. This “warmth” displaces the polar cold pool south.
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Coldest air on Earth today is in the US with temps up to 40 degrees below normal in the Midwest/ Great Lakes. Actual lows are as low as -20F there.
Cold US is due to widespread relative warmth in the Arctic, with record low Arctic Sea Ice extent. This “warmth” displaces the polar cold pool south.
Cold US is due to widespread relative warmth in the Arctic, with record low Arctic Sea Ice extent. This “warmth” displaces the polar cold pool south.
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8" of snow so far in Champaign, IL
Most snow in the 102 year history of Memorial Stadium
Most snow in the 102 year history of Memorial Stadium
November 30, 2025 at 1:09 AM
8" of snow so far in Champaign, IL
Most snow in the 102 year history of Memorial Stadium
Most snow in the 102 year history of Memorial Stadium
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This is incredible thank you @sesmith.lol here are some shrimp.
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This is incredible thank you @sesmith.lol here are some shrimp.
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Personally I these white men just need to assimilate to the real Indigenous values of America, responsible stewardship of land & use of resources, cooperative community governance, hospitality, honor of spirit, instead of refusing to relinquish their barbaric European culture, we'd be better off.
Trump is doing 95% of the shit the Declaration of Independence was written about so Miller was kind of spot on about importing the horrors of… England.
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Personally I these white men just need to assimilate to the real Indigenous values of America, responsible stewardship of land & use of resources, cooperative community governance, hospitality, honor of spirit, instead of refusing to relinquish their barbaric European culture, we'd be better off.
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The latest installment in our series on book rebinding, where the Library's advanced book conservation interns are taking you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection! Scroll back in our feed to see Act I, and check back next week for Act III.
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The latest installment in our series on book rebinding, where the Library's advanced book conservation interns are taking you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection! Scroll back in our feed to see Act I, and check back next week for Act III.
I wonder where the expression "bog standard" came from. I live in cornfields, I have no idea what a standard bog includes.
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I wonder where the expression "bog standard" came from. I live in cornfields, I have no idea what a standard bog includes.