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Loquacious Scribble, PhD

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Museum professional, Historian of Science, Teacher, and some other stuff.

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · Jun 3

19th Century Museum Humor.. sadly still relevant.
Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan · Sunday, June 03, 1888

#tdih #museumhumor

Clipping from Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan · Sunday, June 03, 1888 a joke in which a young boy thinks all the tings he sees in museums is "Hands Off"

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 39m

a man with a mustache wearing a hat and a suit

Alt: Paul Newman from the Sting, with a mustache wearing a hat and a suit passing along a conspiratorial signal

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 1h

"Favourite!!"

Curse you American autocorrect!!

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 1h

As second haderach to the deputy Chancellor of the Antifa-Exchequer, I gotta notify you that all we can afford is number 9B pencils and grade 1 paper. But we got all the erasers you want. (A box of rubber bullets "fell of a truck" heh heh heh)

viva la (under budget) revolucion

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 2h

“ Favorite" is a deliberate misspelling of "favorite" because Noah Webster said "america, fck yeah”!

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 14h

I've heard that American soldiers are called Doughboys, but that's ridiculous.

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 17h

I hear college students have sex, too. Sometimes with people they aren't married to, or will EVER marry.

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 18h

LEO's can shoot anyone they want on duty (and even off duty most of the time) and never be held accountable for it if they can find even the thinnest of reasons to claim they felt threatened. That's been true since long before Trump came along. Americans like it that way as far as I can tell.

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 19h

Well, as secretary of Homeland Security she is supposed to defend the country against fowl play.

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 22h

This you Governor Abbott?

The Houston Chronicle
Houston, Texas · Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Headline "Abbott orders troops to keep eye on feds"

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks!

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 1d

Interestingly "In to the Breeches" is also the title of a Rev War themed porn video I saw in college.

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 1d

Out of curiosity, for which side, if any, do black reenactor's fight? Among Civil War reenactors the myth of the black CSA soldier persists, but there were many more black soldiers for the British than America.

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 1d

Bruce Reynolds says asking the Royal Mail for use permission would "kill" the train robbing business.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when GOP Governors thought sending federal troops uninvited into states was a bad idea?

At some point "Don't Tread on Me" became "I'm treading as hard as I can."

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 1d

"IF"?
This wasn't that long ago!

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, just like the good old days.

Portrait of that Nattering Nabob of Negativity Spiro Agnew

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 2d

I guess we now know what happened to that seminary graduate who uttered that famous punchline, “If this is poverty, I can’t wait for chastity.”

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 2d

A good solid 3rd of this country (or more) was never going to vote for a black woman. Whether they stayed away from the polls or pulled the lever for Trump doesn't matter.

Any analysis that doesn't start with the premise that we are a misogynist, racist country is deeply flawed.

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 2d

Only keep smoking if you don't mind being bed ridden with COPD or the like needing your kids or grand kids to wipe your a$$ for and change your catheter for you.

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 2d

Take long-term consequences seriously. Don't wait for foot or back pain to get comfy shoes. Don't wait until you have a heart scare before you watch your blood pressure. Don't wait for a bad cough before you stop smoking.

By the time you think you have a problem, it is usually too late.