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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 · 1h

Please don't promote the flaws of the WaPo headline.

"The White House" is not destroying its own East Wing. Trump is destroying it. It's his decision to demolish this historic building and build a monument to his base ego.

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

How about all banks that profited off slavery, including legacy corporations, should pay for reparations. Wells Fargo, Citibank, Bank of America, AIG, etc etc.

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

That headline!!

Trump isn't destroying the East Wing, the White House is. The building is removing its own wing.

Trump "had claimed." Not claiming anymore He didn't promise or assure, let alone lie.

Trump has no agency or culpability in anything.

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

Dictionaries are "descriptive" not "prescriptive"

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

It's "duck" tape not "duct" tape (the original was made from cotton duck)

It's "perq" not "perk" (short for perquisite)

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 5h

And since they are not on furlough, this means someone in leadership classified them as essential.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 7h

Take it from us -- an organization that closely studies all the horrific ways people can die from common household items -- have the jelly donut.

Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 7h

Full of saturated fats, sugars and carbohydrates it'll create visceral fat around your heart and your liver and end your life early.

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 6h

So the Met Gala, but they wear the art from the collection.

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 6h

In school I had several teacher with a policy that throwing things in class was punishable. Unless you were throwing trash in the garbage, then if you made it in you were absolved. If you missed, it was double the punishment.

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 6h

Hold my beer!
-The British Museum

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 6h

Why not? That's the way asset forfeiture and wage theft pretty much already work in the US. Why no spread it to other forms of stealing?

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

As I recall, it used to be in the Mount Royal Tavern. Is it still there?

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

Some mosaic artist. Not sure the name.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

A young boy holds a sign that simply states in plain handwriting: Trump hit on my girlfriend

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

I like the suit, I’m not sure I understand the sign.
#nokings
#nokingsdc

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

No Kings DC
#nokings

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

Just my 2cents but having gone to a SEC school with a cross state rival (FSU v UF) it’s my experience students don’t take these rivalries as seriously as the sports media would have you believe. I saw more cooperation between the 2 schools than competition.

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

Kind of Ironic that they are The Cavaliers, no?

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

A lot of these types prefer the message of the wrathful, violent god of the Old Testament and would drop the New Testament in a heart beat, but they are afraid people might think they are Jewish. It's why the always want the Ten Commandments on public land but never the Beatitudes.

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

I like to member it as Hayward Shepherd day.

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

I don't disagree, but it’s worth remembering the first person killed at Harpers ferry was Hayward shepherd a free black baggage handler for the B&O railroad.

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

You May be thinking of Edmund Kirby- Smith.

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 4d

My understanding of American Evangelical theology (which admittedly is tenuous) is that good works do not get you into heaven. Only faith in Jesus.

Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 4d

Makes quite a match with the Magic Gardens in Philly.

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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 4d

I blame the government shut down.
#museumhistory

The New York Times
New York, New York · Sunday, October 15, 1899

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The New York Times
New York, New York · Sunday, October 15, 1899

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