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Rob Liguori
@robxlii.bsky.social
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Where the ordure hits the spinny metal thing. Research editor at the NYT (i.e., a fact checker). Former criminal defense attorney. Lover of facts, sailor of oceans, player of instruments. In a long-term relationship with the truth. Rhode Islander for life.
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This one’s for @radiofreetom.bsky.social: boarding a plane with jeans, sneakers, and…wine gums.
A packet of wine gums, a British candy, with a man’s feet in the foreground.
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Gonna need this sign for my home.
View of an open kitchen in a Caribbean restaurant. There is a large red neon sign that just says JERK, front and center. Reggae posters hang on the walls.
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Last but not least, the coronation chair, which has been used for the crowning of British monarchs going back to the 14th century.
The coronation chair, a throne like wooden chair with a high back and arms, set on a plinth supported by four lion statues.
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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This one’s for the #Phish fans. I dream of living long enough to catch the return of Halley’s Comet.
A stylized plaque memorializing Edmond Halley, 1656-1742, designed to resemble a comet with a wide tail. The inscription in the tail reads: FIRST TO PREDICT THE RETURN OF THE COMET NAMED AFTER HIM SECOND ASTRONOMER ROYAL FELLOW AND SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SPONSOR OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA EDITOR OF PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS SAVILIAN PROFESSOR OF GEOMETRY OXFORD OCEANOGRAPHER METEOROLOGIST GEOPHYSICIST INVENTOR NAVIGATOR AND FAMED FOR HIS RESEARCHES IN DETERMINING LONGITUDE HE LAID THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION OF LIFE ASSURANCE
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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My wife says this reminds her of when I play two saxophones at once (a cheap but effective gimmick).
Medieval painting of an angel with wings, wearing a red robe and playing two wind instruments simultaneously.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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These two donkeys are identified in the plaque as “Wild Asse” and “Tame Asse.”

:snicker:
Very faded medieval wall paintings of two donkeys. There is a wooden board on the right describing the paintings; these two donkeys are labeled “Wild Asse” and “Tame Asse.”
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Britain’s oldest door! This amuses me to no end.
Britain’s oldest door: a nondescript wooden door, most likely constructed in the 1020s.
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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One hell of a disclaimer.

It says:

READER,
IF, ON PERUSING THIS TRIBUTE TO A PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL,
THOU SHOULD'ST BE DISPOSED TO SUSPECT IT AS PARTIAL, OR TO CENSURE IT AS DIFFUSE,
KNOW THAT IT IS NOT PANEGYRIC, BUT HISTORY.
ERECTED BY THE AFRICAN INSTITUTION OF LONDON, A. D. 1816.
A lot of text carved into a white marble stone, the key part of which says: READER, IF, ON PERUSING THIS TRIBUTE TO A PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL, THOU SHOULD'ST BE DISPOSED TO SUSPECT IT AS PARTIAL, OR TO CENSURE IT AS DIFFUSE, KNOW THAT IT IS NOT PANEGYRIC, BUT HISTORY. ERECTED BY THE AFRICAN INSTITUTION OF LONDON, A. D. 1816.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I adore Lewis Carroll and I adore this memorial stone. A masterpiece of design.
Lewis Carroll memorial stone, which is rendered in a circular layout, with his given name, Charles Lutwidge Dodson, 1832-98, and the following text: Student of Christ Church, Oxford. Buried at Guildford. “Is all our life, then, but a dream?”
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Nice lines but I would’ve chosen the opening from “This Be the Verse.”
Memorial stone to Philip Larkin, 1922-1985, with his lines: Our almost instinct almost true What will survive of us is love
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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This one’s for @radiofreetom.bsky.social, who is a fan of the Screwtape Letters. Me, I can take or leave C.S. Lewis and his wardrobe.
Floor stone memorializing C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963. A quotation wrapped around his names reads, “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun is risen; not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else.”
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Ancient graffiti. Incredibly, there was graffiti of this sort all over the place, carved into centuries-old stone monuments by long-dead tourists or pilgrims.
Very, very old graffiti on a wooden stall. Someone named “Thomas Rixon” has carved his name.
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Edward the Confessor’s final resting place. If you only remember one date from European history, remember 1066.
The tomb of Edward the Confessor. A large stone box sits at the top of a short flight of wooden stairs.
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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This statue goes way harder than you can imagine. Zoom in on the details.
A statue of a crumbling skeleton draped in cloth, rearing back with a sword it its right hand…preparing to strike?
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I do not know John Rae, but this was uniquely engraved to say the least.
A terracotta colored stone which reads “John Rae, 1813-1893, Arctic explorer,” in a very unique font
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Stephen Hawking’s burial site.
A black floor tile that reads “here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018,” with an engraving of a black hole and the Hawking equation.
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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John “Longitude” Harrison, who made navigating the oceans much more precise by crafting a highly accurate clock, giving rise to lines of longitude (one of which bisects his memorial). A hero to sailors.
Memorial stone of John Harrison, which reads “John Longitude Harrison, Clockmaker, 1693-1776.”
November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Lovely Indian tonight at Dishoom, just aces.
A bottle of Thums Up cola, with a red logo shaped like a hand giving a thumbs up. A green wall at Dishoom with the following text: RULES OF THE CAFÉ NO HIDING CAMERA IN INCREDIBLE PLACES NO SWINGING FROM CHANDELIERS, RIDING ATOP SPEEDING TRAINS OR FIGHTING LIONS NO GOING UPSTAIRS AT GREEN'S NO AMOROUS KISSING SCENES OR EXPOSED BODY PARTS NO POST-DATED CHEQUES ON FAILING BANKS NO WASHING HANDS IN PLATES AND GLASS NO COCKING A SNOOK NO CONSORTING WITH FEARED DONS NO EATABLES IN WATER CLOSET NO FLIRTING WITH CASHIER NO STOPPING THE COCKTAIL DANCE NO CHANGING NAMES ON ASTROLOGICAL ADVICE NO RUNNING TO CALCUTTA NO SOLICITING OIL MASSAGES NO CUTTING OF NAILS ALL ARE WELCOME
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Please enjoy a photo of my lovely wife Nature Girl having a conversation with a nine-point buck in my dad’s backyard today.
A woman in a black sweatshirt with red hair in a ponytail appears to be talking to a large buck deer with a full rack of antlers, across a stone wall in the afternoon light.
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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I always come back to this, as someone raised in the Catholic Church.
Screenshot of a tweet from the account @graybee. The text says: Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Mr. Boston (1937) thinks you’re wrong.
A page of martini recipes from the 1937 Mr. Boston bar book. None contain vodka.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Approved.
Col. Robert Gould Shaw of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, in full dress uniform.
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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NO THANK YOU
Photo of my Apple Watch with the Noise app open. The meter reads 95dB - Loud.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Apologies for bringing it up, sir, but did you call a penalty on yourself for this obvious foul?
President Nixon bowling at the White House bowling alley. The walls are heavily patterned. Nixon is mid throw, having just released the ball from his right hand. His face wear an expression of great focus.
October 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I feel attacked but also, this is an idea I can get behind.
An Onion headline: Judge Orders Columbus Statue Removed and Melted Down Into Pinkie Rings For Local Italians
October 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM