Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialSteven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Still waiting for the version of this show where somebody thinks Claudia touched them on the shoulder but she actually didn't, and chaos ensues #TheTraitors 41047
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialSophie Hall @sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Linda during every second of any interaction with anyone #thetraitors 220827
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Oh yeah, and YOU’RE DEAD TO ME returns in 2 days!! Episode 1… Aristotle 61769
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Just when you couldnt be any prouder to be British here's Joseph Banks describing Xmas 1768 on Captain Cook's Endeavour "all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us" 431136
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/12/2024In 1659, the the Puritans in Massachusetts enacted a law that declared that Christmas was sacrilege and exchanging of gifts, greetings, and wearing fine clothing on that day was Satanic. Anyone caught celebrating was fined 5 shillings. (About 5 days wages.) The "War on Christmas" was an inside job. 706245305142
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialPhuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 25/12/2024I love how much Alec Guinness loved Wallace & Gromit 241537125
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 23/12/2024no offense to Kendrick Lamar but the best diss track of all time is still “You’re a Mean One Mr Grinch” 41143261544
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialJessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 19/12/2024"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..." 211155123972
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 13/12/2024An eye for an eye, and we all go blind. 854139811817
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialSix is a sentient basket. @thesix.bsky.social · 08/12/2024He’s dressed as a cop and helping them look. 33153
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialRead the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 08/12/2024This Fox segment on the search for the shooter is incredible. Look at how the NYPD searches Central Park lol 99876071246
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 05/12/2024people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow. 256174432394
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/11/2024U.S. zoos sent millions of dollars to China to help protect wild pandas. But the Chinese government instead spent the money on apartment buildings, roads, computers, museums and other expenses, a New York Times investigation found.nytimes.comMillions of Dollars to Protect Pandas Was Spent by China on Roads and BuildingsA Times investigation found that zoos knew conservation money went toward apartment buildings and roads. But they wanted to keep displaying pandas, so nobody looked too closely. 65722183
rebeccarebotis.bsky.social @rebeccarebotis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024How have City gone to pieces as soon as Klopp left 😭 000
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (19th century): one who pays great attention to trivial matters as a way of avoiding the important ones. 466137931656
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Hercule Poirot had it exactly right: stay warm, ride trains, keep a mug of hot cocoa on the night stand and pick the sort of career where people regularly invite you to visit their lavish country estates. 535569
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialRosanna Leo @leorosanna.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The best part of working in a library is getting to walk around the library before it opens. 408510280
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialBad Atheist @badatheist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Remember that libraries are proof that not every goddamned thing needs to be “for profit.” 387372824652
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialScott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I hope after "Boybands Forever," the BBC commissions "Girlbands Forever" 111925
Reposted by @rebeccarebotis.bsky.socialDara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 14/11/2024If we just get the menswear guy posting here and that chef who comments on terrible cooking videos, I think we’d be set. 3787218
