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Spotted in Trenton, NJ: MARC trains have escaped containment
about 15 hours ago
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Sunset! Rainbow! Lightning!
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Love to go from desk to giant stinky flower to commute home in under 30 minutes!
10 days ago
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Ad from the July 1, 1950 edition of Australian Women's Weekly.
15 days ago
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Time for a thrilling round of Name! That! Amtrak! Station!using only this twee weather vane that you can see from the tracks:
15 days ago
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Are the i's on all Red Line trains so cute? Am I just noticing this?
15 days ago
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From A Handbook for Travelers in Japan from 1891: (
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21 days ago
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(Drawing from Printing Times and Lithographer, May 15, 1887) Available at
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21 days ago
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Do three dragons qualify for HOV...?
about 2 months ago
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And they say corporations don't respect privacy these days. (Google street view, 2012)
about 2 months ago
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Metro track lights are just giant forbidden hard candies
about 2 months ago
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Big night on Flight Aware: I found a balloon.
3 months ago
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This is perhaps the most Monty Python-esque way to declare a legitimate injustice. (from "The Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants War" by Lyndal Roper)
3 months ago
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The Apotheosis of Walgreens
3 months ago
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This is my personal reminder to go back to making bad photoshops in Word.
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3 months ago
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The elder Oddish
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3 months ago
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In February 1963, Crested Butte, Colorado, blew up a furniture store with 150 lbs of black powder to put out a fire after the pipes to the hydrants froze. (from Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies, R. Brown, 1973)
3 months ago
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Saw an orchid today that looks like a bird sitting in a chair.
4 months ago
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Subterranean beavers are an unlikely, but not impossible, mining hazard. (from Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies, R. Brown, 1973)
8 months ago
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*world's loudest groan* (The Saint Paul Globe, August 8, 1880)
8 months ago
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Is one often unsure of one's mayonnaise? (Spokane Chronicle, June 21, 1926)
8 months ago
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A thread of predictions for 2026 from 1926: "Machines will care for [man's] personal needs...flashing him radio-movies of the day's news as it happens" (Montana Record-Herald, July 28, 1926) (1/?)
8 months ago
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I'm at the make-quince-jam-for-the-first-time-on-a-whim stage of furlough.
8 months ago
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Currently on page 53. Will I finish this 918-page book before the shutdown ends?
8 months ago
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Part of the reason I haven't been able to post much: I have been sans personal computer for many months. Behold, my new baby!!
9 months ago
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Molly Muldoon
9 months ago
Sometimes the big boss walks into your office randomly and you have to pretend you're working and not reading the wikipedia page list of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990
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New Old News
9 months ago
When's the last time you had a Chum Chip, a Wisecrack or a Party Poop? (1950)
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Weird! House! History!!!
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The Many Lives of Representative Barzillai Gannett of Massachusetts | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
Since it was first published in 1859, the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress has provided readers with information about the lives and careers of federal lawmakers. The long-running ...
https://history.house.gov/Blog/2025/September/9-8-Barzillai/
9 months ago
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Continuing to New England (as a verb)
9 months ago
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New England Things I Saw Today A sign outside a diner that said: BUFFALO CHICKEN OMELET HELP WANTED And now I'm going to think about that forever.
9 months ago
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Saw this neon sign lit up at night in NH and it cured what ails me. (Photo and story from
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9 months ago
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The joy of collecting stickers is only second to the joy of finally having a perfect use for said stickers.
10 months ago
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(ad from the 1945 Colorado Springs Telephone Directory, Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company)
10 months ago
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DC isn't ready for the 1970s bowling shirt flair that I'm about to bring.
10 months ago
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Did you know you can get REGULAR HOME DELIVERY SERVICE from S&M Egg Ranch? (1940s city directory ad)
10 months ago
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Would anyone be interested in viewing a photo archive of greeting cards from the 1930s-1980s? Asking as someone who has just inherited literally hundreds of my great-grandmother's cards...
10 months ago
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Jennifer Brooks
10 months ago
Minnesota State Fair: the quackening
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Ariel Edwards-Levy
10 months ago
if none of the pasta shapes get a majority, it's first pasta post
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Good moon alert!!
10 months ago
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Perhaps biking 17 miles in one day is too much for someone who just got a bike a month ago.
11 months ago
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Recent stress relief: Reading the Largest Prehistoric Animals article on Wikipedia, opening the entries for random animals and going, "Wow, that sure is a big, huh."
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Largest prehistoric animals - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_prehistoric_animals#Non-avian_dinosaurs_%28Dinosauria%29?wprov=sfla1
11 months ago
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Soda Water Time Soda Water Place (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, August 3, 1905)
11 months ago
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Old ads that make you go hmmm: Clown croquet cookie campaign?
11 months ago
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ringwiss
11 months ago
House: motion to adjourn for 9 years Senate: motion to adjourn for −20 years
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Highly recommend Shark: the Illustrated Biography. You get to learn about how many weird sharks there are/ were and it's great.
11 months ago
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The Fake History Hunter
11 months ago
Left to right: architects A. Stewart Walker, Leonard Schultze, Ely Jacques Kahn, William Van Alen, Ralph Walker, D.E.Ward and Joseph H. Freelander dressed as the buildings they designed at the 1931 Beaux Arts ball.
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*pops up out of the grass* ... hello?
11 months ago
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I have some really excellent 1931 newspaper stuff to share if I can just stand to be online for any length of time
over 1 year ago
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Just saw the
@dropouttv.bsky.social
live improv show, and it was so so so good! Thank you to the cast for making this terrible week in DC a little better!!
over 1 year ago
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THE CHAPEAU DE CORN (Puck Magazine, September 15, 1886)
over 1 year ago
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