Rebecca
@jeybecques.bsky.social
Current librarian, former classicist, perpetual nerd. Expect special collections, book history, yarn.
“Is there anything you aren’t interested in??”
“Is there anything you aren’t interested in??”
Pinned
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A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.
January 7, 2026 at 9:08 AM
A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.
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Last week we discovered that many towns have hungry bridges.
Wait, how many towns have truck-eating bridges?!
January 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Last week we discovered that many towns have hungry bridges.
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This man's media team is a bunch of goddamned geniuses, someone scouted for locations and figured out they could set up this very shot. Look at it, it's incredible. Look up pics of Adams being sworn in at the ball drop, which look chaotic, cheap, and undignified in comparison.
January 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM
This man's media team is a bunch of goddamned geniuses, someone scouted for locations and figured out they could set up this very shot. Look at it, it's incredible. Look up pics of Adams being sworn in at the ball drop, which look chaotic, cheap, and undignified in comparison.
I will forever fondly remember the lady on a train in Germany who got so tired of listening to me try to explain what spice I meant in very broken German, so she leaned a row forward and said “Zimt” and then went back to ignoring everyone
Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
January 4, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I will forever fondly remember the lady on a train in Germany who got so tired of listening to me try to explain what spice I meant in very broken German, so she leaned a row forward and said “Zimt” and then went back to ignoring everyone
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Aiming for a Brambly Hedge-ish January
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Aiming for a Brambly Hedge-ish January
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It’s for sale for about half the cost of the restoration works, to put it in perspective
A @oldenoughtosay.com coded bit of architectural silliness for sale here for a mere £2.7 million
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Detached House for sale with 4 bedrooms, Hadlow Castle, High Street
Browse through our collection of Detached house for sale in Hadlow Castle, High Street, Hadlow, Tonbridge, TN11 0EG for £2,780,000. Contact one of our local expert estate agents for assistance in fin...
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January 4, 2026 at 11:20 AM
It’s for sale for about half the cost of the restoration works, to put it in perspective
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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So today, @Propublica is changing that with our latest tool, RX Inspector. You can use it to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here’s what happened when I took it for a spin 2/
#RXInspector
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Here’s what happened when I took it for a spin 2/
#RXInspector
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Search for Where Your Generic Prescription Was Made - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
Enter information about your prescription generic drug and we will search through FDA data to figure out where your generic drug was made.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
So today, @Propublica is changing that with our latest tool, RX Inspector. You can use it to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here’s what happened when I took it for a spin 2/
#RXInspector
projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector...
Here’s what happened when I took it for a spin 2/
#RXInspector
projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector...
today’s piping hot political take: i think it was completely reasonable for Churchill not to find Stalin’s jokes about mass murder funny at the Tehran conference
December 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
today’s piping hot political take: i think it was completely reasonable for Churchill not to find Stalin’s jokes about mass murder funny at the Tehran conference
underrated joy of listening to books about Churchill is hearing British people attempt to pronounce Missouri
December 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
underrated joy of listening to books about Churchill is hearing British people attempt to pronounce Missouri
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Marvellous mail boxes of Paris, largely Modernist and you can see more here www.instagram.com/romainlaprade
December 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Marvellous mail boxes of Paris, largely Modernist and you can see more here www.instagram.com/romainlaprade
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'Brooks and boulders' - the third piece of my aerial embroidery series incorporating pine bark chip 'rocks'! The contrasts between the hard rocks and soft embroidery, dark and pale shades and terrain makes this landscape my favourite 😊 will be available Friday with all the others! 1/2
August 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
'Brooks and boulders' - the third piece of my aerial embroidery series incorporating pine bark chip 'rocks'! The contrasts between the hard rocks and soft embroidery, dark and pale shades and terrain makes this landscape my favourite 😊 will be available Friday with all the others! 1/2
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'In the winter garden' - my favourite geometric garden aerial that I've ever done! I don't remember if I shared it here or not yet - it has camellia bushes in the centre and beds of winter heather and hellebore :) the geometric landscapes are always more challenging and I love that! #embroidery
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
'In the winter garden' - my favourite geometric garden aerial that I've ever done! I don't remember if I shared it here or not yet - it has camellia bushes in the centre and beds of winter heather and hellebore :) the geometric landscapes are always more challenging and I love that! #embroidery
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political science
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
political science
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
I was so excited about my new timer light switch but now I am looking at cloth covered wires and feeling much less excited
December 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I was so excited about my new timer light switch but now I am looking at cloth covered wires and feeling much less excited
mmmm, the combination of uncleared partly melted snow on top of uncleared goopy leaves on top of entire chunks of sidewalk that have been covered in mud for years
December 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
mmmm, the combination of uncleared partly melted snow on top of uncleared goopy leaves on top of entire chunks of sidewalk that have been covered in mud for years
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Almost certainly the best photo I will ever take from an Iron Age Hill fort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn.
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Almost certainly the best photo I will ever take from an Iron Age Hill fort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn.
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Bringing this back since it’s the season ❄️
The Fellowship of the Ring as Penguins! 🐧
They are all a different species that matches them! 🧵 below:
They are all a different species that matches them! 🧵 below:
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Bringing this back since it’s the season ❄️
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Teapot (1879), designed by Christopher Dresser (1834–1904)
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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🌿 It’s #GivingTuesday! Help the Biodiversity Heritage Library take flight as we count down to independence on 1 Jan 2026. Your gift helps #GiveBHLWings – keeping 500 years of biodiversity knowledge open & accessible worldwide. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌏
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December 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🌿 It’s #GivingTuesday! Help the Biodiversity Heritage Library take flight as we count down to independence on 1 Jan 2026. Your gift helps #GiveBHLWings – keeping 500 years of biodiversity knowledge open & accessible worldwide. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌏
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small children make me understand the noise muffling virtues of fully carpeted homes
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
small children make me understand the noise muffling virtues of fully carpeted homes
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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"I must tell you that a horoscope which has been cast for my younger son shows that he will be pope, but I'm very much afraid he's more likely to be the antichrist."
That's it.
That's the *entire* letter.
That's it.
That's the *entire* letter.
Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"I must tell you that a horoscope which has been cast for my younger son shows that he will be pope, but I'm very much afraid he's more likely to be the antichrist."
That's it.
That's the *entire* letter.
That's it.
That's the *entire* letter.