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Rachel Dellon

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DC native, Philly transplant, and proud nerd. Frequent nonprofit, musical, and cat posts. All views my own; reposts not auto-endorsements. (She/her)

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Rachel Dellon @rdellon.bsky.social · Jan 5

If anyone (and by anyone, I mostly mean me) prefers to follow along with the 2025 Musical Theatre Songs of the Day on Spotify, there's a playlist now: open.spotify.com/playlist/6vs...

2025 Musical Theatre Songs of the Day

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Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 336: Happy birthday, Adolph Green.

Just in Time - Bells Are Ringing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCuA...

December 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 335: Home stretch!

We Need a Little Christmas - Mame

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb9O...

December 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM

Reposted by Rachel Dellon

Cosmic Clau

@cosmicclau.bsky.social

i see we're all continuing to participate in this tragic farce* that nobody asked for

*monday

November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

I named my fists Bono and The Edge because I really shouldn't have gotten myself into this situation.

Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner

studdwardo.bsky.social @studdwardo.bsky.social · 2d

I named my fists Gilbert and Sullivan because they are slaves to duty

December 1, 2025 at 5:46 AM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 334: For better or worse, there are no Tom Stoppard musicals, but I feel like this could've been a scene in something of his.

God, I Hate Shakespeare - Something Rotten

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhMn...

December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 333: Happy birthday, Louisa May Alcott.

The Weekly Volcano Press - Little Women

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpsJ...

November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 332: Happy Black Friday! Try to survive.

Our Doors Are Open - Black Friday

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s628...

November 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 331: It's turkey lurkey time!

Turkey Lurkey Time - Promises, Promises

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVUh...

November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

Thanks, I hate it.

Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner

Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures

www.bloomberg.com

November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 329: It's Tina Turner's birthday, and National Jukebox Day, so...

River Deep, Mountain High - Tina

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNuJ...

November 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 328: On this day in history, Once Upon a Mattress opened.

Many Moons Ago - Once Upon a Mattress

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtck...

November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

The call was put out for chaotic Thanksgiving stories, and (thankfully) nothing that's happened to me yet has ever managed to top this.

Rachel Dellon @rdellon.bsky.social · 8d

Not my story, but I don't think this acquaintance is on Bluesky, so...one year, she and her family went out to a remote cabin in the wood for Thanksgiving, in an area with wild turkeys. At some point, her dad decided he wanted a real pioneer Thanksgiving.

You can probably guess where this is going.

November 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 327: Happy birthday, Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Come Spirit, Come Charm - The Secret Garden

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9g1...

November 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM

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Coffee Porter Jr.

@unlox.bsky.social

🎵Football alone can make my song take flight / It’s over now, the wait for Sunday night🎵

weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 9d

The Phantom of the Opera should do one of the Football Night songs

November 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

I remember when this assignment was “fact-check a Wikipedia article.”

November 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

"We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky."

Politico @politico.com · 11d

A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.

The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.

Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc

November 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 327: To my knowledge, there is no Doctor Who musical or song with references that would allow me to mark the show's original premiere that way, but this has the right feel.

Sextet Montage - Superbia/tick, tick...BOOM!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLtH...

November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

"I know that I must do what's right...but, uh, maybe later."

RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 10d

Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday

Lyrics on a karaoke machine:

I guess it rains down in Africa
I guess it rains down in Africa
I guess it rains down in Africa

November 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM

Reposted by Rachel Dellon

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

@theradr.bsky.social

hey guys i made a seasonal meme

Meme: Straight ahead: Pausing to consider the meaning of Cohen's lyrics
Everyone, for some reason, takes the exit towards Singing "Hallelujah" again in religious contexts

November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

I know it's a bad idea to anthropomorphize stellar objects, but I kinda love the idea of our introverted Sun retreating to a quiet corner where no one will bug it.

Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 10d

A metaphor for holiday family gatherings?

By studying relationships between distant objects, astronomers have reconstructed our solar system's early upbringing. Their conclusion: The Sun left its birthplace early, before its siblings could stir up much trouble. 🧪🔭

aasnova.org/2025/11/14/t...

The Hubble Space Telescope’s view of a collection of young stars still embedded within their natal nebula. [NASA, ESA, G. Duchene]

November 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM

Rachel Dellon

@rdellon.bsky.social

Musical Theatre Song of the Day, Day 326: It's one of those days in history where the soundtrack writes itself.

Finale Ultimo - Camelot

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmOh...

November 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM