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Rachel Smith
@smithy-smith.bsky.social
(She/her) Historian. Theatrical Type. Artist? Fashionable? Always tired. 🏳️‍🌈🌸🌈✡️
Polar history, films, TTRPGs and audiodrama are my thing ❤️
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How great was Tom Lehrer? In 2020, he moved his entire catalog into the public domain because he felt he'd made more than enough money off of it.

Enjoy every Tom Lehrer album:

tomlehrersongs.com
Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer
Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the
tomlehrersongs.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.

tomlehrersongs.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I’m heartbroken, but Tom Lehrer was a genius who lived a long, fruitful and remarkable life. Along with Mad magazine and Allan Sherman, he fed and shaped my sense of humor. I didn’t understand all of it at first — but I learned.

My God, he was smart.
Tom Lehrer Full Copenhagen Performance
YouTube video by Tom Lehrer
youtu.be
July 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Farewell to the GOAT. No one was doing it like him 😔❤️
July 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
OMG A GIVEAWAY?! OF A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS ABSOLUTE BANGER OF A NOVEL??? 🎉🎉🎉
GIVEAWAY!

Tomorrow⚡️High Vaultage⚡️ - our Wodehouse Prize-shortlisted, alt-historical detective comedy romp - is out in paperback in the UK. So @chrissugden.bsky.social & I are giving one lucky person (based anywhere) a signed limited edition hardback! To enter: like and repost by 28th Feb 12pm!
February 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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His Girl Friday was released in theaters on this day 85 years ago (and it’s also Cary Grant’s birthday today!) 📞
January 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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so many good Lynch moments to choose from but this is of course a fave. sure, it's a great meme, but it's also a genuinely good reminder to us, in our time of easter egg hunting, youtube explainers, and subreddits, that you actually don't owe anyone explanations for your art or what it means to you
January 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My obsession with Polar exploration and James Fitzjames in particular allowed our team to win the Geography round at tonight’s pub quiz, and honestly I will be riding that high for WEEKS
January 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Finally, it begins… 👀🥳
January 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Christmukkah didn’t go according to plan this time around, but I am now back home, and the proud owner of my very own, beloved LEGO Endurance 🥰
January 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Chag Hanukkah Sameach! ❤️
December 25, 2024 at 11:33 PM
This moment hit me like a punch to the solar plexus
December 11, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Cardinal this, Cardinal that… forget those guys! What I want now is to sit back and watch these three queen out 💅🏻

#Conclave #TheYoungPope #DerryGirls
December 7, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
November 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Not only do I definitely need to see Conclave again, this is 100% going to reignite my obsession with The Young Pope/The New Pope. 10/10 top tier Catholic nonsense with a banging soundtrack and one of the greatest needle drops of all time 👌
December 4, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Sorry in advance to the group chat but I’ve *just* seen Conclave…
December 4, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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December 3, 2024 at 6:09 PM
*Esme Squalor voice* Listen up Oxford. Flooding is OUT. Fog is IN 💅🏻
November 28, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Good morning I guess 😅
November 27, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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Marc Bloch revolutionized the way we study history, not just the Middle Ages, though that was his specialty. In WWII he joined the resistance & was eventually captured, tortured & executed by the Gestapo. Entry into the Pantheon means that he will deservedly rest among the greatest heroes of France
November 23, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Captain Benjamin Franklin ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce, my beloved 🩷

You would have loved Tom Lehrer’s 1959 bop, Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier 🫡
a man in a green shirt is standing next to a door
Alt: a dark haired man in an army green shirt is standing next to a door
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Ok, I’ll play
November 19, 2024 at 5:06 PM
❤️❄️ Good morning Oxford ❄️❤️
November 19, 2024 at 9:34 AM
As first real posts go this seems like a good one!

10 shows to get to know me:

1. The Terror (S1)
2. Hannibal
3.Granada Sherlock Holmes
4. M*A*S*H
5. The West Wing
6. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
7. Drop the Dead Donkey
8. The Thick of It
9. Spaced
10. Life on Mars
10 shows to get to know me

1. Granada's Sherlock Holmes
2. The Terror S1
3. All Creatures Great & Small (1978 & 2020)
4. Star Trek TNG, DS9, & Voy
5. The "Farm Series" w/Ruth Goodman et al.
6. Futurama
7. The Addams Family (1964)
8. Frasier
9. Animaniacs
10. Wind in the Willows (kid me deep cut)
10 shows to get to know me

1. All Creatures Great and Small (2020)
2. Downton Abbey
3. Gilmore Girls
4. Slow Horses
5. The X-Files
6. Endeavour
7. Doctor Who
8. Friends
9. Call the Midwife
10. Only Murders in the Building
November 17, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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For sale: ship of theseus
Condition: used, like new
November 17, 2024 at 6:09 AM