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Liza

@lizamezzo.bsky.social

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Mezzo-about-town. Singer, actor, Shakespearean text coach, will translate your opera libretti and song texts. She/they.

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · Sep 10

Still smiling from our first rehearsals for this. Roel Fox and Oliver Maynard are going to burn up the stage as Faustus and Mephistopheles. Come and see!

Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · Aug 31

Keep hearing some buzzing about performing Marlowe more... obviously we're doing Doctor Faustus twice in October so... you know... do the thing.
If you want to.
It's not like you're signing your life away.
In blood.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 14h

Incredibly refreshing to see a uk politician just say yes a woman can have a penis and can you be normal about trans people if you dont want them to have a dick fund their transition awesome love this guy

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 16h

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 14h

Does he hang out by the lift queue going “Taaaaake the staaaaairs”

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 14h

When you’re such a thesp that even your memorial plaque is Dramatic

Plaque on a London wall reading:
WILLIAM TERRISS
1847 - 1897
HERO OF THE ADELPHI
MELODRAMAS
MET HIS UNTIMELY END OUTSIDE THIS THEATRE
16 DEC 1897

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 20h

Fortune be with thee!

Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

Drag stripper named Sadie Vacante who does a papal regalia striptease

Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

THE HORNS ARE HERE THE HORNS THE HORNS

Thank you, Runestone Prints on Etsy!

Yes, this is a radio play… but there will be a paying audience in the house, and YOU might be one of them, so it’s important that you be delighted

Various fake animal horns, not yet attached to their headbands

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING #antifa NEWS: "The England flags have been removed and replaced with other signs"
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 1d

All my comics have happy endings!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

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Rose @pandorathevolva.bsky.social · 2d

I’m behind on gardening but the overgrown skeleton trellis has its charm

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 2d

Grim theory: they're doing bullshit indictments that they know will be thrown out, so that in a few years when they're indicted they can draw a false equivalence.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

The judge: it is hereby ordered that you are in fact, not like us

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 2d

I feel this deeply in my adhd soul

Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 2d

Wood and linen?

Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 2d

Did Apollo write this

Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 2d

This makes me think of all the Elizabethan/Jacobean masques and plays where people are transformed into trees and vice versa.

(This costume is later than that of course. But similar idea, perhaps)

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

King Louis XV dressed up as a yew tree for a ball at Versailles once.

www.madamedepompadour.com/_eng_pomp/ga...

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 4d

Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 3d

In 1990, a group of Black women took on one of America's largest corporations in a battle for a historic Black school. 25 years later, the've reshaped how we fund, teach, and preserve Black history

The Auntie Fascists: How a Group of Black Women Defeated Walmart, Lost Cause and the Erasure of Black History

When a group of retirees hatched a plan to save their historic Black school, they had no idea that they were creating a blueprint for legislators, museums and historic sites across America.

dlvr.it

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 3d

Mary of Guise had a lady in waiting called Big Anne (La Grant Anne), according to the master of the wardrobe in 1553

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 3d

Speaking as a Birmingham native, Bessemer ain’t nothing but black folks — and I find it oh so interesting that black neighborhoods are where they keep shoving all these data centers

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Jenny Exuma @jennyllello.bsky.social · 3d

fucking wind the clock back 25 years and tell Baby Jenny "yo so furries are going to be Mission Critical on the front line against donald trump's fascism and absolutely none of this is a joke. also they run the entire internet that isnt owned by literal vampire pedophile billionaires, so be nice"

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 3d

Two living people have recently seen in real time how people would react to their passing:

-- Dolly Parton (outpouring of grief; fervent prayers from all faiths and none)

-- ...and that other guy (spontaneous massive internet party)

One would hope lessons would be learned.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3d

Hey by the way, if you're into peer pressure, this person signed up for my newsletter. Doesn't it make you want to sign up for my newsletter too?

Of course it does!

This week you'll get a recipe for a lovely fall soup.

Please sign up! Make this Black Lady—and her editor—happy!

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 3d

A jay! First jay I’ve seen on the balcony. I hope he ate some slugs out of the plant pots

A British jay, a medium sized bird with sort of pinkish feathers and blue wing feathers and a long tail, sitting on a potted plant on a London balcony

The same jay with its back to us so its long tailfeathers are visible

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