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Professor SweetPants @ygrene.bsky.social · 2h

reminder to check your kid’s trick or treat candy this year to make sure there isn’t any ai in it

Marissa Skull-Yorick 💀 @marissaskud.bsky.social · 1h

…but I think Pedro uses them MORE than the other characters, & that leads to some dramatic irony. He sees himself as such an honorable guy, he can’t imagine anyone would lie to him & trick him! And yet, he proposes a few tricks himself: pretending to be Claudio, then making B&B fall in love!

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Marissa Skull-Yorick 💀 @marissaskud.bsky.social · 1h

This is the biggest Shakespeare role I have ever played and it’s amazing how much more you understand the longer you sit with the text. Pedro is always saying things like “by my troth,” “i’faith,” “on mine honor.” And yes, those are stock “Shakespearean” phrases…

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Marissa Skull-Yorick 💀 @marissaskud.bsky.social · 1h

I’m at Standard Deviant in the Mission, having a cider and trying to learn my lines for the freewheeling “Much Ado” production I will be acting in here in 10 days! I am playing Don Pedro — the Denzel Washington role, for those of you who remember the Branagh movie.

A Pop Art style theater poster, showing one woman whispering in another woman’s ear.

Text on the poster reads

BAY AREA BAR SHAKES PRESENTS
No DIRECTOR.
ONE REHEARSAL.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
IN TIME THE SAVAGE BULL DOTH BEAR THE YOKE.
TUESDAY 10/21 6 PM
STANDARD DEVIANT BREWING 280 14™ ST SAN FRANCISCO

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 5h

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23h

and the Hamlet cast we see doing their thing in the background should all be other actors super famous for being in other things with Keanu Reeves

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 23h

After Waiting For Godot Alex Winter & Keanu Reeves should remake Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 1d

Today I learned that the French equivalent of German’s eierlegende Wollmilchsau (lit. egg-laying wool-milk-sow,” your special unicorn all-in-one solution) is the mouton à cinq pattes (the 5-legged sheep). I love languages.

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Marissa Skull-Yorick 💀 @marissaskud.bsky.social · 1d

Dory
Elmo
Flor
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 2d

(Just so it's clear, this skeet was posted **three days** before László Krasznahorkai won the Nobel Prize for Literature)

Ghoulius von Klaproth @klaproth.bsky.social · 6d

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 2d

Me and @markkrotov.bsky.social wrote about Laszlo Krasznahorkai and the Nobel Prize in Literature newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the Prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

newrepublic.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

under most circumstances Portlanders would be very annoyed if you called them normal, but this is an exception

Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 2d

One thing you can do as a patriot to expose the regime’s lies is to take reporters to all of the 99.99% of Portland that is peaceful and normal.

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Marissa Skull-Yorick 💀 @marissaskud.bsky.social · 2d

Amanda! Good to find you here, but kinda funny to see this post, b/c as a teen, I assumed my teachers were duty-bound to point out every mistake, no matter how small. Then in my 20s I dated a teacher & he was like “if I did that for every student I’d have no time for anything except grading papers.”

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 2d

they're gonna be so mad we have a better frog

escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 2d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 2d

I support free speech, but I also think Bluesky should ban anyone that says eating the lower half of a mermaid is not cannibalism

I don’t care if genetically it’s fish flesh not human, in my book it still counts as cannibalism and I expect this platform to uphold that fact

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 3d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Marissa Skull-Yorick 💀 @marissaskud.bsky.social · 2d

I watched it & I liked it, but I thought Macfadyen was too young & charismatic! He is only 7 years older than Atwell, but canonically the age gap should be much bigger and the other characters should find their romance kind of baffling.

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Call me Trick-or-Tracy. 👻🎃 @peakingsassy.bsky.social · 3d

The girlfriend of TWO of the founders of antifa!

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Marissa Skull-Yorick 💀 @marissaskud.bsky.social · 3d

It's delightful. Great soundtrack and knitwear!

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Marissa Skull-Yorick 💀 @marissaskud.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 3d

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 3d

You might be an English major if you see this person's name and are like "Aphra Behn?"

Democrats @democrats.org · 3d

Aftyn Behn will fight to lower costs for working Tennessee families and stand up for the people of the 7th congressional district.

Onward to the special election on December 2!

Graphic featuring Democrat Aftyn Behn with the following text:

BREAKING

Aftyn Behn wins Democratic nomination for Tennessee's 7th congressional district

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 5d

I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.

slate.com/culture/2025...

Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That He’s Also a Joke?

He might be the greatest actor of all time—and the most misunderstood.

slate.com

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Marissa Skull-Yorick 💀 @marissaskud.bsky.social · 4d

Last month I got to tell a beloved, retired professor how much her class had meant to me—and then I just politely smiled and nodded as she told me I "must do everything possible to make sure your California governor is the next president"

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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