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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 · 28d

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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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 12h

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 · 11h

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 · 1d

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 · 9h

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 · 16h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 10h

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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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 19h

American Gothic

Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 1d

The greatest thing I own or will ever own is this old retail standee where Dracula casually reveals a coffin full of Doritos and Pepsi.

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 23h

The more I read the responses by BlueSky's dev team, the more annoyed I am about the ways that they've squandered the promise of what this site could be.

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

Brunost

A block of Norwegian brown cheese on a slightly chipped plate. The light is hitting it just right so with its fancy moulded shape it looks like a cheese cathedral

Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

Fish cheeks are delicious!

Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely godly over cream cheese on rye

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 1d

Rudy talks about the work going on to remediate some of this foolishness; grateful for the work, and it sucks that the Blacksky team has to change it's timetables because of other folks' foolishness. Put some money on their books and help us get a little bit freer

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

I long to read both!

Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

Also, the Dragon-helm letters and the Mall of Mandos are still classics!!!

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

I’m still here

I live here

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

Musescore still won’t do 4-line staves or neumes. I would have liked to teach my cast to read neumes.

Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

Should the hamsters stop dancing, the internet will fall.

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

Rejoice! After reading tutorials, watching overlong videos, poring over ancient forum posts and swearing a lot, I have finally managed to make MuseScore do the thing I wanted it to do.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

@beyondshakes.bsky.social, any idea?