Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 4h

HAMLET
Do you hear, let them be well us’d, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

Shakespeare, HAMLET, 2.2
#BookWormSat

1 4

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 4h

CASSIUS
Honor is the subject of my story…

Shakespeare, JULIUS CÆSAR, 1.2
#BookWormSat

1 6

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 4h

HERMIONE (the mom)
Tell ’s a tale.
MAMILLUS (the little son)
Merry, or sad, shall’t be?
HERMIONE
As merry as you will.
MAMILLUS
A sad tale’s best for winter.

Shakespeare, THE WINTER’S TALE, 2.1

#BookWormSat

1 4

Reposted by Paul

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5d

So say it, Hegseth.

President Truman desegregated the military in 1948. That would be when the “wokeness” began, huh?

Say it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "We won World War 1. We won World War 2. We won everything in between. We won everything before. And all of the sudden they decide to change the name. They went woke then too, you know. Woke is a long term. Word."

56 490 1.9K

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 5d

Iris (I guess it’s the Roman “Arcus”) rainbow 🌈 goddess and messenger of the gods.

1 1

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 6d

Shakespeare was in his mid-thirties (in 1599-1600) when he wrote HAMLET (a few years older than Hamlet himself).

I wonder how old he thought you had to be for it to be unimaginable for you to have a sex drive.

How old is Gertrude meant to be, 50? 55?

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 6d

Never was such a sudden scholar made;
Never came reformation in a flood
With such a heady currance, scouring faults;
Nor never Hydra-headed willfulness
So soon did lose his seat (and all at once)
As in this king.
We are blessed in the change.
HENRY V, 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday

a man with his eyes closed is saying you 're simply just more mature

ALT: a man with his eyes closed is saying you 're simply just more mature

media.tenor.com

1 7

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 6d

You cannot call it love, for at your age
The heyday in the blood is tame, it’s humble,
And waits upon the judgment…

HAMLET, 3.4
#ShakespeareSunday

an older woman in a blue shirt is dancing in a room with other people .

ALT: an older woman in a blue shirt is dancing in a room with other people .

media.tenor.com

1 1 9

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 6d

KING RICHARD:
Lions make leopards tame.
THOMAS MOWBRAY:
Yea, but not change his spots.
RICHARD II, 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday

1 12

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 6d

Heaven is here
Where Juliet lives, and every cat 🐈‍⬛ and dog 🐕
And little mouse 🐁 , every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her,
But Romeo may not.

Flies 🪰 may do this, but I from this must fly…

Shakespeare, ROMEO AND JULIET, 3.3
#BookWormSat

1 3

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 7d

Ay, in the catalog ye go for men,
As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clipt
All by the name of “dogs”; the valued file*
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
The house-keeper, the hunter…
Shakespeare, MACBETH, 3.1
#BookWormSat
*phylum

2 14

Reposted by Paul

Buffalo Bills @buffalobillsnfl.bsky.social · 16d

Time to garden. 🥕

#GoBills | #BillsMafia

2 4 46

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 13d

Our infection will make the city shake, which partly comes through the eating of parsnips.
True; and pumpkins together.
SIR THOMAS MORE, 2.4
#ShakespeareSunday

It may be a fart joke…

1 6

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 13d

Till then I’ll sweat and seek about for eases,
And at that time bequeath you my diseases.
T&C, 5.10

a stuffed animal is laying on a couch with a pink blanket .

ALT: a stuffed animal is laying on a couch with a pink blanket .

media.tenor.com

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 13d

Things growing are not ripe until their season…
MND, 2.2
#ShakespeareSunday
THEME: Autumn

a cartoon gorilla holding a banana with the words i 'm not even ripe below it

ALT: a cartoon gorilla holding a banana with the words i 'm not even ripe below it

media.tenor.com

1 7

Reposted by Paul

Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 14d

Can you imagine how pissed these experienced, veteran generals are going to be when an incompetent cosplaying drunk who thinks Call of Duty is real life gives them a lecture on being a warrior? I bet the ones who flew in from 7 time zones away are going to love that.

What a country!

63 110 1.3K

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 14d

“His lady and her train are coming hither.”
Shakespeare, SIR THOMAS MORE, 3.2
#BookWormSat

#QueenElizabethII

3 9

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 14d

Queen Mab… is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi.
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut,
Made by the joiner squirrel …the fairies’ coach-makers.
Shakespeare, ROMEO & JULIET, 1.4
#BookWormSat #Mabh

2 8

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 18d

TIE STORY 6: I was teaching about the two Genesis stories of the Creation of the Universe so I chose this @metmuseum tie with its sparks, explosions, and swirls. I hope you created something cool today! #tiestory #paulsties

Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 19d

Rest in Music, composer (and one of #BuddyHolly’s #Crickets), Sonny Curtis. He’s probably known best for this piece of music, the theme for THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW (1970-1977)!
#MaryTylerMooreShow #TVTheme #SonnyCurtis

Reposted by Paul

Nolava @jcenna.bsky.social · 20d

“The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes, tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans, make the sun dance. Hark you!” (Coriolanus, Act 5 Sc 4) #ShakespeareSunday

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20d

Thousands of activists marched down Park Avenue and turned down Billionaires’ Row toward Trump Tower in New York Saturday to “Make Billionaires Pay,” calling for climate justice, democracy, free speech, gender equality, a stop to the Trump’s immigration crackdown and a ceasefire in Gaza.