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Zachary Lesser

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Book history, Shakespeare, early modern studies @ Penn English. Views just my own. Image in header is from: https://shorturl.at/FtfZQ / Gen'l Ed., Arden Shakespeare / https://pennmaterialtexts.org/ / http://shakespearecensus.org / http://deepplaybooks.org

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · May 31

LADY MACDUFF
For the poor wren,
The most diminutive of birds, will piss
Into the sea.

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 1d

Now I want a bumper sticker that reads:

Thus they relate,
Erring.

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 1d

I have found this to be very hard

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Adam Zucker Again @adamzucker.bsky.social · 1d

I generally endorse poetry bumper stickers, but no. Exactly the opposite.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 1d

Never apologize for using an Arden @ardenpublisher.bsky.social !even if it's Arden 2!

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 4d

Well, by "way out", I mean, avoid having to make a choice either way. Avoid having to do one thing or the other.

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 4d

stalling also is a way to see what others do. Prisoner's dilemma is at work here.

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 4d

it's meant to stall; they are buying time hoping to find a way out. That's my guess.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 4d

So the secret to Bluesky is... kebabs?

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 5d

Kofta kebab recipe in England c. 1660. Amazing find!

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 5d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 5d

Proposed reply:

Dear Secretary McMahon,

Our offer is this: Nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which we would appreciate if you’d put up personally.

Sincerely,

Universities

John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 5d

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

Colleges weigh whether to sign onto Trump plan or forgo federal benefits

A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 5d

They were such a revelation. I first tuned in to them with Fables, then found Murmur, and then realized that Reckoning was my favorite. I lost track of them after about 1990 and I think they declined but I think people don't realize how incredible they were for a stretch in the 80s

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 5d

Also, if the university gives Trump their mobile number, they get 10% off their first order

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 5d

Oh yeah I had this last time you posted about it. Delicious!

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 5d

No but I'm gonna! You're killing me on a fast day though

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 6d

Oh that's very far from the passport place which is not far from my house

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 6d

Where's this sandwich exactly?

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 8d

Delightful. Something similar happened at my house about ten years ago when i burned something in the kitchen and set off the alarm

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 9d

was just looking up Penn's policy on students' recording classes for some reason...

"Students are not permitted to share, copy, or distribute recordings of live class sessions or any prerecorded class content without the permission of the University and the instructor. Students may also not make their own recording of class sessions. These actions are violations of the Code of Academic Integrity."

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 9d

And that doing those politics isn't synonymous with abandoning one's values or throwing people under the bus. Or doesn't have to be.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 9d

Coates made that point well I thought, and showed how it emerges out of a particular tradition, as does Klein's misperception of it.

But I think Klein was also right about certain segments of the left preferring easy judgment and condemnation over hard politics.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 10d

Is this just a misuse of the word "novel"?

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 12d

They should close their library too. All those books, who's really using them anyway?

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12d

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net

A post from Feeding the

networks.h-net.org

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Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression @thefireorg.bsky.social · 13d

This serves as a warning to other universities who have sought to punish faculty for similar comments: the law is not on your side.

Faculty don’t lose their right to speak about matters of public interest simply because they work for a public university.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 13d

Not made up!

www.aafs.org/careers-ques...

Careers in Questioned Documents

Questioned document examination, also referred to as forensic document examination, is the branch of forensic science best known for the determination of authorship of signatures and handwriting but, ...

www.aafs.org

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 15d

Also, what am I supposed to do with all this iron pyrite I've been hoarding?