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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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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 2h

happy day of official recognition, little guy...

THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE • poems • upfromsumdirt

available from @kentuckypress.bsky.social - or (hopefully) everywhere books are sold.

photo of blue hardback book with orangish, goldish illustrations of a mermaid with a leopard on the front. the book sits on a desk with an assortment of stuff on it, lime an orange notebook, a blue sharpie, and a bottle of black.

photo was taken at about 3am. why isnt the poster asleep?!?

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 4h

Sometimes I look at how Robert Schumann was just out here writing music for and about a whole lotta women who were not his future wife and I just go man, what a real sloppy bitch of a guy that Robert was

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 9h

if you’re cis, you probably don’t even know who miss major was and that sucks for you. you’re missing out.

it sucks for all of us that she’s gone.

her work actually *does* need to be continued. especially right now. you should help make that happen.

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 9h

Memorial thread here. I wish she had lived to see better days than these.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 10h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 19h

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 13h

Just want the rest of the country to know that the Alaska National Guard is being deployed and utilized for ALL THE RIGHT REASONS today!

They’re aiding with search/rescue and disaster relief to several Alaska Native villages hit with a climate change induced natural disaster

They’re saving lives

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 21h

Most of rural Alaska is Alaska Native. Bonus donating to support Alaska Native people on Indigenous Peoples Day.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 22h

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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anna 🫧🍧💿 @bastilas.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes I think about this

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Michael Sheridan @michaelsheridan.bsky.social · 20h

Myself and many others at the New York Daily News are living this nightmare... please take time and what this documentary.

Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 17h

Ettore Boiardi

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Is life often terrible? Yes.
Are there still always people out there going “Let’s make a cool ass thing for other people to see?” Also yes.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

19. I love Deet and need her to be OK!

a couple of cartoon characters standing next to each other with a netflix logo on the bottom

Alt: Deet and Hup from the Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance TV series. Both are puppet characters. Deet is a Gelfling woman, basically human looking with green skin, textured white hair and long pointed ears. Hup is a Podling, a smaller creature, also humanoid but with a face like a cheerful potato. Both are marvelling at something.

media.tenor.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

This is an aside but Spirit Halloween and a few other online stores carry these if you want to avoid Amazon

Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1d

It’s hilarious how something simple like “people are sharing Amazon links to buy the same costumes” gets filtered through these conspiratorial grifters’ minds and becomes “They are highly organized.”

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

It looks just perfect! I like the red tone in it, and the pattern is lovely.

Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

killer outfit though!

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like a persistent problem--it feels like what really happened to LA and DC never fully got through, is already in the process of being forgotten, and now lots of people seem only vaguely aware of Chicago's situation. How do we get more people to care before it shows up at their doorsteps?

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

So many people i talk to mention that their out-of-state friends or family have heard little to nothing about what’s going on in Chicago.

Some viral stories like the South Shore apartments raid or Rev. Black getting shot break through but the persistent Fed violence in the streets in lost.

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

Can't go to bed till I've sent the email/ too tired to write the email/ can't go to bed till I've sent the email

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

I love seeing sunsets from planes! Thank you for sharing this one.

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gravesounds @wavesounds.bsky.social · 2d

yeah, it was massive. i think the second biggest i've seen? lovely day for it too. mood was good, cautiously hopeful i guess i'd say? processing the rest tomorrow
📷fuji gs645s
🎞️kodak gold

#protest #london #freepalestine #photography #filmphotography #mediumformat

marchers for palestine going down york road towards waterloo. there's a huge number. some cops looking on in the foreground

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 2d

🔥fresh new pots🔥
www.roseschmits.com
international shipping available

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 2d

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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