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Marissa Skull-Yorick 💀 @marissaskud.bsky.social · 12h

The Ones Who Walk Away From Odnaltrop

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

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Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 1d

Heavy Kinks vibes on this infectious tune from 1960s-era Thai singer Vichan Maneechot. Just try to resist its title admonition. #dailysong youtu.be/1UCvgpEew9k

Dance, Dance, Dance

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

and I'm not just saying this because there is a strong chance that I will be dressing up as Louis the Swan this Halloween (I can't believe I've never done this as a costume before?!)

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

E.B. White's "The Trumpet of the Swan" ought to be mentioned in any discussion of the world's all-time great Künstlerromans (novels about the development and coming-of-age of an artist)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 1d

This is it, the most unhinged literary opinion. I will be adopting it as fact immediately.

Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 1d

Oct. 13, 1925: “Appearances," the first full-length Broadway drama by a Black playwright and the first with a racially mixed cast, premieres at the Frolic Theatre in New York. Garland Anderson based the story on his own experiences working as a bellhop and train porter. 1/2

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

Working on a theory that, thanks to what Silicon Valley has done to the bay, Portland now exemplifies the imaginary of lefty metropolis that San Francisco did in the last century, the Oberlin of Cities

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

Emergency naked bike ride is just a really funny idea

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 2d

Luciano Pavarotti and György Radnai in Rigoletto, 1963.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 3d

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

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

…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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 5d

Dory
Elmo
Flor
Gino

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

(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 · 9d

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 · 5d

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?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

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

Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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

escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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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