Olga Prokopis

The usual suspects #cats

Coming soon. Meet the OBB in “George and the Ignorasaurus in The Forest of Lost Socks.” #booksky #childrensbooks

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.1 is now published! Now fully open access, this issue features a cluster of essays edited by Louise Geddes and Nora J. Williams reflecting on casting, race, community, and tragedy in productions performed on and off Broadway.

📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55715

Sigmund’s new Shakesbear pin

Barty has Labubu fever

🎬💐 For Canadian-American actress Colleen Dewhurst, who portrayed Marilla Cuthbert in the Anne of Green Gables TV miniseries, the enduring power of Montgomery's beloved story lies in connection. She saw the phrase “kindred spirit” as a reminder of how we recognize ourselves in others.

Bring your army; but, I think, you'll find
They've not prepared for us.
- Coriolanus (I, 2)

YouTube video by CBS News Gaza Soup Kitchen co-founder discusses aid flow after ceasefire deal

Today’s CBS segment was brief but highlighted the realities in Gaza. I’ll be back live on set tomorrow to dive deeper and share more from the ground.

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12 October 1944: Athens liberated from Nazi occupation

Richard: Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy;
I did not see your grace. Humbly on my knee
I crave your blessing.
DUCHESS OF YORK God bless thee, and put meekness in thy breast,
Love, charity, obedience, and true duty.
#RichardIII 2.2.104-108

#ShakespeareSunday

BOY Then you conclude, my grandam, he is dead.
The King mine uncle is to blame for it.
God will revenge it, whom I will importune
With earnest prayers all to that effect.
DAUGHTER And so will I.

#RichardIII 2.2.12-16.

Clarence's unnamed children in a rarely performed scene #ShakespeareSunday

Shylock: If a Jew
wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge! If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

MOV 3.1.56-60. #ShakespeareSunday

77 Years of Genocide: October 12th Newsletter Israel plans to maintain military presence at 3 strategic sites in, around Gaza after prisoner deal: Report

77 Years of Genocide: October 12th Newsletter #freepalestine

Rescuing the UNRWA Archive: Saving Palestinian History amidst the Gaza Genocide Abstract. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has entailed extensive attacks on Palestinian heritage and history, including institutional archives which preserve his

Important new piece by Jo Kelcey and Anne Irfan: academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

📚✍️ For author C. E. Gatchalian, Anne Shirley embodies resistance. Born into a society that preferred boys, Anne offers an imaginative counterworld - one of beauty, transcendence, and creative defiance.

Poor Susu still getting the stinkface #cats

Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
#RichardIII 1.1.10-14

#shakespearesunday

#freepalestine

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If you're in Gippsland today #freepalestine

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

‘Relatives had destroyed letters from the eastern front from Onnen in the 1990s. But they still had pictures of him, which the Bellingcat volunteers were able to use for an AI image analysis.’

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Medieval Scholar Called Out the Shroud of Turin as a Fake, Study Finds - Medievalists.net A new study reveals that Nicole Oresme, one of the great minds of fourteenth-century France, denounced the Shroud of Turin as a fake decades before its famous 1389 controversy. His writings highlight…

Medieval Scholar Called Out the Shroud of Turin as a Fake, Study Finds www.medievalists.net/2025/08/medi... #shroudofturin

This prophecy survived in oral tradition in Chester for two centuries after #RichardIII's death, eventually appropriated by John Oldmixon for one of the Georges in the 18th century #history

I have set myself up a new work station (on the dining table) and Susu has decided this is an ideal spot for attacking feet. #cats #writing

List of Killings and Massacres Carried Out by Israel on the Palestinian People This is a list of some of massacres carried out by Zionist terrorist groups and the state of Israel on the Palestinian people from the early 20th century onwards.

Historical List of Killings and Massacres Carried Out by Israel on the Palestinian People #freepalestine

722 Days of Genocide: September 28th Newsletter Australia formally recognises state of Palestine as Anthony Albanese arrives in US

722 Days of Genocide: September 28th Newsletter #freepalestine

Current Australian Parliament E-Petitions on the Gaza Genocide - links on our Facebok page #freepalestine #genocide

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The Most Revolting Moments from Jimmy Kimmel's 'The Man Show' Before Jimmy Kimmel was hosting the Oscars, he hosted a show where he humped women on camera, made fun of their weight, and joked that Oprah had to do "a little more sock washing."

“The Man Show, created by Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel, harnessed male resentment towards women and turned it into “comedy,” propelling Kimmel to late night stardom[…]
Proudly crass, racist, and transphobic, the show also celebrated chauvinism by treating women as disposable fuck puppets.”
(2018)

Nami getting some Me time
#cats