In "Thinking Through Shakespeare" from @princetonupress.bsky.social, scholar David Womersley suggests that Shakespeare's plays offer a way of exploring some of the deepest questions about human life. Listen to the "Shakespeare Unlimited" podcast:
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Do you teach high school English? Try our FREE iambic pentameter lesson plan. Includes printable worksheets, complete instructions, and printable sonnet puzzles.
The worksheets use normal, contemporary English, by the way.
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Anybody else wondering how the M-W spotlight happened to fall upon "dauncy" this week?
Flawless. No notes. Love the lemons.
not sure why everyone thinks this is such a big problem when an obvious solution exists
#NIH is a fundamentally important institution in science, a democratic institution accountable to the people and the scientific community.
That’s a big reason why autocrats and oligarchs are now trying to consolidate their power over it. We must revert that. That’s what this article is about:
So far, former employees of 25 different federal departments, agencies, and commissions have submitted resignation letters for our upcoming anthology.
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Either a folding bicycle or just very teeny tires?
Over 150,000 federal workers resigned in 2025. Some did not go quietly.
Our next book will spotlight some of the principled civil servants who said, "Count me out," who walked away rather than follow policies that violated their oaths to the Constitution.
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Our next book will catalog and celebrate the best-written federal resignation letters of 2025. If you know someone who wrote a funny, poignant, or pointed resignation letter last year, please ask them to reach out!
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We have received 22 letters from our online submission portal, plus another 16 that we have solicited through direct outreach. Getting there, folks! Once we get to 80 letters, we will likely close submissions.
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John Dickerson had the good sense to get off that ship, though he surely takes no pleasure in its foundering.
You need to get your diacritical marks sorted out, gang.
#pokémon #pokemon
For the folks in the back:
📣 Poetry slam is not a genre, not a style of writing. Poetry slam is a selection mechanism, a bar game, a way of giving the audience a vote. That a certain vocal cadence tends to emerge in poetry slams is a result of that approach resonating with the audience. 📣
Jesus.
You know what’s better than free two-day shipping?
Knowing you’re the reason your local bookstore still exists.
If at all possible, please try to track down a copy of Glyn Maxwell's poem "Out of the Rain." It is a darkly comic poem, and it makes a different Arc/Unicorn joke that pairs nicely with your lovely cartoon.
Can it maybe not remain a problem, Mobes? We've already got a full plate this week. Thanks…
Love it.
In interviews with PEN America, authors who have experienced book bans called it a creativity killer. While many said they refuse to self-censor, they still find themselves second-guessing their choices and bracing for backlash.
Read the full story at: pen.org/book-bans-ki...
Over 150,000 federal workers resigned in 2025. Some did not go quietly.
If you left your US government job last year, there might be a place for you in our upcoming book.
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This is /exactly/ what we have always suspected. Google PageSpeed just needs /something/ to nitpick, else you'll feel you didn't get your money's worth.
(Google PageSpeed reports are free, but still…)
Thank you for that lovely daily dose of pentameter, Rattle.
Underrated joke.
👆This is the way.
“I wish I still knew how to find joy in the pure thrill of the ten minutes before your favorite cartoon comes on, the rush against time, the body so suddenly delayed, cumbersome yet present, the embodiment of coiled anticipation.”
—Ocean Vuong
nobody talks about how exhausting it must be to be immortal. to watch humans discover fire. invent money. invent God. invent VC funding. same mistake, different font.
#bluesky #thinkingoutloud
