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Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

*institution, dammit

And, considering the rest of the thread, it's relevant that Clorinda is polyamorous, has read Wollstonecraft on marriage, and is generally against it as an instititution

And a gorgeous pastiche voice

The Comfortable Courtesan Being Memoirs by Clorinda Cathcart & Clorinda Cathcart’s Circle Madame Clorinda Cathcart is a most exclusive courtesan in Regency London. The Comfortable Courtesan volumes (12) describe her own various changes of circumstance and those occurring among her …

Can I spread the good word of @madameclorinda.bsky.social www.clorinda.org ? Long-running Regency soap opera with well-handled period progressive politics and lots of diverse London communities and queer people.

there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat. And when that’s done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a wind-up

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

There's only one source and it seems ... of extremely dubious provenance

Thank you @alabamashakes.com for this reminder. We got each other and we gonna be alright.

From their research, Whitin Badger and Dwight Cooke had long exciting lives together.

Whitin was an author and Dwight a journalist. They traveled the world together and lived in Santa Barbara until their deaths. They were buried together because Badger’s family had a plot in Princeton.

The line of poetry caught me first, followed by the realization it was two men buried together who had died in the same year.

I went back to my hotel room, did some light googling, and found out that Whitin Badger had written a book of poetry called Unicorn, which I thought was pretty neat.

A rectangular gray gravestone, inscribed with Whitin Badger, 1906-1992, Dwight Cooke 1908-1992, and underneath the line "THE UNICORN WAITS IN A DARKENING WOOD"

Hey, who wants something nice?

So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:

Godspeed.

Broadway review: Pirates! (★★★★), but no longer of Penzance A Gilbert and Sullivan favorite gets a New Orleans reset

NEW: My review of Broadway's Pirates! The Penzance Musical (★★★★)—to be sung, if you dare, to the tune of you-know-what
www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

I'm not a scientist and I don't even play one on TV. I need scientists so I can do my job advocating for America's parks and public lands. We all do.

That's why I'm going to #standupforscience at the Colorado State Capitol tomorrow.

Thys ys not just for California. And not just about higher ed. Thys ys about hope, and communitye, and what ys righte. Plese repost. Plese share. Plese take a litel of your tyme to learne about the fight against cuts at Sonoma State Universitye.

The real victims of Eric Adams’ NYC corrupt bargain might go to Gitmo Thousands of NYC immigrants are in the crosshairs of the corrupt deal Eric Adams made with Trump's Justice Department.

NYC restaurants are empty and thousands of kids are skipping school in fear under Eric Adams' devil's bargain to give Trump's ICE goon squad free rein in his city so he can keep himself out of prison

A look at the real victims of NYC's corrupt deal. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

'Broken Heart Day' protest at Sonoma State over cuts to degree programs and athletics "We're in a fight for our lives": As Sonoma State University stares down massive funding cuts, a Valentine's Day-themed protest is set to pour on pressure to reverse the decision.

TODAY YN CALIFORNIA HIGHER ED: 'BROKEN HEART DAY' PROTEST AT SONOMA STATE. PLESE REPOST & SHARE: "As Sonoma State University stares down massive funding cuts, a Valentine's Day-themed protest is set to pour on pressure to reverse the decision."
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Oof. Thynkynge of yowe. Al solidaritee.

[any 18th-centry novelist tries to tell a joke]

THE ALEHOUSE; or the SURPRIZING HISTORY of A TAVERN

containing the CHARACTER of A Rabbi, A Prieſt, & A Miniſter

WITH An Account of how, having left their Lantern at a Table found themſelves loſt in a Wood & were at laſt Deliver’d by a HIGHWAYMAN.

[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke]

A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b

@singlecrow.bsky.social!

Rilke and the art of listening as a way to shape the cosmos | Aeon Essays It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine

The listening gift
It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine

By Faith Lawrence

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Rainer Maria Rilke at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

#books #literature

Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

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I’m really tired of this notion that because things have historically sucked, they will always suck, and we are permanently beholden to that past. No! Things can get better!

THAT IS THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THE FIGHT TO BEGIN WITH.

Something something Sophocles and the ship of state

love an early modern recipe

Tech zillionaires' toxic masculinity as applied to planet names