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drmirandafay.bsky.social

Asst Prof at Trinity College Dublin | Shakespeare and Performance Studies | Drama Critic and Cultural Historian | 📖 Shakespeare's Body Language; The Tempest (Arden Performance Editions); An Alternative History of Shakespearean Acting (all Bloomsbury)

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So ive just seen a distracted boyfriend meme that's riffing on medusa, and it's clearly ai slop, and the watermark leads to an ai slop page and like...people used to make this nonsense. Part of the fun was that people took their time to do something. That was magical! And worthwhile!

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

Lovely chiasmus, which his cousin RuPaul also frequently uses (‘gather round, ladies; ladies, gather round’)

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I do genuinely wonder how many people think what happened with Wikipedia is that “society accepted it” rather than that they put a ton of work into making it reliable, something that is not going to make AI reliable because no technology to actually understand meaning has been or can be invented.

submitted 20 hours ago • 35 comments

Ace work that re-evaluates many assumptions about Anne Hathaway. It really goes to show the necessity and longevity of paper: I read recently that future historians may know far less about the 21st century than what came before it, because digital records are way more ephemeral in the long-run.

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If anyone’s at a loose end tomorrow, this should be super interesting: a Zoom event with readings from poets who work at the intersections of natural history and museums. Should be a great session - for more info and to sign up, check out the link! www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-unnatu...

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Peak 'Are we the baddies?' behaviour www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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It’s getting to the point where I can imagine the news both-siding King Herod

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This is literally how I found out the Pope had died

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Easter to this great post

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Beyond the fact that I love this photo, I think about this concept ALL OF THE TIME. As an archivist, I am really conscious of the fact that it's likely we'll have a more robust understanding of the 18 and 19th centuries than of the 21st century. Why? PAPER. bsky.app/profile/doro...

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

Biological sex is not visible. It cannot be determined solely by visible markers. Defining sex by biology is a licence for the worst forms of racism, misogyny and bullying.

submitted 9 days ago • 49 comments

If TMI stands for ‘too much info’, then in Dublin TFI stands - not for ‘Transport For Ireland’ - but rather, given how inaccurate their app is, ‘too few info’* *let’s not argue over use of few/little; can we not just rally around shared disdain for one of the worst capital city transport networks

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

One of the biggest problems facing the world right now is that we have willingly checked boxes and signed away our data for years - in the name of convenience - and most people have no idea how all that information is about to be used to control us.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Much of the criticism surrounding Henry V debates whether or not he’s a war criminal.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.

submitted 14 days ago • 57 comments

Hello Bluesky! We are excited to be here and even more excited to announce that registration for #BSA2025 Conference 'Practising Shakespeare' is open now! 25-28 June, University of York, School of Arts & Creative Technologies Follow the link in our bio to register and view the provisional programme

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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. Populations get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 14 days ago • 179 comments

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 18 days ago • 874 comments

I have put off listening to the Naked Week because I have such high expectations of how good I want it to be. But I just listened to this and it was totally excellent. Thrilled for myself, having met Andy two or three times over a decade ago.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Is Jack Blanchard of Politico still saying that Trump has a mandate to do literally whatever he wants because he won the election?

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 24 days ago • 959 comments

We’re getting way too close to Arrested Development needing glosses and footnotes, like a Ben Jonson city comedy, in order to explain context (ie, ‘this is a humorous line because in the early 2000s such a price would seem extortionate; it serves to identify Lucille Bluth as out of touch’).

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning

submitted 25 days ago • 211 comments

Excited to say that the programme note I wrote for KING LEAR (currently @gatetheatredublin.bsky.social) has been re-printed for RTE Culture. Do take a look: I discuss the nature of tragedy, whether or not Lear is TOO sad, and how endings aren't foregone conclusions. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Certainly a misunderstanding of Butler. Very frustrating. For instance, if a pundit said of a footballer that they put in a great performance on the field, are they saying they were pretending to play football? No. Performance is a form of action wherein things become real.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely. Letting the arts do the work that should be government funded while cutting grants to the arts including teaching the arts in schools and universities. Short sighted is an understatement.

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments