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Public school teacher, poet, odd bird 🐦 I create visual micropoetry sometimes 📸
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Education Department staff cuts could limit options for families of kids with disabilities

"Then came each actor on his ass" -Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2 #ShakespeareSunday

"the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes." -Henry V, Act III, sc. 7 #ShakespeareSunday #Seabiscuit

"O for a horse with wings!" -Cymbeline, Act III, sc. 2 #ShakespeareSunday

This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @kathywritenow.bsky.social - MODES OF TRANSPORTATION

At a time when many social-media sites have abandoned their safeguards against mis- and disinformation, Wikipedia is a bastion of transparency and accessible knowledge. So maybe it should come as no surprise that Elon Musk has been attacking it.

"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy" -Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, sc. 1 #ShakespeareSunday

How came these things to pass? O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now! Midsummer Night's Dream[IV, 1] #ShakespeareSunday #DogsOfBluesky

"It is unwise to let a man who isn't king sit on a throne for too long." - Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra #BookWormSat 🖼 John Collier

"Do I not know now of a day in Spring? No minute of that wild day ever slips From out my memory; I hear thrushes sing, And wheresoever I may be, straightway Thoughts of it all come up with most fresh sting" - William Morris, The Defence of Guinevere #BookWormSat 🖼 Philip Ralley

‘Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.’ ~ Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra. It’s #BookWormSat and #InternationalWomensDay2025 tomorrow so we will be wearing our crowns and celebrating all the Queens of literature for the day. Do join us. 👑 🖼️ Cleopatra, Waterhouse.

"He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May." -The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, sc. 2 #ShakespeareSunday

“Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.” -Mary Shelley, Frankenstein #BookWormSat

"I would not wish any companion in the world but you" -The Tempest, Act III, sc. 1 #ShakespeareSunday

"The course of true love never did run smooth" -MND, Act I, Sc 2 #ShakespeareSunday

Tomorrow's #ShakespeareSunday theme: LOVE!

Find the animal you want to be and burst into that 🔥

‘There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.’ ~ Shakespeare, Hamlet. This #BookWormSat explores fate in literature. Bring us your bookish destinies tomorrow, we will accept all that is written in the stars. ✨ 🖼️ The Norns, Johan Ludwig Lund, 1844.

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

"I am not what I am." - Othello, Act I, sc 1 #ShakespeareSunday

"I follow him to serve my turn upon him" - Othello, Act I, sc 1 #ShakespeareSunday

This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @/ShakespeareArg (FSA): TRUTH & APPEARANCES

"Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep." - Madeline Miller, Circe #BookWormSat 🖼 "The Sorceress," John William Waterhouse

'Tis the melodious hue of beauty thrown Athwart the darkness and the glare of pain, Which humanise and harmonise the strain.' -Shelley This Saturday #BookWormSat enters the world of women in Greek mythology! Do join us! 🐍 🎨unknown Flemish artist

#micropoetry 🐕

Research by a British musician has led to the discovery of manuscripts of music composed at Auschwitz.

"But even then the morning cock crew loud" -Hamlet, Act I, sc 2 #ShakespeareSunday

"Goats and monkeys!" -Othello, Act IV, sc 1 #ShakespeareSunday

This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: The 12 Chinese Zodiac Animals!

"I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end." -Little Women, Louisa May Alcott #BookwormSat

‘What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.’ ~ T S Eliot This #BookWormSat coincides with Imbolc and so we will embrace all the fresh starts, beginnings, renewals and rebirths of literature. Do join us.

Social media posts by Trump’s new press secretary reveal the irresolvable paradox—and the massive scam—at the heart of his immigration policies.

"Woe to the land that’s governed by a child." -Richard III, 2.3 #ShakespeareSunday

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @bamaq23.bsky.social - RESISTANCE, POWER & POLITICS!

‘Exit, pursued by a bear’ in Act III of Shakespeare's "The Winter’s Tale" where, after abandoning Perdita, Antigonus meets an untimely end rather unusually by a bear! ✍️William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale #BookWormSat

‘Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.’ ~ A.A Milne. In honour of Winnie The Pooh Day, tomorrow’s #BookWormSat will celebrate bears in literature. Big bears, little bears, all the bears. 🐻 🖼️ E H Shepard

"I say, there is no darkness but ignorance." -Twelfth Night, IV, 2 #ShakespeareSunday

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: LIGHT & DARK

“We have ventured like wanton little boys on swim bladders these many summers in a sea of glory, far beyond my depth.” - William Shakespeare, Henry VIII #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #ShakespeareSunday

"Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day" -Macbeth, Act I, 3 #ShakespeareSunday

"O, call back yesterday, bid time return" -Richard II, Act III, 2 #ShakespeareSunday

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day" -Macbeth, V, 5 #ShakespeareSunday

Today's the first #ShakespeareSunday theme of 2025! - DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS and YEARS!

"Poor and content is rich, and rich enough." -Othello, Act III, sc 3 #ShakespeareSunday

YOU BOY Henry IV, Part II [II, 2] #ShakespeareSunday #DogsOfBlueSky #AChristmasCarol🎄

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme is inspired by the themes of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'! - Christmas - Redemption - Social Injustice - The Supernatural

#micropoetry