To see or not to see? Every single Shakespeare play – ranked! Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays

I demand an instant promotion for the editor who came up with this idea, and an elevation to sainthood for whoever wrote the headline.

www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-int...

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Pumped Up Kicks Radiohead Mashup - Pomplamoose YouTube video by PomplamooseMusic

So @mockwriting.bsky.social dropped this in my Discord server and I have not jammed so hard in a while; it's going straight on the READER & SHADOW soundtrack...

Hello, I am wandering into your mentions six months later to say that I, too, love Beanworld so goddamn much and I really really hope we see more someday.

As did I.

Thank you for this!

Somehow I had never heard of this. Thank you, Deb, for putting it in front of me. A short story told in a series of web pages, about football, and the future, and other things, and even if you care not at all about football, it's worth checking out.

The Moon. NASA/Artemis II/Kevin M. Gill

New shot of the Moon taken only a few hours ago by the Artemis II crew! More of the lunar far side coming into view :-D

flic.kr/p/2s676GN

what if it could be, though? untapped niche! the ads would be amazing!

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

yaaaaaaaay

Dammit. That's a no, and we're all gutted. But he crushed the (many rounds of) interviews, and the recruiter is determined to find him a place. His day will come.

Aaaany minute now a friend is going to find out if he got the life-changing job. I am resisting the urge to text his husband every 3 minutes for updates. It is hard.

when I tell you this t-shirt I just found in a thrift store was the best six dollars I've ever spent

Thank you SO much for putting this in front of me. This is so good.

For Woke Week, I present you three blogs in one:

1. A foundational queer comic strip you might not know about
2. A tour through my past working at a lesbian feminist vegetarian restaurant in the 90s
3. Turning satirical vegetarian food into a reality, with varying degrees of success

@diane.dianeduane.com @robtomshany.bsky.social @owlinautumn.bsky.social @cobrabay.bsky.social @technomuse.bsky.social @spicedrum.bsky.social @doctorscience.bsky.social

Tagging you in for Recounting of the Arizona Minutemen Militia Girl Scout Cookie Burglary.

You may now prepare popcorn.

By the time I found out they were coming to NYC in September, their shows (in an inexcusably tiny little club) were extremely sold out.

I am… sad.

Update: I am pretty dang hooked. These dudes claim to be 330-year old aliens named Khn and Klec and their music sounds like how five shots of espresso feels

Mata Zyklek YouTube video by Angine de Poitrine - Topic

Every time I listen to this one I have this vision of a beehive on the third night after they've gotten started with spring, having a MATRIX: RELOADED-style rave.

t h a t w a s m y s u s p i c i o n t h a n k y o u

This total stranger from the internet wishes for every blessing upon this kid and all who love him. Congratulations.

LIES

Anybody out there able to read the chyron for us?

Well, if the apocalypse is upon us, I'm going to go out on a high and make the 15 hour potatoes.

Stay tuned to see if I finish the recipe before nuclear Armageddon.

THIRTY YEARS later this drawing still never fails to make my brain throw a cog.

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024.
Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

Height”s, even

People talk about "threads which run through history"..

This is a tapestry.

Okay, this one really hit me. Thank you.