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Andrea L

@andrea-a-l.bsky.social
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English teacher, ex-medievalist, interested in books, Judaism, gender studies, queerness.

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Andrea L @andrea-a-l.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When you try to AI-generate a genderswapped Lysistrata but end up in the Bacchae instead (hint: you will be eaten by maenads)
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke pony girl Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keep on daunsinge, Down yn West Hollywoode' [LUTE SOLO] 🎶
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Andrea L @andrea-a-l.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I'm a high school ELA teacher who spent several years in the college English composition world and I'm trying to figure out why @ncte.org killed the #CCCC -- no justifications offered by NCTE team make sense, & our work really does overlap. Does anyone have backstory? @levostregc.bsky.social
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Well... bsky.app/profile/mich...
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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Also: this isn’t just about science. This will devastate the entire federal grant funding process, which means all academic research grants, arts grants, community project grants, agriculture grants, conservation grants, etc. Please leave a comment opposing this change.
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NPR @npr.org · 12/07/2026
The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.
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An artist brought 'I.C.E. pops' to a Texas campus. The show was shut down in days
The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.
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Streetwise, Cville Safety Cat: Interested Female Vocalists Write @averysafecat.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Listen.
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B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
teaching a Romanticism class in the fall again and keep thinking about how we're doing PBS's "England in 1819" as a checklist www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45118/...
England in 1819

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
A people starved and stabbed in th' untilled field;
An army, whom liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed;
A senate, Time’s worst statute, unrepealed—
Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
it's cool that so many people in positions of power and influence were so negatively polarized by "wokeness" that they convinced themselves that there was an actual debate about who wanted to erase history and the "wokes" were on the wrong side bsky.app/profile/arch...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
!!!!!
After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC, noting that he had made sure the confession included “all my recommendations to the African National Congress” about the best way to sabotage Koeberg and other facilities.

“And, gloriously, the judge read it out in court,” Dr. Christie added. “So my recommendations went from the judge’s mouth” straight to the A.N.C.
Two years later, in December 1982, Koeberg was bombed by white A.N.C. operatives who had gotten jobs at the facility. They followed Dr. Christie’s instructions to the letter.
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Andrea L @andrea-a-l.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Medieval bluesky (is there a hashtag?): I want to read at least one saga in prep for an educational trip to Iceland. I read Old English but not Old Norse; would like a good translation + a few pages of ON with crib/glossary/grammar to work through. Where do I start? Fave sagas?
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
The history of human progress is, in many ways,
the history of technology's diffusion. Among these
advances, a few-what economists call general-purpose
technologies-have had the greatest impact on humanity.
The printing press democratized knowledge. The steam
engine powered industry. Electricity transformed daily
life and enabled computing. And the internet connected
the world, accelerating the exchange of ideas, trade, and
collaboration across borders.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2025
Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
They avoided one another's faces, for fear of what they might see mirrored there. Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I'm not stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard...
No one said anything. The cowards, thought each man.
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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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.
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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Thank you @alabamashakes.com for this reminder. We got each other and we gonna be alright.
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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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.
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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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.
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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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:
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"
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Andrea L @andrea-a-l.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Godspeed.
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Adam Feldman @feldmanadam.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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...
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Broadway review: Pirates! (★★★★), but no longer of Penzance
A Gilbert and Sullivan favorite gets a New Orleans reset
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 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
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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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...
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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.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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." abc7news.com/post/sonoma-...
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'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.
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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
[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.
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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
[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
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Andrea L @andrea-a-l.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
@singlecrow.bsky.social!
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 31/01/2025
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 aeon.co/essays/rilke... Rainer Maria Rilke at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature
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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
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/01/2025
Discworld QOTD, from Thud!
The important thing is not to shout at this point, Vimes told himself. Do not…what do they call it…go postal? Treat this as a learning exercise. Find out why the world is not as you thought it was. Assemble the facts, digest the information, consider the implications. THEN go postal. But with precision.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
ProPublica is interested in covering these developments and will keep communications private and secure. You can reach out to www.propublica.org/people/annie...
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Annie Waldman
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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.
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Andrea L @andrea-a-l.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Something something Sophocles and the ship of state
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Andrea L @andrea-a-l.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
love an early modern recipe
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Andrea L @andrea-a-l.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Tech zillionaires' toxic masculinity as applied to planet names
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Andrea L @andrea-a-l.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I've heard Vienna Teng turn two different songs into "We've Got You: Two Truths" several times, but it's dazzling every time.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It’s ok to feel sick over the state of things.
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marn s. lastname @corpserevivers.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
my roommates don’t know i’m translating the odyssey in iambic pentameter via fridge magnet
fridge magnets that read:
tell me about a problematic man
girl, the hero who screwed up and was short
after the wreck of villain city rule
he would go to his house and kiss that wife
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I count, this first day of another year, what remains. —Jane Hirshfield
Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me
by Jane Hirshfield

The world asks, as it asks daily: 
And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured?

I count, this first day of another year, what remains. 
I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hands. 

Can admire with two eyes the mountain, 
actual, recalcitrant, shuffling its pebbles, sheltering foxes and beetles.

Can make black-eyed peas and collards.
Can make, from last year’s late-ripening persimmons, a pudding.

Can climb a stepladder, change the bulb in a track light.

For four years, I woke each day first to the mountain, 
then to the question.

The feet of the new sufferings followed the feet of the old, 
and still they surprised.

I brought salt, brought oil, to the question. Brought sweet tea, 
brought postcards and stamps. For four years, each day, something.

Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. 
Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder. 

Today, I woke without answer. 

The day answers, unpockets a thought from a friend

don’t despair of this falling world, not yet

didn’t it give you the asking
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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
A lovely little story here, in epistolary form:
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A.I. and corporate lingo are trapping language yn the drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language sholde have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave honest dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them.
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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This week‘s letterpress project is the Middle English Erthe Upon Erthe
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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
13th C natural philosopher hypothesized the Big Bang 🧪🔭
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Every day (and maybe especially today) is a good day to say, yet again, that trans rights are human rights.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/12/2024
deeply depressing watching the six unelected rulers of America debate how many of my friends’ rights to take away because none of them believe my friends are real people trans rights are human rights
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
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6 hours under martial law in Seoul
On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building
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Andrea L @andrea-a-l.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Just about everyone I cared about on Twitter is here now. My Bsky feed feels familiar enough that I forget it's a different system. That said, do I actually like microblogging at all any more?
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