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Dan Kostelec

@dankostelec.bsky.social
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Actor, director, and writer — usually at renaissance faires as @shakesapproves.bsky.social

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
From my other profile. You can read my substack at substack.com/@shakespeare...
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Shakespeare Approves! | Substack
I'm a Creative Professional: I perform a one-person, audience-interactive Shakespeare show (largely at renaissance faires); I write; I direct; I give tours; I make podcasts. You know: like ya do.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I was looking for my glasses and couldn’t find them. I asked one of my cats, Ralphie, if he had seen them. Then, in Ralphie’s “voice,” I answered myself, “He can’t see without his glasses!” I’m not sorry, Millennials. 😈
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My Girl: Thomas J. Sennett's Glasses
ALT: My Girl: Thomas J. Sennett's Glasses
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
And the Paramount+ app subscription has been cancelled!
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Shakespeare hath a new post up on Substack! open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Exactly. This guy gets it
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Wow … for someone who purports to be a “strict textualist,” “Justice Samuel Alito sure seems to have no reading comprehension abilities whatsoever concerning the text of the 14th Amendment (birthright citizenship) of the Constitution.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
So… I wear contacts now. Neat.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Happy spring!
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Trip to Iceland is booked!!
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Leeja Miller is a national (well, hopefully international) treasure.
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The Death Of America's Soft Power
YouTube video by Leeja Miller
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
No one ever tells you when you become a cat dad that sometimes one of your precious fur babies will just vomit on the wall from his perch on top of the recliner.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
youtu.be
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Each of these people need to be primaried this year. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: YOU need to be primaried, sir. You need to show your actual progressive values, and demonstrate GENUINE leadership. This is none of that. This is quisling nonsense. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...
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7 House Democrats Vote With GOP to Give ICE More Money Despite Deadly Invasions of US Cities | Common Dreams
Seven Democrats in the House sided with Republicans to pass a DHS funding bill, despite calls to rein in Trump's deadly immigration operations.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The vice-President is the United States is a liar, plain and simple. A liar who calls on us to pray for the murderer and not the murdered. A liar who has stated multiple times that the fascist agent who took Ms. Good’s life was in danger from her. He is a liar. #LiveLaughLoveseat
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I just really miss my dad. One year ago on Christmas we lost him.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Shakespeare’s Monday Word(le) of the day!
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I made a thing!
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
• It was time for the 25th Amendment after 45’s Muslim ban. • It was time for the 25th on and after Jan. 6. •It was time on Jan. 21 of this year. Will it be?
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
So I’m listening to the news on my drive from Florida to Louisiana today and immediately after a story about vice president JD Vance, there was an ad that said, “time for a sofa upgrade?” Perfection. #LiveLaughLoveseat
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Okay, hear me out. A (Possibly Rambling) Political Thread from A Mind With ADHD
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I’m pretty sure that the adults (who we never see) in the Peanuts universe are a bunch of jerks.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The speaker of the House of Representatives is a joke — or at least would be if it weren’t so serious. We must treat the autocratic, fascist takeover of the American government seriously, but these are NOT serious people. They deserve all of our mockery.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This is long, so buckle in. Or scroll on by: I won’t be offended. Charlie Kirk did not deserve to die. The list is REALLY short of who actually does, and we all eventually will. But it’s not up to us to decide who lives and who dies.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
What level of nonsense have we descended to?
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Man alive, “Foundation” is good!!
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Neil Gorsuch, along with the other five “conservative” justices on the Supreme Court, seems to have the overall political and legal acumen of Aaron Sorkin’s fictional judge Peyton Cabot Harrison, III.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
To all of my friends who, like me, have imposter syndrome (and we are many): I see you. 🧵 1/6
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I’m just making some Pope memes today Here are two I’m particularly proud of
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
One if by land, two if by sea …
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Made a meme
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter, and so should you. buttondown.com/5calls
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5 Calls Newsletter
The 5 Calls Newsletter breaks down what your representatives are voting on and what you can do to influence them. From your friends at 5 Calls
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
They’re already doing that, Chuck! Where have you been for the last 54 days? And for the 25 years before that?! Let them shut it down, let them OWN IT. And every day hold a press conference talking about the mistakes they’re making, the pain they’re causing. Hold a Sunday AM presser & take control.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Senator @schumer.senate.gov, I’m one of your constituents. I have voted for you. This is not the way. This is giving in to totalitarianism and bullies. They WANT the government open, the NEED the government open. They can’t do ANYTHING if it’s shut down. Hold the line, man!!!
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
In a world that frustrates me beyond reason sometimes in our current moment, at least these snuggle bugs are snuggly and buggly.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Every other democrat should have stood up with Rep. Al Green and LEFT the chamber. EVERY ONE OF THEM. You had a chance. You could have changed the narrative and claimed the news cycle. You could have put these fascists on their back foot. But you didn’t.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We have seen, and continue to see, what genuine evil looks like, and what it wants: power for power’s sake, subservience, to be thought of as an equal, or even greater, among the genuine scum that feeds on humanity. 🧵
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The world is dark and cold, but there are moments & points of light and life. This is one of those moments. This is a point of light.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Y’all, I think we’re the bad guys.
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a man in a military uniform is asking are we the baddies .
ALT: a man in a military uniform is asking are we the baddies .
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Just me and my boy
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Today’s WARM office! 21° at the moment in Waxahachie, TX.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
17° in Texas. Frozen pipes. Home sick. NOT the most fun I’ve had lately.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I absolutely adore Octavia Butler. Hers was a voice that was taken from us far too early.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Is the trailer haunted? Is it advertising something? Is it a warning? Listen, trailer: you’ve got my attention. Just tell me!
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Raise you hand if this applies to you.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Pre-Valentine’s Day IKEA date!
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
@ikeausa.bsky.social WHY are your prop photos made with AI?! They look CREEPY AF! Just hire actual photographers and models, FFS. 🤦‍♂️
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
He said he’s sorry. I, for one, believe him.
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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
What does he think he is? A rabbit? This is rabbit behavior!! You’re a cat, dang it!
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