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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she)

@drmirandafay.bsky.social
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Asst Prof at Trinity College Dublin | Shakespeare and Performance Studies | Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association | Dramaturg | Views own.

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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The unqualified confidence of AI is the new ‘unsinkable ship’ and it is increasingly likely that we’ll have a new Titanic situation.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'I'm not interested in destroying the climate because you're too lazy to read' might be my favourite quick way of summing up the current situation. Lordy
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Chuckling at the almost touching pointlessness of gifting Donald Trump a Michael Longley poem. Like playing Bach to a waffle iron.
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s heartening to see a strong Garda presence on Dublin’s streets to help protect women and children while a known rapist comes to visit
A group of Garda opposite the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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British Shakespeare Association @bsashakespeare.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
BSA Conference 2027, 'Sounding Shakespeare: Voice, Music, Sound, Silence' CfP part 1: call for seminar and workshop proposals open now until 30 September! The conference will take place at the University of Leeds, 21-24 July 2027.
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Conference - British Shakespeare Association
BSA Conference BSA Conference: ‘Sounding Shakespeare: Voice, Music, Sound, Silence’ University of Leeds 21-24 July 2027 The BSA’s 2027 conference will take place in the School of English and the School of Music at the University of Leeds, with a focus on ‘Sounding Shakespeare’. Taking as a starting point the four general themes of voice, […]
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Absolutely delighted to say that I’ve just signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to write a new short book (Element) in their Shakespeare Performance series. PERFORMING CALIBAN will explore how this character has been portrayed in UK theatres. I can’t wait to share it with you all.
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You know what’s a great Irish value? Giving people a lovely welcome.
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Here come the Space Nazis
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You know what’s a great Irish value? Giving people a lovely welcome.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain.
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Death of the Author continues to take on resonance, whether we want it to or not. But now it's less about refusing autobiographical intentions and more about defending laziness and academic negligence bordering on quackery.
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Theatre and performance studies folk! Does anyone have any particular examples of performance analysis (of a specific performance) that they find particular cogent/useful? I’m looking to build up a few that my students can read as useful examples of what performance analysis can do.
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is hideously tragic and many people should be ashamed of themselves.
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm not a scientist, but I'm just saying that the country didn't seem to be burning *quite* so aggressively until we got a Prime Minister named Burnham
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Not least because we no longer need BBQs when we can simply cook a burger on the hood of a car left out in the sun www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Burnham temporarily bans disposable barbecue sales in ‘tinderbox’ Britain
PM urges people not to risk lives and homes by starting fires as military brought in to help deal with wildfires
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 22/12/2025
i've been thinking recently about why i have a reflexive dislike of the 'comedy needs balance' line, and i think it's because political comedy is the act of saying "hey, you're not mad, the world really does look like THIS", and that doesn't need "balancing" because *the rest of society* does that
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 31/07/2026
Apparently the unacceptable bit is not that 24 people died
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Aleksander Čeferin has been elected Leader of the Avignon FIFA and taken the regnal name Clement VII.
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s Versailles with toy aeroplanes.
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The standard four-stage strategy as laid out in Yes Prime Minister: Stage 1. We say nothing is going to happen. Stage 2. We say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it. (1/2)
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Denis Villeneuve's Kubla Khan
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Yorgos Lanthimos' Faerie Queene
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Greta Gerwig's Goblin Market
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Lars Von Trier's Very Hungry Caterpillar
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
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Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Only in cinemas 2029: Christopher Nolan’s The Faerie Queene
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
‘You cannot have social democracy while the economy is run on neoliberal lines’ EXACTLY
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
He’s talking about the kicks to the shins his teammates delivered to the Spanish players
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
[AFTER KEIR STARMER RESIGNS] ME: PAL: ME: PAL: Lot of human rights abuses for a hu- ME: A LOT of human rights abuses for a human rights lawyer!
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
England and France ending their World Cup v Argentina ending theirs
England and France embrace in a circle after the World Cup third place playoff A scene from a Wild West bar brawl
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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026
Same energy
Infamous photo of Enoch Burke standing his lonely transphobic vigil outside a school, with Trump from the group photo in OP replacing Enoch.
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Jan Adriaenssens @verbeeld.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Trump even managing to embarrass Infantino by refusing to let go of the trophy and get out of the picture, like the child at a birthday party who won’t hand over the gift
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I sort of treated the red card for Argentina like a goal for Spain and for a second got confused we were having extra time
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What would actually happen on penalties: Argentina player ignores the ball and pushes over the keeper unprovoked
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#RecipeOfTheDay is Spanish Chicken with Chorizo and Potatoes. ¡Vamos la Roja! 🇪🇸 www.nigella.com/recipes/span...
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Spanish Chicken With Chorizo and Potatoes
Much as I love to have a pan bubbling away on the stove, I often feel that the most stress free way to feed people is by taking the oven route. When I'm frazzled, I firmly believe that the tray-bake i...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
fields. Instead, he apparently laced into the company. According to the Financial Times, Eggers told the staff:

“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago. So, just let that settle in… If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them. They’ll never have the ability to say their truth and tell their own story. And that’s silencing an entire generation or two.”
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It’s the sheer gall of them speaking about ‘the resurgence of political terrorism’ when they’re the ones with agents executing people on the streets
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’m so confused about how much work - or appearance of work - has been done to make Shakespeare studies less elitist, yet one of the biggest conferences remains *invitation only*. I’m not trying to be shady, I’m just genuinely confused as to how delegates who otherwise espouse fairness justify this
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The fires in Ontario - like so many others - demonstrating viscerally how climate change perpetuates the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, who have least contributed to emissions and over and over again put their bodies on the line to prevent fossil fuel development.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Me watching the final
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
At what point did we ever decide that watching football was an enjoyable experience
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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In hell you are forced to watch England defend a one goal lead
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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Argentinians love having a go at the REF so much that you‘d be mistaken for thinking they work in a UK university.
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Call em up and rat out your local data centre
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Did anyone else see the Norway fan in the crowd holding a sign saying ‘you have Shakespeare we have vikings’
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.
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