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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 19h
And Shakespeare 'pitied' social climbers (??) #ShakespeareSunday
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 21h
Ben Jonson's take on Shakespeare's coat of arms ... from his description in 'Everyman out of his Humor'. #shakespearesunday
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 21h
The circular evidence of "Warwickshire" words. theconversation.com/the-bard-did... #ShakespeareSunday
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The Bard didn’t use Warwickshire dialect – so was he really Shakespeare?
Shakespeare’s use of dialect is a key argument used by those who stand by the traditional author. But these so-called “Warwickshire dialect” words are nothing of the sort.
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Time and 6 Sonnet numbers… works.hcommons.org/me/uploads?q... #ShakespeareSunday
A photograph of the clock face on the south façade of St Katharine Cree, Leadenhall Street, London. The face has a diamond-shaped frame. There is only one hand (an hour hand), and the face bears the text in gold letters Eliz. Reg 1597.
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Time and 6 Sonnet numbers… works.hcommons.org/me/uploads?q... #ShakespeareSunday
A photograph of the clock face on the south façade of St Katharine Cree, Leadenhall Street, London. The face has a diamond-shaped frame. There is only one hand (an hour hand), and the face bears the text in gold letters Eliz. Reg 1597.
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Love @celiebug.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Following Shakespeare's 154 sonnets is the long poem 'A Lover's Complaint'. The 'lover' has a napkin of 'conceited characters', cf. the abused Philomel's needlework - the only textual code in classical mythology (?) - and her mutilation invoked in Sonnet 102 (below). #shakespearesunday
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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Five Eldest Children of Charles I (1637), by Anthony van Dyck. Oil on canvas, Royal Collection, London. Left to right: Mary, James, Charles, Elizabeth and Anne #Stuarts
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Following Shakespeare's 154 sonnets is the long poem 'A Lover's Complaint'. The 'lover' has a napkin of 'conceited characters', cf. the abused Philomel's needlework - the only textual code in classical mythology (?) - and her mutilation invoked in Sonnet 102 (below). #shakespearesunday
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Philomel. Shakespeare's Sonnet 102 Ovid: (excised to silence her rape) ... her tongue wriggled on the ground, as if trying to speak Shakespeare: Therefore, like her I sometime *hold* my tongue Silenced? #ShakespeareSunday
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Philomel. Shakespeare's Sonnet 102 Ovid: (excised to silence her rape) ... her tongue wriggled on the ground, as if trying to speak Shakespeare: Therefore, like her I sometime *hold* my tongue Silenced? #ShakespeareSunday
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Dogs & Horses 🥰🥰 🤗 Credit to valleychronicles
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
An actor forgetting his line - unremarkable. An author not understanding his line - THAT might invite a closer look. Ben Jonson recalls Shakespeare onstage (pic). The real line from Julius Caesar III, i: - Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause / Will he be satisfied. #ShakespeareSunday
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
An actor forgetting his line - unremarkable. An author not understanding his line - THAT might invite a closer look. Ben Jonson recalls Shakespeare onstage (pic). The real line from Julius Caesar III, i: - Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause / Will he be satisfied. #ShakespeareSunday
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#shakespearesunday 1929, Katharine Eggar, feminist composer, wrote this article which ties the Nevill family to: - Music for #Shakespeare's history plays - Queen's Men - Blackfriars - Master William Hunnis (our MrWH of the Sonnets dedication). www.jstor.org/stable/91755...
Herald's sketch of Master William Hunnis's prospective coat of arms which feature top a handsome head with an arrow skewering the cheek, Below a shield depicting three bee hives (cf Honey).
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's taken me a long time to notice the lineage of the comb-over.
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#shakespearesunday 1929, Katharine Eggar, feminist composer, wrote this article which ties the Nevill family to: - Music for #Shakespeare's history plays - Queen's Men - Blackfriars - Master William Hunnis (our MrWH of the Sonnets dedication). www.jstor.org/stable/91755...
Herald's sketch of Master William Hunnis's prospective coat of arms which feature top a handsome head with an arrow skewering the cheek, Below a shield depicting three bee hives (cf Honey).
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#shakespearesunday Touch of irony? Digges was most famous as a translator from that "vulgar Language" Spanish.
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
www.academia.edu/127656765/Li... Sonnet 134 So now I have confessed ... he learn'd but surety like to write for me... #shakespearesunday
Sonnet 134 with all spaces and punctuation removed, set in a grid of 29 columns. The 16 letters ELLIVEN IS BH RIMER entirely fills the 10th column.
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Neville Is BH (Billingbear House) Rimer #shakespearesunday
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Neville Is BH (Billingbear House) Rimer #shakespearesunday
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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Qld deputy premier short on sympathy for 'juvenile grubs' in youth detention lockdown
Jarrod Bleijie says children inside youth detention centres are largely to blame for lockdowns, and it's the staff that need protection.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026
Amnesty International understanding that this "generative AI" shit as currently conceived and deployed is a project which enables fascism and endangers the already vulnerable and marginalized populations of the world.
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William Fertanish @fertanish.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Building analog percussion loops with a motor, keys, triangles, and drum.
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
#ShakespeareSunday
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Hearing Trumps comments post meeting with Xi -like a naughty schoolboy outside the principal’s office.
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Project Feerdom
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
My aunt hosing me down in her backyard in Iran after I got filthy playing at five years old.
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
New Evidence for the First Night of Twelfth Night, 6 January 1601 works.hcommons.org/records/cqwx... #ShakespeareSunday
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New Evidence for the First Night of Twelfth Night, 6 January 1601
On Twelfth Night, 6 January 1601, Queen Elizabeth attended a comedy performed by Shakespeare's company – the Lord Chamberlain's Men. The name of this play has not survived, but a young Italian Duke Or...
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
New Evidence for the First Night of Twelfth Night, 6 January 1601 works.hcommons.org/records/cqwx... #ShakespeareSunday
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New Evidence for the First Night of Twelfth Night, 6 January 1601
On Twelfth Night, 6 January 1601, Queen Elizabeth attended a comedy performed by Shakespeare's company – the Lord Chamberlain's Men. The name of this play has not survived, but a young Italian Duke Or...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
We are gonna have to circle back to this.
3 hours ago
Shawn McCreesh Reporting as part of the White House press pool

I'm one of the small number of journalists traveling with the White House press pool tonight. We were in a hall just outside the ballroom when the commotion first rang out.
Several things happened in quick succession.
Tuxedoed agents pulled out guns and began running toward the ballroom. White-jacketed caterers screamed and bolted for stairwells.
Pandemonium reigned as top cabinet officials were evacuated.
Robert Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Cheryl Hines, came out and were ushered intr an
elevator. Then Jeanine Piro emerged. The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, came tearing across the hallway with two men in tow; his girlfriend was hiding in a room with another man who was holding her hand, Reporters are about to be taken back into the ballroom.
The show will go on, apparently.
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... This journalist is perhaps Australia’s finest.
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Israel's killing of journalists in Lebanon highlights the impunity with which it acts
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Israel Defense Forces have committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government's military since 1992.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Time and Six Sonnet Numbers works.hcommons.org/records/mm83... (updated today) #ShakespeareSunday
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Time and Six Sonnet Numbers
In this note we propose that in addition to the battle against Time within specific sonnets, Shakespeare also engages with Time in the numbering of the sonnets. Each of the five early modern intervals...
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
#ShakespeareSunday
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
#ShakespeareSunday
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Halle's Chronicles (1550) is thought to have been annotated by Shakespeare. Here's one of them (pic 1 - Cometa). 'Shakespeare' uses the scientific (Latin) term for the plain English (Comete) in the text (pic 2 - the same page from a copy that hasn't been annotated). #ShakespeareSunday #Astronomy
Detail of page in Halle's Chronicles showing annotation 'Cometa'Detail of the same page from Halle's Chronicles (an unannotated copy) underlining the printed English word 'comete'.
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Time and Six Sonnet Numbers works.hcommons.org/records/jxnn... High hopes for this little note. #ShakespeareSunday
The 24-hour clock at Hampton Cout Palace showing two halves of 12 hours each for day and night.
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Time and Six Sonnet Numbers works.hcommons.org/records/jxnn... High hopes for this little note. #ShakespeareSunday
The 24-hour clock at Hampton Cout Palace showing two halves of 12 hours each for day and night.
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Halle's Chronicles (1550) is thought to have been annotated by Shakespeare. Here's one of them (pic 1 - Cometa). 'Shakespeare' uses the scientific (Latin) term for the plain English (Comete) in the text (pic 2 - the same page from a copy that hasn't been annotated). #ShakespeareSunday #Astronomy
Detail of page in Halle's Chronicles showing annotation 'Cometa'Detail of the same page from Halle's Chronicles (an unannotated copy) underlining the printed English word 'comete'.
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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'Sounds good to me': How Trump was sold war in Iran
Extraordinary reporting reveals how Israel made the case for regime change in Iran — and how the fallout is driving a profound shift in American opinion, amid deep uncertainty about what the war has achieved.
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Sheridan Stewart @sheridanstewart.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This exchange has a bright future.
A four-skeet Bluesky exchange:

Mike Brock
@brockm.bsky.social
Any other leftists want to challenge me on this notion that we should welcome Republican defectors? I'm quite hungry to humiliate you, and demonstrate to all the world's wary inhabitants what a worthless troll you are.

lauren
@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
hi, sorry, not sure i follow. could you rephrase this but in an even more embarrassing way for an adult to talk

Mike Brock
@brockm.bsky.social
Your stupid little status-dominance game isn't going to work on me.

lauren 
@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
perfect thanks
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LAL @lindli.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My sister and I laughed so hard at this tweet one night that I named her "she doesnot leave the lizard alone" in my phone. that's still her name to this day
tweet from @jawbroken

November 5, 2010 I hate the muppets bcuz of the Pig girl, she was disgusting, i hate her with my life, she doesnot leave the lizard alone
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I still remember this one and giggle occasionally
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
works.hcommons.org/records/cqwx... #shakespearesunday
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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
works.hcommons.org/records/cqwx... #shakespearesunday
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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.
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