Reposted by Neil HellegersMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. 795166563671
Reposted by Neil HellegersAgata Weronika @aquedita.bsky.social · 25/08/2026paging @sjgochenour.bsky.social and @neolithicsheep.bsky.social: I might have found the perfect book for you 😂💖hachettebookgroup.comThe Demon Overlord’s Retirement PlanThe Demon Overlord retires to farm turnips in peace, only to find life in a small village far more chaotic than he ever could have anticipated in this laugh-... 133
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 24/08/2026I also like Clyde as much as I like Montana. Just like I like flan as much as créme brûlée! 110
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 12/08/2026Many thanks for listening, and very glad Eric and I can be of some comfort! 130
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 24/06/2026Oh sure now you want to acknowledge that earlier constitutional precepts are outdated and need to be changed to avoid abuse 000
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 24/06/2026I love when people include County Paris in the...count 010
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 23/06/2026Many thanks to the producers of this for proving that even with the cloned voice of an excellent actor, with amazing text, with four (!) producers avidly working it over, & a dozen other nicked voices (i.e. a more expensive project than with human narrators) The Odyssey still sounds utterly meh. 020
Reposted by Neil HellegersWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/06/2026Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool 9500119
Reposted by Neil HellegersMatt McDaniel @themattmcd.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Remembering Gene Wilder, born on this day in 1933, with his unforgettable role as Jim (but most people call him... "Jim") in Mel Brooks's BLAZING SADDLES on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand... 1283930552
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 11/06/2026NBA Finals: A Wu-Tang prayer, OG Anunoby, Jose Alvarado and the greatest comeback in NBA history - Yahoo Sports share.google/tctDL8QIkh3Y...share.googleNBA Finals: A Wu-Tang prayer, OG Anunoby, Jose Alvarado and the greatest comeback in NBA historyThere have been bigger deficits overcome on an NBA court, but none has been greater than what transpired Wednesday night in Madison Square Garden to give the Knicks a 3-1 series lead. 021
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 15/04/2026Thanks so much for listening! And love that series, genuinely unique! And my understanding is that Book 5 is considered the series conclusion, unfortunately. 020
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 15/04/2026Ah okay, enjoy! And JordanCon is certainly recommended; come for the Jordan-ness, and stay for a fun, laid-back con where actual conversation can flow! 010
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 23/03/2026I thought it was doomscolling but also crisiswiping 000
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 15/03/2026Know Thy Enemy #ideasofmarch #shakespeare #rageagainstthemachine #originalpronunciation #BookSky 070
Reposted by Neil HellegersMalory @maloryauthor.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Everything comes full circle… #litrpg #noir #fantasy #booksky 071
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 28/02/2026Throwing 'wArFiGHteRs' back in their face 10/10 no notes 010
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 27/02/2026Based on the lazered drone incident, we're already in inept territory 030
Reposted by Neil HellegersWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/02/2026Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house. 7749203
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 22/02/2026“Th’ abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power." ‐JC #ShakespeareSunday 030
Reposted by Neil HellegersMalory @maloryauthor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026‘Death of a Curator’ is out now! More LitRPG Murder Mystery goodness. Can Lowe solve the mystery of the murders before the whole of Soar turns into a Dungeon? #litrpg #booksky #hardboiled #noir #murdermystery #fantasy 1155
Reposted by Neil HellegersOmg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue 5783269014043
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 21/01/2026Silently hand them something dank, then solemnly intone 'קְנֵה בֹשֶׂם' and leave it at that :) 000
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 08/01/2026If we're thinking of the same sound, someone pointed out that it's the first three notes of the first line from Somewhere from West Side Story, which is, I believe, a b flat? 000
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 26/12/2025Toss in a classic "we've been wrong this whole time" and it's like 🤦 051
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 26/12/2025Wheras now there's even quite a bit "wait explain it again" 161
Neil Hellegers @neilhellegers.com · 29/11/2025"For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 062