Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The judges would also have accepted "Sir, this is an Arby's." 020
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap. 000
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 18/05/2026John Brunner's Traveller in Black at the back of the crowd: "As you wish, so be it." 020
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Narrator: His valley was notably green. 010
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Posts like these, which note the falsity of something we wish was true, are what separate us from the animals. 812932
Reposted by Scooby Shakespeare"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Hey, @thefireorg.bsky.social - when does Texas Tech get shifted to a 'red light' free speech rating from yellow? Because it is hard to see anything more 'red light' than this? 11635
Reposted by Scooby Shakespeare"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/04/2026As someone who was concerned about the free speech climate on university campuses pre-2016... This is worse. This is obviously, clearly, head-thumpingly worse. Obviously unconstitutional, an abiding black mark on the university and the state. 432754
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 13/04/2026@wardepartment.bsky.social this YouTube archive of TCM intros tossed this up yesterday, and I thought you might have some interest. youtu.be/4-Ocidtd2hE?...youtu.beTCM Comments Uncle Buck (1989)YouTube video by TN25 Archive 120
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 07/04/2026@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov and Danny Davis (apparently not on BlueSky) should sign on. I've called their offices. Not because it can be done while the Republicans are intransigent. But because they must get as close as it's possible to get, and have done everything *they* could do. 000
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments 584147694
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 06/04/2026And not even effectively. 21 days after the 25th is invoked, two thirds of both houses have to vote the president can't discharge his duties or he resumes the office. But if they had two thirds of both houses prepared to do that, they wouldn't need the 25th. 100
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 04/04/2026@duckworth.senate.gov, *please* don't press the TSA to make people take off shoes again. It's pure security theater. No country that doesn't do it has been shoe-bombed in the two decades we had the policy. So *much* airport security is theater now. We should have long ago assessed what's needed. 010
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 28/02/2026"[T]he device every conqueror, yes, every altruistic liberator should be required to wear on his shield... is a little girl and her kitten, at ground zero." --Captain Sir Dominic Flandry From Poul Anderson's "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" (1974) 000
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 17/02/2026ICE is bad. Deportation is bad. Immigration restriction is almost always bad. Armed masked men going into homes without warrants is so obviously villainous that the fact anyone approves it is a stain that will haunt even generous histories of our nation ever after. I am anti-ICE. 5700124
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Don't let this work, @durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov. Don't make a deal on the basis of rearranging deck chairs while the same course remains laid in. 010
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Maybe they can reinvent Norse kennings. "Ware the roof shingle of the salmon's hall." "Gird your car's tires 'gainst the helmet of the fjord." (Or, you know, get rid of DHS and devolve legitimate immigration enforcement to agencies without ICE's radioactive legacy. Or anyone who's worked for it.) 000
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 20/01/2026@durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov Neville Chamberlain would be shamed by the company of any Democrat who votes to fund ICE and CBP for this while these agencies lay siege to American cities. Is there *anything* that makes it worth saying "Enough!"? 000
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 19/01/2026@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov 000
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Think of the most random TV show you can possibly think of. Now post a gif of it. 020
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Attn: @durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov 000
Reposted by Scooby ShakespearePelgrane Press @pelgranepress.bsky.social · 13/11/2025The Ken Writes About Stuff Bundle is live on Bundle of Holding! Collect Kenneth Hite’s acclaimed essays and expansions for Trail of Cthulhu, exploring mythos secrets, occult weirdness and monstrous inspiration. A must for horror GMs. #TTRPG #TrailofCthulhu bit.ly/3JWcLeS 0227
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 10/11/2025@durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov Please don't do this. There is no point in a deal where there are no irrevocable commitments from the other side. And there clearly aren't. 000
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker 583240987
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/10/2025This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will. 1410237097305
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment. 534268703
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2025Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it." 5223318810849
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2025Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism" 7433937212588
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Obviously any of the stories where to inherit a million dollars you have to survive a night in a haunted house. And then spend the year anywhere else in that world. (Darn, I could have had $11 million. Oh well.) 020
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Slightly diminish a band.: Mild Paprikas Anatolia Day Trip Dishwaterie 000
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 23/07/2025"I’m generalizing from one example, here, but everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do." --Vlad Taltos in Issola (2001) by Steven Brust 151
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Trekkies: If you see this post your first experience with Star Trek. 030
Reposted by Scooby ShakespearePhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Whoa, this is true! My last book, Under Alien Skies, is just $2.99 for the ebook version! 5518
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/06/2025NIH director Jay Bhattacharya posted on X: "No clinical trial has been delayed, nor has any participant been dropped from clinical trial. These are the facts." Malaria, tuberculosis, cancer trials abroad have all been on the chopping block, leaving participants stranded, I reported in this story.nature.comNIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad — and could leave thousands without careUS agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds. 4265124
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 12/06/2025You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? 000
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/05/2025Despite court orders, none of the 278 men illegally remanded to CECOT prison have been returned to the US. 8410130
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department tried to bar a CNN journalist from serving as a pool reporter for an upcoming foreign trip. Other reporters threatened to boycott the trip. Guess what happened next. The Pentagon caved. Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/pete-hegse... 742410685
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareTurhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I said I'd talk about how reading @adapalmer.bsky.social's "Inventing the Renaissance" might change how I'd have written the various Renaissance-themed GURPS books, and now I'm back to do so. Thread, using alum from papal mines as a mordant: 1276
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareKara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 20/05/2025The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...regulations.govRegulations.gov 1743704952
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/05/2025May the fourth be with you, Illinois. 920427243828
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Zuck: The average American has three friends. 110
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareErin @wardepartment.bsky.social · 20/04/2025If you are Active Duty, Reserve, or National Guard in the US military, and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens, then call the GI Rights Hotline: 1-877-447-4487 There is support for you. You do not have to follow illegal orders. girightshotline.orggirightshotline.orgGI Rights Hotline: Military Discharges and Military CounselingAre you in the military or thinking about joining? Are you unsure of where to get reliable answers? Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487. Call for yourself or someone you care about Free and c... 414592
Scooby Shakespeare @scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Well in that case, just to be clear: I advocate for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Also for anyone else any government proposes to arrest, imprison, deport, or impose whatever illegal and/or unconstitutional measures the current or any future administration can dream up upon. 010
Reposted by Scooby ShakespeareMonica Iyer @monicavisalam.bsky.social · 09/04/2025As an alum, I'm looking forward to hearing how my alma mater, which prides itself as a protector of free speech, is taking action on behalf of these students/fellow alums. @uchicagoalumni.bsky.social 724867
