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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Surely a top-10 Wikipedia article

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My office is really coming together

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

showed Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors" to my class today -- a really brilliant little poem, the only that I can think of that uses the concept of metaphor itself as a metaphor (words that are "pregnant" with meaning)

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love how much Salem MA, Seth Moulton's hometown, hates him

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Actually felt a bit emotional seeing this — the only known group portrait of the Brontës, painted by their brother Branwell (originally depicted in the middle) and thought lost until it was found folded on top of a wardrobe in a relative’s house in Ireland in 1914

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Took the ferry to block island ☀️

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

made the error of bringing John Fowles’s “The Collector” to the beach and immediately felt like such a creep for reading it in public (terrific though deeply uncomfortable novel)

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Saw the tall ships in Boston!

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Waited in line for two hours yesterday to see this diva

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Beginning to miss the old spam texts that were like “how are you dear?”

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Watched some Rhode Islanders burn an effigy of the Gaspee, a royal navy schooner, in Pawtuxet Cove

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Ignore the jeans in church and general dishevelment but: the Kennedy family pew at St. Mary’s in Newport, where JFK got married to Jackie

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Came home from lunch and found this in my pocket, how long do you think my prison sentence will be

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

meeting my art school students halfway

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

some guys with their cats (Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Sartre)

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Nietzsche would have been such a good poster

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

online stan culture is recreating Shakespeare’s procreation sonnets from first principles

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

there's also this gay ass shit Nelly does with Edgar Linton and Heathcliff's hair

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Emily Bronte was fujoing out here just a little

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

there's just something about how she keeps circling around a conclusion that is oddly doubtful for a committed Puritan, almost verging on pagan, but then pulls back, in the final lines, to spiritual orthodoxy ("but of course, the sun isn't God! I repeat: the sun is not God!")

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I hadn't paid much attention to Anne Bradstreet in the past, so now I'm feeling pleasantly surprised by how strange her poetry is (this stanza is from "Contemplations")

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I need to know more about the one American concubine of the notorious, violent, profligate, wealthy, hung (source: himself) warlord Zhang Zongchang

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

a really interesting little poem ("The Fairies’ Farewell," Richard Corbett) from the early 17th century

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

campus right now (first warm spring day!)

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

No black and white photo filter was used in the making of this image! Really striking example of a grisaille (painting in gray or neutral monochrome) in the Harvard Art museum ("Apotheosis of Louis-Adolphe Thiers," 1878)

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter from Andy Warhol

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

what I truly do love about figure skating is that this blond twink in the sequins and lace is regarded by many fans of the sport as too masculine on the ice

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

You know, I’m something of a fujoshi myself

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

love this bit in Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" where he delivers a stunningly homoerotic blazon, goes "I'll stop now, this is inappropriate," and then immediately resumes what he was doing

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

thinking about: PTA's Sad Gay Loser canon

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Add this to the New England aggression archives and file it under “taunting things as they die, subcategory: snow”

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

every once in a while C.S. Lewis really knocks it out of the park, here on Shakespeare's sonnets

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Reading heart of darkness in 65 degree weather in front of a tree branch that was snapped during the historic blizzard two weeks ago as lingering piles of snow melt rapidly by my feet

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I just think it's neat that Shakespeare decided to cap off his career in theatre by writing the only honest poems ever written

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Comically over-ambitious to try this in Rhode Island (I have seen every single person who lives in this state with my own two eyes)

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Well my power is probably going to shut off soon so I guess I’ll finally watch this (since I already have opinions about it anyway) as I slowly freeze to death

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Reports are in from Rhode Island: fuck this!!

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I really like this stanza in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis because it imbues an image right out of the Loony Toons or Spongebob with some genuine pathos (she's just found his corpse, mangled by a boar)