I was fascinated by it - it looks so modern. Congratulations on getting a decent photo!
‘one of the dozens of people worldwide that live in a country that's not America’ I’m here for #ShakespeareSunday. Currently between gardens, so enjoying yours vicariously. 🍏🍒
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I was fascinated by it - it looks so modern. Congratulations on getting a decent photo!
Can anyone explain to me why #Sandman made it through to a second series and #KAOS didn’t? Good one Netflix 🥴
A treat to start September! My Women's Prize-shortlisted novel about the Trojan War, A Thousand Ships, is just £3.99 on Audible. Read by the author... 🌊 This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all... 👉 www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-Thousan...
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️
I’ll stand by de-SUL-tor-ee.
Still think interNEEcine sounds better.
‘yet again, methinks, Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb, Is coming towards me, and my inward soul With nothing trembles’ RII 2.2 #ShakespeareSunday I love Little My’s full-body expression: ‘Bring it’
‘There is a world elsewhere’ Coriolanus 3.3 #ShakespeareSunday
Short memories unfortunately, and not just about librarians.
I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.
Trick question. Pon(d), because bone is 🎀n and gone is gawn.
‘She squeezed a snowball and hit the squirrel on the head with her first throw. And then Little My stepped out of the cave to take possession of the winter’
You give the best recommendations for new follows 🙏
‘Th' abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power’ JC #ShakespeareSunday The powerful get the good tomato sauce. m.youtube.com/shorts/1QQej...
"Wrench up thy power to th' highest..." Coriolanus A1 S8 #ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho
‘And see already how he doth begin To make us strangers to his looks of love.’ HIV 1 1.3
“The courage of a woman” - Antony and Cleopatra (Act 4, Scene 14) #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social
Actually, on reflection, it was THE BEST. Fight me 😝 #ShakespeareSunday
"I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on th’ other." Macbeth Act 1, Scene 7 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Power & Leadership
‘From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive. They sparkle still the right Promethian fire. They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.’ LLL 4.3 #ShakespeareSunday
‘Assay the power you have.’ Measure For Measure 1.4 #ShakespeareSunday
Mighty gossips. R3 1.1 #ShakespeareSunday
It’s like Feathers McGraw down under.
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. - Henry VI, Pt. 1 (A1, S2) #ShakespeareSunday
“Give me some aqua vitae.” R&J (Act 3, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday #Dune @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social
Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king Richard II Act III Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday #Water
A little water clears us of this deed. MACBETH Act II Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday #Water
@hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #ShakespeareSunday Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. HENRY VIII, Act 4, Scene 2
"Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves..." Twelfth Night A1 S2 #ShakespeareSunday #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made like a goose. Tempest 2.2 #ShakespeareSunday
‘Alas, poor duke, the task he undertakes Is numb’ring sands and drinking oceans dry’ RII 2.2 #ShakespeareSunday
‘I'll throw't into the creek’ Cymbeline 4.2 #ShakespeareSunday
‘the moist star Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands’ Hamlet 1.1 #ShakespeareSunday
Hey Mein Schiff 4, currently making an unscheduled stop in the VILLAGE of Åndalsnes. Nobody in this SMALL VILLAGE wants to hear your disco. How rude!
And then there’s the opposite. #KAOS #Norsemen, cut down in their prime. 🤬 Netflix
“O, it is excellent…” 🥹 #MeasureForMeasure #ShakespeareSunday #PurpleRain #Prince #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️
“Assay the power you have.” - Measure For Measure #ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. Julius Caesar #ShakespeareSunday
I know how she feels 🙄
"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant." (Measure For Measure, Act 2 Sc.2) #ShakespeareSunday 🎭
‘For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men–‘ Mark Antony - Julius Caesar #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Julius Caesar #MarlonBrando
I would rather have a handful of a cat's paw than a handful of a man's hand. Measure for Measure 3.1. #ShakespeareSunday #CatsOfTwitter
This never gets old🤣
Quite athwart Goes all decorum. MM 1.3 #ShakespeareSunday
Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. MM 2.2 #ShakespeareSunday
“The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks, They are all fire and every one doth shine, But there's but one in all doth hold his place” - Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social
"Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt!" Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Measure for Measure & Julius Caesar
‘Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.’ #ShakespeareSunday Best evil cat pic ever by @andrewmale.bsky.social
Who will believe thee, Isabel? My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life, My vouch against you, and my place i' the state, Will so your accusation overweigh…As for you, Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true. Measure for Measure 2.4 #ShakespeareSunday m.youtube.com/watch?v=5yYc...
One of those nights…
Thanks for sharing. I had no appreciation of this context when I visited this recently. I can’t believe she did all that in a long skirt.
Just finished this and loved it too. She’s very witty!
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough. I loved it so much I’m gonna reread for sure.
I know how he feels 🥵
Here's flowers for you;/ Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram;/The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun/And with him rises weeping: these are flowers/ Of middle summer... Winter's T. V.3; Theme: Summer Hols #ShakespeareSunday @lightacandle.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social @tonylarch.bsky.social
“Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.” - AMND (Act 4, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social
“Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.” Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 3 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Summer Holidays
‘I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind’ AYLI 2.7 #ShakespeareSunday
Post someone with great eyes 👀
Beautiful apple tree, spotted in the Hardangerfjord, the orchard of Norway 🍎 🍒 🌱 #FlowerReport
The best word in Swedish is kyckling.
My favourite Portuguese word is frigorÍFICO! It’s so triumphant.
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They are the ground, the books, the academes From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. (Love’s Labour’s Lost 4. 3) #ShakespeareSunday
How beautiful! I had never heard of Heath Robinson, so thanks for sharing♥️
"Why, this is the world's soul; and just of the same piece Is every flatterer's spirit. Who can call him His friend that dips in the same dish?" --Timon 3.2. #ShakespeareSunday
"The whirligig of time brings in his revenges." #ShakespeareSunday
Her exhibition at the National Museum in Stockholm, The Art of Being Free, is fabulous. What a woman.
Wow. So presumably platypus are also fish and their eggs are fair game on Fridays. I also hadn’t previously focused on the fact that bees don’t have a backbone, as well as being Californian fish, so quite a few new revelations for me today…
I think I’ve seen some more dotted around the place. Keep an eye out on your travels!
I loved City of Death with Romana II. How did they convince the producers to let them film in Paris, rather than the usual Welsh quarries?!
That one was in the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts!
Me too, he should be better known!
‘Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear’ AYLI 3.2 #ShakespeareSunday Aimé-Jules Dalou ‘Grand paysan’ Keep your bronzes inside, folks!
‘knit your sinews to the strength of mine’ King John 5 #ShakespeareSunday Aimé-Jules Dalou, La Sagesse soutenant la Liberté
Alexander the Great's underwater exploration off the building site of Alexandria. I particularly like the lighting arrangements in his submarine. Flemish, c. 1300-1325 (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Jörg P. Anders)
You’re right, and I think the robot-related stories were comparatively boring.
I only recently found out that the excellent Hitchhikers theme was an actual song called Journey of the Sorcerer. m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdZ...
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers.
If you see this, quote post with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Transformers.
Dunny
Go check out the online catalogue of the David Collection in Copenhagen. Free, high-quality, stunning images! You can sort them by dynasty, material, or themes. https://www.davidmus.dk/en/collections/islamic
That’s the spirit.
‘What country... should give you harbor?’ Just in case I’m not the only one who didn’t know about The Book of Sir Thomas More #ShakespeareSunday www.latimes.com/business/hil...
The essence of a dog - just happy to be here 🥰
That’s disgusting.
"One minded like the weather, most unquietly." King Lear A3 S1 #ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho
#shakespearesunday "..storm brewing.." The Tempest 🌬 #wallaceandgromit 🐶🐧 #feathersmacgraw
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Richard III 1.1.1-4 Couldn't resist #ShakespeareSunday (Ron Cook as Richard III)
#ShakespeareSunday When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? (Macbeth 1.1.1–2)
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes The Merchant of Venice Act IV Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #Weather
The storm is up, and all is on the hazard. Julius Caesar Act V Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #Weather
