“Come hither from the furrow and be merry: Make holiday;” The Tempest [IV, 1] #ShakespeareSunday Katharine Hepburn Summertime, 1955

“Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were tempered with Love's sighs.” Love’s Labour’s Lost Act IV, Scene 3 #ShakespeareSunday Cosmo Jarvis Persuasion 2022

“[Enter TROILUS and CRESSIDA]” Troilus and Cressida, IV, 2 #ShakespeareSunday Suzanne Burden and Anton Lesser in a 1981 production

Was Trump telling on himself, as he often does, when he thanked Musk for the vote counting computers that helped him win PA in a landslide?

Sometimes, enigmas have a purpose. A device called the Enigma machine was used in Nazi Germany during WWII to create ciphers for communications. Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski first broke Enigma in 1932. #WyrdWednesday

“She is so hot because the meat is cold; The meat is cold because you come not home;” Comedy of Errors [I, 2] #ShakespeareSunday George Fouracres Laura Hanna In a 2023 production at The Globe

“I must from this enchanting queen break off.” Antony and Cleopatra [I, 2] #ShakespeareSunday Lyndsey Marshall James Purefoy Rome

The reactionaries announced their intentions plainly. They hated Obama, hated the VRA, never got over losing the Civil War, and hate the American Revolution.

The ironically named, quietly sinister atropa bella-donna, one of the ingredients supposedly used in witches’ flying ointments. #WyrdWednesday Source: Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany

“Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate A contract of true love; be not too late.” The Tempest [IV, 1] #ShakespeareSunday #Outlander Sam Heughan Caitríona Balfe

Old Faithful, a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, was named in 1870. Its boiling water erupts on average every 92 minutes. #WyrdWednesday 🎨 Albert Bierstadt, ca 1881

“Beauty lives with kindness.” The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act IV, Scene II #ShakespeareSunday Astoria, the wild turkey who lives in Lower Manhattan, gets help from her human friends to drink water. 📸 Manhattan Bird Alert

“Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great: O, I could hew up rocks and fight with flint, I am so angry at these abject terms;” Henry VI, Part II #ShakespeareSunday #GoodOmens #DavidTennant

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This isn’t only a political crisis. It’s also a medical emergency.

“Think when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;” Henry V [Prologue, 1] #ShakespeareSunday Galloping Horses Talatat limestone block New Kingdom, Armana Period Ancient Egypt Metropolitan Museum of Art

For all the prominent Dems who are listed, there are also many Republicans and some major donors who may be vexed to find their names on the list

“I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. Henry VIII [III, 2] #ShakespeareSunday #Heroes Buddhist Monks Walk for Peace from Fort Worth, Texas to the White House. 📸 Andres Rios

According to the National Review it’s all her fault.

#poem #poetry #blueskypoetry By Amanda Gorman written in the shape of MN

This seditious statement should have been taken seriously.

Yep.

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.” Sonnet 116 #ShakespeareSunday #Outlander Caitríona Balfe Sam Heughan

“Ah, let me live in prison all my days;” Henry VI, Part III #ShakespeareSunday

“Lights, lights, lights!” Hamlet [III, 2] #ShakespeareSunday Holiday display Staten Island, NYC

“Like to the time o’ the year between the extremes of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.” Antony and Cleopatra [I, 5] #ShakespeareSunday #Museums Sir Thomas More (1527) Hans Holbein, the Younger The Frick Collection

In a prior era, he would have been called wishy washy.