Olga Prokopis
@olgaphoos.bsky.social
I live and work on unceded Brayakaulung country. Disabled scholar researching Shakespeare and Richard III. Graduate researcher in history at the Centre for Contemporary Histories Deakin University.
'Maintain your rage and enthusiasm.'
'Maintain your rage and enthusiasm.'
Pinned
RICHARD
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
CATESBY
Withdraw, my lord. I’ll help you to a horse.
RICHARD
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
#RichardIII 5.4.7-10 #ShakespeareSunday
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
CATESBY
Withdraw, my lord. I’ll help you to a horse.
RICHARD
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
#RichardIII 5.4.7-10 #ShakespeareSunday
February 1, 2026 at 9:14 AM
RICHARD
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
CATESBY
Withdraw, my lord. I’ll help you to a horse.
RICHARD
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
#RichardIII 5.4.7-10 #ShakespeareSunday
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
CATESBY
Withdraw, my lord. I’ll help you to a horse.
RICHARD
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
#RichardIII 5.4.7-10 #ShakespeareSunday
77 Years of Genocide: February 1st Newsletter #freepalestine
77 Years of Genocide: February 1st Newsletter
Unrwa chief: Gaza ‘deadliest’ place for journalists, aid workers
open.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:48 PM
77 Years of Genocide: February 1st Newsletter #freepalestine
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
My piece in GLW on AI supplanting sports journalism www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1446/an...?
Sports journalism faces AI challenge
Broadcasters are looking to artificial intelligence to replace journalists, which will mean job cuts and adversely impact how news is reported. C S Hughes reports.
www.greenleft.org.au
January 22, 2026 at 7:01 AM
My piece in GLW on AI supplanting sports journalism www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1446/an...?
Love the little boar hiding under the dust jacket #richardiii
January 28, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Love the little boar hiding under the dust jacket #richardiii
Charles Lamb in response to George Frederick Cooke's #RichardIII
January 27, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Charles Lamb in response to George Frederick Cooke's #RichardIII
Not a date to celebrate #noprideingenocide
January 25, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Not a date to celebrate #noprideingenocide
THE SCRIVENER:
Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
That cannot see this palpable device?
Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
Heed the Scrivener #RichardIII 3.6 #ShakespeareSunday
Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
That cannot see this palpable device?
Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
Heed the Scrivener #RichardIII 3.6 #ShakespeareSunday
January 25, 2026 at 6:13 AM
THE SCRIVENER:
Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
That cannot see this palpable device?
Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
Heed the Scrivener #RichardIII 3.6 #ShakespeareSunday
Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
That cannot see this palpable device?
Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
Heed the Scrivener #RichardIII 3.6 #ShakespeareSunday
THIRD CITIZEN:
Before the days of change, still is it so.
By a divine instinct, men’s minds mistrust
Ensuing danger, as by proof we see
The water swell before a boist’rous storm.
Heed the citizens #RichardIII 2.3.41-44 #ShakespeareSunday
Before the days of change, still is it so.
By a divine instinct, men’s minds mistrust
Ensuing danger, as by proof we see
The water swell before a boist’rous storm.
Heed the citizens #RichardIII 2.3.41-44 #ShakespeareSunday
January 25, 2026 at 6:09 AM
THIRD CITIZEN:
Before the days of change, still is it so.
By a divine instinct, men’s minds mistrust
Ensuing danger, as by proof we see
The water swell before a boist’rous storm.
Heed the citizens #RichardIII 2.3.41-44 #ShakespeareSunday
Before the days of change, still is it so.
By a divine instinct, men’s minds mistrust
Ensuing danger, as by proof we see
The water swell before a boist’rous storm.
Heed the citizens #RichardIII 2.3.41-44 #ShakespeareSunday
THIRD CITIZEN:
O, full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester,
And the Queen’s sons and brothers haught and
proud,
And were they to be ruled, and not to rule,
This sickly land might solace as before.
Heed the citizens #RichardIII 3.2.27-30 #ShakespeareSunday
O, full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester,
And the Queen’s sons and brothers haught and
proud,
And were they to be ruled, and not to rule,
This sickly land might solace as before.
Heed the citizens #RichardIII 3.2.27-30 #ShakespeareSunday
January 25, 2026 at 6:06 AM
THIRD CITIZEN:
O, full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester,
And the Queen’s sons and brothers haught and
proud,
And were they to be ruled, and not to rule,
This sickly land might solace as before.
Heed the citizens #RichardIII 3.2.27-30 #ShakespeareSunday
O, full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester,
And the Queen’s sons and brothers haught and
proud,
And were they to be ruled, and not to rule,
This sickly land might solace as before.
Heed the citizens #RichardIII 3.2.27-30 #ShakespeareSunday
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs,
The title is affeer’d!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs,
The title is affeer’d!
January 24, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs,
The title is affeer’d!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs,
The title is affeer’d!
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
What makes this even worse is that the Trumpist - and wider far-right - technique actively depends on pieces like this, which disseminate their lies as simply one available viewpoint among many.
The BBC has become a host for a vicious parasite which intends to consume it, and us.
The BBC has become a host for a vicious parasite which intends to consume it, and us.
This mendacious drivel should be a resigning issue, for both the author and anyone who thought it was right to publish it
January 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
What makes this even worse is that the Trumpist - and wider far-right - technique actively depends on pieces like this, which disseminate their lies as simply one available viewpoint among many.
The BBC has become a host for a vicious parasite which intends to consume it, and us.
The BBC has become a host for a vicious parasite which intends to consume it, and us.
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
"We are either ignored or attacked"
A powerful story by Judith Treanor on Australia's upheaval, Hate Speech laws and the muted voices of non-Zionist Jews
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/how-jewish-a...
A powerful story by Judith Treanor on Australia's upheaval, Hate Speech laws and the muted voices of non-Zionist Jews
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/how-jewish-a...
How Jewish are you? Enough to put you on a list? - Michael West
We hear a lot from Australia's Zionist Jews in the media, not so much from non-Zionist Jews. Hate speech laws and Australia in upheaval.
michaelwest.com.au
January 22, 2026 at 7:14 AM
"We are either ignored or attacked"
A powerful story by Judith Treanor on Australia's upheaval, Hate Speech laws and the muted voices of non-Zionist Jews
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/how-jewish-a...
A powerful story by Judith Treanor on Australia's upheaval, Hate Speech laws and the muted voices of non-Zionist Jews
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/how-jewish-a...
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
*Exclusive investigation by MWM*
Australian taxpayers are subsidising donations to Israel’s military and to settlement linked projects in occupied Palestinian territory, via Australian charities with DGR status, an MWM investigation has found. 
Australian taxpayers are subsidising donations to Israel’s military and to settlement linked projects in occupied Palestinian territory, via Australian charities with DGR status, an MWM investigation has found. 
January 22, 2026 at 11:00 PM
*Exclusive investigation by MWM*
Australian taxpayers are subsidising donations to Israel’s military and to settlement linked projects in occupied Palestinian territory, via Australian charities with DGR status, an MWM investigation has found. 
Australian taxpayers are subsidising donations to Israel’s military and to settlement linked projects in occupied Palestinian territory, via Australian charities with DGR status, an MWM investigation has found. 
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
Mood in minneapolis right now
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Mood in minneapolis right now
77 Years of Genocide: January 25th Newsletter
77 Years of Genocide: January 25th Newsletter
Gaza hospitals struggle to maintain medical services amid restricted access
open.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:58 PM
77 Years of Genocide: January 25th Newsletter
January 23, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
#ArticleSnapshot📸: Anthony Grafton's "Toward a Conjectural History of Conjectural Histories" examines "the connection between conjectural history and classical philology."
Read this #OpenAccess #PhilologyNow article here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
Read this #OpenAccess #PhilologyNow article here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth-century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers tra...
doi.org
January 20, 2026 at 7:27 PM
#ArticleSnapshot📸: Anthony Grafton's "Toward a Conjectural History of Conjectural Histories" examines "the connection between conjectural history and classical philology."
Read this #OpenAccess #PhilologyNow article here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
Read this #OpenAccess #PhilologyNow article here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
Shady SA premier behind the attempted cancellation of Dr Abdel-Fattah
January 19, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Shady SA premier behind the attempted cancellation of Dr Abdel-Fattah
RICHARD
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
ANNE
Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
#RichardIII 1.2.66-70
#ShakespeareSunday
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
ANNE
Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
#RichardIII 1.2.66-70
#ShakespeareSunday
January 18, 2026 at 9:33 AM
RICHARD
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
ANNE
Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
#RichardIII 1.2.66-70
#ShakespeareSunday
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
ANNE
Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
#RichardIII 1.2.66-70
#ShakespeareSunday
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
Issue 42.2 of Parergon was released just before Christmas. A special issue focused on medieval English attitudes to the outside world, Alison Hudson's article 'Elephants in English Literature, Art, and Material Culture before the Reign of Henry III' is currently open access!
doi.org/10.1353/pgn....
doi.org/10.1353/pgn....
January 17, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Issue 42.2 of Parergon was released just before Christmas. A special issue focused on medieval English attitudes to the outside world, Alison Hudson's article 'Elephants in English Literature, Art, and Material Culture before the Reign of Henry III' is currently open access!
doi.org/10.1353/pgn....
doi.org/10.1353/pgn....