@Shamlet
@shamlet.bsky.social
HS English teacher in Canada. Same handle as my deactivated twi(x)tter.
A hell of a thing to come across a day after re-reading Brave New World 🤯
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.
Silicon Valley startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve chances for a high IQ and other traits.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
A hell of a thing to come across a day after re-reading Brave New World 🤯
In The Crucible, the town isn't stirred to concern by the injustice inflicted on Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne. It's only when Rebecca, Martha, and Elizabeth have their flights delayed and cancelled that people get up in arms
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
In The Crucible, the town isn't stirred to concern by the injustice inflicted on Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne. It's only when Rebecca, Martha, and Elizabeth have their flights delayed and cancelled that people get up in arms
I don't want to speak for them, but I'd bet that Patrick Duffy and Victoria Principal would be thrilled to have cameos in a Bond film
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I don't want to speak for them, but I'd bet that Patrick Duffy and Victoria Principal would be thrilled to have cameos in a Bond film
The characters in The Crucible have great trouble adjusting to a society that no longer works the way it used to. Even as they know things have changed, they still cling to the idea that their leaders will respond fairly and justly -- that their voices and lives will matter.
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The characters in The Crucible have great trouble adjusting to a society that no longer works the way it used to. Even as they know things have changed, they still cling to the idea that their leaders will respond fairly and justly -- that their voices and lives will matter.
There is no such thing as a non-human artist. This kind of sloppy personification itself speaks to some level of cultural bankruptcy --
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
There is no such thing as a non-human artist. This kind of sloppy personification itself speaks to some level of cultural bankruptcy --
Reposted by @Shamlet
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Remembrance Day is a reminder of how powerful it is to gather together in silence, and how important it is to remember. Much of what happens around us is happening simply because we've forgotten --
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Remembrance Day is a reminder of how powerful it is to gather together in silence, and how important it is to remember. Much of what happens around us is happening simply because we've forgotten --
Reposted by @Shamlet
Trenches on the Somme
Mary Riter Hamilton
1919
Mary Riter Hamilton
1919
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Trenches on the Somme
Mary Riter Hamilton
1919
Mary Riter Hamilton
1919
In all my dreams before my helpless sight, / He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
#LestWeForget
Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
#LestWeForget
Dulce et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
In all my dreams before my helpless sight, / He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
#LestWeForget
Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
#LestWeForget
... telling me plain what I escaped / And others could not, that night ...
Edward Thomas, "The Owl"
#LestWeForget
Edward Thomas, "The Owl"
#LestWeForget
The Owl
Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved; Cold, yet had heat within me that was proof Against the North wind; tired, yet so that rest Had seemed the sweetest thing under a roof. Then at the inn I...
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
... telling me plain what I escaped / And others could not, that night ...
Edward Thomas, "The Owl"
#LestWeForget
Edward Thomas, "The Owl"
#LestWeForget
that day when you know there's no turning back, that the snow is here to stay
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
that day when you know there's no turning back, that the snow is here to stay
Quite a time to re-read Brave New World before teaching it
"But truth's a menace, science is a public danger" (Ch XVI)
"But truth's a menace, science is a public danger" (Ch XVI)
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Quite a time to re-read Brave New World before teaching it
"But truth's a menace, science is a public danger" (Ch XVI)
"But truth's a menace, science is a public danger" (Ch XVI)
every morning, calmed and centered by the trees
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
every morning, calmed and centered by the trees
All the Iagos gonna hate, lie, hate, lie, hate / All the Roderigos gonna cave, cave, cave, cave, cave 🎶
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
All the Iagos gonna hate, lie, hate, lie, hate / All the Roderigos gonna cave, cave, cave, cave, cave 🎶
Macbeth 4.4: a lost scene where Macbeth sends a note to England promising to talk about doing better and saying hey, please come back, people are suffering, and Malcolm and Macduff go "oh, ok, sounds good"
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Macbeth 4.4: a lost scene where Macbeth sends a note to England promising to talk about doing better and saying hey, please come back, people are suffering, and Malcolm and Macduff go "oh, ok, sounds good"
Those lost pages of Macbeth 3.4 where there are some banquet speeches and Macbeth nods off -- then someone faints and he sees Banquo's ghost and stares vacantly forward, paralyzed, transfixed
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Those lost pages of Macbeth 3.4 where there are some banquet speeches and Macbeth nods off -- then someone faints and he sees Banquo's ghost and stares vacantly forward, paralyzed, transfixed
...those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
. . .
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Sonnet 73
#ShakespeareSunday
. . .
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Sonnet 73
#ShakespeareSunday
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
...those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
. . .
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Sonnet 73
#ShakespeareSunday
. . .
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Sonnet 73
#ShakespeareSunday
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep. The more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.
Romeo and Juliet, 2.2.140-142
#ShakespeareSunday
Romeo and Juliet, 2.2.140-142
#ShakespeareSunday
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep. The more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.
Romeo and Juliet, 2.2.140-142
#ShakespeareSunday
Romeo and Juliet, 2.2.140-142
#ShakespeareSunday
I'm not saying I'm middle-aged, I'm just saying that about eight of these shouldn't be in the past tense
I have never done (9) (it's anti-social), (13) (Blockbuster never operated in my country), or (20) (those things were *expensive*).
I am teh oldz.
I am teh oldz.
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I'm not saying I'm middle-aged, I'm just saying that about eight of these shouldn't be in the past tense
As late as yesterday afternoon, did not have "fire up the snowblower" on this weekend's dance card. But here we are.
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
As late as yesterday afternoon, did not have "fire up the snowblower" on this weekend's dance card. But here we are.
Life in Canada: the sun rises on a winter wonderland that didn't exist 24 hours ago.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Life in Canada: the sun rises on a winter wonderland that didn't exist 24 hours ago.
To be an English teacher in a time when language is being drained of meaning like a lake near a vampiric AI data center
November 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
To be an English teacher in a time when language is being drained of meaning like a lake near a vampiric AI data center
If you're an English teacher looking to roll into class and say "hey kids, want to see if you can spot and drive through the truck-sized holes in an argument?", this one's for you
Opinion | A.I. Is Already Intelligent. This Is How It Becomes Conscious.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If you're an English teacher looking to roll into class and say "hey kids, want to see if you can spot and drive through the truck-sized holes in an argument?", this one's for you
and, suddenly, so much weight to carry
the things that trees know ...
the things that trees know ...
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
and, suddenly, so much weight to carry
the things that trees know ...
the things that trees know ...