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Kim Gauthier (she/her/elle)
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PhD student @ UQAM. MA Shakespeare Institute. Early modern drama enthusiast. Will bore you to tears about Shakespeare adaptations in Quebec at the slightest provocation.
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mwdelaney.me
Techbro speedrun instructions:

1. Find an industry where people make a living wage
2. Put a stop to that
May 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Here's a fresh look at my new graphic memoir, IT RHYMES WITH TAKEI!

For the first time, I'll share the full story of my 68 years in the closet, my decision to come out and join the fight for LGBTQ rights, and how that moment changed everything.

Learn more: ow.ly/rEO750VEuxt
May 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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cupcakegoth.bsky.social
The Brain Raccoons are stomping around and saying mean things and I feel exactly like this Charles Darwin quote.
An image of Charles Darwin with his quote "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.".
May 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
teamaufidius.bsky.social
Go see 1536 because I can’t!
eveyreidy.bsky.social evey reidy 🐌 @eveyreidy.bsky.social · May 14
Absolutely encourage any early modernists in London to see 1536 at the Almeida if you’re able — with some understandable and easily forgivable hiccups, it is a thoughtful and passionate engagement with how misogyny operated in the early mod. period and how we have inherited that poisonous legacy
A theatre program for 1536 at the Almeida Theatre. Three women are depicted in black Tudor gowns and headdresses, all wearing the iconic necklace that has the initial “B” (for Anne Boleyn) in gold with three dangling pearls.
May 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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dollymama07.bsky.social
Yes! Let's shine. Don't let the bastards get you down!
May 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Publishing this month, Joan of Arc by Deborah McGrady traces contemporary and later reception of Joan of Arc, examining how cultural beliefs and conventions have shaped her story. Discover more of our newest books ➡️ buff.ly/YOwy3nL
May 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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chrisrauchle.bsky.social
Grok servers are basically poisoning the people near them in Memphis because they haven’t fitted required pollution control filters that are in use in every other gas turbine in the area - he believes he’s above the law

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Thermal imaging shows xAI lied about supercomputer pollution, group says
xAI faces calls to deny permits to power gas turbines at supercomputer facility.
arstechnica.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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melaniebourdaa.bsky.social
Hello fans of #Madonna, I am doing a research on your community. Could you please answer this form and spread it ;-) docs.google.com/forms/d/11ei... cc @fanstudies.bsky.social @gerfans.bsky.social
A research on Madonna's fans
I am a scholar conducting a research on Madonna and her fans. I happen to also be a fan of Madonna. This form will only take a few minutes and will help me understand who fans of Madonna are.
docs.google.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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canadianerrant.bsky.social
9 Weeks. So they want to keep her on life support for another 27+ weeks?

This is.. seriously, like Bene Tleilax Axlotl tanks. It's absolutely horrific.
geauxgabrielle.bsky.social Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · May 15
The state of Georgia is keeping a deceased Black woman’s corpse hooked up to machines against her family’s wishes because she was 9 weeks pregnant and they cannot let them shut off the machines b/c it violates their anti-abortion laws

“ITS TORTURE,” says her family

www.11alive.com/article/news...
Family says woman declared brain dead but her pregnancy continues under state law
Adriana Smith's been on life support 90+ days with weeks to go in her pregnancy. Her family questions Georgia’s heartbeat law — and why they had no say in her care.
www.11alive.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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thetattooedprof.bsky.social
Burn it down and salt the earth
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · May 14
ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Ferreira de Oliveira, who is 40 years old, was still at their nearby home when she received a phone call from one of her daughters, who said ICE had pulled them over and were threatening to arrest Clara. Ferreira de Oliveira’s frightened daughter told her mother that she needed to leave the home now and come meet them on the street, because ICE was telling them that if they arrested Clara, they weren’t allowed to leave the baby in the hands of a minor. So, the feds insisted, grandma needed to rush over to take custody of the baby. Shortly after Ferreira de Oliveira arrived on the scene, ICE took her into custody. The agents suddenly no longer seemed interested in the 21-year-old daughter. ICE did not arrest her or her 17-year-old sibling.
May 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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hannahtempler.com
last thing for the day before I log OFF but i keep thinking about the (bad) argument that genAI is good for disabled people, but ime true accommodations for disability are external. I don't need a tool to make me go faster; I need a society that gives me space to go slower.
May 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
A principled student said in a grad speech that the “only appropriate thing to say in this moment” is to acknowledge the “atrocities” currently being committed in Palestine.

In response, NYU is withholding their diploma + apologizing to the community for the trauma the audience was “subjected to.”
NYU strongly denounces the choice by a student at the Gallatin School’s graduation today—one of over 20 school graduation ceremonies across our campus—to misuse his role as student speaker to express his personal and one-sided political views. “He lied about the speech he was going to deliver and violated the commitment he made to comply with our rules. The University is withholding his diploma while we pursue disciplinary actions. “NYU is deeply sorry that the audience was subjected to these remarks and that this moment was stolen by someone who abused a privilege that was conferred upon him.”
May 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
It’s almost as if effective advocacy and leadership, whether for good or evil, can shape public opinion, and it’s possible to work to frame issues instead of passively responding to the way the opposition frames them and accepting their characterization of what is “moderate.”
gelliottmorris.com G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · May 14
Rare for a public poll, we did a survey experiment to test whether priming respondents about the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia impacts support for Trump's broader immigration agenda. It does. Support for blanket deportations fell 20 points after hearing about Garcia's case.
May 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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kellylink.bsky.social
My feeling about any corporations using AI in place of creative work by human beings is the executives and promoters and enablers who foisted this on us should be driven out and never work in those industries again.
May 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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dexanderson.com
International students are seeing their records terminated and visas revoked across Minnesota: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

Basically: ICE deletes the record in SEVIS, and then uses that deletion as a basis to claim the student's visa should be terminated and the student deported.
Visas revoked, records terminated for more students at U of M, MSU Mankato
University staff ran a status check and found that the Department of Homeland Security had terminated the students' records without notifying the university.
www.mprnews.org
April 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
teamaufidius.bsky.social
I was right!

(But I can’t tell you what I was right about before April 9th.)
a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says " our secret "
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says " our secret "
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April 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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profgardner.bsky.social
February’s too short, so each day in March, a C21 book on Black histories. The reason Jennifer L. Morgan’s Reckoning with Slavery won such praise? It is *that* good. Early enslaved women’s lives, capitalism, the Middle Passage: required reading on so many issues. www.dukeupress.edu/reckoning-wi...
The cover for Jennifer L. Morgan’s book Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. In a rich combination of blacks and browns, the bottom left portion of the cover has a tall lighter brown triangle background. The author’s name is in small all caps at the bottom, all in the triangle. Higher up, the title appears in red all caps, partially in the triangle, and the subtitle appears in smaller white type just below it, again partially in the triangle. A line of three spaced asterisks beginning near the top runs down to the title, centered; below the subtitle, a line of three more runs down to the author’s name, again centered; a single asterisk appears below the author’s name, again centered. The bulk of the cover is a detail from the stunning oil on canvas, likely from the 1580s, “Portrait of an African Woman Holding a Clock,” attributed to Annibale Carracci. The title woman looks directly at us in a three-quarters view; she is dressed in period European fashion with a thin white shawl over a dark dress. She also wears a beaded necklace, an earring, and a silver circlet in her hair. The title clock is in the foreground and looks like a small imperial tower worked in carved gold, with the clock face on one side turned toward us.
March 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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maxlap.bsky.social
Je profite de la journée internationale de la visibilité transgenre pour vous recommander ''Les Genres Fluides'' du médiéviste Clovis Maillet.

Cet ouvrage sur la fluidité de genre au Moyen Âge s'était attiré la moquerie de la droite française, spécialement de MBC qui ne l'avait évidemment pas lu.
March 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
teamaufidius.bsky.social
Caught sight of a lone campaign poster on my way back from the airport and really hoped it was a remnant of the last one.

I leave the country for less than a week and elections are called?

Can I not leave you lot unsupervised for a few days?!?!

#canada
March 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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majikmouse.bsky.social
Absolutely spectacular! Hilarious and then moving and then hilarious again. An absolute highlight of a fantastic #Shax2025.
drpetekirwan.bsky.social Pete Kirwan @drpetekirwan.bsky.social · Mar 18
Hi everyone heading to #Shax2025 and #RSA2025 - don't miss your chance to see Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy on Saturday afternoon, in a wild four-person (+puppets) adaptation by Streetlight Shakespeare Ensemble. Some pics to whet the appetite (Miscellaneous Media Photography) - hope to see you there!
A female-presenting actor lies on the floor, being sat on by a puppet chicken. An easel stands behind, with an arrow pointing down towards "Pit of Death" An actor playing a guitar sings to another actor who looks away with an ambiguous expression. An actor aims a chicken puppet at another actor in an intentful way. A laughing actor wearing a hat holds up a piece of paper.
March 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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ezkolkovich.bsky.social
Miles Grier’s “I want to get to the thing I don’t know so I won’t be bored by my talk” is a perfect motto for this conference for me. #Shax2025 #RSA2025
March 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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klippership.bsky.social
Friends, does anyone have access to Shakespeare Studies 52 and would be willing to send me a pdf of my article? They published my NextGenPlen paper on "personation" from two years ago and I'm keen to relive those glory days! #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 #RSA2025
March 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
teamaufidius.bsky.social
I ran over to the book exhibit, and I’m too embarrassed to sneak into one of those tiny seminar rooms mid-way through, so instead I’m doing… nothing.

That’s a good use of my time for sure. #shax2025
March 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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bibliowingate.bsky.social
Between me, @ehxlibris.bsky.social, and @undomielise.bsky.social, we have created our own #RSA2025 and #Shax2025 bingo after discussing it during dinner. Download and enjoy!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Screenshot of bingo card based on conference behavior. Full-text available at Google Doc link in post.
March 20, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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benbroadribb.bsky.social
If you're at #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 and interested in writing a Performance Review for @shaxbull.bsky.social, please feel free to come and find me over the next few days and say hello. Really happy to work with both experienced and first-time reviewers at any stage of their academic career ✍️🎭🙂
March 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM