DukeSkath
@dukeskath.bsky.social
Author and HS English Teacher in Wisconsin USA. Viva Timor Leste. 🇹🇱
Always happy to be back at the UW Whitewater Creative Writing Festival. Here’s to a day filled with inspiration and creativity.
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Always happy to be back at the UW Whitewater Creative Writing Festival. Here’s to a day filled with inspiration and creativity.
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." — Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." — Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
Maria Ressa channeling Kendrick. HTSUTAD p214
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Maria Ressa channeling Kendrick. HTSUTAD p214
The NYT recently reported on memes and language. Watterson nailed it 30 years ago.
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The NYT recently reported on memes and language. Watterson nailed it 30 years ago.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Tosses Criminal Charges Against James Comey and Letitia James
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Tosses Criminal Charges Against James Comey and Letitia James
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Maria Ressa was in East Timor in 1999! 🇹🇱
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Maria Ressa was in East Timor in 1999! 🇹🇱
I guess it was a little mean to put on this shirt when The Duchess went to close up the barn halfway thru Us. ✂️
November 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I guess it was a little mean to put on this shirt when The Duchess went to close up the barn halfway thru Us. ✂️
Woah. Didn’t expect that. Naomi Klein: Doppelganger p. 327
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Woah. Didn’t expect that. Naomi Klein: Doppelganger p. 327
Harsh but fair. (From “Big Jim and the White Boy” p. 69)
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Harsh but fair. (From “Big Jim and the White Boy” p. 69)
Often in the classroom, I feel like Somerset in SE7EN.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Often in the classroom, I feel like Somerset in SE7EN.
Meh. A thoroughly mediocre horror-thriller with massive wasted story potential and Ethan Hawke for some reason. Great actor in a weak role.
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Meh. A thoroughly mediocre horror-thriller with massive wasted story potential and Ethan Hawke for some reason. Great actor in a weak role.
Come on Sheffer 😣🤦🏻♂️
October 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Come on Sheffer 😣🤦🏻♂️
Devastating reflection on wonder and curiosity from Ta Nehisi Coates. “Eight Years in Power” p.36
October 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Devastating reflection on wonder and curiosity from Ta Nehisi Coates. “Eight Years in Power” p.36
Me, after winning one game and stepping away from Rocket League for the evening
September 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Me, after winning one game and stepping away from Rocket League for the evening
Also tax the rich so it’s more like 1.5 or perhaps 0.
August 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Also tax the rich so it’s more like 1.5 or perhaps 0.
Ride my bike 40 minutes to a local breakfast spot but it’s out of business. So instead I’m eating a mediocre fast food bagel-type sandwich. Oh well. Still a lovely day for a ride and a nice change of pace.
June 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Ride my bike 40 minutes to a local breakfast spot but it’s out of business. So instead I’m eating a mediocre fast food bagel-type sandwich. Oh well. Still a lovely day for a ride and a nice change of pace.