Grumposaurus
@nicolthegreat.bsky.social
Digital dramaturg, post-pandemic digital theatre researcher, sci-fi writer, performer, director, and dramaturg. She/her. More sarcastic than anyone you'll meet.
I dreamt I was in a lovely bookstore/cafe and when I went to find the bathrooms, my options were either the Rudyard Kipling or John Updike bathrooms, so I'm not sure who needs those genders today but try it.
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I dreamt I was in a lovely bookstore/cafe and when I went to find the bathrooms, my options were either the Rudyard Kipling or John Updike bathrooms, so I'm not sure who needs those genders today but try it.
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The US ice core research community, with international partners, has recovered valuable records of past climate from the Arctic & Antarctic since the 1950s.
Here is a sampling of cores—including 6,000,000 year old ice via NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration—at the NSF Ice Core Facility.
Here is a sampling of cores—including 6,000,000 year old ice via NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration—at the NSF Ice Core Facility.
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The US ice core research community, with international partners, has recovered valuable records of past climate from the Arctic & Antarctic since the 1950s.
Here is a sampling of cores—including 6,000,000 year old ice via NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration—at the NSF Ice Core Facility.
Here is a sampling of cores—including 6,000,000 year old ice via NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration—at the NSF Ice Core Facility.
It has been a cold, wet spring in Adelaide and most of my friends are in the PNW or Scotland so they're not sympathetic but I have to tell you, I did not miss this type of spring weather at all, get it away from me
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It has been a cold, wet spring in Adelaide and most of my friends are in the PNW or Scotland so they're not sympathetic but I have to tell you, I did not miss this type of spring weather at all, get it away from me
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This new series, curated by researchers Emnet Tafesse and Abigail Oppong in collaboration with D&S’s AI on the Ground program, explores the need for a more equitable and inclusive approach to AI — one that prioritizes those in the Majority World. datasociety.net/points/democ...
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This new series, curated by researchers Emnet Tafesse and Abigail Oppong in collaboration with D&S’s AI on the Ground program, explores the need for a more equitable and inclusive approach to AI — one that prioritizes those in the Majority World. datasociety.net/points/democ...
I love learning about theatre makers, but I get stage fright before interviews, and I absolutely despise transcribing (even with modern tech doing 90% of it). But I love re-reading theatre makers' smart comments! Research is weird.
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I love learning about theatre makers, but I get stage fright before interviews, and I absolutely despise transcribing (even with modern tech doing 90% of it). But I love re-reading theatre makers' smart comments! Research is weird.
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Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
I was just listening to a podcast this morning about the NYTimes publishing some stupid op-ed about how women are ruining the workplace and now this Epst**n news drops. I guess we know what type of work those editors think we should be doing, now.
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I was just listening to a podcast this morning about the NYTimes publishing some stupid op-ed about how women are ruining the workplace and now this Epst**n news drops. I guess we know what type of work those editors think we should be doing, now.
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The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
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In a shocking development, Seattle has elected someone who knows things and cares about stuff to be its Mayor
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
In a shocking development, Seattle has elected someone who knows things and cares about stuff to be its Mayor
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November 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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The more student essays I read, the less I am angry at AI or social media or television or whatever has been the hysterical overreaction making all of us dumber - and the more convinced I am that, regardless of how many people learn to read in school, 80% of humans are fundamentally illiterate.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The more student essays I read, the less I am angry at AI or social media or television or whatever has been the hysterical overreaction making all of us dumber - and the more convinced I am that, regardless of how many people learn to read in school, 80% of humans are fundamentally illiterate.
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Bluesky rn
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Bluesky rn
Kinda seems like America is such a rich country specifically because of the centuries' long culture of abusing most people living there.
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Kinda seems like America is such a rich country specifically because of the centuries' long culture of abusing most people living there.
It is National Cat Day and I may be in a different nation, but I have a good cat.
October 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
It is National Cat Day and I may be in a different nation, but I have a good cat.
I have finally had opportunity to learn the 'Analyze Data' function in Excel because I actually have some mixed methods data to analyse and I am so stoked in a very Small Child way.
Do event name by state! Now do event name by venue and first date! NOW DO ...
Do event name by state! Now do event name by venue and first date! NOW DO ...
October 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I have finally had opportunity to learn the 'Analyze Data' function in Excel because I actually have some mixed methods data to analyse and I am so stoked in a very Small Child way.
Do event name by state! Now do event name by venue and first date! NOW DO ...
Do event name by state! Now do event name by venue and first date! NOW DO ...
If the DOD is getting so much money does that mean taxpayer dollars can get redistributed for domestic needs again? Like every other civilized country?
October 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
If the DOD is getting so much money does that mean taxpayer dollars can get redistributed for domestic needs again? Like every other civilized country?
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"how else can you reconcile saying you make theatre for everyone when you are pricing most of the population out of it?"
today in pocket theatre, i write abt theatre's trends and ends. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...
play of the month-itis
theatre's trends and ends
open.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
"how else can you reconcile saying you make theatre for everyone when you are pricing most of the population out of it?"
I'm marking student papers analysing two feminist plays (Top Girls by Churchill compared to 1 of 3 other options) and it is ABSOLUTELY NUTS how many of these papers simply do not use character names.
Plays by women, about women, discussed by erasing the women. Supes cool time to be an academic.
Plays by women, about women, discussed by erasing the women. Supes cool time to be an academic.
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I'm marking student papers analysing two feminist plays (Top Girls by Churchill compared to 1 of 3 other options) and it is ABSOLUTELY NUTS how many of these papers simply do not use character names.
Plays by women, about women, discussed by erasing the women. Supes cool time to be an academic.
Plays by women, about women, discussed by erasing the women. Supes cool time to be an academic.
Fun to go through another educator's curriculum and be like, ah yes, I would make different choices for this case study but I agree this is good, I'm glad you like this one
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Fun to go through another educator's curriculum and be like, ah yes, I would make different choices for this case study but I agree this is good, I'm glad you like this one
Finally got a "mid- to late-1900s" in a student paper today.👵
October 23, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Finally got a "mid- to late-1900s" in a student paper today.👵
I'm not saying the Louvre heist and AWS being down are connected events but I am saying that would make a rad script.
October 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I'm not saying the Louvre heist and AWS being down are connected events but I am saying that would make a rad script.
My good friend @bleything.net got me on a folk horror movie class and I'm finally getting around to my movie-warching homework with The Wickerman (1974) and I truly have never cheered harder for the 'villains' of a movie, screw this lead character I hate him
October 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
My good friend @bleything.net got me on a folk horror movie class and I'm finally getting around to my movie-warching homework with The Wickerman (1974) and I truly have never cheered harder for the 'villains' of a movie, screw this lead character I hate him
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US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky.
Block on sight.
Protect your digital space.
Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.
The detach quote function will come in very handy here…
Block on sight.
Protect your digital space.
Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.
The detach quote function will come in very handy here…
October 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky.
Block on sight.
Protect your digital space.
Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.
The detach quote function will come in very handy here…
Block on sight.
Protect your digital space.
Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.
The detach quote function will come in very handy here…
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streaming theatre tip Oct 23-Nov 3rd, the great ppl of Theater in Quarantine serve up their remote hybrid digital performance of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. tix through NYU Skirball. if you have not seen Josh Gelb and Normandy Sherwood's work before, het ready to have mind blown!
October 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
streaming theatre tip Oct 23-Nov 3rd, the great ppl of Theater in Quarantine serve up their remote hybrid digital performance of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. tix through NYU Skirball. if you have not seen Josh Gelb and Normandy Sherwood's work before, het ready to have mind blown!