Pauline Park
@paulinepark.bsky.social
LGBT & Palestine solidarity activist & writer
#GaetanoDonizetti was born #OnThisDay in 1797; the bridge between Rossini & Verdi, Donizetti wrote 75 operas, but his reputation rests on just a few of these, including "Lucia di Lammermoor" & the sextet is a moment of sheer genius:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR1z...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR1z...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano...
November 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
#GaetanoDonizetti was born #OnThisDay in 1797; the bridge between Rossini & Verdi, Donizetti wrote 75 operas, but his reputation rests on just a few of these, including "Lucia di Lammermoor" & the sextet is a moment of sheer genius:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR1z...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR1z...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano...
Cixi was born #OnThisDay in 1835. Cíxǐ Tàihòu 慈禧太后 ruled China for nearly half a century until her death in 1908. Jung Chang's biography challenges the image of her as a reactionary & casts her as a liberal reformer:
www.jungchang.net/empress-dowa...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress...
www.jungchang.net/empress-dowa...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress...
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Cixi was born #OnThisDay in 1835. Cíxǐ Tàihòu 慈禧太后 ruled China for nearly half a century until her death in 1908. Jung Chang's biography challenges the image of her as a reactionary & casts her as a liberal reformer:
www.jungchang.net/empress-dowa...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress...
www.jungchang.net/empress-dowa...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress...
#OnThisDay in 1948, the Met broadcast #GiuseppeVerdi's #Otello live; the first televised #opera performance was technically primitive by our standards but would initiate a long line of telecasts; here's Barbara Frittoli singing the Willow Song & Ave Maria:
www.metopera.org/discover/arc...
www.metopera.org/discover/arc...
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
#OnThisDay in 1948, the Met broadcast #GiuseppeVerdi's #Otello live; the first televised #opera performance was technically primitive by our standards but would initiate a long line of telecasts; here's Barbara Frittoli singing the Willow Song & Ave Maria:
www.metopera.org/discover/arc...
www.metopera.org/discover/arc...
Zhu Qizhen was born #OnThisDay in 1427, becoming the #Yingzong emperor of #China in 1435; but the sixth Ming emperor was overthrown by his brother in 1449 & then deposed him in turn in 1457, ruling as the #Tianshun emperor, the 8th emperor of the #Ming dynasty...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor...
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Zhu Qizhen was born #OnThisDay in 1427, becoming the #Yingzong emperor of #China in 1435; but the sixth Ming emperor was overthrown by his brother in 1449 & then deposed him in turn in 1457, ruling as the #Tianshun emperor, the 8th emperor of the #Ming dynasty...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor...
#DonaldTrump's approval rating has fallen to 36% with 60% disapproving — the lowest Gallup score of his current term; his lowest approval rating ever as president was 34% — following the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection; the orange fascist is going down~!
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
#DonaldTrump's approval rating has fallen to 36% with 60% disapproving — the lowest Gallup score of his current term; his lowest approval rating ever as president was 34% — following the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection; the orange fascist is going down~!
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
#Arabella will be broadcast from the Wiener Staatsoper at 1 p.m. EST with Camilla Nylund (Arabella), Sabine Devieilhe (Zdenka) & Michael Volle (Mandruka), Christian Thielemann conducting the #RichardStrauß #opera:
www.wqxr.org/story/straus...
www.wqxr.org/story/straus...
November 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#Arabella will be broadcast from the Wiener Staatsoper at 1 p.m. EST with Camilla Nylund (Arabella), Sabine Devieilhe (Zdenka) & Michael Volle (Mandruka), Christian Thielemann conducting the #RichardStrauß #opera:
www.wqxr.org/story/straus...
www.wqxr.org/story/straus...
#RachelReeves is "accused of misleading the public on the state of the country's finances to justify her tax hikes after she insisted she had to make 'hard choices' despite knowing her deficit had disappeared & that she instead had a £4.2bn surplus":
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
#RachelReeves is "accused of misleading the public on the state of the country's finances to justify her tax hikes after she insisted she had to make 'hard choices' despite knowing her deficit had disappeared & that she instead had a £4.2bn surplus":
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
#FriedrichEngels was born #OnThisDay in 1820, remembered today for his partnership with #KarlMarx with whom he wrote "The Communist Manifesto" (1848) & launching #Marxism as an ideology what would he think of #ApartheidIsrael & its #GazaGenocide...?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedri...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedri...
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
#FriedrichEngels was born #OnThisDay in 1820, remembered today for his partnership with #KarlMarx with whom he wrote "The Communist Manifesto" (1848) & launching #Marxism as an ideology what would he think of #ApartheidIsrael & its #GazaGenocide...?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedri...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedri...
Yingzong emperor of China (1935), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Louisa May Alcott (1832), Cixi, empress dowager of China (1835), Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856), C.S. Lewis (1898), Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908), Paul Simon (1928), Jacques Chirac (1932) & Rahm Emanuel (1959) were born #OnThisDay
November 29, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Yingzong emperor of China (1935), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Louisa May Alcott (1832), Cixi, empress dowager of China (1835), Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856), C.S. Lewis (1898), Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908), Paul Simon (1928), Jacques Chirac (1932) & Rahm Emanuel (1959) were born #OnThisDay
"At least 128 people are now known to have died in a devastating fire that engulfed multiple high-rise buildings in #HongKong; 8 people have been arrested on suspicion of #corruption" but #XiJinping's #PRC dictatorship bears ultimate responsibility for this catastrophe...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
"At least 128 people are now known to have died in a devastating fire that engulfed multiple high-rise buildings in #HongKong; 8 people have been arrested on suspicion of #corruption" but #XiJinping's #PRC dictatorship bears ultimate responsibility for this catastrophe...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"The family of the late Egyptian music icon Umm Kulthum has condemned an Israeli band's announcement that it plans to hold concerts performing her songs in several Israeli cities": yet one more attempt by #ApartheidIsrael to (mis)appropriate Arab culture~!
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251113-egy...
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251113-egy...
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
"The family of the late Egyptian music icon Umm Kulthum has condemned an Israeli band's announcement that it plans to hold concerts performing her songs in several Israeli cities": yet one more attempt by #ApartheidIsrael to (mis)appropriate Arab culture~!
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251113-egy...
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251113-egy...
I'd never seen nor read "The Duchess of Malfi" but I just came across this 1972 BBC adaptation of John Webster's Jacobean tragedy starring Eileen Atkins:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbD...
November 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I'd never seen nor read "The Duchess of Malfi" but I just came across this 1972 BBC adaptation of John Webster's Jacobean tragedy starring Eileen Atkins:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbD...
José Iturbi Báguena was born in Valencia on this day in 1895, becoming a conductor & harpsichordist & one of the leading concert pianists of his generation; here's Iturbi in a live performance of Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu in 1941:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6EE...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6EE...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%...
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
José Iturbi Báguena was born in Valencia on this day in 1895, becoming a conductor & harpsichordist & one of the leading concert pianists of his generation; here's Iturbi in a live performance of Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu in 1941:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6EE...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6EE...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%...
Afghan Kebab House on 37th Ave. had wonderful ambience & was my favorite restaurant in Jackson Heights until new management ruined it; this is a shot I took of the wonderful interior 10 years ago this week (11.23.15) #Queens #NewYorkCity
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Afghan Kebab House on 37th Ave. had wonderful ambience & was my favorite restaurant in Jackson Heights until new management ruined it; this is a shot I took of the wonderful interior 10 years ago this week (11.23.15) #Queens #NewYorkCity
옛날 (yetnal) means 'ancient times' or 'olden days' in Korean & the 'mudang' 무당 culture embodies it; there are still practicing 'manshin' 만신 in Korea today despite persecution of the musok 무속 culture both in North & South Korea since the division of the peninsula...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_...
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
옛날 (yetnal) means 'ancient times' or 'olden days' in Korean & the 'mudang' 무당 culture embodies it; there are still practicing 'manshin' 만신 in Korea today despite persecution of the musok 무속 culture both in North & South Korea since the division of the peninsula...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_...
Uwe Ness: "Wer seinem Hund Gefühle und Schmerzempfinden zuschreibt, muss das auch beim Schwein tun, ansonsten ist das inkonsequent und scheinheilig. Wenn die Leute schon auf Fleisch nicht verzichten wollen, sind sie und wir als Gesellschaft den Tieren zumindest ein faires Leben schuldig!"
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Uwe Ness: "Wer seinem Hund Gefühle und Schmerzempfinden zuschreibt, muss das auch beim Schwein tun, ansonsten ist das inkonsequent und scheinheilig. Wenn die Leute schon auf Fleisch nicht verzichten wollen, sind sie und wir als Gesellschaft den Tieren zumindest ein faires Leben schuldig!"
I curried organic mushrooms, blanched organic kale & tossed it all on conchilie rigate made from brown rice, sprinkling za'atar on the funghi in solidarity with 2 million Gazans *still* being starved to death by #ApartheidIsrael in its ongoing #GazaGenocide 🍉
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/even...
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/even...
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I curried organic mushrooms, blanched organic kale & tossed it all on conchilie rigate made from brown rice, sprinkling za'atar on the funghi in solidarity with 2 million Gazans *still* being starved to death by #ApartheidIsrael in its ongoing #GazaGenocide 🍉
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/even...
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/even...
I was fascinated to see a spider capture the larva of a pantry pest in my kitchen & weave a web around it; I've had a real problem with pantry pests recently & I've discovered a small coterie of spiders coming out to hunt them down & keep them under control...
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I was fascinated to see a spider capture the larva of a pantry pest in my kitchen & weave a web around it; I've had a real problem with pantry pests recently & I've discovered a small coterie of spiders coming out to hunt them down & keep them under control...
#WilliamBlake was born #OnThisDay in 1757; one of the greatest poets in the English language; one of my all-time favorite poems is "Tyger, Tyger":
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/willia...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/willia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
#WilliamBlake was born #OnThisDay in 1757; one of the greatest poets in the English language; one of my all-time favorite poems is "Tyger, Tyger":
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/willia...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/willia...
Friday's l'Unità puts #ApartheidIsrael's illegal & outrageous behavior on its front page; Italy & every country in the world should be supporting #BDS to #FreePalestine from illegal & genocidal occupation~! 🍉
www.unita.it/2025/11/28/l...
www.unita.it/2025/11/28/l...
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Friday's l'Unità puts #ApartheidIsrael's illegal & outrageous behavior on its front page; Italy & every country in the world should be supporting #BDS to #FreePalestine from illegal & genocidal occupation~! 🍉
www.unita.it/2025/11/28/l...
www.unita.it/2025/11/28/l...
Gomie & Morticia in their bins three years ago yesterday (11.28.22) 🐈 #AdoptDontShop #chatons #gattini #gatitos #Kätzchen #kattunger #새끼고양이
www.nycacc.org
www.nycacc.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Gomie & Morticia in their bins three years ago yesterday (11.28.22) 🐈 #AdoptDontShop #chatons #gattini #gatitos #Kätzchen #kattunger #새끼고양이
www.nycacc.org
www.nycacc.org
I spoke on a panel following the screening of "Call Her Ganda" seven years ago yesterday (11.27.18); it's an important documentary about the murder of a Filipina transwoman by a US serviceman in Philippines:
www.callherganda.com
www.callherganda.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I spoke on a panel following the screening of "Call Her Ganda" seven years ago yesterday (11.27.18); it's an important documentary about the murder of a Filipina transwoman by a US serviceman in Philippines:
www.callherganda.com
www.callherganda.com
Gomie & Morticia joined me in bed for a little catnap three years ago today (11.28.22) 🐈 #AdoptDontShop #chatons #gattini #gatitos #Kätzchen #kattunger #새끼고양이
www.nycacc.org
www.nycacc.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Gomie & Morticia joined me in bed for a little catnap three years ago today (11.28.22) 🐈 #AdoptDontShop #chatons #gattini #gatitos #Kätzchen #kattunger #새끼고양이
www.nycacc.org
www.nycacc.org
Kaiser Wilhelm II belatedly issued a formal declaration from exile in the Netherlands of his abdication as king of Prussia & German emperor #OnThisDay in 1918, bringing to an end half a millennium of Hohenzollern rule over Prussia... #Preußen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm...
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Kaiser Wilhelm II belatedly issued a formal declaration from exile in the Netherlands of his abdication as king of Prussia & German emperor #OnThisDay in 1918, bringing to an end half a millennium of Hohenzollern rule over Prussia... #Preußen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm...
#WilliamBlake was born #OnThisDay in 1757. "Jerusalem" illustrates his capacity as a visionary to bring together the political pursuit of social justice with a mystical consciousness:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54684/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/willia...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54684/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/willia...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
#WilliamBlake was born #OnThisDay in 1757. "Jerusalem" illustrates his capacity as a visionary to bring together the political pursuit of social justice with a mystical consciousness:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54684/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/willia...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54684/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/willia...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...