Katherine Mendelsohn
@katherinemend.bsky.social
Theatre dramaturg and stage-play translator (french-english). Mum. Word-lover. Reader. She/her.
Tom Jones, age 86, July 2026, Real Jardín Botánico Alfonso XIII, Madrid. Huge energy and communication. And a voice 35 years younger than he is. Astonishing.
This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.
My neighbors had a baby and their six-year-old explained to me that the baby is “new,” that she herself is “kind of new,” that I am “almost old” and her parents are “full old.” And so. That’s the ages.
We have an announcement. Tomorrow is Dounby Show Day which is a local public holiday in #Orkney. Orkney Library & Archive will be CLOSED ALL DAY so the staff can dress in their finest outfits and stroll around the park looking at all sorts of bullocks. 🐂 See you on Friday.
May I point out that both El-Sayed and Stevens are Millennials. Generational shift. It's here. It's time. November up here won't just be about progressivism vs. fascism. It will also be about the future vs. the past.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine steps back from being a Conservative council candidate following backlash
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
The Trump administration has sent bulldozers to plow through Big Bend National Park for the construction of border barriers and roads.
Europe’s rivers are running dry, and the knock-on effects are disastrous | Yiannis Baboulias
Europe’s rivers are running dry, and the knock-on effects are disastrous | Yiannis Baboulias
Droughts that were once a century now happen every year, and the impact on wildlife, industrial output and culture itself is catastrophic, says Yiannis Baboulias, a Greek writer based in London
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Frankly astonishing piece by @alexisconran.com on all the data our phones keep on us and what they do with it (it's not good). open.substack.com/pub/scamproo...
Alway enjoy a Goddess displacement headline...
Our Forestville correspondent@bethwinegarner.bsky.social · yesterday"Although Hecate later became widely known as a goddess associated with crossroads, magic, and the underworld, archaeological and literary evidence suggests her earliest cult emphasized protection, liminality, and lunar associations." wildhunt.org/2026/08/afte...
This year's Edinburgh International Book Festival kicks off shortly and for the first time ever Orkney Library & Archive is delighted to be holding several FREE events where you can come along to the library and watch LIVE STREAMS of the events as they happen! 🎉
Zack Polanski has called for fossil fuel producers to be made to finance firefighting helicopters, following a series of recent fires across the country He also called on PM Burnham to stop new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, including the Jackdaw & Rosebank fields off the Scottish coast
Where I’ll be at for the next month. Be careful out there… www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Abdul El-Sayed has won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan. He will face Republican Mike Rogers in the November general election.
Swing Out Sister with a live version of Breakout #music #musicsky #live youtu.be/sj9PSsAmhX8?...
Breakout - Swing Out Sister - Brixton Academy, London 2001
YouTube video by Swing Out Sister - Official
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What is really going on with the former CCA arts venue in Glasgow and its 50-year archive? My latest long-read for The Herald: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2643859...
What is really going on with the former CCA arts venue and its 50-year archive?
The Scottish Government and Creative Scotland are under fire more than six months after the arts venue went into liquidation.
heraldscotland.com
And it's 2 hours and one day until we open We Will Heat the Angels at Fringe! See you there! We Will Hear The Angels 📍 Summerhall | 6–30 August 🎟️ festival.summerhallarts.co.uk/events/we-wi...
Nice line from Jessicaoutofthecloset on instagram: “Moral panics end, queer community doesn’t.” Survive. Fight and survive.
I am going to be spending the rest of my day and possibly my week thinking about "Werner the Herzog" and quite frankly it's the last thing I needed
MaksonLima@maksonlima.bsky.social · 12h agoJuro que tem dias que eu acordo pensando nisso aqui:
"Last came Anarchy: he rode On a white horse, splashed with blood; He was pale to the lips, Like Death in the Apocalypse. And he wore a kingly crown; And in his grasp a sceptre shone; On his brow this mark I saw— 'I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW!'" Happy birthday, Percy.
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. When your SpaceX rocket hits the moon like a big piece of junk and you don't give a shit, you're a moron.
Greatest satirist since Jonathan Swift… …a phrase bandied about this week… Swift wrote astonishing prose laced with complex irony. He kicked up not down… That’s not the same as spewing alternately vaporous & feculent drivel, seasoned with some vicious dreams, at society’s most vulnerable people…
It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
Movern Caller - Some Velvet Morning, the strings fade in and almost sound like they’re coming out of a supermarket PA system. A lot of justifiable Samantha Morton love going around at the moment but this is how you have a character make a entrance. No matter how mundane the setting.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · yesterdayName your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.
'...freelancers subsidise them via low wages, poor conditions and working thousands of unpaid hours.' - Lyn Gardner- theatre critic and associate editor of The Stage. Read more here: www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/for-... #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
I've never used ChatGPT. If I'm absolutely honest, although I've heard of Claude, I'm not 100% sure what it is. I've never knowingly used an #AI tool. To me, this post reads like 'If pre-sliced cheese was suddenly banned, would you even know how to slice cheese manually?'
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
