I live in the Dune universe but I'm somewhere else when all that stuff is going on. I have a job and a mortgage. Sometimes I rub synthetic Spice cream on my wrists when they get achey. A Harkonnen once killed three of my cousins with a spear

Out now! Open access in current issue of Renaissance Quarterly thanks to @ucdlibrary.bsky.social my thanks to everyone who helped me with this - but a special mention of the late Bríd McGrath for her wisdom, generosity and dedication to all the things that matter.

boosting this as hamnet’s release date approaches in the uk and ireland ✨

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

That's it, i'm no longer doing any of my banking on X

ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes! MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes

Bread and roses, lads. You don't work for permission to exist, you work so you can have a nice life. And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.

Bread and Roses being sung at the inauguration of the largest city in the United States

we all got through 2025, and i think that’s something. i hope 2026 is kinder to us all xx

Semiotic paradox alert!

souvlaki, obviously

After a little blip in the release of my book, I'm happy to say that accurate digital and physical versions are now available from @universitypress.cambridge.org! #earlymodern #renaissance #elizabethan #tudor #drama #jonson #marlowe #middleton #shakespeare #thewill 'Look not so fierce on me'

i wrote this for the guardian

The Irish for Stephenseses Day is Lá Fhéile Stiofáinannanna #spéirgorm

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

ok so will amy madigan fight me in the marketplace of ideas

He ys ridinge a horse He ys emerald and svelte He will get reallye weirde If you lie about beltes The Greene Knighte Ys Cominge To Toun

please send nour a donation today if you can xx

George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016. He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.

Taking The Substance but making sure that the double takes the week running up to Christmas and the matrix gets the lazy week after.

you’re in her dms. i’m watching the four-part version of fanny and alexander (1982) over the course of several nights. we are not the same

Me and my friends would have beaten Uncle Billy with hammers I can tell you that much.

MRS. CLAUS: Good luck tonight, honey! I’m proud of you and all that you’ve accomplished this year! Just a few more hours and we can take a well-deserved vacation! 🥰 SANTA: (white-knuckling a nicotine craving so intense he could crush an elf’s skull) sounds good love you

this christmas eve i am thinking about oday and his family. oday is currently really quite ill at the moment: he reckons it’s bc of the polluted water they are forced to drink in ga/za. and of course, ga/za has faced flooding, & there’s v little access to food, shelter, & treatment. please donate x

Laura Palmer's Theme

Since the Guardian are doing the "a handful of women’s groups have started to question the “unintended consequences”" thing, time to repost the open letter from Irish feminists telling UK transphobes to piss off

What they’re not telling you is that over the end credits of Saipan (2025) they got the actual Roy Keane to sing ‘If you want me to play for Ireland / If you want me to play for Ireland / You better come over with a crucifix / You’re gonna have to nail me down’

Your annual reminder that if you get this cracker joke and are confused by it, it's apparently because "ffi" is a special character in some fonts and when the typeface is changed to one that doesn't have it, those letters disappear. It's supposed to be "coffin medicine".

My number one reading tip for students: follow the footnotes.

I believe in Newgrange supremacy. 5 millennia, zero bullshit. Older than Stonehenge and has a roof, get fucked. Solstice icon, no choice but to stan, etc. etc. etc.

My manifesto:

Happy #NewgrangeSolstice livestream day! I love watching it with @heliolithic.bsky.social and @sgthowie.bsky.social every year ❤️

‘welcome back to the fight. this time, i know our side will win’ <3

Here's something that me and Evan Brier have been working on for ages: a special issue on editors in postwar US literature, full of essays by brilliant scholars. Delighted to see it published! post45.org/sections/iss...

the simpsons premiered 36 years ago today. get in the chair.

There are those who proudly define their lives by what they hate and those that define their fight with love - I will remain in the latter group - I am sad that so many prefer to define themselves by hate , but encouraged by all those who use love as their motivation

Taking a break from the sickening tragedy to focus on the beauty for a moment. Rob Reiner achieved something so rare and coveted that artists and entertainers dream of and rarely achieve: cultural permanence. How many times have you made a reference to something going to 11? Shouted "Inconceivable"?

The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff

my dad took me and my brothers to see The Departed back in 2006, and we had the best audience ever. Looked down to get a nacho during the elevator scene, and I’ll never forget snapping back up and the collective gasp. Also everyone laughing at the 🐀

well. we were both robbed

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personally i think time person of the year should be me or the gay guy on instagram who does gal gadot impressions

being a shakespeare and ireland scholar means that there are some days where you realise that you have to explain to the reader who peig sayers is

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.2 is now published via Project Muse! In this open-access issue, scholars and practitioners engage in conversations across time, media, and geographic distance. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948

When tributes roll in for Margaretta D'Arcy, remember she was an incredible ally to sex workers. Rest in Peace Margaretta

Rest in Peace to a legend. I interviewed her for my PhD in her kitchen in Woodquay and I’d say the secondhand cigarette smoke shortened my life by a decade. It was amazing craic.