Loved getting to join @anamariecox.com & @mike-eagle.bsky.social for this conversation on @pastduepodcast.com! So appreciated getting to talk about freelancing, multiple jobs, and myths of “hard work,” ambition, & worthiness, and appreciate them centering all kinds of discussions like this.

What If Working Harder Was Never Actually the Answer? with Rainesford Stauffer

Podcast Episode · Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle · July 22 · 55m

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A parking lot for sale for minimum $6 million, immediately adjacent to a proposed student apartment complex from Core Spaces. I wonder who will end up buying it!

Lexington Herald-Leader@kentucky.com · yesterday

The parking lot is less than an acre but located behind South Broadway and adjacent to UK’s proposed arts and entertainment district.

Really great story from Aaron Mudd of CivicLex on how the Woodland Christian Church affordable housing development came together. news.civiclex.org/lexington-ne...

Lexington needs thousands of housing units. A local church is helping to fill the gap for seniors

For years, Woodland Christian Church faced mounting maintenance costs and declining membership. Now, it's home to 38 units of affordable housing through a project its lead pastor called "a true resurr...

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94% of 34 travel expenses sampled lacked necessary pre-approval, the audit showed.

Some Fayette schools staff traveled on district’s dime without prior approval, audit says

94% of 34 travel expenses sampled lacked necessary pre-approval, the audit showed.

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The Youth are just wrong here. Exclamation marks by themselves are expressions of surprise, not agreement, this is like an iron law of comics

KSV@ksvesq.bsky.social · yesterday

My Gen Z employees have taught me that putting the !! sticker on a text means you agree with what the person is saying and not “omfg are you kidding me?!?” (as I had been using it frequently) and now I’m spiraling.

Skipping the likes to just answer the Qs I was interested in. Sue me!

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d ago

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

Yup. Matt Damon as Odysseus is one Christopher Nolan's choices that made sense to me right away.

Erin Keane@erinkeane.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Damon’s Odysseus captures all the heroic arrogance, bravery and selfish stupidity of an action-flick brawler who would shoot a giant cyclops in the eye as he’s making his escape, just because." — @mctelevision.bsky.social on why it had to be Matt Damon www.salon.com/2026/08/02/t...

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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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Folks, Deadline Hollywood (???) has covered JCO’s tweet about Emily Wilson’s review of the blockbuster film version of the timeless epic composed long before recorded history began. We are so back.

Joyce Carol Oates Defends Christopher Nolan's 'Odyssey' Against Critics

One of America's finest writers responds to criticism from 'Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson and others, especially those who decry Nolan's use of modern language.

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Been in a big reading slump all year long, but these three certified bangers pulled me out of it. Two Hearts, Two Mouths and Returns and Exchanges also both happen to be by authors from Kentucky and are both set in Lexington!

Lexington’s new downtown master plan outlines adding 2,500 housing units, student housing districts, anti-displacement strategies and parks and bike lane improvements.

Lexington’s new downtown plan has ideas on how to solve urban housing problems

Lexington’s new downtown master plan outlines adding 2,500 housing units, student housing districts, anti-displacement strategies and parks and bike lane improvements.

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Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part

DartPoints made the statement one day before Lexington planning commission to vote on rules banning large-scale data centers.

Developer says it wants to update former Lexington data center, not build new

DartPoints made the statement one day before Lexington planning commission to vote on rules banning large-scale data centers.

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I'm sure everyone will be very normal about this.

Lexington Herald-Leader@kentucky.com · last wk.

In a letter to Mitch McConnell’s office, Gov. Andy Beshear is asking the senator to directly address Kentuckians or resign.

If you fall asleep on the couch, you fall asleep in real life.

odysseus should have been more of a trickster. and he should have his face painted in a fun way…like maybe the way a clown does it…i’m just spitballing. perhaps he could meet batman in the film? and they DONT get along.

Chad Livengood@chadlivengood.bsky.social · last wk.

BREAKING: Husband killed his wife, six kids before taking his own life in west Michigan, police say www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

they welcomed it in as a curiosity and it destroyed them

Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social · last wk.

Uh, did Emily Wilson's Odyssey takedown crash the @lrb.co.uk website?

The NYRB Author’s Closet, a series of videos of the least camera-ready people in society mumbling inaudibly about Vasily Grossman.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2w ago

NYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo

In which: - Planning staff says the apartments are too isolated - Residents from a near-ish neighborhood say they're too close - Dveloper says neighbors are so rich they've forgotten normal people rent - Commission is tied and has to relitigate this mess in August www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Planning commission ties on a rezoning vote for Lexington apartments. Now what?

The planning commission will have to take a second vote on the proposal in August. Planning staff recommended disapproval of the project.

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I think there's a case to be made that KING OF THE HILL is the platonic ideal of what a revival TV show should be. It moves all of the characters forward, but they are still recognizably the characters we love. Very, very smart and enjoyable. Adult Bobby Hill fucking rules.

What do you mean before he was Scrooge he was Ebenezer those are just his first and last names lol

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w ago

First poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”

Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol

i think people look at homelessness as a relatively new phenomenon and reason backwards to think that in the Before Times, poor people must've all been able to afford houses/their own apartments etc. Most of the housing types the poor used were actually just outlawed (boarding houses, SROs etc)

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 2w ago

The two hardest and most unforgiving facts in housing policy are that it actually costs a lot of money to build new homes and that the rents that poor people can afford are not enough to pay off the cost of construction.