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A ★★★★★ review of The Odyssey (2026)

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The battery for my bluetooth mouse ran out, so I'm using my grandfather's old wired one instead. Why aren't more things wired nowadays? This is vastly more convenient

bat doodles in a 13th century manuscript

It's always strangely validating when I read a source that cites something I've already read. Makes me feel like I might be on track with this thesis in some way

This is probably silly, but every now and then I stop and look at things like viaducts, shopping carts, chickens eating corn, or cats rolling there and back in sunlight and think how incredibly unlikely all of this is in the grand scheme of things. We could've been a barren ball of rock.

One of my friends said that Matt Damon trying to go home is a genre in and of itself, and they're so right for that

Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions

Just started Breaking Bad season 3. Mexico is /so/ yellow in this show

GEORGE LUCAS: if c-3po were real, he could have made the star wars movies by himself, and they would have been better than the movies i made. [tears in eyes] i wish he had made them. i wish he had. [stops for a moment] not the beeping one though. never the beeping one. he has a deadly poison in him.

Offside xkcd.com/3268/

This looks like the Backrooms version of the Arc de Triomphe

Zingo Mewes@attimowens.bsky.social · last mo.

This was the best they could do for our 250th birthday.

Ok I have an idea. You ask me a question. Any question you like. I chug 500 mL of water and then tell you you’re very pretty before I make up a random answer, untethered from reality. In return you give me a billion dollars AND I’ll come to your house and leave the fridge door open.

Forgot to update bluesky - got a discworld tattoo :)

Not much ceasing to fire happening in this ceasefire

Finished the first draft of the next chapter of my thesis, and I'm not quite sure what to do with myself now

I specifically requested no more metaphors

Mediapolitic@mediapolitic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties. It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

You all are getting will for free?

Photos from today's run

Caring about American politics while not being an American feels like betting on the world's slowest horse race

Thinking about whale evolution unnerves me

If the world is chaotic, collapsing, emerging, reordering, regenerating, recombinant, fractal, with most of the deep stuff underground or loop upon loop of feedback why would you expect your life or your work to be tidy and orderly. Hmm?

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

a swarm of spring bugs@facefullabugs.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

the world needs more guinea pig cartographers

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

Ella Baron@ellabaron.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Satuday's @theguardian.com cartoon #transrights #EHRC #LGBTQ

The journey of a thousand miles starts with poor route planning.

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils