The greatest sci-fi writer in history.
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
I'm half-convinced that Eric Adams is a 30 Rock bit "what if Tracy became mayor" that got out of hand.
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d ago“‘Let me tell you something: My name is Eric Adams,’ he continues, as the boos begin to rain down.” hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...
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Don’t see Nolan’s Odyssey if you’re squeamish about eye injuries.
Dr. Jeremy Swist@metalclassicist.bsky.social · 3d agoDon’t see Nolan’s Odyssey if you like dogs.
Hey, so, is the diarrhea lettuce thing done? Can we go back to eating salads? Is spinach fine? It sure would be cool if the richest nation in the world could answer these questions!
Between “Wuthering Heights” and The Odyssey we’ve had two adaptations of classic literature where the director was only kinda paying attention to the source material. We got to pay the teachers more and reopen the schools.
It's good to see poetry has recovered from the time Hollywood adapted TS Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats."
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Wait, so in "The Five Star Weekend" not only are Angel City two-time defending NWSL champions, but they have a playoff game in June?
I found it - the perfect Platonic ideal of a Nextdoor post
Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca
I deeply relate to the Spain team because I, too, am just too cute with it.
Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group
*whispers* hey, if you're a grad-level educator of conscience, you should probably warn PhD students off of coming here at this point and offer to help them make favorable contacts in other of the many excellent international universities if you're invested in their success
David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 3w agoThe most anti-legal immigrant administration ever just made it illegal for international students to transfer schools or change majors or shift any "educational objective" in their 1st year and for graduate students **at any point** ever, at all. There is no legal basis for this
Maybe if they sent the Parthenon Marbles back it would come home.
At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890
That was an incredible shot from the How to Train Your Dragon kid.
JULY - 2026. MBAPPÉ IS MASTER OF EUROPE. ONLY THE VIKING FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM. PITCHES ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS.
It seems bad for a sport when arguably the greatest of all time comes along and all the journalists who cover that sport can do is complain about how it's boring. In three years Tadej won't be winning everything anymore. Just wait it out!
No VAR checks on the build up? Salah's foot got kicked which, as we've established, is a goal-nullifying offense.
![@jordamus_prime on twitter: "Earlier today I heard someone say that they're going to stick Mitch McConnell's brain into John Fetterman's body like Krang and I have no self control"
[Mitch McConnell's face inside Krang's yellow stomach cockpit, shopped onto John Fetterman's body.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreibmvbqms6q7icrm6rteil4x3rbisw6ls2a7zgzynqe6gwxt6kr7ju)