I love this thread, and can't resist adding a fuller discussion of the sculptures from Tiberius's grotto at Sperlonga, one of which appears near the end. Large sculptures of scenes from the Trojan Cycle were set up in the shadows of a cave. A dining platform appeared just beyond the cave, but (1/)

Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · 6d ago

Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13

I'm disabled and I talk about struggling and I've noticed that there's a certain kind of person who believes you are worthless if you do and therefore you cannot be trusted on things you have done.

New York Magazine@nymag.com · yesterday

On social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?

Ray Bradbury’s 1950 story, “There Will Come Soft Rains”, starts with a household AI reminding its owners of their appointments. But nobody is listening; they have all been killed in a nuclear war.

At this point in my life, it would be half joyful mystery and half Lament Configuration, but doubtless a good story.

Well, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.

my favorite religious theory is that "biblically accurate angels" is just someone tripping balls who encountered a peacock for the first time

It's simply not serious. But it pleases right wing billionaires, so US Today funds and publishes it. Just be aware that almost no news national outlet is actually your friend. There might be many good folks working there and many good individual articles, but institutionally, they're terrible.

Technically, a goat has got a butt at both ends.

it's extremely fucked to personally target a single trans person for an extremely mild critique of your behavior and then turn your "apology" into a self-indulgent brag about what a good ally you are, actually

Them@them.us · 2d ago

The ‘Jeopardy!’ host made it absolutely clear where he stands once again.

Don't get me wrong: it is very cool to still be growing back new hair more than a year after starting thyroid medication, but sometimes I be waking up in the mornings looking like I just rolled out from under a blackberry bush Silk bonnet doesn't do a damned thing but conceal the surprise.

My general sense right now is that it is most successful as an ideological project. It exploited media fragmentation, then accelerated it, and is closing in on capturing and institutionalizing the resulting chaos. Pretty successful capturing courts, if you consider that an ideological project too.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d ago

Something I think that underlies a lot of debates within the Democratic party and center-left right now is whether or not you think Trumpism has been successful as a political and ideological project. (Not, obviously, whether it's been good or not).

“It is profitless to speculate on error.” Once again I must stress that my grandmother talked like this all the fucking time, she could have been describing a salad that wasn’t as good as she was hoping it would be

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

The shaman of Bad Dürrenberg are the remains of a 25-35 year old woman, who was buried 8600 to 9000 year ago in Germany. Around her, were the remains of an extraordinary head-dress, made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane and turtle.

Working with anarchist artist NO BONZO, we've made a support poster to inform people about the Minneapolis 15 case. 15 people are federally charged with conspiracy for allegedly defending their neighborhoods from ICE. Please print these out and post them everywhere! crimethinc.com/posters/supp...

I want to emphasize: When I say "no" I mean no. If you're buying like, merch from some seller whose money doesn't go directly to JKR, you're still supporting Harry Potter. Every cis person who gives themselves permission to still consume this IP makes it appear okay to others. Stop it. Cut it out.

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 6d ago

There is no non-complicit enjoyment of Harry Potter, in 2026. Every time you stream a Harry Potter movie or buy one of her books, etc., you are helping her campaign to end trans lives, full stop.

Gwen is one of the kindest people on this site. She called out (in the gentlest, sincerest way possible) a game show host who, instead of politely acknowledging or just ignoring the rebuke, responded with all the mediocre-white-man sensitivity of a Richard Dawson going in for an unwanted grope.

since this has now happened several times this week i feel the need to say that cis people trying to “well, actually” me (or any other trans person) on the fascist dissolution of our rights and the engines thereof just isn’t going to go well. if you feel challenged by something i said, sit with it

I actually really feel like there’s a ton of overlap between men deep in the tech/STEM space developing AI psychosis and the way NXIVM’s Keith Raniere played Mark Vicente, the “What the Bleep Do We Know” filmmaker

Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open@dylanmacri.bsky.social · 4d ago

The thing about this Hank Green crap is that intelligent people are very susceptible to cult recruitment and brainwashing because they're more able to rationalize it to themselves.

"Why should I major in History?"

Bits@bitshammer.bsky.social · last wk.

I know I wrote a whole article on "why do I feel uncomfortable in wholesome spaces? often it's because they're run by people who are very alt right and here's how that works" but man, I feel like I gotta write about how some people's idea of liking art is basically to treat it like buying funkos

To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the

In an incident I absolutely do not recall happening a few weeks ago, one of our very young guests apparently hit Jeremy with a hula hoop, so his grandma said they had to go home. Today he and his brother sent apology cards and a dollar for Jeremy to buy snacks.

Hank Green isn’t owed an audience especially at the expense of someone else’s work and entire communities safety and health Nobody is owed an audience , the pretense that visibility means virtue is the problem here.

I realize these are all things that sex workers have told us and could tell us better. Consumer-facing AI is basically a sex worker so of course it’s personalizing various iterations of financial domination for men because that’s what they want.

I sincerely believe that men cannot handle this. women may be falling in love with their chat bots, too. But I don't think they are categorically attached to its flattery to the same degree.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green