Parents: If your child cannot stop looking at their phone during a movie, please take it away from them before it starts. It's not enough to silence it. The light distracts from other moviegoers. Thank you for attending my Ted Talk.
Caroline
@cazred.bsky.social
Lover of stories in all forms, happily married with a tribe of fantastic neurodivergent teens. NI native, returned after adventures elsewhere. Dislikes flags and religions, loves wine, crisps ❤️
I don't think you need to read The Odyssey (or The Iliad) before experiencing any adaptation, but I do think you should read The Odyssey (or The Iliad) just because they are stories that have managed to persist for thousands of years in language after language for a reason.
Take a minute for this Sam Neill clip, reuniting with his JP co-stars.
Sad day in our house, Sam Neill was much loved. Rest in peace 💔
Sam Neill as Dr. Grant: Electrocuted (Just Kidding)
Alt: Sam Neill as Dr. Grant: Electrocuted (Just Kidding)
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Fewer people are posting on social media, for understandable reasons. Most sites are algorithm-focused, pushing garbage into your feed instead of what you want to see. Social media companies only have themselves to blame for this boring, toxic mess. ca.pcmag.com/social-media...
The Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
If scrolling feels more exhausting than entertaining, you're not alone. I feel the same way, and a recent study backs up the sentiment: Social media is losing its fun factor.
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You know what’s a greater threat to our country? Having a president so stupid he doesn’t understand the differences between socialism, communism, and fascism.
We can't look away from the images of families fleeing burning houses without calling this out as a pogrom, whipped up by influential actors who care nothing for the people of Belfast: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
me: changes the light fixtures in my house to energy efficient LED lightbulbs Jeff Bezos:
OpenAI is handing out free coffee mugs at the conference I'm at this week. I guess that's supposed to be the spare change cup for when you lose your job and need to beg on the street?
a cartoon of a fox wearing a hat and sunglasses holding a mug
Alt: Robin Hood shaking a coin collection cup. Disney's Robin Hood GIF.
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I am absolutely shite at recognising when someone is flirting with me. Like, comically bad at it. My mates would mock me about it. But something happened today that made me so happy. 1/?
I thought you had already won Donald?
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5mo agoEuropeans when asked to unblock the Strait of Hormuz:
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
BREAKING: "I feel like I've come home” says former Home Secretary Suella Braverman defecting to Reform UK. With 75% of Reform MPs having previously been elected as representatives of the Conservative Party I’m not surprised
457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan. Trump avoided military service 5 times. How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
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