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Today's podcast ep rec! pca.st/episode/83c6...

Deposit has been paid! Thank you everyone for your help and support, but more is still needed! I have just enough for the procedure, but still need to cover everything else surrounding the procedure, including travel and hotel and feeding myself! Every little bit helps ❤️

Mercury Natis@mercuryreads.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I also currently have a GoFundMe for top surgery! Please consider donating, the more I get, the less likely that I need to go the Medical Tourism route (which has dangers and complications). gofund.me/a5e31e43a

Reminder that "remigration" is a white supremacist term that specifically means ethnically cleansing a country of all nonwhites.

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday.

Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca

gonna say it again: ChatGPT & other LLMs use em-dashes BECAUSE ACTUAL WRITERS OFTEN USE EM-DASHES AND THESE DEVICES HAVE BEEN TRAINED ON OUR STOLEN WORK!

Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · 2w ago

oh come on

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?

The Joker: Do I Look Like A Guy With A Plan?

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Jude@jude.athrabeth.com · 2w ago

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?

If you feel the need to Show Me or Tag Me in photos of s3 ROP Sauron, please Do Not. I have seen him. My blood pressure is already through the roof about it.

Its Always

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This is exactly why I think adaptations are great!! They are an accessible gateway drug to reading and learning more!!!

Dr Ian McCormick@wokestudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chris Nolan film spike ?! More than 300,000 people reading The Odyssey ... on Wikipedia ... #Homer #classics #epic #Greece #movies #film

there are occasional headlines that make me smile

Every so often I remember the old adage "Those who can't do Teach" and am completely baffled at how that was meant to be a negative criticism. Teaching truly is the greatest thing we can do as human beings, and teaching about the arts is a gift!!! Truly my favorite thing to do.

Random fun fact with absolutely no importance (that with a little thought is unsurprising given Oxford, and is publicly available information on the Bodleian's archive database) Tolkien and Evelyn Waugh went to the same shoemaker.

Vsauce Fun Fact

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I am once again out here saying that Gossip has Social Functions, namely are protecting the group from bad actors and giving consequences to those who will never get any other consequences (which is why women and queer folks are so good at it). Gossip can be used for evil, but it also can Very Good.

NPR@npr.org · 3w ago

We've all engaged in a little 'gossip.' But did you know its origins were tied to family and friendship? n.pr/4wGwySo

My night job is adopting too much AI for my comfort, so I am casually on the market for a new one! If anyone hears word of any remote part-time work that isn't freelance or short-term, consider me!

Everything is Bad in the Tolkiensphere today (boo Andy Serkis, boo this man!) But hey, I taught my first (paid) Classroom Class today on Tolkien so, small victories in a broken world! Fittingly, about Authorial Intent, Applicability and Historicity.

Apropos something… it’s time to bring back my “Concerning Racism” in Tolkien fandom and scholarship piece: journals.tolkiensociety.org/mallorn/arti...

Another amazing podcast rec for today. I take issue with how the guest (Henry Tanner) interprets sources (negative bias in sources does NOT = total negative social opinion, I will push back on this) but EVERYTHING ELSE is brilliant.

Today's podcast ep rec, but specifically bc this quote from Anthony Delaney HIT: "So few people get to enter into what they study [...] when I die, I become part of history, so I get to become the thing that I study, and that is fascinating to me."

Today's (often repeated) list of Hates: 1. Dust Jackets 2. Endnotes 3. Microsoft Teams

The Grinch: Hate, Hate, Hate, Double Hate!

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Widely applicable.

Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 3w ago

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Oh no someone spare the children from Long Sentences.

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 3w ago

To be clear, I just thought this was funny. I won't extrapolate from dumb tweets to "society is collapsing!" But for the curious it started with some tech bro saying he was reading The Hobbit to his kids, who liked it, and it inspired a lot of comments like this:

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

@uofgfantasy.bsky.social scholar @mercuryreads.bsky.social reflects on #Tolkien and his characters #cruising Faerie, torn between artistic hobby and domestic duties, among others. From "you cannot always be torn in two" to "reunited in the end". #TolkienAtLeeds #LeafByNiggle

Sometimes I'm reminded that I'm unusual for how conversational I am about sex & sexuality. I won't ever apologize! My truest activism is sex positive pleasure activism. Eating, Sex and Death are the three most base Human experiences and we don't like talking about two of them. it's WILD to me!!

I have a proposal. I'm considering writing and running a two session workshop/class on Giving High Quality Conference Papers. Would you be interested in paying for that? If enough people are interested, I will probably offer a half-off trial run guinea pig class first!

[wip] why am i doing this to myself

Fingolfin

This is such an important point.

Full update on the page. I've updated the goal to a reasonable safety net, and have a couple of very kind offers to make up some of the difference, so the goal is more achievable than it looks, about $3,000 before I'm in a much safer place financially. That means we're 70% of the way to the min!

a woman is giving a thumbs up with the words yes yes yes

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