Translator D.C.H. Rieu’s take on why Odysseus takes SO damn long to get home. Structural reasons.

"Cool dude, see you in discovery!" is the obvious UNO Reverse card to Trump's attempts to bully organizations by suing them for a trillion dollars. It's a massive indictment of the US system that one after another institutions and major organizations settled and paid bribes rather than play it.

Graham Lanktree@glanktree.bsky.social · 24m ago

President Donald Trump is seeking to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday in connection with a defamation lawsuit he is pressing against the network. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

This was the first really weird and scary one I saw. People are nuts. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Polymarket gamblers threaten Israeli journalist over missile strike story

Emanuel Fabian says his routine report became focus of wager with $23m at stake on online prediction platform

theguardian.com

Being stalked across the cyberpunk future by assassins working for people who bet against the success of my experimental cancer treatment

the City of Boise's increasingly aggressive campaign against the state's repeated attempt to ban pride flags flown by cities is extremely funny

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 5d ago

i have never seen a higher density of pride flags than in Boise

As I was saying

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 4w ago

At some point we are going to have to reckon with what percentage of the Thought Leadership we get from this class of people is just drug addiction. Either a lot of credulous reporters have never listened to someone tooted out of their mind go on a monologue or they're afraid to call it out.

A former police officer working clandestinely with Communist labor organizers in the peak HUAC/McCarthy years to bring down the big plantation and sugar companies is, in my opinion, kinda bonkers and why history is endlessly fascinating en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_...

Hawaii Democratic Revolution of 1954 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Beginning to feel like I need to budget a week on the blog for a military primer on 'how the US Navy is the load-bearing pillar of your ability to eat bananas and of folks in developing countries to eat at all.' Not saying that is an optimal situation, merely that it is the situation.

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

Just to make the point abundantly clear, Chris Wallace is now a paid advisor to an investment firm that has a large stake in Paramount and a vested interest in getting the Warner Bros. merger over the line. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Chris Wallace: States Are Playing Politics With the Law to Block Paramount’s Warner Bros. Deal

"I don’t believe government should use its powers to determine who owns a news platform or to control how that outlet reports the news," writes the former Fox and CNN anchor, who is now a paid advisor...

hollywoodreporter.com

Banger

they're installing TWO KITCHENS. A fancy main kitchen and a "dirty kitchen" where all the actual work is done. It used to be that coke was God's way of telling you have too much money; these days it's absolutely enormous hubris-driven extensions.

avocado trees change sex every day bsky.app/profile/scia...

Heartland Signal@heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 3h ago

"How are they going to tell you the difference between the biological sex of your crops?" MN GOP Senate candidate Royce White went on a rant at Farmfest, attacking Democrats on gender identity and claiming California is giving power to "communists." #Farmfest

Worth noting that these guys getting into power with an effective majority would be a generational disaster.

Lewis Baston@lewisbaston.bsky.social · yesterday

The borders of the U.K. have been in place since 1922.

The borders of the U.K. have been in place since 1922.

Pascal Jacquemain@jacquep.bsky.social · yesterday

Rosindell is mad as a box of frogfaces.

He knows nothing about current affairs either. Illegal migrants dont get benefits, they are only available to people with permission to be in the country. iasservices.org.uk/do-illegal-i...

Illegal Immigrants & UK Benefits: What the Law Says 2026

No — illegal immigrants can’t claim UK benefits including Universal Credit or housing benefit. Find out what the NRPF rules mean and what support is available.

iasservices.org.uk

Rosindell is mad as a box of frogfaces.

Me, just trying out my none-more-mid Odyssey takes.

The Public Domain Review@publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 2h ago

Death criers from the 17th century. Illustrations from Richard Davey's A History of Mourning (1890), which you can read here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-history-of-mourning-1890

It's so funny that a SpaceX rocket crashed into the moon. It's so easy to not crash things into the moon. Almost nothing ever does that. This is Rube Goldberg-level goofball precision.

Jesus Fucking Christ

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

The High Court also heard RTC leader Ben Cullen had threatened physical violence to a resident removing flags, boasting that he was a “violent criminal” who had served 15 years in prison. Full report in today’s Clarion: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

Some of the initial coverage of Raise the Colours was embarrassingly credulous.

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

The High Court also heard RTC leader Ben Cullen had threatened physical violence to a resident removing flags, boasting that he was a “violent criminal” who had served 15 years in prison. Full report in today’s Clarion: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

Don't get me wrong, Trump fucked up, I'm mad about it too. But 'the USA relinquishes its role in the region' does not get you back to the status quo, it gets the GCC fed to the IRGC like leaving a fox alone in a hen house.

Gonna need everyone to open their books to the page on 'path dependency' now. Why would you think that giving Iran what it wants will result in a free and open strait now, when Iran very loudly wants to impose restrictions and tolls on the strait?

There probably was someone called Emily Wilson who wrote a critical review of Nolan’s Odyssey, but most of what we now think of as “Wilson’s review’ is probably the result of codifying a long tradition of anonymous Bluesky posting.

Absolutely gutting to read this article on why Samantha Morton hasn't worked in a year even as there is near-universal acclaim (correct, wise) that she's the best part of THE ODYSSEY. deadline.com/2026/08/sama...

Samantha Morton On Why She "Hasn't Worked For A Year" Since 'The Odyssey' & Why She Was "Sad" & "Hurt" After Getting "Fired" From 'Her'

Samantha Morton is opening up about not working after filming Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.

deadline.com

Every night somebody places a phone directly in front of me. “Air fryer hack!” “Air fryer cinnamon rolls!” “Air fryer pasta!” Pasta? I’m an air fryer, not a wizard.

I Am Your Family’s Air Fryer, and I Have Seen Things

Every meal becomes a rescue mission. “How’s it looking?” You tell me. You’re the one opening my drawer every thirty seconds like a detective examining a crim...

buff.ly

what's a good healthy coping mechanism to try for someone just getting into healthy coping mechanisms

Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, and You Only Live Twice were all released in the same amount of time it’s been since No Time To Die came out

The Independent@the-independent.com · 12h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

It's AI slop of course but neither of those dudes look anything like Patton and MacArthur.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 23h ago

Stolen valor from Mr. Bone Spurs. An insult to every man and woman who has worn the uniform.