apricity
@elusiveapricity.bsky.social
..💧.. Multilingual linguist. Bibliophile. The real defeat of freedom is everyone's apathy. 📚☕️🌳✍🏻🌲🍃🌷
Lupita is beautiful. She is also old enough to be Helen's mother. Helen was in her early 20s. Lupita is in her mid 40s. But then Odysseus has a Boston accent. It is all a joke... Read the book. Fagles's translation of the Odyssey from 1996 is wonderful and easy to read.
"“I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’
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“Ka$h is an easy target for Russian intelligence and they will play him like a fiddle.” substack.com/@alexzfinley...
Alex Finley (@alexzfinley)
The FBI director, who has a history of denying proven Russian interference in US elections and has weaknesses that any intelligence officer could easily manipulate, will be hosted by the FSB in Russia...
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This is insanity — especially given the incoherence of the WHCA redoing their celebratory dinner with Trump tonight.
Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 2w agoNews outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW
Watch this if you want to understand the cowardice of Jim Jordan. tv.apple.com/us/movie/sur...
Surviving Ohio State - Apple TV
Bravely told by the student-athletes and others who concealed their trauma for years, this film tells the story of the male victims of Dr. Richard Str…
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You can’t be a negotiator to end a war if your main goal is to make business deals
Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · 2w agoThe fact that Witkoff and Kushner have visited Moscow multiple times but never Kyiv proves they aren't taking their job seriously. It’s just a grift. Pathetic!
“Old Europe (by that I mean countries to the west of Ukraine: members of the EU + the UK, Switzerland, Norway, etc.) now laments abandonment by Washington, conveniently forgetting how many times it has forsaken Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.” open.substack.com/pub/chakhoya...
Russia, the unmysterious aggressor
Europe keeps trying to crack the Russian riddle: Why invade neighbors? Why the war crimes? But the answer hides in plain sight.
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Look for producer codes on the package that begin with TF. "The "TF" Indicator: Codes starting with letters like TF, TFRB, TFPM, or TFRS denote processing and packing originating from a Taylor Farms facility" this code is located near the bar code and usually the freshness date.
Heads up: Taylor Farms lettuce is sold under these brand names: Marketside (sold at Walmart) Earthbound Farm (owned by Taylor Farms) Cross Valley Farms (owned by US Foods) Private labels for Target, Whole Foods (365), and Amazon Fresh. AVOID ALL OF THEM
“Don’t worry, Pete. That little speech I read was just for the voters back home. I have to put on these little shows to convince them I’m independent. You will get the $1.5 trillion for your wars even though I just gave ICE unlimited funding to run wild. We’ll just borrow more.”
REMOVE HIM! 8+6+4+7= 25
apricity@elusiveapricity.bsky.social · 2w ago"Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction. As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Basically, constant niggling, outrageous fouls, cynical fouls (pulling Spanish players back). Here’s a non-facebook link that catalogues all of the cynical play. Only one team was playing football, so I’m glad Spain ran out winners! www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...
Full list of Argentina's 27 dirty tricks in World Cup final as they ruin match
Argentina enlisted the help of the dark arts in the World Cup final but were architects of their own downfall as Spain lifted the trophy
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I'm an American casual World Cup watcher. I didn't have favorites. But even I can see that Argentinians play like violent thugs. And Messi's cult is a mystery to me.
In his 3-hour conversation with the vice-president, Joe Rogan said of Epstein, “Most people think he was Mossad.” Vance apparently agrees with those people: “Yeah, Mossad or C.I.A., or some other deep state,” he replied, “whether in America or Israel or another country.” And then went on. 1/2
"Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction. As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction | Simon Tisdall
As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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Make clocks more honest again with permanent Standard Time!
US forces radioed a message to ships near the strait Tuesday saying ‘the southern route of the strait remains open’ “F— off,” one sailor is heard over marine radio, according to a recording reviewed by WSJ. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Controlling Hormuz Would Take More U.S. Troops—and Even More Risk
As U.S. strikes on Iran continue, military experts say opening the strait would require months of effort.
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The con job begins for the next 72 hours. We’ve seen this drill before.
🚨 US House Rules Committee yesterday voted 6–4 to advance the Sunshine Protection Act to the floor. It would mandate permanent Daylight Saving Time and immediately prohibit future state-level exemption. 👉 Tell Congress to replace it with the Sunshine for Our Kids Act! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CppN...
US H.R.139: House Rules Committee meeting
YouTube video by Save Standard Time
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Grassley is 92 and can barely speak. He should have retired THREE decades ago.
Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 3w agoMcConnell’s lengthy hospitalization and Graham's sudden death offer the latest reminders that the Senate is run by a geriatric class of lawmakers — some old, and some very old. The average age is 66 and more than 1/3 are Graham's age or older. @anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...
Daylight saving time: scientists confirm it’s bad for health www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Daylight saving haters rejoice: scientists confirm it’s bad for health
US Congress is debating permanent daylight saving – but new research shows keeping clocks on standard time is least stressful on the body
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We’ll start voting in 3 months, & most of us can be expected to vote out the bums in Congress who have supported Trump. Then Congress can pass a resolution revoking Trump’s power to pursue this costly & unnecessary war, which is the only way to end it. Robert Reich
You just voted to give these thugs another $70 Billion. You’re complicit in this and every other murder committed by Trump’s secret police.
