Etymon
@etymon.bsky.social
Semiotic Engineer, Technical Architect, Software Archaeologist. #Haskell, #Daml, #LikesAreBookmarks, #NoSuchThingAsApolitical. he/him. canton.io
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
A retired friend was remembering when there were departmental secretaries at universities who basically project managed the departments. You could give them handwritten documents, and they would type them up. He was shocked when I said it didn't work like that for female academics.
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 23h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
The ultimate outcome of folks paying higher mortgages is not slower price increases, it's more of us being made *actually* poor, because employers fire people or cut casual shifts to maintain profit. Unemployment is by design & the RBA chief doesn't care a bit about how many lives she destroys.
The Australia Institute@australiainstitute.org.au · 16h agoWhy does the Reserve Bank want to make Australians feel poorer? 🤔 Co-CEO Richard Denniss answers this question and more in the latest episode of 'What's the Point?' 🏦🏦🏦 #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
Nationalize oil firms, then run them into oblivion as we transfer to 100% renewables. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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Humorous to me how, when a Dem candidate is a centrist, the narrative is about how leftists have to grow up and support them. When the candidate is a leftist, the question is whether they can rally adequate support. So some people are responsible for running a winning campaign, you say? Interesting.
this is really excellent, even if you're not interested in the politics of translation. the last line hits like an arrow to the heart. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · Ah, how miserable! Three New Oresteias
Misogynist tropes often involve presenting women as interesting in precisely the ways that Aeschylus’ female...
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one of my all-time favorite disgruntled reviews of THE ODYSSEY long precedes the movie & comes from my partner. His take: “Odysseus is a shit sailor. There was very little ocean to cross to get home”
This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.
I remembering intubating 3 members of the same family from s nearby Tes, and they all died. One of our radiology nurses was crashed on to ECMO and survived. I remember crying when I got my first dose and vaccine and making my will. RFK can kick f@^kin' rocks.
I spun up the distribution of PPE in my community, including coordinating with makers creating 3D printed face shields for us. I will never forget the humanity these people showed - which some other people, including some physicians not on the front lines, never seemed capable of demonstrating.
I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
"Wow you're so soft on him" Yeah... because we're in the same boat? If you live in a state that actually runs its educational system, I guess it's easy to not see what the Green shop is doing or why it matters. If they go away, we actually lose education here.
"how did your kid find out about phrenology" you know what, it was not exactly where I expected the illustrated board book about skin color to go either
Half of the $62 million spent by outside groups in Michigan spent to support Stevens came from AIPAC.
Every time a comic or late show host takes a low-hanging crack at them I think about your post & how much money & effort went into a supply tracking system like that. They're a business who got burned in a contract with a supplier & let the public know where gov't failed. No good deed.
I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w agoA quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
Text 53. weak, decadent men by @maxdubler.com
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · last yr.Might I suggest: weak men.
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Co-host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast whose book was blurbed by DJT, Jr and JD Vance. Don’t call them fascists though.
There has been a greater percentage of children reported murdered by Israel in Gaza than in WWII's Nazi holocaust. And still Western and European "leaders" defend and enable the indefensible. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
The political right in Australia used the same talking points after the Black Summer Bushfires, with two additions: the fires were the work of arsonists and/or the Greens for curbing forestry activities, and "Australia is a land of extremes, it has always burned. What of it?"
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 2d agoThis (from the @wsj.com Editorial Board) distills every denialist trope there is: It implies climate change isn’t exacerbating extreme weather. It calls solutions “costly … nostrums.” It fosters doomerism. And it suggests we can just adapt to or “manage” climate impacts. How is this journalism?
🚨Hunger Strike Happening "Noah" Amber Smith, a trans woman locked in Mens Central Jail, has not been receiving her T blockers. She's been on hunger strike for two days. While on the phone, the nurses denied her meds agin. She informed the cops shes on hunger strike. They made her hang up the ph-
Despite all this I am actually French, born in Scotland. I own 560 cars and a dog that owns 5 cars, none of which are Fords. I am a gay bisexual with a mortgage on a Ford and own two French cars, six of which are vegan. I like cats. As does my five dogs, both of which are English, unlike me.
