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Boze the Library Owl@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 2w ago

By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”

photograph of the relevant passage in Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey ("I make no bed of love with you upon it. Or swear me first a great oath, if I do, you'll work no more enchantment to my harm.")
Normal Poster@focip.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm curious to see if soccer fandom retains any of the shocking number of regular ass Midwest white dudes who like tackle football and beer who've been talking my ear off about soccer for the entire knock out rounds

The Rude Pundit@rudepundit.bsky.social · last mo.

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. The parliament or the people of 1688, or of any other period, had no more right to dispose of the people of the present day, or to bind or to controul them in any shape whatever, than the parliament or the people of the present day have to dispose of, bind or controul those who are to live a hundred or a thousand years hence. Every generation is, and must be, competent to all the purposes which its occasions require. It is the living, and not the dead, that are to be accommodated.
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · last mo.

It's so foggy at Wrigley the Cardinals challenged a pitch but the ABS system can't see it, Cards infielders complaining they can't see the ball. Ads still work though

NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · last mo.

Having mastered epidemiology, toilet paper supply chain logistics, large language models, submarine design, maritime law, and marine biology, I’d like to explain the changes I would make to the offsides rule in soccer….(1/47)

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · last mo.

One of the great things about the World Cup is how you get squads no sane mind ever would've designed. World-class defenders with strikers who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, an unstoppable forward with nobody to get him the ball, unbeatable goalkeepers forced to stop 20 shots every match

Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Almost a decade ago, I was very Special Interested in mushrooms and developed an organizing training framework based on mycelium. The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case. So too with movement. (cont)