Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats
Geoff Lemon 🍋
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Writer. Australian. Probably somewhere else. Essays at patreon.com/geofflemon Sport at @finalwordcricket.bsky.social
Ah, it takes out a lot of the human error! And replaces it with deranged machine error.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
It has been genuinely fascinating to watch how instantly and thoroughly Argentina became hated by neutrals at the World Cup. www.patreon.com/geofflemon/p...
Argentina, global enemy | Geoff Lemon
The first article I ever wrote about sport was on Argentinian football. Nothing analytical, I don’t know the sport like that, but living in
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Also, having worked on the minutiae of complex projects with book designers, it’s so interesting to get up close to what they do, and how decisions and creative leaps are made. Rare to get a look inside that process, there should be more of it
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 7d agoI simply must share this amazing video clip of @sisterhyde.bsky.social walking us thru her process of picking the GORGEOUS colors and fonts for the upcoming @criterion.bsky.social Kubrick box set She is my new hero:
How many pages of The Odyssey do you reckon old mate Musk has actually read
Even more realistic is that a rich guy sets up his own island and stocks it with wall-to-wall predators
the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Funny how Succession had that running gag about Greg suing Greenpeace, and it was shorthand for being an irredeemable piece of shit, and now JK Rowling is for real suing *Amnesty International*
Interesting to see recently how when a person dies after a life of creating art and wonder, others greet that end with grief and praise, whereas for a person who spent their life furthering the political trampling of the downtrodden, something else happens
There would be US tactical strikes on Belgium today if they hadn’t just blown all their cruise missiles
It is odd to see arguments that July is “too late” to change a terrible Senate candidate when you could run three full Australian federal election campaigns in that window
MAGA crowds hiding out in the African American History Museum so they don’t get struck by lightning Every time you think the metaphors can’t get any more honking, they upgrade
I have seen Barbarian and I know how well this does not end
Jerad Walker@jeradwalker.bsky.social · last mo.She’s either insane or a visionary.
I love my immigrant friends and neighbors. I love my trans friends and family members. and I love that I can walk down the street and buy some good-ass hmong sausage in small town wisconsin
celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle
Things I did not know: that the Cabo Verde football team would take me on one of the greatest sporting journeys of my life
I am asking about this on the streets of Leeds and London and, buddy, people are NOT in favour
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 2mo agospeaking of related content, 555-COME-ON-NOW
Being served a bowl of shredded carrot and lettuce anywhere else is deeply unimpressive, but at a teppanyaki restaurant it’s suddenly exciting
This is all so completely fucked.
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2mo agoKids whose parents have been seized by ICE are left to fend for themselves. Here’s a gut wrenching (but also somehow inspiring) story of one such family from @samanthamichaels.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
