One of the things about discourse around The Odyssey is that only a couple of movies a year manage to get into 'the discourse' now, so everyone has to have an opinion on them In the old days there would be a Peter Greenaway film out by now to distract everyone & give them something new to talk about

If you're wondering where the fuck they get these weirdos, "Amanda holds a B.A. in history from Yale and an M.Phil. in international relations from the University of Cambridge." This is the chattering class. This is the ruling elite. This is how their rotted brains work.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3h ago

If I had a terminal illness, my My Make A Wish request would be to sit in on an editorial meeting at this magazine www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

I'm predicting now the court case where the transphobe objects to the "discrimination" of being kicked out of not just a trans *inclusive* group but of a straight-up trans *support* group they've joined solely to be a wrecker.

@transmetalmum.bsky.social · 3h ago

I've heard that the GC event in Belfast encouraged people to join trans supportive groups in order to change 'hearts and minds' from within. Organisations need to take note that this is most certainly a problem and it needs nipped in the bud.

She did it. She did the meme

Having ranted about school curriculum books, I’ve just seen my son’s summer reading list, and all I can say is “I was right”. A more depressing collection would be tricky to assemble. Are we actively trying to convey to kids the idea that reading is dismal and arduous?

cowards

Mark Shore@markshore.bsky.social · 2d ago

for legal reasons Bluesky still hasn't rolled out the true AT protocol where if enough people block you, you die IRL (not to mention the terrifying damnatio memoriae block, where if the block numbers are massive enough you cease to ever have existed)

The UK commentariat and political class are almost exclusively a wealthy, politically powerful and insular group, many of whom landowners/landlords, and almost every last one of them despises the working class, minorities, migrants, queer people, and disabled people. That’s why they love Rod Liddle

Bev Craig: "Trans women are women. Trans men are men." She won her election in a landslide because sane people believe in personal freedom, dignity, and sovreignty.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d ago

BREAKING: Labour's Bev Craig wins the Greater Manchester Mayoral Election, defeating Reform by a landslide after the second round LAB: Bev Craig: 309,525 (66%) REF: Sian Astley: 157,178 (33%)

“Look, you burgermeisters have to tax your townsfolk to buy these fancy bulbs I’ve invested in—it’s just one gazillion guilders per bulb, yeah?—or this whole Dutch tulip bulb industry will be in trouble!”

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

Over and over the cycle repeats: Bad tech do bad thing Politicians: make bad tech not to bad thing? Companies: no bad thing make money Politicians: ah okay keep doing bad thing just add more spy

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 5d ago

The new CHATBOT Act doesn’t just require parental permission for teens to use AI. It requires AI companies to build monitoring systems that store and analyze entire conversations, creating new privacy risks for entire families. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

also want to be super clear that i am not saying You Must Listen To Will, who again i do not personally follow. you don't have to listen to Will! and in fact your life could be enriched if you, instead of being shitty to him, just blocked him and thought about something else instead.

What is "the arts" here? My work becomes an income stream for "the arts" when it enters the public domain and "the arts" become able to freely fuck around with it. This sounds like making it an income stream for a set of specific organisations at the expense of everyone else who composes "the arts".

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 6d ago

When the copyright of Peter Pan ran out, Great Ormond Street hospital was given a perpetual right to future royalties. What if we started doing this for other works? Artists could agree to opt into this. It could be a great income stream for the arts. Worth a think www.thetimes.com/article/28cf...

Would get in a shipping war for Team IggyZiggy as the endgame though.

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 6d ago

Would read this Yaoi. David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen backstage at Max's Kansas City, 1974. 📷: Joel Bernstein

Insert DOWNFALL Hitler rant here

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 6d ago

President Toddler

I have now seen multiple people sharing this image, which as far as I'm concerned is indistinguishable from the antisemitic propaganda being distributed by far-right GoyimTV during the Biden administration, and I find both it and the people sharing it quite unimpressive—depressing, in fact.

James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic)@toplandscaper.bsky.social · 6d ago

The whole premise of the proscription of PA is now coming to light After a number of break ins at Elbit Systems pressure was applied to the Starmer Gov to deal with this problem and silence the offenders The Labour front bench being funded by Israeli money readily complied

Gavin Newsom has no moral code or unshakeable political beliefs. His primary purpose in life has been serving rich people, which he learned from his dad and continues today.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 6d ago

Looks like Gavin Newsom is going to bat for California Forever, the Network State "tech utopia" project backed by Marc Andreessen and other tech billionaires. 70% of local residents oppose it. But the billionaires hired Newsom's favorite lobbyist. Welcome to Sacramento. nypost.com/2026/07/29/u...

The business of the British press is recruiting and promoting cranks and wingnuts who can support the papers’ own malicious jihads against domestic and foreign enemies

Allister Heath, graduate of Hertford College, Oxford, whose parents were posh enough to live in France but still couldnae fuckin spell "Alasdair," thinks the death of the Atlantic Conveyor will make Britain *more* seasonable. Or so the murderous Oxbridge cunt *wants* you to think.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6d ago

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

Healthy democracies under good governance do not see things like e.g. a 1,000% increase in terrorism-related arrests in the course of one year, most of them non-violent pensioners.

Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog

A24's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

Glasgow saw two far-right protests in two days. One erupted into violence, the other saw a fascist-style 'drill square' target a newspaper. The scenes have 'eerie echoes' of Hitler's rise to power, a leading expert on the rise of fascism has warned 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2641414...

‘Eerie echoes of early Hitler’ in Scottish extremist groups, fascism expert warns

THERE are “eerie echoes” of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power playing out in far- and extreme-right protests on the streets of Scotland, an expert…

thenational.scot

slurred speech from a stroke has been my guess from the first pic, tbh

Fred Coppersmith@unrealfred.bsky.social · last wk.

Any time there’s a new statement from McConnell’s family or staff, the obvious follow-question is: what is it about his condition that precludes him from speaking directly to members of the press, the governor, or even just for five minutes on video?

Absolutely blistering final line there.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last wk.

After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.

I liked that bit toward the start of the movie, when the Greeks are just about to set off for home, when Matt Damon turns straight to camera and says, "It's odysseying time!"

No, the fifth column fourth estate will carry on with their cryptofascist legitimisation of the fascists, responding to the death threat rhetoric with total obliviousness, knowing they're safe, so as to normalise that rhetoric applied to the groups who *are* actually targets for the fascists.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last wk.

After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.

This is arse-backwards and vindicates my sense that *good* experiences with separate Scottish benefits systems (helping the Elder Nibling apply for ADP and helping my dad apply for PADP for my mum) are due to a political culture of *being there to help* applied from the top down.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · last wk.

#GMB: "On welfare.. [Burnham] says he wants to make it harder for people to claim benefits.. so in his words 'you might increase the conditions required to receive benefits'"

LLMs turn our tendency to be considerate toward our interlocutors into a vulnerability rather than a strength; this makes for a more miserable world where we must be presumptively cruel and wary of anything that talks to us www.ft.com/content/bdb3...