I'd like a prequel to Illiad about the exploits of young Piyama-radu while he was still friends with the Ahhiyawa, please.

I will fight the 1980s and early 1990s nostalgia if I'm the last man standing who still remembers those dreary days.

I mean, how anti-Nazi are you if you're left on your own in a room with Himmler and don't immediately try to kill him?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 18h ago

Himmler’s ‘anti-Nazi’ masseur: exposing the lies and fantasies of the SS chief’s ‘magic Buddha’

Please let us at least restrict comments to time zones.

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d ago

I mean this with love - I do! I like many Americans! - and I totally get that things are maddening over there and tempers are running high but lads you must realise that you really do keep ruining it all for the rest of us on here

To the surprise of no-one, the ill-conceived Trainspotting musical proved to be a complete flop. I knew it would be bad when I saw the marketing aiming for '90s nostalgia'. Because that's what Trainspotting was all about, the good ol' days.

EdinburghMinute.com@edinburghminute.com · 2d ago

☔️  Good morning Edinburgh. Tuesday’s headlines: Princes St summit, 'new contender for world's worst cycle lane', Trainspotting musical cancelled + Shed of the Year winner in Morningside ⏰ Edinburgh’s ad-free local news: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg... Photo: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social

So was Rod Liddle actually a brilliant performance artist in the vein of Al Murray or just a cunt?

The Laestrygonians episode is the earliest known example of 'running out of word count' problem.

It's fine to be happy when a bad person dies.

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Ukraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity

The reason why 'latest masisive Trump scandal doesn't break through' is mostly because there's nothing to break anymore. He's already universally loathed by anyone vaguely aware of the news and only GOP's suicidal pact is keeping him in power.

FiftyPlusOne.news@fiftyplusone.news · last wk.

Donald Trump's net approval has reached a new low today in our tracker. His net approval sits at -24.1. The previous low was -23.7, achieved on May 27. fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

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I guess we're out of the power couple portmanteau name era for good, because Zendaya and Tom Holland are in bigger earning movies than Brangelina ever were and yet we're still calling them just Zendaya and Tom Holland.

The most satisfying effect of Russia sanctions is seeing Teboil (really Lukoil) petrol stations shut down all over Finland. It should've happened in 2022, but better late than never.

Migration weaponised in real time. External bad actors on social media trigger a crisis; internal bad actors amplify it for domestic audience. Result: absurd knee-jerk ideas like Finland wanting to shut down the border with Spain. Poland-Belarus crisis a few years ago was a trial run of this.

Good news for everyone born in 1980s Poland :P

Euronews@euronews.com · 4d ago

Less sweet treats during pregnancy and up to age two associated with lower dementia risk later in life, delayed onset of the disease and a healthier brain, according to a new study.

Not a single of the Ceuta refugees is actually: - in mainland Spain - in Schengen - in Europe But to the fascists any excuse is valid to try to dismantle the European project

If nobody's willing to stand up for Spain and Schengen I fear this time the EU dream might truly be done for. Just pathetic performances across the board.

EU governments are equally culpable in this, though, champing at the bit to suspend Schengen at the slightest excuse and making it seem like a continent-wide crisis even though it's not even the right continent.

PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 a Last Angry Bernie Brother cast adrift 🙄@powerfromspace1.bsky.social · 5d ago

@andrii_sybhia 🇺🇦🏦 We have detected an intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilization. x.com/andrii_sybih...

Both Uniqlo's culottes and Muji's hakama pants are ostensibly marketed as unisex, but in the actual shops are only available in women's sections and in women's sizes. Men's balls must forever remain sweaty.

Oh this looks like *actual fun*. Haven't had one of those in a while.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 5d ago

Okay. I’m totally gonna see the movie where Alexander Skarsgård plays the middle-ages wicker sex husband. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP0B...

English right wing following the Polish right wing pattern.

Owen Winter@owenwntr.bsky.social · 5d ago

Manchester mayoral results, first round Bev Craig - Labour 47% (+24 vs local elections) Reform 21% (-10) Green 12% (-7) Restore 9% (new) Conservative 8% (-3) Lib Dem 3% (-7)

Late 1970s truly were the Peak Acting era.

James Calbraith@jamescalbraith.co.uk · 6d ago

Hepburn, Redgrave, Bujold, Blessed. This is a truly tremendous adaptation of a tremendous text. Two and a half milllennia ago, the Greeks themselves wrote the only commentary on Homer there'd ever be needed. www.dailymotion.com/video/xaitjxe

Just... why would you do that.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

How the hell is 'bitmapped' the same age as 'Tinseltown'?

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d ago

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I love this bit from Plutarch, in which Athens learn of the Sicilian disaster from barbershop gossip. As if US found out about Pearl Harbor from a Harlem barber.

Hepburn, Redgrave, Bujold, Blessed. This is a truly tremendous adaptation of a tremendous text. Two and a half milllennia ago, the Greeks themselves wrote the only commentary on Homer there'd ever be needed. www.dailymotion.com/video/xaitjxe

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Nothing exposes the US-centric nature of modern technology more than travelling through Baltics. Four countries in four days wreaks havoc with websites and apps designed for always staying in one place.

There are now semi-regular air raid alerts in a major NATO country, but let's just go on as if things are normal.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 7d ago

⚡️Air raid sirens blare in Poland's Lublin region amid Russian mass missile, drone attack on Ukraine. At 3:40 p.m. local time, an unidentified object was detected in Polish airspace, while "at least a dozen" missiles were "operating over western Ukraine."

I guess we can only have one major thoroughfare open in the city centre at a time.

The Edinburgh Reporter@edinreporter.bsky.social · last wk.

North Bridge on track to open this week After eight years of work, the North Bridge is on track to open this week. Earlier this week, both pavements on the bridge were open at the same time, with part of the carriageway still coned off....