Absolutely wonderful thread on how the Ancient Greeks made the Odyssey into dynamic storytelling art
Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · 5d agoEveryone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13
This isn’t going to be popular amongst followers, but my conclusion from this is that UK Special Forces command should be abolished, and everyone inside the forces anywhere near this scandal should be investigated for perverting the course of justice and manslaughter. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Special Forces rejected 2,000 credible asylum claims from Afghan commandos, MoD confirms
Officers appear to have rejected every application from former Afghan commandos who fought alongside them.
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STOP calling it: • "Save the planet" START calling it: • "Save our homes" • "Save our food" • "Save our children" Because that's what it is. #ClimateCrisis
As you might expect, this cat runs a film lab. And she gets hyper-furious when customers come in and interrupt her meal time. #caturday
Things will get worse as more students secretly use AI to do homework. There has always been a divide between those who care about education for its own sake and those who only care about grades, but AI will worsen this divide, leaving fewer people with the ability to do causal reasoning.
The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2w agoI’m sorry what
Peter Falk sketching in his Beverly Hills home in 1984.
Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.
Me a month ago: Don’t follow the sport. Never heard of any of these guys—well maybe the one with the easy to remember name, Harry Kane. Me today: Can you believe Tuchel didn’t play Saka against Argentina? The course of world history could have been different! Also, how under-appreciated is Olise…
On this day in 1944, a Scottish woman perished in Auschwitz. A carer of Jewish children, when offered the option of escape she replied 'if these children need me in times of sunshine, how much more do they need me in days of darkness.' Her name was Jane Haining @AuschwitzMuseum
Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...
In eigener Sache: Peter Thiel erhält den Axel Springer Award 2026 - WELT
Unternehmer und Investor Peter Thiel ist der diesjährige Preisträger des Axel Springer Awards. Die Auszeichnung soll auch ein Zeichen für Meinungsfreiheit und offene Debatten sein.
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Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
Dr. Edward Bouchet (born in New Haven, CT in 1852) was among the first Americans in U.S. history to earn a Ph.D. in physics. The son of a formerly enslaved father, Dr. Bouchet earned his doctorate from Yale in 1876.
I love that Britain is both overrun by immigrants and the whitest country on Earth. It's reminiscent of the asylum seeker both on benefits and stealing our jobs.
The ocean has buffered us from the full force of climate change for decades. But that service is not limitless. I’ve written a short piece on what the latest ocean indicators are telling us, and what we need to do next. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ocean-...
The ocean is telling us the climate story most clearly
Last week, ironically during London Climate Action Week, the UK broke its June temperature record, with a provisional 37.7°C recorded in Norfolk, more than 2°C above the previous June record set in 19...
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“The notes I write are only a quiet sigh compared to the magnificent symphony written by nature.”
What an incredible World Cup by the DR Congo team, who overcame a devastating Ebola outbreak and war, and brought unity and hope to so many through dark times. Fimbu!
THE ROLLING STONES outside 102 Edith Grove — Chelsea (where Brian, Mick & Keith shared a flat) in 1963.
Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov
Paris, 2015 - world leaders pose for the cameras, pledging to keep global warming below 1.5C. Paris, 2026 - 40C heat in June as the world passes 1.5C, with 2C now inevitable & 3C & 4C likely in our children’s lifetimes. The greatest failure in the history of our species.
If you are wealthy, I think you should spend more money on clothes. There's no pride in buying clothes for the lowest possible price, as this puts downward pressure on garment worker wages and increases the likelihood of exploitation.
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5
Nature’s tech is still undefeated. 🌳 Did you know forests absorb nearly 2 billion tonnes of CO_2 every single year? No man-made technology beats our forests, oceans,and healthy soil in driving climate action. Protect the sinks.Denounce destruction. #ClimateAction #Sustainability
When I was at school I got told “you work hard considering you’re black” when I was in year seven, I was 11 so thought it was a compliment And when I was 15, the kid who called me a n*gger got made head boy This was late 00s/early 2010s But of course, anti-white discrimination is the scourge
I am going to continue to push back on "high skill migration" even if I am the last dead ender. The UK has a much more pressing shortage of low-skill labour than high-skill labour. We have people giving up jobs as magic circle lawyers to take care of their parents.
