" a full verbal recitation of the Odyssey would take somewhere between sixteen and eighteen hours (depending how fast one recites). " Ok HBO, it's time for a seven season unabridged staging of the Odyssey.

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Happy Friday everyone, as promised, here is my personal theory on this. I think Redwall takes place in our world, after an apocalyptic event of the nuclear variety caused rapid but varied growth of all animals, including humans, leading to our extinction and their mental development. Okay? 🧵

Nora@lighthousenora.bsky.social · 2w ago

i would love your historical architecture take on the relative size of redwall abbey to its natural surroundings and inhabitants. like are we talking a tiny abbey in a tiny forest or what

I’m wheezing smittenkitchen.com/2026/07/spag...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.

Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.

Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.

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people online:"the founding fathers were evil because of slave-" Actual Democratic-Republicans in the 1790s: KILL GEORGE WASHINGTON

honestly I think I have to give it up for the Edward Gorey animated credits from the original Masterpiece Mystery. in a very real way my entire life as a reader, a writer, and a lesbian has just been chasing the way those playfully spooky beautiful women made me feel as a kid

Edward Gorey's Masterpiece Theater Animation

Alt: Edward Gorey's Masterpiece Theater Animation. Black and white pen and ink style drawing with occasional splashes of purple. Four couples are dancing at an art deco ball when suddenly a woman in a black gown and a bat wing headdress enters holding a fan whose seascape image seems to blink from day to night

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Jodi Pickens 🏳️‍🌈🖖✨@jodipickens.bsky.social · 4w ago

Art question 🎨 What painting, photograph, sculpture, or piece of visual art has stayed with you long after you first saw it? Not necessarily your favorite. The one that lingered.

Furthering my theory that this entire website is for people who owned Doonesbury collections as children and understood about a third of it.

I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.

✨hauntedtoasters✨@hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 4w ago

I am tech support to the bone and do not like to mystify computer stuff but I genuinely believe in my heart of hearts that printers have demons in them. There is literally no other explanation.

Happy Pvt. Marshall Sherman Day to all who celebrate

WE HAD ASKED FOR AN EGG, PROMISING TO RETURN IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · last mo.

“in a way, aren’t we the REAL victims”

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

Today! My first novel in six years! Everybody's Perfect! Delany once titled a story "A Tale of Plagues and Carnivals." But what if more plague and more carnivals? What if Venice but less substantial? And more magical? With immigration and friendship? It's a bit weird but I hope you like it anyway.

me talking to magically resurrected founding father: and so sir you can see how the supreme court has become a deeply illegitimate institution that threatens the very republic you created founding father: there are *how many* papists on it???

i mean if the pope is gonna be excommunicating a bunch of guys tomorrow anyway, why not put some more names on the list. c’mon. as a treat, holy father. it would be fun and funny.

"The government can arbitrarily declare stateless undesirables it deems unworthy of citizenship" is *insane.* It's thinking you can crack open the gates of hell just a little to warm up the place and things will be fine. *Nobody* wins then. Not Democrats. Not Republicans.

Every year, people are betrayed by their optimism. "Fireworks have exploded in other people's hands, but surely they will not explode in mine. My hands are different."

Buster Keaton didn't do whatever the fuck this shit is so you can tell me AI is inevitable.

Buster Keaton One Week Buster Keaton

ALT: Buster Keaton One Week Buster Keaton

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Fuck you Peter Thiel

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · last mo.

"We declared a War On Cancer in the 1970s and we have not made significant progress on treating cancer despite ever-increasing funding. It's a welfare program for academic labs" Bro what the FUCK are you talking about. The survival statistics do not bear this out even at first glance

All of France is scorching hot today. Except for one village in the northwest...

I’m at the bread and circuses. I’m at the damnatio memoriae. I’m at the combination bread and circuses damnatio memoriae

Truly devastated to learn of Jane Yolen's passing. Her work with folk & fairy tales was so formative to me as a kid & so important to me as an adult. She was so vividly generous & extraordinarily kind.

Okay, gamers, put on your pallia and let's get playing.

“Descartes Against Humanity” and Other Games Designed by Famous Philosophers

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In the better timeline, we've had another muppets remake of a classic movie every five years or so, and they're all classics. People fight over which is best: Muppet Count of Monte Cristo, with Kermit as Edmond Dantes and Eddie Redmayne as Albert, or Muppet Moby Dick, with Ian McShane as Ahab.

George Herriman illustration for one “archy and mehitabel” story by Don Marquis. She freaks out sots in a saloon.

Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I want the internet to get super super into "archy and mehitabel." I feel like we'd all really enjoy it. just wall-to-wall archy and mehitabel memes every time you log on. archy and mehitabel are timeless joy.

I want the internet to get super super into "archy and mehitabel." I feel like we'd all really enjoy it. just wall-to-wall archy and mehitabel memes every time you log on. archy and mehitabel are timeless joy.

you may make mistakes in your life, but at least none of you ever bet on the political charisma of JD Vance

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.