agreeing w post via my second-favorite moment in the whole once and future king btw

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 9h ago

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!

finally finished THE VAMPIRE LESTAT and i admire that its thesis is that what's wrong with Lestat isn't that he's a vampire, it's that he's a musician. relatable

In fall of 2027, tuition will be free for Rice students whose families earn between $100K - $200K annually. Students from families earning less than $100K annually will get tuition, mandatory fees, and room and board covered. | Kathryn Palmer www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #BlackskyNews

Rice to Give Free Tuition to Students From Families Earning $200K or Less

Rice University in Houston is expanding its free tuition program, the university announced in a news release Monday. Beginning in the fall of 2027, new students from families earning between $100,000 ...

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The phlebotomy lab waiting room at Mass General just turned into a long intergenerational conversation about Jack and Marion’s in Brookline (where I never went myself, but my parents went on dates) and it was a peak Boston interaction (affectionate)

They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d ago

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

He may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Boston He’s the man who never returned

Giovanni Colantonio@marioprime.bsky.social · 2d ago

the odyssey is a realistic depiction of what it’s like when you’re trying to get home to your girl at 2 am on the mta. it’s always some shit

MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury

“Poodoo” is always translated in subtitles as “fodder,” but it’s clearly used in TPM as an exclamation in the same way English speakers would yell “shit!” This implies that the Huttese language does not differentiate between the word for food and the word for shit

Gwen F. Jaworski 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️|🇺🇦🇵🇸🇱🇧🇳🇨🇹🇼@meatbag-hunter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gimme your wildest Star Wars theory

Deep cut joke just for @oneshotrpg.bsky.social: these guys have really been going places since BIKE.

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody

True! BUT there is an Irish music and dance session that you can still get into (led by yours truly)—DM if you want to come!!

Cambridge Somerville Independent@csindie.bsky.social · 7d ago

‘One Night Art School’ event sold out immediately in a Union Square building with empty lab space

you say “Stephen King didn’t like The Shining,” I say “Sondheim thought the only good filmed version of his shows was Sweeney Todd”

drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying

Got to see this a few nights ago with the best group of young folks next to me yelling "YEEAAHHHH GET IT BOTTOM!!!" and stuff like that at intervals throughout the show. Hilarious and appropriate energy. My family had a blast

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company@commshakes.bsky.social · last wk.

A Midsummer Night's Dream has awakened on Boston Common, where love, magic, mischief, and music collide beneath the summer sky. Celebrate 30 years of Free Shakespeare with our vivid production, running now through August 9. 📷: Nile Scott Studios

If you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2w ago

The idea that we have a special duty to prevent the death of languages is instantly compelling to anyone who loves languages. But is it true? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

just a real all timer moment

Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.

"well I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic" from the Oceangate interviews remains the funniest identity redaction I've ever seen the man knows the ocean

mildly funny that X is having blazing rows about Nolan’s Odyssey because he cast black people in it and Bluesky is having blazing rows about whether a noted Homeric translator’s LRB review of it misses the point or not

Sometimes there's a classical music episode of a genre show and I watch it like "oh shit, this must be how [science/crime/etc.] experts feel all the time."

Ethan Kocak@ethankocak.com · last wk.

I have a personal belief that the more a person is a nerd for something: dinosaurs, The Odyssey, etc, the less likely they are to enjoy a popular entertainment version of that thing.

epic

The Boston Red Sox are on a 1-game losing streak, their longest since 2026. Concerning!

I've seen enough, bring back Wishbone

In my re-imagining of The Odyssey, the Sirens are singing "My Neck, My Back" by Khia.

Chris Nolan, you can't keep getting away with this.

Vidmaster (+Waldo, Rayne, & Frankie)@vidmaster.net · 2w ago

There’s a scene where Odysseus plans a feast for the army and is going to deep fry turkeys but he doesn’t properly thaw and dry them first, and puts way too much oil in the friers.

once again thinking about the best Lord of the Rings meme

✅completed basically everything I need to do on my end to get my Korean dual citizenship! Now I just need to wait for a couple of documents to arrive and submit everything for processing at the consulate

lolll

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is my favorite reply of the day but you gotta click through for context