It's one banana, Michael, how green could it be?

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 16h ago

Spoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.

looks like my poem “The World” just baaarely snuck into the emily wilson/odyssey issue lmao

Patricia Lockwood · Poem: ‘The World’

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When Republicans win by thin margins (or outright lose the popular vote but win via the Electoral College), they have a mandate to raze society. When progressives win by thin margins, it doesn't really count as a win and it would be really unfair of them to enact their agenda.

Politico@politico.com · 11h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

TV shows become so much less realistic as you get older. "Oh please, he'd have to be 20 years younger to be an alcoholic with that body."

Famously, it was impossible to play D&D before 2025.

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d ago

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

Just got an AI-generated book club scam email for a book written by someone named Lauren O'Neill-Butler. A different Lauren O'Neal is also CC'd. AI can't die fast enough. The book looks cool, though. www.amazon.com/War-Art-Hist...

Jaya rules, and Ravenous rules! This is such a vivid example of how generative AI does not "democratize" art and culture like its boosters claim. It actually increases the need for/impulse towards gatekeeping because in practice, AI just democratizes fraud. Actual work still takes time and skill!

Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com · 3d ago

I wrote about Ravenous preparing to commission freelance (yayy!!!) and realizing that means having to plan for AI scams (boooooo) www.weareravenous.com/ai-freelance...

Democrats under 30 deciding between the cool young hot guy and the ghoul from the fundraising spam texts: Hmmm... 🤔

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 3d ago

James Carville Tells Fox News He’s Out of the Democratic Party if Hasan Piker Stays: ‘One of Us is Going to Leave’

Close enough, welcome back, Oliver Cromwell.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 3d ago

This may sound radical but "games are shit" is actually the median opinion of every Gamer.

The president took on a vanity project, gave no-bid contracts to contractors who screwed it up, made up a story about vandals to cover it up, and then fomented a felony prosecution against an innocent scapegoat. You could impeach for anything he's done but "This asshole is out of control" is a layup

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · 4d ago

When you slow down and think about it you realize it's ten times worse than it seems. Sure it's farcical, but it's also a brutal legal attack on a man they knew to be innocent, done to distract from their own thievery and incompetence and as a flex to terrify anyone who might make them look bad.

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

Saw the Shakespeare in the Park production of The Winter's Tale last night and thought this line would be useful on Bluesky.

Would sincerely love to pitch ELEPHANT.

Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d ago

You have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social

Much like with Epstein's network, the underlying ethos seems to be that "sexual gratification" is bad per se, but billionaires should be able to engage in it and profit off it purely as a form of impunity. bsky.app/profile/coac...

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5d ago

The federal government is protecting the AI child porn apps and Google goes after someone wearing cat ears whispering into a mic while eating cereal

The federal government is protecting the AI child porn apps and Google goes after someone wearing cat ears whispering into a mic while eating cereal

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

Incredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.

*standing up on the plane and brandishing the 3 to 5 accumulated back issues of the New Yorker I bring on every flight* I swear to God I will read these out loud until every last one of you motherfuckers falls asleep!

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last wk.

*standing up on the plane* ok you Protestant fucks prepare to get scared because I’m about to tell you what’s real. Hail Holy Queen our light our sweetness and our hopes. To Thee to we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Tu

Freeze response vindicated

Todd Gregory@toddgregory.bsky.social · last wk.

Which one of Aesop's Fables was this?

💯💯💯Yes, you can point to elements of the modern world that are more complex, but you can also point to elements that are simpler. At no point did humans experience the world as simple and easy. There is no such thing as "simpler times," just "times you don't know all the details of."

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · last wk.

To put it in a way that may get at people's slowness to realize or reluctance to accept this: the past was not simpler than the present in any general sense, nor were people in the past less complex. They did not all think similarly. Assuming otherwise is not historical thinking, merely nostalgia.

cannot stop thinking about this spongebob storyboard panel

Of course as soon as I vow to stop fruitlessly calling out right-wing hypocrisy as hypocrisy, they go on TV to do the thing Jesus literally described as "praying like hypocrites."

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · last wk.

Rep. Lauren Boebert insists that public Christian worship events are necessary for America to experience revival: "I don't think that Jesus ever called for any Christian to pray only silently or to keep their faith hidden only in the prayer closet."

If only we'd called him Douche-hat a little harder back in the feminist blogosphere days...

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last wk.

Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.

stephen miller killed this couple, as surely as if he'd pulled the trigger himself

Matt Ortega@mattortega.com · last wk.

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

My husband (not on Bluesky): Did you see that Emily Wilson— Me: I'VE SEEN NOTHING ELSE

The "ogre" in question is John Fetterman lmao

Politico@politico.com · last wk.

El-Sayed comes under fire for 'ogre on a pike' leaked comment

“Ultimately, Magic Mike XXL isn’t a hero’s journey, because it doesn’t believe in heroes... Instead of heroes, sexy dancing. Instead of telling the story of why the king is the king, sexy dancing” How have we had weeks of Odyssey discourse without citing this @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social banger?

Magic Mike XXL Is Basically "The Odyssey," But With Butts - Electric Literature

The quintessential stripper road trip film both follows and transcends Joseph Campbell’s traditional Hero’s Journey

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I haven't seen the Odyssey, AMA