My posts are the antidote to the attention economy
Fallingrise: The Rise of the Fallen — Book I Of The Risen Fall Saga
So there’s a new Batman…and his name is Odyssey? Nolan, you devil! ..I’m in.
If I have to know about Graham Platner then every American should have to know about Mark Latham. I’m not joking.
![A billboard calling on people to “Ask AI about [sic] Sustainable Australia Party” with the sub headline “because the mainstream media won’t tell you”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4bzzdro3lao2cp34ew2ngds/bafkreihp6qet6rwgvvh44v7l4grk3tl4yqgrymter3dhhban7w3pbqiu7a)
Gonna start saying “in Minotaur” instead of “in miniature”
isn't that all just...technology and modernity tho?
People are just insane now of days
"The scheme generates almost $1bn annually for the Australian economy, while just $184m is sent back to the 10 countries providing workers for Australian farms, abattoirs, hotels and aged care facilities."
Yeah Sam just worked Frodo’s garden and called him Master as a joke, there was no class dynamic there at all
USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 3mo agoHobbit culture as mediating through gift-giving is Tolkien encoding something real. The Shire runs on reciprocity, not contract. Its vulnerability is that reciprocity breaks down when one party has enough power to not need it. Sauron doesn't gift. What protects reciprocity from power?
Him dropping Eco as a previous winner was a nice touch given this whole farce reads like something from Foucault’s Pendulum
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3mo ago'Until 2015, when an article appeared in his local newspaper claiming he was about to win the equivalent of a Nobel prize or Fields medal, Montaclair was an unremarkable teaching instructor who liked to write fantasy books, many about vampires, in his spare time.' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
You really wouldn’t need many tweaks to get Star Wars (1977) made in the Third Reich
Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉@observer46664.bsky.social · 3mo agoENGAGEMENT BAIT! What is your MOST CONTROVERSIAL Star Wars opinion? And I don't want embarrassingly lukewarm takes like "Jabba The Hutt was actually a good employer". I need opinions that could land you in jail. GO!
How about we’re helping you by telling you to go do something about it rather than posting this fatuous garbage
Thomas Jerome@thomasjerome.com · 4mo agoIncredible "waffles" moment happening in Parker's mentions where people outside of America are screaming "no, YOU stand up to your own government," as though there's some contradiction between the two
Since this discourse is back this is what I sincerely believe. Everyone wants to think it's bc their personal ideology doesn't feel welcome here. It's actually because there aren't enough fandom subcultures which is basically the unspoken lifeforce of all social media platforms
Annie Kelly@annieknk.bsky.social · last yr.Bluesky *is* dying but unfortunately the solution is we all have to start caring a lot more about Sabrina Carpenter
People are sharing this around like it’s hugely insightful but it’s a monument to Orwell’s paranoia and delusion. He literally believed that Stalin and Roosevelt had secretly agreed to fake the Cold War to enable the permanent domination of the world. www.marxists.org/archive/deut...
![He was, for instance, unshakably convinced that Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt consciously plotted to divide the world, and to divide it for good, among themselves, and to subjugate it in common. (I can trace the idea of Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia back to that time.) 'They are all power-hungry, he used to repeat. When once I pointed out to him that underneath the apparent solidarity of the Big Three one could discern clearly the conflict between them, already coming to the surface, Orwell was so startled and incredulous that he at once related our conversation in his column in Tribune, and added that he saw no sign of the approach of the conflict of which I spoke. This was by the time of the Yalta conference, or shortly thereafter, when not much foresight was needed to see what was coming. What struck me in Orwell was his lack of historical sense and of psychological insight into political life coupled with an acute, though narrow, penetration into some aspects of politics and with an incorruptible firmness of conviction. [George Orwell, 'As I Please', Tribune, 26 January 1945 - Deutscher is not mentioned by name, and where the article has been reproduced no reference to him is given; see The Collected Essays and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 3 (Harmondsworth,
1984), p 369; George Orwell, Collected Works, Volume 17 (London, 1998), p 30; Orwell in Tribune (London, 2006), pp 235-36 - MIA.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4bzzdro3lao2cp34ew2ngds/bafkreib4id2ptswjd5y5qjga5eluky2kr4qbbxu7dqbq2me3savjsz443u)
Jeff Colgan@jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 4mo agoBrown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.
THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY (1980) stars Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand, an East End gangster and wannabe property kingpin, who gets his criminal empire blown to bits when he crosses the IRA, an ideologically driven foe who he can’t bribe or bully into submission. No relevance to anything going on right now.
“Mr Speaker, this isn’t the Labor Party it’s the Labubu Party, because like Brad Pitt in Se7en you don’t know what’s in the Box.” Hire me Angus. We can turn this around.
going back in time to make peter greenaway do a titus groan movie at gunpoint in the 80's
BROKE: Australia should not develop nukes WOKE: Australia should develop nukes BESPOKE: Australia already developed nukes with the assistance of Aum Shinrikyo, as evidenced by the Banjawarn Station incident of 1993
lēod-hata, m.n: tyrant (people-hater). (LAY-od-HA-ta / ˈleːɔd-ˌha-ta) #OldEnglish #WOTD
