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By far the funniest moment in Homerโ€™s Odyssey is when Circe says, โ€œShall we have sex?โ€ and Odysseus says, โ€œYou just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But donโ€™t do any weird spellsโ€

photograph of the relevant passage in Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey ("I make no bed of love with you upon it. Or swear me first a great oath, if I do, you'll work no more enchantment to my harm.")

not the point but fortune cookies were created by japanese who immigrated to the usa (after the chinese expulsion act) and then were taken over by chinese-american companies after the US put the japanese into internment camps during WWII matryoshka doll of metaphors in there to unpack if so desired

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social ยท 4w ago

Marsha Blackburn's new ad is so racist that it makes me wonder if mainstream Republicans could have gotten away with something like this back in the 1980s or 90s.

question: i have a strong enough knowledge of what i like in guitars to know what i want and dont want these days but feel like a total rube when it comes to buying a bass โ€” my first โ€” from specific pickups to amps taking recs for something cheap and fun to start with. squier? ibanez? mustang?