Mort
@mortodella.net
20something guy in Greater Boston who enjoys various topics and activities https://blog.mortodella.net
I've been bothered by my hair way more than usual this summer, I started trimming my beard twice as often and I might go get a haircut twice as soon as I normally would. Can't tell if it's just been so hot or my hair is actually growing faster or what.
Legitimately someone should do a Charlie on the MTA Odyssey adaptation and its just like weird guys keep getting on the train with him. One-eyed big guy. Wicca lady. Land of the dead (the rail yard). A bunch of cows get on. Etc.
Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 2d agoHe may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Boston He’s the man who never returned
Okay I went back and recorded the WPBL anthem. I haven't seen a clip of it yet and....it needs to never be forgotten.
Not sure how I feel about this from Paz. Feels like it would have been possible to clock surveillance tech as evil before 2025, just saying.
404 Media@404media.co · 2d agoJonathan Paz’s job was to convince cities to buy Flock cameras. After initially being enthusiastic about the company, he started to get disillusioned. He talks to @josephcox.bsky.social about the "propaganda" inside the company, and why he decided to leave. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKYY...
Wrote about Nolan's Odyssey and what it tells about both the Bronze Age Collapse and our own age of wreckers and destroyers. Christopher Nolan's Collapsing Worlds: www.patreon.com/PastLivesMed...
Christopher Nolan's Collapsing Worlds | Past Lives
For Past Lives subscribers, an audio version of this episode will appear on the bonus feed this coming Thursday. Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey
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New blog post! "Nintenhogs DS (Official Soundtrack)" https://blog.mortodella.net/sotw/2026-08-01-nintenhogs
Nintenhogs DS (Official Soundtrack)
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One thing video games have over film is collecting shards. Regardless of how big Christopher Nolan goes with his camera, his movies will never allow us to collect shards.
NEW BLOG POST! Some thoughts on Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, the historical context of the Bronze Age Collapse, the Sea Peoples, and the legends of the Trojan War, and whether Nolan's movie is "historically accurate" or not, and what that even means.
Did Odysseus Cause the Bronze Age Collapse?
We were all set for The Odyssey to be our summer discourse. Battle lines had been drawn, takes had been prepared. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s 8th century BCE epic poem was…
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In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
just got an insane Maura Healy ad that was like we voted for the TOP COP and she KEPT US SAFE and KEPT ICE OUT OF COURTHOUSES, and like, she didn't keep ICE out of courthouses? Like from what I understand she's "pushed" and "advocated" for stuff but ICE has still been taking people all year??
A couple of weeks ago I rode to Newburyport MA and saw this COVID memorial and realized this is the only one I have ever seen anywhere. And the fact that I nearly broke down seeing it is something I still think about.
another religion for breakfast banger www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa_L...
There Were Buddhists in the Roman Empire
YouTube video by ReligionForBreakfast
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*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.
"now that's MY kinda night!" - kid on the street after being told there's only maple left at the soft serve place down the street
reading the odyssey and then listening to behind the bastards talk about rebecca felton and damn the antebellum south was on some bronze age shit for real
three generations of conservative intelletcual decline, from a guy who made jokes about chiang kai-shek on a regular basis to his sons who vaguely knew who he was from a guy who thinks he's chinese goku
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 5mo agoi still find it absolutely fucking incredible that Marco Rubio has a imagined version of Chiang Kai-Shek that he's turned into a ancestor spirit for the GOP
Last time I wrote about Rep. Decker, it was about the 130 different lobbyists who donated to her campaign. This time I'm diving into the time she repeatedly lied to the public, and explaining _why_ she did it: the way she views her job as a public official. letschangecambridge.us/articles/dec...
A contempt for constituents: why Rep. Decker lies
A detailed example of how Rep. Decker has lied to the public, and some thoughts about why she did it.
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Come with me on my bike window shopping journey. https://blog.mortodella.net/blog/2026-07-22-my-bike
To Replace Or Improve My Cube?
Come with me on my bike window shopping journey.
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considering making a backloggd account, is it as well-used as like letterboxd is? do people like it?
Absolutely loving this new merch design from New Bedford Whaling Museum store.whalingmuseum.org/en-gb/produc...
new keyboard came in the mail and yeah. it's got a big button that just says "diarrhea" whre the enter key shld be
Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 2w agoMexico warns travelers of "Explosive Diarrhea Risk" in USA boingboing.net/2026/07/20/m...
okay sure Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are reprising their old ass xmen roles in Avengers Doomsday. whatever. but Alan Cumming and Kelsey fucking Grammar?? what??
