Minneapolitan goblin (they/she)
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🏳️⚧️ Trans rights = human rights 🏳️🌈 ♊ Twin Cities ♾️ silly. earnest. heart-bedecked sleeves. definitely ADHD-PI (likely A(u)DHD). former librarian. possibly erstwhile designer/researcher. aspiring bog druid /|\ #pwhl fan (Victoire & Charge)
High stakes day today, so I’m lighting a candle to Athena for big strategy energy. Been out of work since the 1st of the year, and I have a 2 hour interview in 4 hours! I need all the good luck vibes I can get! I really want (and need) this job. 🦉🏺☀️
🧪 Spending my lunch break thinking about Megaloceros giganteus, like the one currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland 📜 www.nms.ac.uk/collections/...
Your astonishing artifact for the week is a crystal clear quartz tool found at a Neanderthal site in France. 🏺🧪
Rock crystal scraper: 45,000-year-old Neanderthal tool that shows they had an 'eye for beauty of form and color'
A chance find of rare rock crystal tools a century ago paved the way for a better understanding of Neanderthals today.
livescience.com
🏺 Look at the ears on this hare! From Late Period Egypt, now at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/237...
Pretty sure I’m gonna get a tattoo of one
Minneapolitan goblin (they/she)@mosscloud.bsky.social · 2d agonewest hyperfixation just dropped
The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About medium.com/regarding-wi... #wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About
A federal docket shows the Foundation retained Littler Mendelson, the firm Starbucks used against its baristas, to face its employees’…
medium.com
'Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows' theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i...
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows
Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.
theintercept.com
There is a difference between humans and ideologies. Trans people are humans. Willingness to sacrifice vulnerable groups to get what you want is part of an ideology. Ideologies are negotiable. Trans people are not.
The shaman of Bad Dürrenberg are the remains of a 25-35 year old woman, who was buried 8600 to 9000 year ago in Germany. Around her, were the remains of an extraordinary head-dress, made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane and turtle.
Oftentimes, the ancient Greek images of myth were inaccurate. For good reason too! The earliest depiction of the Trojan Horse is not photorealistic. There were no windows in it, but this inaccuracy conveys the hidden details that reveal the story of the Greeks inside /3
Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13
They are doing to old books what used to be done mummies and rare animals. "Let's eat this so that we get a unique perspective that does absolutely nothing for the field but means we control the narrative."
Don't forget that Audible is owned by Amazon and you should use @libro.fm instead, which allows you to support an indie bookstore in the process
Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores
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libro.fm
Wrote about the emergence of cultural coffeehouses in the Twin Cities for @racketmn.com yesterday. Check it out!
Racket@racketmn.com · 6d agoDriven by Yemeni and Egyptian businesses, a new kind of coffee shop is spreading through the Twin Cities. racketmn.com/slow-down-cu...
We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis
A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.
theatlantic.com
Ask not for whom the Joe slops, it slops for thee
🏺 Fascinated by this Egyptian shabti which seems to include a tongue sticking out. Currently at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. 📜 www.mfab.hu/artworks/1670/
“Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”
‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis
In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?
theguardian.com
may i present for your edification, the pictish beast and the nebra sky disc in pumpkin moonshine form. i will post pics of them lit up this evening after it gets dark too
“This year Minnesota showed the nation what it means to protect our neighbors in their time of need. Let’s offer that same love and hospitality and care for our unhoused neighbors.”
Opinion | Clearing St. Paul encampments isn’t a real solution to homelessness
"Even when traditional shelter space becomes available, many people will decline. Not because they prefer tents, but because existing options very often cannot safely accommodate their needs," state R...
startribune.com
Sorry, but Spanish olive oil is far superior to Italian ft.trib.al/KtBBFjx
Sorry, but Spanish olive oil is far superior to Italian
One grower makes a case
ft.trib.al
Gift article. More about how DOGE cuts delayed work on a planned firebreak that would have helped areas in Minnesota that are now burning. @teslatakedown.com @teslatakedownmn.bsky.social @mn50501.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social www.startribune.com/report-doge-...
While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen
The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones
thetimes.com
Thys doth deserve to be reposted and sharid widelye!
Jennifer Kretchmer@dreamwisp.bsky.social · last wk.While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
The success of Emily Wilson's translation had nothing to do with Christopher Nolan. The hardcover edition came out 9 years ago and was a huge success. The paperback has been in steady demand since 2018. My store has sold 75 copies (a lot for 1 book for us) and 66 of those were before January.
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
