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Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

This is the Amnesty International report on the anti-rights groups. These anti-rights groups have immediately engaged in lawfare to bury this report. *be a shame if people kept sharing it. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 3w ago

Amnesty International has expressed its 'regret' over a report naming dozens of gender-critical campaign groups as 'anti-rights' organisations

in tagalog, instead of saying “whatever happens happens” we say “bahala na si batman” which loosely translates to “let batman handle it” and i think that’s beautiful

A must-read from UCLA law prof Dave Marcus, who was actually in the room when it happened. www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/05/mean...

Ugh, I hate the Brazilian Wax Steakhouse. I always order the striploin, but I end up with the tenderloin. And don’t even ask me about the pulled pork.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What if there was a Brazilian wax steakhouse

Holy shit (reposting with Alt Text)

Mike Feher@saxmike71.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Same energy:

Fern Or Be Careful What You Wish for A Cautionary Tail

If you’re against DEI, you’re a segregationist and I’m tired of folks, for the sake of politeness and naïveté, pretending the discussion is anything but that.

Yf thys skeet doth receive 3,000 reposts then the Tolkien Estate will sue Palantir.

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Harebrained@harebrained.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy Earth Day.

Lose the M and ruin a book: The Case Book of Sherlock Holes

Hugh Jones@hbsj.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Lose the M and ruin a book: Far from the Adding Crowd

Lose the M and ruin a book: The Silence of the Labs

Hugh Jones@hbsj.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Lose the M and ruin a book: Far from the Adding Crowd

Trust me, you'll want to give this a read:

The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche

Another dark day for DOJ.

lawdork.com

Ich did not make thys, but Ich wisshe Ich did. Repost yf you are a proud member of the Gen AI Backlash.

This is one of the best studies I have seen on campus antisemitism, and it does not fully support either the "all campus antisemitism is a right-wing false flag to shut down protest" or "Jews have it so much worse on campus than other minorities" narratives. forward.com/news/818719/...

Jews and other minorities face similar levels of campus hostility, Brandeis survey finds

The first academic survey assessing experiences nationally finds that Jewish, Black and Muslim students all face comparable negative attitudes from peers

forward.com

Very good video that adds some important context to the Supreme Court stuff from yesterday

Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

This is super-broad, but for me, a core appeal of genre fiction, especially SFF, is that characters have a real chance to change their world in a big, meaningful way. The Empire can be defeated, the Ring can be destroyed, the lost kingdom can be restored, the broken people can be healed.

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer@princejvstin.com · 4mo ago

Perhaps some WHOLESOME SFF discourse given last weekend? I found out recently that a friend of mine, *not* of this parish, has a thing for amnesia subplots in stories. So my question for you, what tropes particularly wet your whistle, particularly in SFF?

The plays and poems of William Shakespeare were written by William Shakespeare. There is no mystery about this, and no conspiracy. Nobody alive at the time or for 200 years afterward had any doubts or questions about this.

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?

I’ve got a joke about Penelope, but I can never quite get to the

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 5mo ago

I've got a joke about the Ship of Theseus, but it's just not the same anymore

Please read.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6mo ago

i love to do a little joke but in reality things are challenging and I have been navigating some really challenging mental health issues after years of abuse, conversion therapy, and corrective rape– this pride month if you would like to help me get closer to my service dog goal that would be so rad

George@hannahtempler.com · last yr.

hey i'm gonna start posting about this more again, with about 6 months left and a little over halfway to go

As someone currently teaching Gender and Sexuality in YA Literature, I would love it if you supported Melissa who was fired for talking about Gender in Children’s Literature

Emily Pitts Donahoe@empittsdonahoe.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

theatlantic.com

*ezra klein guy voice* The problem with the left is that they've lost the willingness to speak reasonably with their opponents, such as this guy I interviewed recently who easily conned me into supporting eugenics

"You do not need the strongest powers of observation to see that crime is a pretext — and not the main reason — for the military occupation of Washington by federal agents and soldiers from the National Guard."

Opinion | What Trump Is Really Up to in Washington

nytimes.com

On July 8, from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. the House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology will host an event titled, "The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants". Researchers will present their work canceled by the Trump administration. 🧪 nasawatch.com/congress/con...

Congressional Event: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants

The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.

nasawatch.com