I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.

Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · yesterday

Turns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Moorlands and forests in the Cairngorms, in the Scottish Highlands, have fallen victim to the rapidly spreading wildfires in Europe. “If you have lost a 250- or 300-year-old Caledonian pine, you are not going to get that back overnight,” the chief executive of the Cairngorms National Park said.

As Wildfires Plague Europe, Scotland Races to Save a Cherished National Park

As Europe’s climate warms, even moorlands and forests in the Cairngorms, in the Scottish Highlands, have fallen victim to rapidly spreading flames.

nyti.ms

Maybe we should all buy books. Any books, I don't care. (I mean, buy mine, but this isn't about me.) Visit an antique store. Go on Abebooks.com. Buy anything that looks interesting and old. Have a personal physical library. Save them for humanity while you can.

Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · last wk.

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

This was the explainer I’ve been wanting to read about the current moment. It includes this absurdity: “OpenAI is worth more than Eli Lilly, JPMorgan Chase, Visa, Costco, Exxon Mobil, Wells Fargo, CVS Health, McDonald’s, and Boeing.” Absolutely ridiculous

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

Tech companies need to generate huge revenues fast—or the economy could be in trouble, @annielowrey.bsky.social argues:

Last Friday, DHS capped internat. students' stay at 4 years. But a physics PhD takes 6+ years. "It's going to make people around the world start questioning whether...to get a higher-level education in the U.S.," one student told me. My May story on their perspective: www.aps.org/apsnews/2026...

Amid visa uncertainty, international students look for support

Proposed changes to the duration of status policy would affect many students and scholars. To raise awareness, five shared their stories.

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my latest in Global Catholic "Peter Thiel’s antichrists, Pope Leo, and the new arms race" www.globalcatholic.com/peter-thiels...

Peter Thiel’s antichrists, Pope Leo, and the new arms race - Global Catholic

The criticism against Pope Leo reveals a growing clash between the Vatican's vision of human dignity and a new ideology emerging from Silicon Valley, where technology, geopolitics, and religion are be...

globalcatholic.com

Oh yes, I like this

Matthew Dow Smith@matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 2w ago

Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.

Out: Messi In: Messier www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... 🔭🧪

My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...

The Odyssey

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Acclaimed actress Claire Danes burnishes an epic story of heroes, gods, and monsters in a groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey, the first great adventure story in the Western literary tradition. When the wily warrior-king Odysseus sets off for home ...

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Among the documents released by the White House tonight is this claim that Colorado's voter registration rolls were "compromised" by China. Colorado's voter registration rolls are public records. You can order a copy here: www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/electio...

I'M DYING OVER HERE 💀💀💀 THE CAT GOT AI SCAM EMAIL 🐈 Aeschylus, our orange tabby, got an obviously AI email about selling more copies of the Oresteia on A**zon

Ha ha yes, but also, if we're not allowed to call this agency then what really is the point of the word

🦋 Frankie 🦋@frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 3w ago

We laugh in the face of cattlegrids 🐑

Will a space rock choose to grace you — or your roof — with its presence? We should all be so lucky! No, this is not a joke about, you know, 2026. Meteorites are just cool ☄️

Lisa Grossman@astrolisa.bsky.social · 3w ago

I asked the first author of this study what he'd say to someone who is scared of a meteorite falling on their house, and he said "Don't be! It's a treasure! It's an honor!" 😬☄️🔭🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/new-...

I asked the first author of this study what he'd say to someone who is scared of a meteorite falling on their house, and he said "Don't be! It's a treasure! It's an honor!" 😬☄️🔭🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/new-...

The 2024 New York City meteorite contains amino acids

The brine-formed meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey roof in 2024 could teach us about how life first arrived on Earth.

sciencenews.org

Every time this goes around I’m stunned that there are still people who’ve never seen it, this performance is to drag what the Mona Lisa is to paintings, but maybe you’ve never seen the Mona Lisa, so today is the day you shall behold it

Eric Ansley Díaz@geekboyeric.bsky.social · 4w ago

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

I genuinely can’t believe this is really happening. We need the night. This is some of the most dystopian stuff I have ever seen in my entire life.

Meredith Rawls@merrdiff.bsky.social · 4w ago

Thanks, I *do* hate it www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-app...

Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...

The federal government told the Klamath Tribes they weren't a "salmon tribe" because dams wiped out their fish 100+ years ago. So the Yurok Tribe applied for the $5.9M grant & passed the funds through. This is Indigenous solidarity in action. www.hcn.org/articles/the...

The Klamath Tribes couldn’t get federal dollars for salmon. Then the Yurok stepped in - High Country News

For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from funding sources to fix that.

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This new image from #JWST is AWESOME. This is the Centaurus A galaxy seen in mid-infrared light. At the centre of this galaxy, which is 11–13 million lightyears away, is a supermassive black hole that's 55 million times the mass of our Sun. Neato!

Whatever Platner did or didn’t do, pay attention to how quickly conversations about sexual and physical violence against women turn into “aw shucks” meditations on second chances in a way almost no other harms do. What you frame as deserving of grace tells me who you believe should absorb the cost.

Independent Human (Chuck)@independenthuman.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm sorry we don't all come off like chocolate covered strawberries to everyone. I guess I am more willing to give people a second chance than most. Guess that makes me a terrible person.

Unfortunately the interior West wildfire outbreak has continued to intensify under "extremely critical" fire weather conditions today and record-dry vegetation in some areas. Existing fires have re-intensified, and there are 2 new fires of particular concern in Colorado. [Thread]

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

WGAE-Scientific American Union Statement on Springer Nature’s Sale and Layoffs | Press Room

The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: “Earlier today in an all-staff meeting we ...

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It's tough seeing others live out your dream 🐶🌭

This is the most honest AI explainer I’ve ever read. Via @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

Lynn was so kind to me when I was a 20-something Colorado politics reporter and I wanted to be just like her. Denver and Colorado political media will never be the same without her.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lynn Bartels was one of a kind. A quick mind and razor wit. Generous to other journalists with her institutional knowledge of Colorado politics - or to give kudos or a corrective. As a young reporter, I watched her call BS on politicians to their face and aspired to be like her.

This story is WILD

Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social · 2mo ago