I have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...

An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times Forgotten

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its ...

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Stop-mo PNGtuber for @foxander.bsky.social in the style of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Foxander messaged me about the idea and it seemed so cool! He sent me drawings and screenshots for the idea I got to work, it took a bit, but I streamed most of the process and am happy with the result! #3dart #vtuber

researchers: every unit of currency we put into this welfare service not only makes the user's life materially better, but returns about 150% of the spending in how it benefits society more broadly. right wing: ok but what if too many people use it though? also "too many" is "more than zero" here

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

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bug is out of the rug, I got commissioned by @theguardian.com to #SciArt illustrate this year's goobies for #InvertebrateOfTheYear there are some really good ones stay tuned! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: the top 10 invertebrates of the year

At last! It’s time for our invertebrate of the year competition as voted for by you. Today, the common woodlouse – come back on Tuesday to find out who else made the top 10

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Petra Korlević@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 6d ago

something exciting coming your way on Monday #BugSky

The wonders of economies of scale, via @akshatrathi.bsky.social: solar just passed 3TW origin.www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... In 2024, @economist.com put "The Dawn of the Solar Age" on its cover: The 3 key ingredients that make it so? Sun, sand, and human imagination, and all three are limitless.

Oh my god Mocha oh my fucking god hahahha look at him

This is kind of funny because one of the things I was pushing around the plate for a WarCrimes Chapter 2 is the idea that Team Rocket has done massive youth outreach by setting kids who aren’t personal family friends with a professor up with pokemon like rattatas and ekans to start out with

Everyone Else's Starter Pokémon

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6 First Nations, Canada and BC signed off on a marine reserve covering 6,700 km² of the Great Bear Sea. Mia-yaltwa Ha’lidzogm hoon (“Realm of the Salmon”) will be co-governed by the Wuikinuxv, Nuxalk, Kitasoo Xai’xais, Heiltsuk, Gitxaała & Gitga’at Nations. buff.ly/rjQGS1G #ShareGoodNewsToo

Central Coast of BC: Mia-yaltwa Ha’lidzogm hoon National Marine Conservation Area Reserve and Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area

The area is critical for community members’ cultural, spiritual and economic well-being, including food security. The establishment of a national marine conservation area reserve (NMCAR) uplifts the…

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Listening to the beach at night in "Boku no Natsuyasumi 2: Umi no Bouken-hen" (Playstation 2, 2002, Millennium Kitchen) #retrogaming #playstation2

What do I manage? The middle. How loud is my volume? 50%. My favorite coffee creamer? Half-and-half. How do I like my steak? Affordable.

todo mundo hoje indo se encontrar na rave do yaoi pra comemorar o yaoi day

I interviewed Studio MAPPA animation director Yuichiro Hayashi, creative producer Yusuke Tannawa, and animation producer Koya Okamura about the production of Dorohedoro season 2, maintaining healthy working conditions, and the company's stance on AI. www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/20...

Studio MAPPA On How Dorohedoro Season Two Came To Be

To say the wait between Dorohedoro's first and second seasons was rough on fans would be an understatement. For years, fans worried that MAPPA's gloriously...

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The strip of land that once divided East and West Germany is now one of the country’s richest habitats. The 1,400 km Green Belt holds 7,500 recorded insect and spider species, 580 of them threatened, plus otters, wildcats and whinchats. buff.ly/q6CxPWm #ShareGoodNewsToo

East-West border death zone now Germany's biodiversity oasis

Many endangered species now live in the area that once formed the border between East and West Germany. Environment Minister Carsten Schneider recently visited the "Green Belt," and DW went along for…

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An AI dares to dream she is human. You've been hired to put her in her place. We made 1000xRESIST and this our next game: Prove You're Human. s.team/a/4533950

We currently live in a world in which the state is locking up people as "terrorists" for being involved in a book club and in which tech oligarchs are literally shredding books to convince you that you no longer need to read long-form works.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

The Missouri AG threatened Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia with total defunding and investigations if they read books with LGBTQ+ themes to kids in a Pride story hour. They did so anyway. Our latest story from s. Baum of one library's defiance against an oppressive Republican regime.

Missouri Library Defiantly Holds LGBTQ Story Hour Despite Funding and Legal State Threats

“This isn’t isolated to Missouri. It doesn’t end here if we don’t stop it here.”

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15MIN's back and he brought you something from the store

Sneaks only accepts one baby, the Big Bowser Baby

No one is so "strong" that they can't become disabled. Not even dragons. It was time to tell a different story about our monsters. Happy two-weekiversary to my little book, THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Dragon Has Some Complaints

"The dragon may have some complaints, but readers won't. By turns silly, sweet, and subversive, this novel has all of Wiswell's characteristic blend of tension and heart." —Caitlin Rozakis, New York T...

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"Hong, Wisconsin’s first Asian-American state legislator, is solidly on the side calling for a vast expansion of government into virtually every corner of life, from free child care and mass transit to publicly run grocery stores and the elimination of all college debt." www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

A Democratic Socialist Bartender Rattles Party Elite in Run for Wisconsin Governor

Far-left candidate Francesca Hong leads polling in the state, which delivered the narrowest 2024 presidential outcome.

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*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

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Aboriginal rangers have wiped invasive fire ants off an Australian island. After 22 years, the Tiwi Rangers have eradicated tropical fire ants from Melville Island, hunting and baiting nests one by one. The ants had been eating turtle hatchlings and nesting birds. buff.ly/MYFv9ok #ShareGoodNewsToo

Tiwi rangers eradicate invasive tropical fire ants in Australia’s Melville Island

DERBY, Australia — While Spanish sailors packed in dirt to stabilize the bottom of ships sailing from the Americas in the 16th century, they were unaware that they were also helping tiny stowaways…

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Austen’s books popularised after her death by the publisher Richard Bentley … who was also Charles Dickens’ enemy after their success publishing Oliver Twist! This was Dickens’ comment on the man he called ‘the Burlington Street Brigand’ #booksky

Dr. Emily Friedman@friede.bsky.social · last wk.

ALSO if you want more info on how Austen becomes Austen, THE MAKING OF JANE AUSTEN by @devoney.bsky.social is a banger (I aspire to be like Devoney when I grow up) And if you’re trying to make sense of the £ measuringworth.com is your friend.

As posted in a few servers and was alerted to this picture earlier today: What they said. DO NOT FILL IT OUT, it is there to fuck with your artist peers and yourself, they (paypal) can and will abuse this and steal your money by banning your account

WitchOfAvalon🔞@witchofavalon.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices. If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.

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