Coming summer 2027: Jason Momoa and Jason Mantzoukas in a buddy comedy of 'Epic' proportions: Gilgamesh and Enkidu.

My primary goal for my next five years of reading will be to bring that 66% down to a less embarrassing 50% - and to try to make sure that, if I must read something by a pom or a seppo, it will at least not be written by a white person.

Simon Farley@sighmonger.bsky.social · 2d ago

Since early 2014, I have read 439 books. Of those, ~289 - about two-thirds - were written by British or USian authors. Of that 66%, only 7% (~21 books) were written by people of colour. This makes me sad.

Since early 2014, I have read 439 books. Of those, ~289 - about two-thirds - were written by British or USian authors. Of that 66%, only 7% (~21 books) were written by people of colour. This makes me sad.

I like the alchemy at work in posts like this where someone takes a mid idea for a post (lead) and surrounds it with a meta-post, thus turning it into a good post overall (gold)

wargen@funeralpig.bsky.social · 2d ago

cop: did he send any texts around the time of the crash? cop 2: he sent a post that reads "padding my three track album with 26 skits and interludes" cop: not bad but it ain't going viral cop 2: posting isn't just about going viral cop: (sighs) not this shit again

Is it just me or is the jasmine in Melbourne flowering early this year?

I'm being hatecrimed by Spotify rn

Fascinating - Mesolithic hunter-gatherers were populating upland lakes with brown trout. There are some species in Ireland that may have been brought in too, eg a small, cuddly bear cub is easy to transport in a boat … and how did red deer get here in the end?

Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 3d ago

Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 'The introduction of fish to the Scandinavian mountains by hunter-fisher-gatherers 5000 BC' - Axel Mjærum, Ellen K. Friis, Trygve Hesthagen & Andreas J. Kirchhefer doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 13/13 🧵

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

I'm seeing nostalgia for How I Met Your Mother creeping into the zeitgeist and I don't like it.

Time to offer this seminar again I see.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d ago

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

We still have the cultural image that actual Nazis were defeated in the 1940's, and the remaining Nazis are either unemployed basement-dwellers or fringe militias in Idaho. There is still a reluctance by media and business leaders to say openly that the world's wealthiest person is a Nazi.

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · last wk.

The ongoing Musk nazi tweets just have me wondering if corporate boards are even a thing anymore

Just realised the emergency warning test on everybody's phone is going to happen during my lecture 🙃

Gonna start explaining Northern Hemisphere animals with reference to Australian ones. You see, a "badger" (BA-jah) is like a cross between a wombat and a Tasmanian devil.

He would get in sooooooo much trouble from Hindu nationalists, it would probably be the last film he ever made... But maybe worth it?

Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 2w ago

I desperately want the Christopher Nolan film adaptation of the Ramayana. This is now on the table

people thought i was joking but universal basic pub/cafe

What I don't get, even from an Evangelical perspective, is what's so intrinsically bad about lust? Like just feel the feeling and don't act upon it? Men will talk a big game about discipline and then act like sexual self-control is metaphysically impossible.

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2w ago

foolproof 👍

Worth adding some numbers to this. The British press decided to make trans rights into an issue. It just wasn’t an issue before. This was a top-down decision. shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

Damon Young@damonyoung.com.au · 2w ago

Every now and then, it’s worth saying what ought to be obvious: trans people have always existed, and will exist as long as humans do. They’ve not done anything wrong by wanting their existence recognised, supported, and celebrated. The transformation of their existence into “an issue” is evil.

it's sooo funny that the marvel movies eventually replicated the exact thing people disliked about the comics and preferred the movies for: overstuffed event crossovers that intimidate readers, demand you look at a whole bunch of other shit to know the story, and don't even tell a good story

Fun fact: While Jews made up less than 1% of the population of Argentina, they comprised up to 12% of those disappeared during the Dirty War, due to the antisemitism of the right-wing junta and the association of Jews with leftism. More Jews were killed in the Argentine Dirty War than on 10/7/2023.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yes, Argentina, that country that has famously never dabbled in antisemitism, unlike Spain. Just don't ask the people in Javier Milei's government where all of their ancestors came from and why.

great news: birds are probably having fun up there

John MacNeill Miller@snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Do Birds Enjoy Flying?” study suggests that birds do, in fact, seem to enjoy flying

The thing about JKR and telling folks not to buy Harry Potter shit is it isn't because we think it can take away her fortune and platform. She's so rich she would still be rich if she never sold another book It is because it is literally the smallest possible hurdle to clear to value trans lives

Two contrasting headlines from the ABC today. It is wrong to put antisemitism and Islamophobia into a hierarchy - they're both real and potent forces in our society. But we probably should distinguish between white people feeling anxious and sad and brown people getting bashed in the streets.

He perfected acting with CGI years before Ian McKellen was crying about it

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3w ago

Best “remove glasses to look at something unbelievable” in cinema history.

“As Tony Abbott – one of its main architects – explained in the conservative journal Quadrant … [the Ramsay Centre] would be ‘not merely about Western civilisation, but in favour of it’.” overland.org.au/2019/03/univ...

Simon Farley@sighmonger.bsky.social · 3w ago

Frankly, I'm gutted by this announcement. This is laying down a red carpet for Western chauvinists and white supremacists. I will be desperately searching for a new academic job next year, but I would never be able to bring myself to apply for one of these. www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...

Frankly, I'm gutted by this announcement. This is laying down a red carpet for Western chauvinists and white supremacists. I will be desperately searching for a new academic job next year, but I would never be able to bring myself to apply for one of these. www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...

University of Melbourne launches transformative Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation Scholarship in the Humanities

Faculty of Arts students at the University of Melbourne will benefit from one of the most generous undergraduate scholarships in Australia through the establishment of the Ramsay Centre for Western Ci...

unimelb.edu.au

Not sure if anyone's heard this but the Sydney Metro is really good.

Had a dream last night that confirmed that Max Gawn and Broden Kelly are kinda the same guy in my mind