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29yo female programmer. Well-nourished, well-appearing, and in no acute distress. Terrified of climate change ♨️
I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...
The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center
The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity
burnsfilmcenter.org
I tried a truffle (non-oil) for the first time ever today, and also took a macro(ish) picture of it
I absolutely adore how Emily Wilson's film review is written in the tone of a book review in academia. It's clear she is passionate about her topic and has very strong opinions about it and Im so here for it
@gigercat.bsky.social · last wk.all sexism aside - and while I haven't stumbled on any on my timeline I'm sure there is a bunch - people are mad because she's reviewing it like it is an academic work, and people both familiar and unfamiliar with this absolutely hate the tone academics take with each other.
JUST PUBLISHED! Millais’ painting Christ in the House of his Parents provoked howls of ridicule from critics, including an enraged Charles Dickens. Our latest article analyses what their hostility tells us about Victorian attitudes to religion and art www.artinsociety.com/millais-char...
I wrote a thing! My take on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is up at @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/23/o...
Odysseus at the End of Civilization
Nolan’s film confronts the betrayal of the West’s own values.
foreignpolicy.com
"If we find that civilized nations don’t put their captives to death, don’t destroy city and countryside, it is so because the intellect is more mixed into their practice of war and has taught them more potent means of applying violence than these raw expressions of instinct."
Dead Carl@deadcarl.bsky.social · 2w agoIn light of the war with Iran escalating to targeting desalination plants, I've chosen to look at what Clausewitz wrote on the distinction (or lack thereof) between wars of civilized peoples and those of the "uncivilized." www.deadcarl.com/p/barbarity-...
"it is what it is" is undoubtedly the GOAT thought terminating cliché. nothing else even comes close. it just is what it is
thinking about the "heat wave" photoshoot from vogue taiwan 2022. the photos are visually stunning and emotionally and mentally disturbing. incredible work.
if it saves lives i think it's okay for europeans to invent a slant where they're somehow dunking on americans by installing air conditioners. "you american pigs with your coddled central air systems could never compete with our graceful ductless mini-splits" something along those lines
OK, I have got to hand it to Pokémon, especially if you've ever encountered most 90s English-language localization from Japanese games or other media. Its localization? Incredible, ESPECIALLY for the time. Everything I've ever bemoaned as ridiculous? Ridiculous in the original.
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
GREEN: Hypothetically… And I ain’t saying this for real, but like… hypothetically… If I had to kill a cop, which of these three would be both able and willing. OAK: Squirtle had a type advantage and evolved into a turtle with a gun. GREEN: Fascinating. Continue. OAK: I love teaching young people.
Let’s talk crip/disability tax. This is a concept we use to illustrate the extra costs of surviving that nondisabled people don’t deal with. Let’s use me as an example. In order to keep from dislocating limbs, I need braces, bandages, or splints. Some of these are covered under the NHS, but.
artist: i'll just chisel the tail a bit shorter, noone will notice wikipedia:
The sirens were really a teaching metaphor about honeypots and counterintelligence in a premodern environment send skeet
trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles
"Which is how we have found ourselves locked in an utterly pointless war with Iran, fighting to secure the conditions to fight the next war, which will be fought to preserve the gains of this war, which was to establish a position of superiority in regards to the next one."
The Operational Trap
Like Imperial Japan before us, the United States has substituted tactical and operational planning for strategic thinking.
liberalcurrents.com
The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
It annoys me that AI slop, specifically, has ruined the niche of the quick photoshop joke. Just an utter flood of garbage unleashed by removing the barrier of "spend a couple hours learning how a piece of software works".
i don't think that'll make the result any more precise, but sure
if we’re sharing the best clickhole space articles, this one has brought me to tears multiple times clickhole.com/this-speech-...
![THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 19, 1969
To: H.R. Haldeman
From: William Safire
My fellow Americans,
Good
evening. The astronauts have exploded. Hello. My name is
President Richard Nixon. The crew members of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Neil "Buzz" Armstrong, and Michael "Buzz" Collins, have become dead in space. Something went wacko with the machines, and like many great men before them, Buzz and his husbands exploded.
[NOTE: HOLD FOR APPLAUSE]
While the loss of these brave men is tragic, we should not weep for them, for they understood the risks of a lunar mission.
They knew that space was an area where things go wacko with the machines. We made it clear that if they exploded in space, there was very little hope of putting them back together. I'm sure as their spaceship was erupting into a flaming chamber of death all around them, the astronauts were thinking, "This makes a lot of sense." We can take comfort in that.
Buzz and his husbands did not jump into space because they knew they would succeed. No, they went to space because mankind has an unquenchable thirst for strange new rocks. The moon is brimming with weird stones and boulders, and we want them.
Mankind wants the baffling rocks, and even though these men exploded, we're going to send more men to get the rocks.
I knew these men, and I knew their bravery and courage. On the night before the Apollo 11 spacecraft was launched into space by unknown forces, I came into Neil Armstrong's bedroom and woke him up.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jn2c6bcr5rcwlmfcfn5k37sm/bafkreifnubo4qd4qnru3qvjn2myvuwba7o2ath26u4weslus7yfzhh2rfu)
Mr Too Damn Bueno 🎉@bergoesbueno.bsky.social · 4mo agoOne of the very best from Clickhole
Adorable wooden horses on wheels were pulled around by little ones in the past, too. A timeless reminder that play has been part of the human experience for millennia. From Egypt, Roman period, 30 BC-150 AD. 📷 Julia Thorne/Manchester Museum 🏺
