You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

theguardian.com

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

this Democrat is now allowed to text me asking for money

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 23h ago

Lon Burnam, a former state lawmaker representing Tarrant County from 1997 to 2015, was carried out of the room by four sheriff deputies, who held him by his hands and feet: fortworthreport.org/2026/08/04/t...

Friends who are a decade younger than me: Why is everything from the 80s like… that? Me: Cocaine.

Retro Commercial Screens@retro-commercials.bsky.social · yesterday

The Trix rabbit emerging from a realistic human skin suit is maybe the most insane thing I've ever come across while running this account. Just absolutely unhinged marketing.

The annual Worldbuilder’s Book Club hosted by @quartzen.bsky.social on StoryGraph is fantastic for finding deep dives on this stuff. app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal... (Textiles. It should be textiles.)

David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · last wk.

To write in the classic high fantasy mould, you need not be hung up on food specifically, but there must be SOME very mundane thing you're sincerely interested in and prepared to describe in excruciating detail every time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.

I’m gonna say virtually all authors need to get serious about textiles. Who is weaving them? Out of what? Who’s turning them into clothes and how much does it cost and do you have any idea how HARD all of that was before modern mills

David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · last wk.

To write in the classic high fantasy mould, you need not be hung up on food specifically, but there must be SOME very mundane thing you're sincerely interested in and prepared to describe in excruciating detail every time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

Thinking of that tweet re:everyone in academia knows a 60yo woman only known by her 1st name, who actually runs the dept/uni. (Which is almost at an anarchist understanding: not "make Dolores president" but "many Doloreses, no president" and "how can you Dolores too") +

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos

Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.

inverse.com

T-shirt please

Bits@bitshammer.bsky.social · 7d ago

there is such a hunger for beautiful editions of romance classics and folks could be out there literally just swimming in gold like Scrooge McDuck, but we're still trying to convince half the indie bookstores they even want to carry romance without insulting customers who ask about it.

what is the most famous/bestselling modern arthuriana novel authored by a woman (and not counting Mists of Avalon)? what comes to mind?

May I just say that being a teenager in this era was INSANE.

Logan Dean@logandean.games · last wk.

No one has ever looked cooler than this

In a world where the Folio Society will sell you a $100 edition of Batman comics — a genre which also used to be coded as ephemeral trash for young readers with no taste — it is *absurd* that the only place to find a fancy edition of romance classic Lord of Scoundrels is on Kickstarter:

JQ Editions: Julia Quinn's Curated Romance Book Box

A Julia Quinn subscription book box celebrating her favorite historical romances, newly published as elegant special editions!

kickstarter.com

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

A professional project manager who effortlessly juggles multiple conflicting deadlines, deliverables and dependencies in her day-to-day work has a private life so shambolic it is functionally indistinguishable from that of a labrador turned into a human woman by a witch.

AuDHD project manager excels at work, fails disastrously at life

A professional project manager who effortlessly juggles multiple conflicting deadlines, deliverables and dependencies in her day-to-day work has a private life so shambolic it is functionally…

thedailytism.com

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David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2w ago

Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.

I first saw this referred to in a post by @older.bsky.social, and had to click through a couple levels deep to find the article, and when I saw the preview pic I gasped. There are so many things wrong with this plan, but “blond sexbot teaching Native American kids” is up there.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school

My whole community has sort of silently self-organized to shun the one cyber truck owner in our midst. Gives me a little hope, you know?

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 2w ago

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

I was already all in for Ride or Die, and then they gave us great art history jokes. (More than one!) Best show is best. 🥰

Tʀᴇʏ Gᴏᴇsʜ.@tgoesh.bsky.social · 2w ago

I feel like I need to make sure that @theradr.bsky.social knows that the Judith in this show is named after *that* Judith.

In Tennessee, farmers open the gate to a small solar farm and find cows and calves grazing on the grass, resting beneath the panels, and helping keep them clean while they generate electricity

In Tennessee, farmers open the gate to a small solar farm and find cows and calves grazing on the grass, resting beneath the panels, and helping keep them clean while they generate electricity

In Tennessee, farmers open the gate to a small solar farm and find cows and calves grazing on the grass, resting beneath the panels, helping keep them clean.

ecoportal.net

This feels grimly accurate. I think for most people, engagement with the party feels like getting on Temu’s mailing list: Just a neverending stream of spam asking for cash and no other meaningful call to be part of anything that might generate any sense of identity or community.

Feild@feild.work · 2w ago

There's nothing to "join" in the Democratic Party. It's a brand with products I spend my vote on once a year at the democracy store. Most people's experience of it is an endless stream of texts that read like scams, their reward for donating or signing a petition. No wonder DSA is growing

Between this and the discovery that solar panel shade can actually _increase_ certain crop yields, people are discovering that there are truly extraordinary opportunities to make better use of the earth's surface area with solar panels. There's so much power waiting to be harnessed!

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Chilean salmon farm now draws about 57% of its power from panels laid over the water, cutting roughly 136,000 litres of diesel a year and silencing the generators. With the noise gone, thousands of salmon have gathered in the shade beneath the arrays. Ecoportal buff.ly/CwczkbP #ShareGoodNewsToo

One of the things I really liked about this show is that the two leads love each other *so* much and it's never romantic. (Yes, I know there's going to be a ton of fanfic where they're romantically in love, because that's the law of fanfic.)

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2w ago

YES, CORRECT, GOOD JOB TEAM. WATCH MORE FASTER NOW

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

thank you 😊 for anyone interested in the histories of trans and nonbinary people in the middle ages, I have an open access article which lays out the evidence. since I published it three years ago there's been even more cases coming to the attention of historians academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...

The Trans Middle Ages: Incorporating Transgender and Intersex Studies into the History of Medieval Sexuality*

Abstract. This article reviews recent work on trans and intersex history in the European Middle Ages, locating it within the established historiography on

academic.oup.com

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