They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d ago

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

Virtue signaling is good and we’d all be better off if there was more of it

The great historian Robert A. Gross, author of the prize-winning, The Minutemen and Their World, has written a historically-informed, nuanced rejoinder to J.D. Vance’s use of U.S. history as a tool of blood-and-soil nationalism. theamericanscholar.org/gratitude-is...

Gratitude Isn’t Everything - The American Scholar

The revolutionary Patriots owed much to their forefathers, but their fight for universal rights embraced a wider mission

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This is how they mow the wildflower meadow at King’s College!

Half the discourse this summer has been about the Second World War and half about Homeric Greece but yes there’s clearly no future for students trained in history

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

From the mouths of teens: “States should provide AI literacy as soon as students get access to classroom devices; AI use should be banned on all graded tests; and teachers can require an oral defense of any project from a student suspected of using AI inappropriately.” www.npr.org/2026/07/30/n...

Adults have struggled to set rules for AI in school. These teens figured it out

Should students be allowed to use AI on assignments? What about on tests? Who should teach AI literacy? About 100 teenagers got together to try to decide.

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I have zero opinions about who should be the 2028 nominee at this point (you have to finish your 2026 midterm before you can have dessert) but I am all for normalizing the idea that the fight needs to be about how many seats we're adding to SCOTUS and what channel we air the corruption trials on

We have taken four train trips so far this summer, and three of them so far have had a leg canceled (today’s flavor: the fast trains from Kings Cross to Cambridge all wiped out by a problem with the electric wires)

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

At the point one has to ask whether there is a bad cause these right wing people don’t support? The Confederacy, Nazism, pandemic disease, high infant and child mortality, malnutrition, illiteracy — they prefer all of these and more to the better alternatives

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d ago

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

There were 27,391 new UK solar installations in June 2026, the second highest monthly installations volume on record, adding 132 MW of capacity And we've got plug-in solar coming at the end of August! www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/31/u...

UK solar capacity hits 22.8 GW as market prepares for plug-in launch - pv magazine Global

The UK added over 2 GW of solar capacity in the 12 months to the end of June 2026. With new plug-in solar regulations soon to take effect, a UK wholesaler boss tells pv magazine plug-in solar is a gre...

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It is indeed!

@newadrian.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just opened a long laid down bottle of 2008 Gevrey Chambertin in honour of my son’s imminent 18th birthday and it is rather good.

The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.

Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment

The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.

erininthemorning.com

The chronological setting of the Odyssey really is, effectively, 'nowhen.' It is absolutely set in the past, but not in a specific, dateable past. Present tense (for Homer) stuff shows up, truly ancient s*** (for Homer) shows up. Also giants, monsters, giant monsters and straight-up divinities.

ODYSSEUS: so then I had a brilliant idea, I’d tell him my name is Nobody CHOTINER: nobody? ODYSSEUS: Yes! So when he was blinded later, he’d yell “nobody has hurt me” and no neighbors would help! And it worked! We got away with it! CHOTINER: but then you did tell him your name ODYSSEUS: yeah

CHOTINER: did you know who his dad was when you started to taunt him? ODYSSEUS: no, I should have guessed some god but I figured I was protected by Athena and it would probably be fine if I mocked him CHOTINER: Remind me, what is Athena the goddess of? ODYSSEUS: wisdom… look, can we move on?

Blue stripes on dish towels have apparently been around for a v v long time.

I just saw the movie and really enjoyed it — but it is using the plot of the Odyssey to tell a story which bears no relation to the themes of Homer’s poem

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows@rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 2w ago

Apocalypse Troy: Nolan's Odyssey and the End of Civilization – Antigone antigonejournal.com/2026/07/nola...

This is beautiful. 10/10 no notes, they should have been given free tickets

Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith@mewefree.bsky.social · 2w ago

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

If they have to play a game that doesn’t matter, then “gloriously bonkers with ten goals” is EXACTLY the way to do it.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

If only there had been some sign that parking the bus for 35 minutes wouldn’t work against these guys

Lev Akabas@levakabas.bsky.social · 3w ago

Argentina 🇦🇷, amazingly, has scored the majority of its goals after the 80th minute in this World Cup (Stoppage time goals plotted at 90' for simplicity)

If Argentina keep kicking people like this, an England player will be sent off.

We traveled from Oxford to Portsmouth by train today, the day before England will play in the World Cup semifinals. I doubt I saw more than a dozen England flags, a huge change from earlier years. Not, I’d bet, what the so-called patriots who tried to claim it were aiming for.

I do not believe democracy is compatible with billionaires being able to spend unlimited amounts of money on politics.

1 in 6 people in the UK were born abroad. Yet we almost never feature in discussions about immigration; rather, a significant part of the media and politicians spend each day debating ever more extreme ways to make our life difficult or how to kick us out of the country. It's not a good feeling.

Today is gonna be the day when they’re gonna throw it back to you, in return, you bring on Dan Burn, because he’s about 9 foot 2

oh for the love of exhibit 39248320 why when someone has a Nazi tattoo, you don't need to wait and see what else is behind the tattoo!

I cannot stress this enough: if your ideology is incapable of assimilating the fact that the American experiment has, thus far, succeeded in remarkable and world-historic fashion, you gotta chuck it and start over. That goes for the anti-immigration bigots as much as the hard Marxists.