This must be a mars rover selfie because who is taking that picture 👽
Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 34m agoCURIOSITY HAS BEEN ON MARS FOR 14 YEARS!! HAPPY LANDIVERSARY CURIOSITY!!
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Movie collector for ~39 yrs: Pre-Code love. Dead--but I'm not dead yet--language familiarity. Demi-horticulturalist. Car-free commuting since 1977; internal combustion is loud. Forever masker. Will write Alt Text for food.
Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 34m ago
Out of the garages of teenagers.
'A hypnotic effect that fills you with joy': The incredible story of 96 Tears, the US's unlikeliest one-hit wonder
In 1966, a Mexican-American teen band made one of the great smash-hit singles and helped invent garage rock, a genre that has inspired artists for decades.
bbc.com
Looking forward to the glut on Abebooks etc for summer '27. Kidding, I hope the thrill sticks and inspires more adaptations in print and video and art. Glad I held on to my Oxford Greek Lexicon!
Nolan’s film could make The Odyssey the most sought-after book in the US
The nearly 2,700-year-old epic poem is flying off shelves at bookstores and libraries after the blockbuster film came out
theguardian.com
Is Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Homer’s Odyssey? Dr Calum Maciver, Senior Lecturer in Classics (Greek Imperial and Late Antique Literature), has some thoughts… On our blog: edin.ac/4fzsuxJ #History #Classics #Archaeology #TheOdyssey #Homer #TheOdyssey #Odysseus #GreekMythology
is there some future competitive advantage with college admissions if you deafened your child to Ludwig Göransson
Extracts edited by @arusbridger.bsky.social free to read from @prospectmagazine.co.uk June 2022 edition. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/3871...
“The idea of children in this country starving seems absurd”
When the pandemic hit, Stu Hennigan volunteered to distribute food to the poorest households in Leeds. Here is his raw, honest account of the scandalo...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Stu Hennigan@stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3d agoRe: renewed #COVID discourse, those who need a refresher How Shit Went Down in the UK are reminded i wrote a real time, frontline, community-based keyworker account that was shortlisted for 2 x big national literary awards and got me into events talking w/MPs etc uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @durham.ac.uk Durham is proper photogenic; this view isn't bad but is it really the best they could have chosen? If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
PHOTO OF THE DAY. Frying Pan Alley, Spitalfields, London (1902) 📷 Jack London
The House of Bourbon led to the prohibition of French kings.
Convergent evolution is awesome. Like there's no actual phylum called "trees," different lines just keep inventing growing way too freaking big.
I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠
Oppressors always try to trivialize the harm they are doing. It's part of the gaslighting.
omg some delicious history of the pricing "gun." Never a dull moment with @tedium.co
Why Pricing Guns Stuck Around After The Barcode
In the showdown between barcodes and manually placed price tags, the pricing gun should have lost. But states, unions, and consumer advocates kept it around.
tedium.co
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
‘A symbol of resistance’: the fight to save treehouse built on no man’s land next to Berlin Wall
Supporters fear structure could be torn down as safety hazard and want it to become memorial to postwar foreign labourers in honour of its Turkish creator
theguardian.com
Jurassic Park: The Victorian Remake: Crystal Palace dinosaurs developed via Lamarckianism where a rich coal magnate recreates dinosaurs by selectively breeding lizards in steam heated enclosures in the Jura. Eventually they escape, rampaging through London until an early snow freezes them to death.
February 1889. "With a phone at my ear, I have heard Mr. Edison’s phonograph read off a page of Nicholas Nickleby so clearly that not one word in twenty was lost; the phonograph’s voice was as distinct and as loud as that of a telephone in good working order." #GiftArticle🎁
The New Talking Machines
A noted architect and writer commends Thomas Edison for his progress in developing the phonograph and predicts great things for its future.
theatlantic.com
Strange but, in the past two days, I have had three really positive things happen to me and I'm in mini shock over how bizarre and unexpected that feels.
My bad feelings around Covid is the realization that profits over lives was a thing and they truly feel no obligation at all to pretend to care about any of our survival- but I’ve talked with a LOT of healthcare professionals and THEY- are dealing with a level of trauma I’ve only seen-
CVS added a Signs and Symbols of National Decline aisle
MAGA has shattered the social compact that allowed them to live in their fantasy world alongside their liberal neighbors. They are awakening a society that invented nuclear weapons the last time it was pushed this far. I don’t know exactly what is coming, but it’s coming.
lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸@whiskeynachos.bsky.social · last wk.Don’t let your liberal Grandma watch that Fauci hearing unless she has a strong heart. It’s red mist fury inducing.
Because Mitchell Leisen directed only one noir, his name doesn’t come up much at #TheNoirCollective. @vanstanwyck.bsky.social invited me to count down MY 6 FAVORITE LEISEN FILMS. I’m omitting #NoManOfHerOwn to avoid spoilers, but it would sit at #4. Please weigh in with your own favorites. 😊
