"this is a successful blockbuster that has helped ignite an admirable interest in the classics, but as an expert I personally would have been ashamed to write it and couldn't fully enjoy it" is not the unhinged rant some people accused it of being
dr. mykle hoban
@thefishbotherer.bsky.social
A dedicated follower of fishes. Technical diving, mesophotic reefs, and biodiversity at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. (he/they)
Linear A Indus Valley/Harappan script
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
(Don LaFontaine voice): "In a world where plums are cold and delicious, one person decides to break all the rules..."
being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.
These are cool as hell. Especially since I just found these living brachiopods in Whangaumu Bay, Aotearoa.
Kiabugboy@kiabugboy.bsky.social · 2w agoSphaerirhynchia #brachiopod #3danimation #Blender3D #SciArt #paleoart
"I use chatgpt as a search engine" "I use minesweeper as a website browser" "I use the lego pirate ship when I want to boil an egg"
Or in other words: Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.
Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 3w agono one wants to consider my insane pitch which is to eliminate timezones across the planet so we’re all on the exact same time and force everyone to change their conception of what a day is
I think hotel rooms in general (and this very much includes the bathrooms) tend to be designed by People Who Have Never Slept (or Bathed) in A Room.
Meg Rowley@megrowler.fangraphs.com · 4w agoNo one doing more consistently unhinged work than the folks who design hotel showers. Containing the water to the shower itself? The lowest priority, have a half wall. The tile? The slipperiest imaginable, and just no regard for those who might have to shave their legs. Bunch of maniacs.
In honor of the anniversary of his death, please enjoy this portrait of me done by Giuseppe Arcimboldo in 1566. 🐟🐠🦑
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
I can’t even articulate the feeling of seeing a US mayor’s official statement end with “abolish ICE.” (tho he really really shouldn’t have to) As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social always says, I think we’re going to win.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4w ago
I will take back every rude thing I have ever said about England if Count Binface beats Nigel Farage in the by-election
The joy of remembering you can just re-read THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN if you want to
More to my fields - I want the college presidents who have gone all in on AI to lose their jobs and never work in higher ed again.
The physical abuse of children by adult men is an actual plank of all right-wing political thought, a thing they believe in strongly and govern to enable, not just something thousands of them happen to do. Fascism is a politics of violent mastery and no one's easier to do that to than a child.
Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · last yr.NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
The function of this scheme is to provide the resource extraction industry cover to destroy the last remaining habitats of endangered species, with a fig leaf of "we saved some DNA". It is corrupt, and tragic.
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · last mo.The US government is entering a partnership to store frozen cells and other biological samples from endangered and threatened species with Colossal, a private company best known for claiming to "de-extinct" dire wolves. Story by me & @catrineinhorn.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Rzhfw
Remember artists: If someone approaches you for your art, then tells you to lower your price or else they’ll just get AI to do it, they’re lying! They already tried AI. It failed. That’s why they’re coming to you. People always want free (ai) until it sucks, then they try the premium option (you)
I keep seeing academics disparaging colleagues for advocacy or scholar-activism. (Feels like I am back in the 1950s or something.) You can pretend (social) science is "neutral" if you want, but given what's going on, are you really going to trash folks who want to push back against injustice, now?
Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2mo agoNew Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind
look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years
Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.
