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"Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti."—Sophia Loren
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵
Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'
Alt: Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'
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From the ancient Polyphemus to Jimothy, people have spun stories about real & imagined beings to define the parameters of "normal." Here's an excerpt from HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, a history of the category of the human from antiquity to the present, told through the idea of the monster.
Humans and monsters | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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good article and, crucially, a good list at the end of cookware/kitchenware lines that are still quality (and family owned)
@laperry2.bsky.social · 2w ago
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.
Utterly fed up with advertising people who have zero care about their own products and just launch complete garbage because it “looks pretty good”…TO THEM.
Rosie Fletcher@rosieatlarge.bsky.social · 3w agoWhy should I stock my shop with products made a company that clearly doesn't care about knitting or craft? Details as to what's wrong in the ALT text.
Half this book has me like, “Wow what an astute observation of human social dynamics, how lovely,” and the other half is just biting me my thumb and internally screaming.
For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com · 2mo agoSo I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
🎵 Ah ! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira ! Les aristocrates à la lanterne. Ah ! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira ! Les aristocrates on les pendra. Si on n’les pend pas On les rompra Si on n’ les rompt pas On les brûlera. 🎵 -- Revolutionary anthem (still very much in use), first heard 1790 (English below)
You guys, are bike lanes gentrification or are they DEI, I can’t keep it straight
“It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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So riled up by a bad slop graphic of dumplings that I nearly missed my subway stop. As one does.
ALSO TODAY: @annaleen.bsky.social asks what “living in the future” means now. “By training our attention on ‘the future,’ even rhetorically, we create a psychological barrier between ourselves and what’s actually happening. We endlessly defer action.” flaminghydra.com/the-wave-of-...
The Wave of the Present
We’re living in the future I’ll tell you how I know I read it in the paper fifteen years ago – John Prine 1. Billboards and billionaires solemnly inform us that we are “living in the future.” You...
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I had this same professor and he insisted that we only “write what we know” but then was disappointed when what I knew was not cocaine-addled prep school parties or broken families with addictions. My life was clearly too boring to be a writer, and his class made me stop writing.
Tea Berry-Blue@teaberryblue.net · last mo.My creative writing teacher in college insisted that 1) stories needed to have interpersonal conflict 2) every character had a dark secret 3) the dark secret should be either that they were gay or had been abused as a child, or both.
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
This was a terrific test! I am quite good at spotting AI images (my uncanny-ometer is on constant high alert these days), but this quiz was an excellent walkthrough lesson in honing those visual literacy skills.
Janna Sophia 🏔️@jannaphia.bsky.social · last mo.Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co
Now a teen bro is in the aisle announcing to his mom that sardines are “objectively nasty” and no one should eat them and I hope someone explains to him what “objectively” means soon
Restocking an almost empty shelf of canned Heinz beans at the Park Slope Food Coop and either it’s a coincidence or else a lot of people here are wrong about both football and beans.
Society exists to take care of human needs. Full stop.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · last mo.Water fountains disappeared from the Longleaf Trace in June as the board that governs it grew concerned about how homeless people were using its facilities. Runners and bikers who use the 44-mile trail fear the decision could have dire consequences in Mississippi's summer heat. buff.ly/pBXSvrI
I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.
NICE
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · last mo."Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
Shin Godzilla's theme of a stuffy political old guard being both unprepared and unwilling to handle apocalyptic disaster and effectively forcing a proactive new group to take the reins is, ummm, pretty timely.
There’s a rough stage in design that’s crucial where you simply work with the bones of what you’re trying to express. The simpler it is the clearer those bones are, and if you invest too much detail at this stage you will get distracted by final-looking polish and can miss key fundamentals.
Chris Farnell@thebrainofchris.bsky.social · last mo.Also this one. I absolutely believe that the final look of Knives Out is better for having this crude stick drawing to work from rather than a photorealistic slop image that would just end up being made from Game of Thrones publicity shots.
