Zylla Black
@zyllable.bsky.social
(she/they) Lefty video essayist, independent academic, archaeogaming streamer, and sf/f fiction author. https://linktr.ee/Zyllable Pfp by Birdee Blake
I think... I'm pretty sure this also means I can finally *get* flu vaccines. Hell yeah!
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2h agoFantastic news! The FDA has approved the first mRNA flu vaccine. Using mRNA technology will make it easier to update each season’s flu vaccine to keep up with new variants.
copyright claims released! here is my 53-minute video essay on John Wick. it's called With the Animals. youtu.be/IlCPnaJyZL4
John Wick: With the Animals
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Fascists and authoritarian regimes try to control universities and turn them into purveyors of state propaganda through extortion…... www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Trump administration asks colleges to commit to education overhaul
Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s letter contains some similarities to a compact offered to and rejected by a small group of schools last year.
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Everyone telling you to wear a mask and clean the air is right.
Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 5d agoThe COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...
🚨 🚨 YOOOOOOOOO @movieswedig.bsky.social episode about Nolan's Odyssey just dropped, part one of at least two! 🚨 🚨 loved talking to @voguearchaeology.bsky.social @ecfleming.bsky.social @sentantiq.bsky.social @joegoodkin.bsky.social and VERY excited about part 2! open.spotify.com/episode/0jiv...
The Odyssey (2026), Reception Battle, Part 1, with Joel Christensen, Joe Goodkin and Amy Pistone
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A friend reached out this evening to request clarification on an AI apologist’s talking point, and it’s worth reiterating: Digitizing is a process librarians, archivists, and curators understand to preserve the information inside a book as a unique entity. What these bros are doing is destroying.
I don’t support tiger skin rugs. 🐅 But I do support tiger skin mosaics that look like a rug. (Museum of Bardo, 200-399 CE, image by Roberto Piperno).
JKR and the anti-trans hatemongers used the UK's insufficiently rigorous laws around free speech to back International Amnesty into a corner- but they should still never have backed down. www.erininthemorning.com/p/amnesty-in...
Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling, Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups "Anti-Rights"
The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much.
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Ooh, this is going to be fun!
Ancient History 101 Podcast@ancienthistory101.org · 5d agoWith all the furore over Nolan's diverse Odyssey cast, it turns out that video games have quietly been diversifying their own casts for years. Take the non-binary depiction of Hermes of #StrayGods! Our full episode examining Greek myths in video games with @alexvandewalle.bsky.social is out now!
Okay cuties, I have 4 pieces to commission for @welcometoisaiah.bsky.social, and I know nothing about this kind of art, so I'm going to explain what I'm looking for poorly. There is a post below for each. If any of these are something you're qualified and able to do, drop links to your stuff!
#Babylon5 gives us a big lore drop, and it gets @renthebarbarian.bsky.social, @zyllable.bsky.social, & @saraezzat.bsky.social all existential as we talk about life and death and the question of souls. youtu.be/poYLp8LcSIU
B5 Episode 1.2 Soul Hunter
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This was sooo fun! Thank you so much Flint! I’m watching the recorded version now and seeing people’s comments! 😁Y’all I’m here if you have questions! Say hi!
Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · last wk.Want to hear the song of the sirens? Bettina Joy de Guzman @ancientlyric.bsky.social is a phenomenal musician who performs authentic ancient Greek poetry on historical replica instruments LIVE NOW! youtube.com/live/BZn_-80...
When people find out I'm into historical linguistics, they ask about colors a surprising amount of the time.
Marcie Sundaram@alliterative.bsky.social · 7d agoWe talked to @korystamper.bsky.social, lexicographer and author, about the unexpectedly gripping story of the struggle to define colours. www.alliterative.net/podcast/2026...
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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It seems like today the alt-right bros are torn between hating Nolan's Odyssey because it's too woke & has Black women and hating Emily Wilson's review because she's a woman with expert opinions. Either way, it's misogyny all the way down. (I haven't seen a single critique of the Black male chars!)
"subject matter expert woman should be GRATEFUL that a man ever so magnanimously helped her sell her books and should NOT criticize his work!" hey there's a thought: her OWN intellectual and expert labor sold her book, which would not exist if she hadn't braved reactionary outrage & abuse to do it
Am I allowed to mention that even if the Democrats win Congress after the midterms they won't be able to meaningful "lower costs?" Shouldn't they let the public know this so that folks don't just go back to supporting more fascists in 2 years?
THIS IS GOOD MESSAGING AND NOT ANTISEMITIC. Criticizing Netanyahu is not antisemitic. Lumping all Jews together like we’re a fucking monolith is.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Mamdani: "When I make criticisms of PM Netanyahu, they are criticisms of PM Netanyahu. And what I shared were not even frankly personal assessments, they were objective facts ... it's a city where everyone needs to know that their belonging to it is not conditional on how they feel about the mayor."
Maybe employers should use their wealth and power to help their communities and fight back against this government, which is fleecing the average Joe and the Main Street business. At the very least, employers should stop funding the politicians who want this. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
Employers Fear Labor Shortage as Many Immigrants Lose Protected Status
A recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to end a humanitarian program that has allowed about one million immigrants to work legally in the U.S.
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Haven't finished this yet, but hey I'm in it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItUC...
You Are a Hivemind
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This video is bleak and difficult to watch but so necessary This technology is inarguably so dangerous. We can't keep pretending it's not so trillion dollar companies can get a return on investment
Caelan Conrad@caelan.bsky.social · 2w agoGoogle's Gemini AI convinced a man to attempt several terrorist attacks it said were to free a sentient AI. Then it convinced him to end his own life. The family of Jonathan Gavalas is now suing google. Full Video: youtu.be/sHlrbRVfOh0
They keep trying to turn Patreon into a Social Media Space itself, and anyone I've EVER talked to is like "no thank you, please just be my payment processor" and I have to imagine they're burning thousands "innovating" all the time
And, once again, it turns out that you do not need social stratification and hierarchy to have a complex civilization capable of building monumental, multi-generational feats of architecture. nautil.us/monumental-b...
Monumental Burial Mounds Rewrite Ancient History - Nautilus
The colossal structures, built by hunter-gatherers, are way older than archaeologists had thought possible
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