Homer wrote Odyssey for the screen, but released the poem first bc the movie market wasn't ready (audience was chained up in a cave)

A fun fact about me is that I impulse-bought and read The Odyssey early this year, part of a quixotic new years run at Ulysses. Part-way through I googled what i was reading, scrolled down to the "Adaptations" section, and went "oh".

When the US burns to the ground, Canada sends firefighters and water tankers. Every time, no questions asked. When Canada is burning, our MAGA politicians respond this way. Every single thing they do and the way they communicate it is all designed to impress braincooked Nazis on X.

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

Lights out and away we go! #Clacton

can one pump out smoke through a pipeline?

We’re sorry but you have exceeded your quota of Tom Hollands for this news cycle, please try again tomorrow.

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

oh brother, this is the night with the thing

Refer to this, the below, and our comments from the past day. Note too the three major networks are not carrying the speech over the air. This is not the treatment of a leader in full control.

No shit, I have been laughing at this image for the past 5 minutes. Actual tears streaming down my face. Sure man, put one of these in my kid's classroom. See how that goes.

@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social Very happy to see you pop up on Bluesky; this is my view right now. Almost done!! Thank you for your work, it is transformative.

Those not speaking ill of the dead were speaking dead of the ill

The good news is the number only gets bigger from here

Navy hastily buying up little Square readers so they can take tap to pay on their phones

Spending the day whistling the Jurassic park theme then getting really sad

the reveal - the absolute and total fumbling awe of Grant and Sattler as they see dinosaurs for the first time, just as John Williams’ greatest score kicks into full gear - is one of the best scenes in all of cinema

I view it as a material and serious sign of this platform’s arrival that Sports Bluesky is here when you need it.

the cat's been in the litter box for an hour just scrolling on his phone

I’m just a boy with a wish, asking an entire country not to dunk on me

Platner full paleo-right manosphere podcaster turn within 14 days.

You're laughing... I can't withdraw my Bonk from Kraken and you're laughing?

pausa de hidratación

It was when my wife said "We should watch the England Mexico game at an Irish bar" that I realized we were coming at this from different angles

The tallest ships from all over the world are sailing up the Hudson, in a beautiful show of “let’s pretend this isn’t happening”

The quality of yogurt is not strained

too much plane!

When New York is feeling good it is loud, and when it is feeling bad it is quiet, and today it is very quiet.

SNYDER: Ukrainians defending one way of living from different, where people can be themselves as opposed to people having to be told who they are. If they had surrendered or weren't defending themselves, we'd be in such a different world, and it would be worse in every respect.

There's no social reward any more for curiosity, for maintaining "negative space," for loosely holding your beliefs. Everyone's chasing that dopamine hit of righteous certainty, and in a complicated world, the only way to find that is inside a bubble.

The bluesky takeaway right now is, whatever else, thank god you’re not in Washington

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

this is too much plane

Your one (1) Air Canada cookie is about the size of a communion wafer and is passed out with about as much parsimony.

Oh this is cool

ironically, a tight gap between Canada Day and America Day this year

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

The cat has more dental problems and is completely out of warranty.

I have had exactly this experience, and I'm going to guess all the other quote-tweets here have too.

Brooklyn’s going nuts, I just went to the zoo and walked out with a Pallas’ Cat, they’re not even checking

Our steaming connection just died.

if i had a trillion dollars (if I had a trillion dollars)

tonight was the night bluesky finally became president

if the knicks win I'm giving that horse some cake