Helen of Troy looking like Lupita Nyong'o is incredibly unlikely, would require a black swan event

Zinn's radicalism comes from an oversimplified narrative of the sort that appeals to Bluesky- that history consists of a Political Elite who operate entirely out of theater-hall villain malice, a The People who are braindead sheep, and a Radical Fringe who are omniscient and impotent.

I'm slow on the uptake, but I just noticed Bovino has the Waffen-SS haircut to go with his jacket.

Amazing stuff going on right now @whstancil.bsky.social, as he zips around his hometown in a little car and pesters ICE agents.

Funniest encounter today was the giant ICE SUV full of masked dudes who spent 20 minutes whipping around Uptown trying to lose the tail (my doughty little Fit), at one point turning the wrong way onto a one-way street, before fleeing on to I35 and finally finding a state trooper to park/hide behind

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

Were classical statues painted horribly? buff.ly/fS78ULM It is often suggested that modern viewers dislike painted reconstructions of Greek and Roman statues because our taste differs from that of the ancients. This essay proposes an alternative explanation.

This one isn’t downloadable but if you have TikTok go watch it. Well worth your time www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr4gRL7v/

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

All of this money spent on this study and not a single mention of things that might keep people away: disruptive audience behavior, increasingly poor technical presentation, every shrinking theatrical windows (or day and date indies). I love theaters, and go multiple times a week, but it’s grim.

Nektar Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Dennison The Moody Blues Heart/Kansas Custer LaRue

Pandemonium

Regarding recent revelations of the relationship between a NYT reporter and Jeffrey Epstein, I have been informed that the Times adheres to the highest journalistic standards.

I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮

I think that's because there is a shadow projected on his face.

The Union Army ended the widespread practice of child sacrifice in America

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on. Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights. Block, and move on. This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

made chicken parm egg rolls for humans and a tiny one for dog

Midwit Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll has thoughts about procurement, such as don't, just let the soldiers 3d print their own parts, starting at about 1h16m. Also, the logistics of defending Taiwan are hard, so forget about procurement and logistics, we'll just print everything.

The walking dead

one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer

Increasingly really think that we might be in a slow-motion civilizational breakdown as people prove psychologically incapable of dealing with the complexities of modern life.

okay okay OKAY i’ll rank all the Shakespeare plays 1. Nice Night For Fucking 2. The Parallax View 3. Comedy Central Roast of Queen Elizabeth I 4. Romeo and Juliet and Ted and Alice 5. Untitled Richard Burbage Project

I'm beginning to think that Koreans will no longer call America Mi-Guk, "the beautiful country". www.cbsnews.com/news/us-sout...

I guess Ashli Babbit wasn't working out as the new Horst Wessel.

Toasted ravioli

This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.

Unable to sleep, I woke at 5 and peered out my window to the east to see Venus and Jupiter bright together, and Orion to the right. Hope is hard to come by lately, but my old friends abide and comfort me.

"The Danes used empathy politically—an action abhorred by right-wing leaders, who have gone so far as to brand it as an enemy and a weakness. But what they are leaving unsaid is that fascism cannot prosper where empathy exists."

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Thanks in part to Trump's fossil fuel fanaticism, China will own the energy future. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Someone built a giant Lego version of the Agamemnon from Babylon 5 😮 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJJm...

You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? "Under the Volcano," "Joe Versus the Volcano"

Age verification? I saw JFK's funeral procession on live TV.

Reminder the right losing their shit about Superman is entirely manufactured. They don't care about Superman. It could be anything -- Care Bears, Spider-man, a werewolf movie that explodes with audiences -- it's just a tool to push their fake outrage.

The Wizard of O The Rapes of Wrath Even Samurai

I realize it's late in the day, but may you have a joyous 80th Hitler Shoots Himself in the Head day. A happy memory, and a vision of a brighter future.

A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.

I’m going to start a thread for model railroad diorama work that people can read (or mute).

Centrifuge internal lighting on both sides is now complete. Only 52 days to go... still have tons of painting and detailing as well as the ore transfer shuttle to design & build yet. Sure hoping I can finish in time. #spaceship #originaldesign #centrifuge #model #3Dprint #wip #Wonderfest2025

YOU GUYS.

Thanks to @religiondispatches.bsky.social for republishing my essay on the fascist eroticization of power in Kristi Noem’s prison video. religiondispatches.org/dont-take-th...

Share some of the best eyes in movies.

Zuck's t-shirt reads "AUT ZUCK AUT NIHIL" , "Either Zuck or nothing. Jay Graber's t-shirt reads "MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS," "A world without a Caesar."

Wonderfest is right around the corner! The event is May 31 to June 1, 2025 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. As I always tell people, if you attend only one model show, this is the show to go to. #Wonderfest #Wonderfest2025 culttvman.com/main/wonderf...