By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”

@eleanornorton.bsky.social continues: this Congress has introduced over 130 bills, amendments, and riders that undermine DC laws. The only solution is DC statehood!

When you say “AI models went rogue,” you manage to skip the part where OpenAI manually removed its cybersecurity blocks and ran tests on a machine with a live network connection. Remember that when they insist they’re the “AI safety” people.

It's not a sign of sentence when an unsupervised Roomba rolls through an open door. Especially when it was programmed to go everywhere and find dirt to hoover up.

This shit sounds like magic to normies but someone left an open door at a data warehouse and some other useless wanker left a Roomba roaming around a public space and the Roomba wandered into the open door.

Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna

there’s obviously much deeper roots to all of this but the denialism blends with a loyalty to The Rule Of Law and Systems that leftists have seen firsthand as being superficial and corrupt and unreliable, and i think it’s that exposure that so often provokes a turn from liberalism to leftism.

i feel like a lot of friction that happens between leftists and liberals is due to a sort of terrible consistency that leftists get targeted first and try to share what they learned to help others stay safe and liberals deny the severity of the situation because it is psychologically very taxing

are people still sneering about opsec after all these trump indictments/raids/blacklists or did said indictments/raids/blacklists help them understand what all those stinky leftists were trying to tell them?

Finally dug up my favorite Odyssey tweet ever

Did you know that in the late 1800s a group of anarchists tried to kill john d. rockefeller by blowing him up with dynamite. they were almost sussusful and it scared him so much he started funding the building of hospitals and libraries all over the country so that people would hate him less.

we are witnessing a company who thought they invented the ham sandwich realizing in real time that they sell ham, bread, and mustard at the grocery store

“it should be illegal to buy sandwich meat”

Good morning to everyone but Chair Comer, who is presiding over the markup of H.R. 9720 today, the WORST attack on Home Rule by this Congress so far. Free DC and friends are in the House 💪💪💪

Frankly as a society we're giving more credit to the agency of the machines than we are children, farm animals, etc which verifiably think.

I applaud Mamdani here for being honest and admitting he does not have the legal authority to arrest Netanyahu, but that the federal government does and should. Netanyahu is a war criminal wanted by the ICC and Mamdani point blank calls on the feds to uphold the arrest warrant and arrest Netanyahu.

I know everything is supposed to be a joke so we don't have to confront reality but come on man. get angry about this. a lot of people claim to hate Jeffrey Epstein while supporting the system that created and enabled him, while hating the systems that would have subverted his depredation.

imagine the whiplash of that. and think now of all the people here in the west who think that's a beautiful, wonderful thing, a victory for capitalism that they count as a victory for themselves. rape society

It's crazy how much sex trafficking there was during "Capitalist Shock Therapy". Like however much you're imagining, you're not imagining enough. Where do you think the first crop of Jeffrey Epstein's victims came from? Hundreds of thousands of children had their futures robbed from them.

Anyway what the heck was Erika Kirk doing running a modeling agency in Romania? That's weird. That's just strange stuff huh

This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.

I think Zohran Mamdani may be the best thing to haopen to U.S. politics in my lifetime. Every day I wake up to his messages and he’s said done something fun to make life more fun, he’s won $ for NYers’ pockets—and then he uses his office to life humanity. www.instagram.com/reel/DbE6d_i...

An agent from HSI—the criminal investigation arm of ICE—shot and killed a young man in May while responding to a local 911 call as part of Trump’s ‘Memphis Safe Task Force.’ The call had nothing to do with immigration. Jonah Neal. Say his name.

Why are we maligning Gen Z when this has been a thing for how long now? Has no one seen Baby Boy? "Men are looking for replacements for their mothers" has been the in Zeitgeist since when?

it's fascinating that the Atlantic is not fine with DSA but fine with Hanania

Every time I see states passing and enforcing camping bans I am reminded of the ugly laws that people fought so hard to overturn. These laws are designed purely to erase unhoused neighbors.

Oh trust me I know it’s bad, you gotta tell that to the Stancilites. They really insist that we’re all just dummies who don’t know that we’re all prospering cause the price of TVs has gone down over the years so obviously that means the price of food has too, let me just consult the charts- oh no

Also, chart people, if you wanna get granular about it, real wage growth fell in both April and May of 2026. I don't think you can really discount the accuracy of people's economic pessimism when it's pretty easy to anticipate the negative effects that the Iran war will have on fuel prices.

they're gonna bring back vagrancy laws aren't they?

Fascinated by this dialectic where democratic socialism is too unpopular and niche to win elections and therefore must be spurned in favor of the mythical “big tent” but also its so powerful that Democrats have to do everything they can to stop it from “taking over the party”

extremely funny to me that analysts whose entire job is to think about these possibilities are only now catching up to Bluesky Consensus

Bluesky knew the strait of Hormuz, Graham Platner, and AIPAC democrats were all cooked months before the experts did. Meanwhile Twitter was convinced Spencer Pratt would win and the Odyssey would bomb. Which site is the not-real-life echo chamber again?

here’s my offer, The Atlantic magazine, I will read the next “reactionary pretends to give honest advice to Democrats” take if you let me write a piece where I, a DSA member, pretend to give honest advice to Republicans

Something that never ceases to amuse me is when people talk about Emily Wilson's "feminist translation" of the Odyssey, a description that always seems to come as news to Emily Wilson, who simply translated it while female

very funny that after all the “Emily Wilson is going to longhouse Western Civilization with her woke Odyssey”, Emily Wilson herself is like “yeah, a bit too much ‘healing trauma’ and not enough ‘relishing in the blood of your enemies’ in the new movie”

tell me how Secular Baptist Quant's latest meltdown regarding haus telling a joke is any different from meghan mccain trying to paint eli valley as an antisemite for mocking her in a cartoon, or how people of his flock were eager to call mel brooks an antisemite for the producers

another reminder this is the guy who calls it stochastic terrorism when people post his old tweets to show people he's a bloodless quant

it's wild that he got correctly yelled at by trans people once and went full mask off actually no it's not this happens all the time

gonna say it again: ChatGPT & other LLMs use em-dashes BECAUSE ACTUAL WRITERS OFTEN USE EM-DASHES AND THESE DEVICES HAVE BEEN TRAINED ON OUR STOLEN WORK!

idk why i did this but i remastered it and it was pretty relaxing to do

the fun part is i knew sky would laser-focus on me calling them out as not being an economist - they're not, much like will stancil is not a lawyer despite having a JD - instead of arguing with the really simple econ point put forward

anyway as someone who actually is an economist unlike sky who is just mad at leftists and wants to settle scores - vibecession is a lie told by biden consultants who want to normalize the democratic party doing nothing to help poor people after 2024. people were mad about rising interest rates.

Always smart to file a lawsuit alleging personal and business damages and then freak out when the people you're suing seek discovery on those claimed personal and business damages.

With Trump decimating the SNAP program, Mamdani creating subsidized grocery stores seems like a policy more local government should create. Call it socialism all you want, people need to eat.

i cant believe the ceasefire thrown together at the last minute as a bit for a sex criminals 80th birthday party has fallen apart

Every single academic I know cares about public trust in universities, because unlike some people who wanked off from a teaching job in academia to go grift in punditry, some of us still teach. And we know that we can't teach without trust.

No, Tyler. Im angry because I know you know that the lack of public trust in US universities is the result of DECADES of media and political efforts--of which your whole grift is part. Quite the gall to be part of destroying public trust and then turn around and point to the lack of public trust.

It's not "too woke" to say that straight men who rape women should be reviled for being rapists, not tarred as secretly queer. To imply they're gay, or that they wear dresses, to distance them from manhood, is to insist that their violence is "deviant" rather than utterly banal and normative.

Adding the full thread from Gina.