Andrea Grimes

theflytrapmedia.comThe Ghosts in the WallSeeing the prehistoric cave paintings at Font-de-Gaume filled me with awe for human creativity.

I'm obsessed with really fucking old stuff; the older the better. Gimme everything ancient, prehistoric. I also love ghosts and am desperate to witness one before I become one, myself. Somehow, in writing about this, I ended up penning an anti-AI screed that never once even mentions AI.

@baddestmamajama.bsky.social

Thread! Responding to my earlier wine whining, with actual info

Public BOO-niversal Fiend@publicuniversal.bsky.social

So basically: the Latin corpus continously circulated and the Greek corpus survived in Byzantium/ Eastern Rome before the major Eastern Roman libraries got dispersed to Italy and western Europe in the early modern period. So most widely read stuff was circulated in the original texts.

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Jessica Ellis

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Definitely someone who did not get to “you cannot give me anything because everything you have is stolen”

ok but this is art

Karli!@karlicartoons.bsky.social

If you time traveled back to when I was 20 and told me I’d end up drawing Beavis and Butthead as the lovers from Pompeii for an October daily drawing prompt I would have probably jumped off a cliff

don't worry the NYT had 320 entire words on it

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

I muted them already but the best response to this BY FAR was someone telling me to go to nytimes dot com for further coverage

ok i'm tired of talking about politics, can i please whine for the briefest moment about the influencers being bad at content analysis of books and tv

idk (and this is on me) I watched a 20-minute youtube video about how ~ Vince Gilligan is running a pro-capitalist psyop with Pluribus ~ from a person who watched 1.5 episodes and was like "i've seen enough"

anyway character and narrative development is great, basically the things stories are made of, if what you are looking for are narratives where people who are already perfect do stuff where they beat irredeemable bad guys every time, i really can't even recommend children's books on this front

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Bruno Dies

@brunodias.dev

I see it's going to be a very "credulous people read an IPO prospectus and go 'ooh' and 'aah'" week

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Brigid Keely She/Her

@brigid.bsky.social

The Murderbot Diaries is ACTUALLY fascist because Murderbot is a cop who enjoys a cop show (Sanctuary Moon) which is copaganda and Martha Wells is brain washing her fans with copaganda and turning us all fascist and also Mensah is a groomer (and fascist) because uh reasons. DISCOURSE!!!!!

Andrea Grimes@andreagrimes.com

More often than not, I run into the most surface-level possible shit that essentially boils down to "this thing is bad because in < episode/chapter 1 > the < main character > did/said < a thing that wasn't the most perfect deal > and thus < this is a fascist project > and like no

ok i'm tired of talking about politics, can i please whine for the briefest moment about the influencers being bad at content analysis of books and tv

I do not think this is a generational thing, I am not inclined to dip on young people. I see this from ~ influencers ~ of many/all ages, grappling for some kind of weird post-tumblrclout for who can dunk hardest on a thing without consuming it

but like WOOF it is so tiresome. there actually is a lot of dippy bullshit out there in the world! ripe for the dunking! stuff that doesn't even pretend to be careful or thoughtful in its execution!

ok i'm tired of talking about politics, can i please whine for the briefest moment about the influencers being bad at content analysis of books and tv

Because I like both of these things, the algorithm shows me haters of these things, because the algorithm is a dippy asshole. Every once in a while, I happen upon a hater who has really consumed a thing and has a good read. There are fair critiques out there! BUT

ok i'm tired of talking about politics, can i please whine for the briefest moment about the influencers being bad at content analysis of books and tv

theflytrapmedia.comThe Discourse is Ruining Film CriticismCan’t we just watch films on their own terms?

i will preface this by saying that @theflytrapmedia.com published a very good piece that gets at a lot of what i am about to bitch about, @judysquirrels.bsky.social wrote a banger here

I will fully say up front, I love Dungeon Crawler Carl and Pluribus, both of which are ending up on a bunch of people's EOY lists which is why this dippy discourse is happening but like the haters are not even hating properly on these properties

idk man you can be a pretty big asshole in a lot of ways, even criminal ways!, and still never rape somebody or even come anywhere close to be accused of it, seems like this is a bar America could try to clear as a group project

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

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Beyond a new rape allegation, the @democrats-judiciary.house.gov report implicates current Attorney General Todd Blanche, stating he "may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump," referring to an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. Seems like news!

also further evidence that Tipsy is a horse, here she is demonstrably with her big-ass body taking up half the length of a 45-pound dog

Andrea Grimes@andreagrimes.com

earlier today there was a meeting of the black and tan club at my house; they won't share their agenda with me but it seemed to be snooze related

earlier today there was a meeting of the black and tan club at my house; they won't share their agenda with me but it seemed to be snooze related

i miss being mad about boring things

i wish for a world in which the GOP messengers had to grapple with either selling their king as a strong boi who obviously does rapes because he is so strong versus a weak boi who shits his pants on television and doesn't know what the cheesecake factory is, somehow neither world is ours???

like i am just so tired of this odious man getting a pass every which way

kristindumez.comLive Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made - Kristin Kobes Du MezKristin Kobes DuMez new book available for preorder at https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-John-Wayne-Evangelicals-Corrupted/dp/1631495739/

i am once again asking everyone to read this book

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Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan.bsky.social

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I don’t think this is exactly what’s going on, or all that’s going on. It’s not that Republicans are constructing an elaborate psychological defense against evidence that Trump is a rapist. It’s that they like that he’s a rapist, and they like rape: it enacts the power of the strong over the weak.

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

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Aaron Sojourner

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Well played

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look i am not a midterms optimist (I am a Texan, I lived through Beto 2018) but shit is so upside-down right now I am

@rmbodenheimer.bsky.social

any pollster who is saying one way or the other is a solid win is operating on vibes and hubris but all i can say from years of being Very Online is this is a deeply weird fucking political moment

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Rebecca Bodenheimer

Actually I wanna see it the other way too!

darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social

nathan fielder interviewed by isaac chotiner

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Taniel

@taniel.bsky.social

So far, remarkably high turnout by young Black voters in Georgia. Eye-popping chart.

Dj@djsoke.bsky.social

18k 18-29 voters in GA today, 53% of the same day in 2024, by far the highest %24 day so far. Today only: Black 18-29: 77.3% of 2024 White 18-29 voters in blue ATL counties: 51.9% White 18-29 in the rest of the state: 31.3% Cumulative numbers below

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Chip Stewart

@medialawprof.bsky.social

This is legit wild. One of the Trumpiest GOP kooks we’ve had holding high office here in Texas makes an absolute spot-on, beautiful, non-partisan call for government transparency against the governor’s attempt to hide his emails with Elon Musk.

Txnewsprincess@txnewsprincess.bsky.social

Since so many missed it, let me share it without comment:

nytimes.comHouse Democrats Call for Special Counsel to Scrutinize Trump’s Ties to EpsteinThe request comes as Democrats are working to paint Republicans as corrupt and highlight their plans to investigate Trump should they win the midterm elections.

this is a 320-word story i just

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

like i was prepared to pour myself a tall glass of red and GO IN and then i just ... got to the end of this little write-up about a wee nothingburger

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

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Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

somebody just needs to tell them a Black Harvard professor was involved

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

look I've had some wine so somebody correct me on this broadly if i'm way off but literally the reason ~ the West ~ has any knowledge at all about the greco-roman literature we ("we") claim as ours is because of Arabic translations thereof in the mid-middle-ages

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

to say nothing of the actual original ideas from Arabic thinkers since time immemorial (numbers??? i think the concept of ... zero?)

i know this is a goofy meme account (w no alt text -- the pic is of a person saying "so that was a fucking lie" to advice of "if you're tired drink some coffee it'll keep you awake") but legit the alarm went off for me when i realized i spent most of my life wondering what the big deal was w coffee

ADHD Memes@adhdforreal.bsky.social

if anything, i find coffee (or any caffeine, really) basically soothing; it regulates my race-car brain anyway if this sounds like you get your ass assessed

(long term self-medication for adhd with caffeine is certainly one way to address it, but real medication really kicks ass!)

ADHD Memes@adhdforreal.bsky.social

coffee never gave me a buzz or a jolt or kept me awake; the act of drinking coffee definitely helped and the ritual of pouring/making coffee was great, but it doesn't do anything for my brain other than essentially sort of in a limited way make my brain operate on a ~ normal ~ scale for a minute

came home to find progress on my husband's Rocky (alien, not boxer) costume proceeding apace