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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 1d

It's been getting universal smile-and-move-on over the past year or so as I try it out on members of the pubgoing public alas. They should teach in CSPE that not all plays are panto

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody else's opinions they're giving are unhinged, you can't just say "it's important to read books you like" ffs

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 1d

Despite the national theatre being more than a hundred years old, an Irish playwright winning a Nobel and hundreds of quality vernacular works, Irish theatre audiences will still laugh when someone says something in an Irish accent for some reason and they should as a result be got with clubs.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 1d

One Battle After Another good movie. In the PTA category of "baggy and extensive film about California" rather than my preferred "almost oppressively tight perfect film about something other than California" but that's alright. Less Pynchon than I expected, but enough.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 1d

YES m8

National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 1d

This #MapMonday, explore historic maps of #Ireland!

We've added new georeferenced map layers to our Maps Images Website. View first and second edition one-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey of Ireland maps in our georeferenced and side-by-side viewers 🗺️

Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

side by side view of first and second edition ordnance survey maps for Waterford from National Library of Scotland website

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 1d

There are certain cases in which it has worked for me but they are all Novels Told From Multiple Perspectives e.g. The Sound and the Fury. But I agree the disrespect of semi-adapting a novel into a sort-of-play just to get famous people to list in order to sell more of it is very annoying.

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Michel Lacombe @michellacombe.bsky.social · 2d

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 1d

Coming over here taking our bees

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 1d

I am of course against this invasive flower, but it is fun that it outcompetes native plants basically by being more attractive to bees rather than rhizomatic spread or leaching toxins or whatever.

'Highly harmful' invasive species tracked by citizen scientists using Instagram photos

Photos posted on Instagram by “citizen scientists” are tracking an invasive plant species that is “highly harmful” to Ireland’s native plants and disruptive for pollinators.

m.independent.ie

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

I assume philosophers have addressed this more coherently but you rebuild the past, you can only build a present view of the past. Like Newgrange.

Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

However they should absolutely restore the Colosseum I agree.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

The concept of restoring the Forum does not even really make sense, are you restoring the Forum exactly as it was on some particular date? Which god does the temple venerate? Which emperor is in power? Is this like a suburban tradslopbrain misunderstanding of what a city is?

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

In retrospect the heroic move would have been to take the money and then to perform material considered to degrade, defame, or bring into public disrepute, contempt, scandal, embarrassment, or ridicule the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Sauds and religions.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

Friend of mine who has had a fairly serious medical thing recently was complaining to his friend in the US about how work treated him in terms of support. The US friend, also sick, said work had been pretty good - they even let him go to all his radiotherapy appointments.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

Yank tourism to Britain collapses to zero immediately

David Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 2d

Attlee taught Labour to walk, now he watches on as they fly

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

Guy who is obsessed with the Antichrist, encountering any form of culture: Getting a lot of 'antichrist' vibes from this...

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

The last thing we need is a president in multiple parts

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

A professional.

Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

My favourite thing about the slop videos of a woman destroying a glass bridge with a boulder is that the implied cameraman just keeps filming passively. No attempt to back away and avoid falling in the canyon. No jerky shots as he panics.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 3d

11. LJUBLJANA

Ana Schnabl - Masterpiece (Mojstrovina), 2020

Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 3d

10. STOCKHOLM

August Stringberg - The Red Room (Röda rummet), 1879

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 3d

9. BRATISLAVA

Peter Pišťanek - Rivers of Babylon (Rivers of Babylon), 1991

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 3d

Combative priest named Lar Dowling featuring in the US news? We'll mark that down as an "Ireland mentioned"

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 4d

My favourite is Wolf Hall, I'm on record about this already