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Aliki Chapple

@commonmugwort.bsky.social

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Literary translator, actor, early modern drama enthusiast. Luddite geek. Greek. Truth, justice, and the comics. Mostly in Athens. (@amaenad from Twitter but more chill) All photos licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 More on: https://pixelfed.social/CommonMugwort

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hello theatre pals, and everyone. It’s nice to see you here.
I live in Athens now, and I’ve been taking a lot of pictures, relearning my way around the old place.
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An old fashioned metal door with bars and a later metal panel added, with an ancient air con unit or filter in the upper left corner and an even more ancient sheet of corrugated metal, probably once a security measure rolled up above it. The door is set in a stone wall next to a plainer wall, either concrete or plastered. The whole thing is painted exactly the same colour, a sort of pale ochre.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 1h

Context 🧵

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

A testimonial of a Young Republican from the 1960s who quickly found his way into a heavily armed, right wing domestic terror group called The Minutemen.

"MINUTEMEN"
P. O. BOX 68
NORBORNE, MISSOURI
AdditiónAl INFORMAtIÓN:
AND
I hAVE BEEN ACTiVE IN Pohitics AND
the ANTi-COMMUNiST MOVEMENT SiNCE I WAS
14 pEnAS oF AGE, How did my iNtEREst StrAt?
My FAthER is violeNthy ANti-Jaw, NEGRo, AND Communist, I KNEW At thAt timE whAt A NEG-Ro, WAS AND WhAt A NEW WAS, but the CommUNisT puzzlEd mE, My FAthER RAVE ME MARI AND LENiN TO READ...
I JOINED (AtI4) the yoUnG REpuBlicANs than YouNG AmERiChNs FOR Freedom, thAN the PitRick HenRy Group, there the John BikcH Society, And Finally the Minuterson, My HisH School yongs found me totally.
ShandeRed by othER pupils (2700 iN M.S.)
DECAuSE oF my ANti-cOmmuNist LECtURES
AND MY VIEWS dURiNE dEBAtES. my psycholosy And Sociohony chnsses left. mE discusted, AND WhAt I didNe dEsm
"KosHER"I usuAlly dEt my tenchERs know, ABOUT. THE dEbRE OF INFiLtRAtIoN by COmm-
WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER
OVER,

Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 1h

Systems require maintenance, and the very wealthy have been eating at that one since…pick your moment. My amateur take is “the 1970s”.

Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 1h

This.

Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 1h

Every time they say Antifa, we say pro democracy. Not because we aren’t ani-fascist, but because ‘pro democracy movement’ is what you call it when a populace peacefully demands their democratic rights from a corrupt authoritarian regime.

Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 2h

Love and strength to you, Tess. I fully believe that having made the memoir will be healing, no matter what you choose to do about interacting with people afterward.
Look after yoursel, great-hearted one.

Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 9h

My friend is in town and we couldn’t go to the show we had booked because the theatre unions were taking part in the strike, but the restaurants were open so we ate a lot of good food and I had too much to drink.
Goodnight.

Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 9h

“Wait, but these people are in their 40s now…oh. Right, her parents. Right. Yeah, that’s nice, that works.”

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slowdriver25.bsky.social @slowdriver25.bsky.social · 11h

#blackcats #cats #scooter #escooter #ebike #EV #catsky #catsofbluesky #blueskycats #felines #kitty #pets #animals #animalphotography #photosky #PhonePhotography #photo #MobilePhotography #photography #catpics #mouser

a black cat laying in loaf position facing to the right and looking in to the camera, while laying on the rear seat of a black e-bike scooter

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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 19h

🚨One Week to Go!
Have you booked your tickets for our Wyrd Revels yet? Five days, five shows, recording live for the Beyond Shakespeare Podcast.
The Witch of Edmonton, The Wise-woman of Hogston, Thyestes, and both versions of Doctor Faustus!
#Wyrd #Horror #Drama #AudioDrama #Demon #Witch #Halloween

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h

Another massive red flag.

Talk to your friends. Just acknowledge it together: this is dangerous and frightening. We have to stop burning our world.

People who feel that are the majority. We’re just shy.

Be seen. Be heard.

Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 20h

Just astonishing how much focus there is on planting trees to hopefully create new forests for the future

And all the while the plunder and destruction of our actual, existing forests just carries on worsening

This is horrific news

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

www.theguardian.com

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 17h

Oct 14th - The wealthy, elderly widow, Mrs Emily French was murdered. Leonard Vole, who was recently made sole beneficiary of Mrs French's estate was prime suspect.

📽️📅 Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957): First, a courtroom scene with a barrister addressing the court, surrounded by other legal professionals and a serious-looking audience. Subtitles read: "Leonard Stephen Vole, did you or did you not on the night of October 14 last, murder Emily Jane French?" Second, a continuation of the courtroom setting with the barrister speaking, and the audience attentively listening. Subtitles read: "murder Emily Jane French?" Third, a view of the defendant standing in the witness box, facing the court, with a subtitle conversation: "- I did not. - Thank you, that will be all."

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 21h

I read a book about aphasia. It was a purple raccoon.

Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 23h

When I have opinions about politics, world affairs, or other people’s posts, I try to post a photograph instead. Just one per day.
This is starting to look like a two photo day, and it’s barely past 9 AM.

Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 23h

Old Athens: Courtyard.
#Athens #UrbanPhotography

Colour photo. Taken through the gate, the side courtyard of a 20th Century Athenian house, of a kind once typical and now disappearing. Alternating red and white concrete tiles, a metal staircase going up to a flat roof on the left, a concrete staircase heading up on the right and then turning sharply left. It’s not clear to me if they are going to the same place - the house, a pale earthy yellow, is on the left. Underneath the concrete staircase, at the back of the image, a door leads to a store room. Two tall trees in concrete built-in planters shade the courtyard, several smaller plant pots and a metal barbecue complete the image. It’s not big, or ostentatious, but you could have a small table out in the summer shade.

Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if they will change their minds after watching her eye-roll and snort behind the orange creep in yesterday’s footage.

Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 1d

*sad face*

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 1d

"piréz" was a fictitious people invented by pollsters TÁRKI in 2006 to provide a useful baseline for measuring racism and related attitudes, the idea being that any negative attitudes towards them cannot be ascribed to bad personal experiences, what with them not existing and all

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 1d

Door: Vyronas
#Athens #UrbanPhotography

Colour photo. The 20th century decorative metal grille of a front door, painted mustard yellow, and dusty with neglect. The pattern is of nested arcs, not unlike a traditional Japanese wave pattern, braced with three horizontal lines. In the lower part of the door, this pattern is placed over a solid metal pattern, in the upper over textured glass. Two rows are in the image, one of each.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 1d

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

-Charles Mackay

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists in China have developed a tough new bamboo-based plastic that biodegrades in 50 days. The new material matches the strength of engineering plastics used in cars and appliances while retaining 90% of its durability after recycling. buff.ly/zXWVoIS
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Biodegradable plastic made from bamboo is strong and easy to recycle

Bamboo is a highly renewable resource, and its cellulose fibres can be turned into a hard, mouldable plastic for use in cars and appliances

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Evan Levine @levine.bsky.social · 3d

Marble from the island of Naxos was used for some of the most beautiful monuments from the ancient Greek world–but how were huge blocks like these quarried 2,500 years ago?

Check out our new paper in @antiquity.ac.uk at bit.ly/4h9AVik to learn how we're developing new ways to study old quarries 🏺🇬🇷

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

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@gooseymaine on Twitter writing: can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take our jobs but it's good if AI does?

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 1d

This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve heard audiobooks where it works perfectly : like My Father’s House, by Joseph O’Connor, where the narrative is interviews and reminisces by several people - really beautifully done.
But, generally, less money and time is spent on audiobooks than should be, and many are clearly done in one go.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

This is a) utterly terrifying and b) vital. Don’t turn away. The crisis is fixable because it is, ultimately, political. We know the chemistry. We decline the action necessary.

Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 1d

The headline news that won't be headline news.

'A tragedy': World may have reached first climate 'tipping point' as coral reefs face collapse

Warm-water coral reefs - on which a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend - are on the brink of collapse, according to a major new scientific study

www.businessgreen.com

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 1d

😆😆😆