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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 20h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 17h

ethel cain holds up a dvd of "Picnic at Hanging Rock" in the criterion closet

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Kay @kayannbee.bsky.social · 23h

Qfwfq saw all this coming

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

Just rereading The Symposium and was reminded of the wonderful fact, which I had forgot, that even the ancient Greeks had drama in their fanfic communities about who would top and who would bottom. All men are brothers, human nature is eternal.

‘Achilles, the son of Thetis, however, they honoured and sent to the
Isles of the Blest.48 For when he found out from his mother that if he
killed Hector he too would die, but if he did not kill him he would
return home and live to old age, he nevertheless dared to make the
choice of standing up for his lover Patroclus49 and avenging him; thus
180a he also died, and died for his sake. (Aeschylus actually talks nonsense
when he asserts that it was Achilles who was the lover of Patroclus:
Achilles was not only more beautiful than Patroclus but also more
42 As Apollo into Aeneas at Iliad 20.110. 43 ‘those in love’, in Greek hoi erontes; see eran.
44 philia; see philein. 45 eros. 46 psuche. 47 arete.
48 In Greek myth, islands in the legendary far west of the Greek world where after death specially
favoured mortals, notably some of the heroes, pass a blissful afterlife, rather than having a
phantom existence in the Underworld like everyone else.
49 Homer in the Iliad did not make Achilles and Patroclus lovers, but Aeschylus represents them
as such in Myrmidons, a lost tragedy from which a few quotations survive.
The Symposium (‘The Drinking Party’)
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beautiful than all the rest of the heroes, and still beardless; and according
to Homer he was much younger.50)

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Kay @kayannbee.bsky.social · 23h

seems like we're watching a very efficient self-immolation!

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 2d

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Kay @kayannbee.bsky.social · 2d

sometimes you see a photo of a building across the planet that speaks to the deepest wellspring of your being

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Kay @kayannbee.bsky.social · 2d

I have a tattoo of The Big Duck's antipodean cousin, the Chicken Church, in Indonesia, which left an instant and permanent spiritual mark on me

Ground view of the Gereja Ayam. A stained white church with a massive facade of a crowned dove, exulting, twice the height of the rest of the church

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sara @saraburke.net · 2d

Quote from The Rings of Saturn
By Winfried Georg Sebald

Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life

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Kay @kayannbee.bsky.social · 4d

you don’t hear about priestesses too often these days. what’s up with that

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 5d

I have actually never seen a politician say anything even remotely like this. Whatever the follow-through, or not, even the fact he said this is really, really something

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Kay @kayannbee.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve never called someone a bozo but I bet it feels incredible

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 8d

To have Olga Ravn say to you, “If you ever need a witch…”!!!!!

David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 16d

Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...
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Olga Ravn : The Wax Child - Tin House

Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the accused, Olga Ravn’s new book, which creates something uncannil...

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Kay @kayannbee.bsky.social · 8d

wowww it was longlisted for the Booker Prize? I guess you have really good taste :))

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Kay @kayannbee.bsky.social · 8d

I read 10 books per year for fun and 40 to impress the people I’m trying to sleep with

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 9d

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 10d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...