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[inspired by this post by @whitepeachredbull]

the true driver of the day

The death of credible government is darkly hilarious in a cosmic sort of way. Obviously, the FDA is useless now. Therefore, we must place our trust in more credible institutions, such as Taco Bell, which has been far more transparent and proactive in handling this parasite business.

"The couple of last weekends," but Oscar TW said half of it is on the driver, not the straight-line speed issues.

Four Proofs, Richard Siken

You can read the full transcript on our website.

Confirmed Stalk Walker sighting in the marshes outside Palmyra.

like did nolan have two guys standing at his side at all times whispering ideas in his ear and one told the truth and the other told lies and they didnt tell him which was which until they wrapped production cause

(source) its so funny how actual Greek and Homeric scholars are talking about this movie vs the fact that people on tumblr are acting like Nolan personally dug up Homer's actual bones and pissed on them

And frankly, I think in this the year of our lord 2026, we can raise the bar higher than “All publicity about Homer is good publicity.” For one, I think we should also ask whether engagement with Homer, or with any aspect of antiquity, is well thought out and well crafted, or at least has some interest in the original beyond the surface—which as I note in my review linked above, I don’t think this is. And trust me, I know that Classics is kinda desperate for engagement right now and some professors are probably trying not to piss in anyone’s cornflakes lest we lose potential students. But when guys like Christopher Nolan (not one of Martin’s fellow classicists, but one of his fellow old white men with cultural capital) just use antiquity to bemoan the broad decline of civilization, I think we should question that. The film’s political resonances are weird and, to my mind at least, parrot a lot of conservative rhetoric. Nolan’s changes to the text are key to that; they are not neutral and have narrative and political implications. Regardless of whether or not he meant it to come off that way, I think it’s worth talking about, especially given the ways that classical antiquity, as supposed paragon of ~Western Civilization~, is utilized on the political right.

I'm a professional classical scholar, and I'm not "happy with Nolan’s version." I recognize that it is a version, and there's validity to making huge changes when adapting a text. I have loved adaptations of Greek myth that are far less "accurate" than this (O Brother Where Art Thou comes to mind). But the changes that Nolan made are conservative, misogynist, and support imperialist ideas of "Western Civilization." We don't need to be praising him for casting the brilliant and beautiful Lupita Nyong'o as Helen when he only gives her three minutes of screen time, during which she is relegated to being Menelaus's punching bag.

This is about the issues in qualifying, which was a different problem from the lap 1 issue that hit both Kimi and George, but by the circumstances of their positioning on the grid and what happened in those first five turns had different outcomes

You’re years too late to be recognizing the threat of US government mass surveillance, bud.

sources for gender distribution of classics degrees

Amy Coney Barrett is so close to learning that treating guns the same as speech, it turns out, is one of the worst ideas ever.