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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · 8h

Jasmine Crockett was at the Houston rally

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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · 9h

My brain wayyyy misread that and for a minute I thought it said all you wanted was a Coke Zero. And tbh, same.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

They joined Bluesky because they can’t live without your attention. They don’t want to govern, they don’t even really want to “win” in a conventional sense, they just want to play online all day owning libs and it drives them crazy when they lose access to your one wild and precious life.

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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · 2d

I think every horse I’ve ever ridden over a fence has been massively underwhelmed. I’d be happy with simply whelmed, these days!

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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · 4d

I will report back 🫡

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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · 4d

I want to hug a raccoon so badly. Unfortunately I’m a little too attached to my face to attempt it.

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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · 6d

I’m really looking forward to this; I’m enjoying McGill & Wright’s translation, and they’re both at Rice! Love to see Houston represented here.

EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 6d

NYC, 92st Y: The Aeneid, with translators Scott McGill and Susannah Wright. www.92ny.org/event/scott-...

www.92ny.org

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 8d

seeing a lot of hubris these days and not a lot of greek mythology type consequences

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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · 10d

Pulling books off the shelf for research and was delighted to see I’d stuck my favorite bookplate in @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social translation of The Iliad.

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 16d

Medea’s Speech: The Natalie Haynes Translation ❤️‍🔥🏛️

This is my version of the famous monologue, translated in preparation for writing No Friend to This House…

youtube.com/shorts/6LXKX...

Medea’s Speech: The Natalie Haynes Translation ❤️‍🔥🏛️

YouTube video by Natalie Haynes

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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · Sep 18

I’d be happy just to get out of a red state.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · Aug 14

When OLED TVs debuted the manufacturers knew they were susceptible to screen burn-in but only if the user has the same image on screen for like 12 hours at a time. Then a lot of older buyers burned the cable news logos into their screens because it's on the entire time they're awake.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Aug 14

I guess on a very basic level we need to tell people over and over that watching cable news is not something a smart person does it’s the opposite of that. You can feel free to watch Top Chef or baseball or Mario 64 speedruns, none of them, genuinely, will make you as ignorant as CNN shouty bullshit

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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · Aug 5

Oops, didn’t tag @nikitagill.bsky.social properly!

Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · Aug 5

Saving this one for the car ride with the kid this evening, he’s hooked. Also, thanks for the @nikitagill Hekate rec - got it preordered! September is gonna be a busy month for good books!

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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · Jul 22

This was so good! The 12 year old and I listened in the car and he didn’t make a sound the entire time (he was really into it, usually he’s yapping when I try to listen)

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · Jul 20

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · Jul 14

Preordered a signed UK version (as well as unsigned, ordered previously), and will probably get the US version as well. I will be awash in Medea!

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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · Jul 1

And it takes years for fruit trees to be big enough to have decent yields unless you’re buying wildly expensive mature trees. Anyway my mom grows corn and ants ate most of it. This is a stellar plan that can’t fail in the dumbest ways possible.

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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · Jul 1

If nothing else, 1 acre will not sustain all of this and livestock too.

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · Jun 27

You can see a marked Border Patrol vehicle

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jun 27

Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this?

Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.

She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.

Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · Jun 16

Truly - I always think how crazy it is that the Chicxulub crater has been found and we know exactly where the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs landed.

Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · Jun 13

Working my way through Kerenyi’s Eleusis. Really, really interesting and way less dry than I figured it would be.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jun 7

*sitting in a government reeducation camp talking about how much this fucking sucks*

some random asshole: and you’re SURPRISED?

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Clytemnestra (Aeschylus’s version) @empireoflight.bsky.social · May 24

Boden kids always has the cutest kids’ clothes 😭 every time they’d have a sale I’d grab stuff for my son. They could scrap the adult stuff altogether and just be a kids’ brand.