Niels Grotum
@ngrotum.bsky.social
Pronounced with the umpty.
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Aw dang. Now I want to skip going to bed and spend the night drinking and listening to old Stax records instead.
RIP Steve Cropper
December 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Aw dang. Now I want to skip going to bed and spend the night drinking and listening to old Stax records instead.
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ok, this is my favorite so far:
October 17, 2024 at 3:18 PM
ok, this is my favorite so far:
Good for the Dutch. And the Spanish, the Irish, the Slovenians. And Iceland deciding next week.
Not great for our national broadcaster, who still maintains that participating in Eurovision is an apolitical choice.
Not great for our national broadcaster, who still maintains that participating in Eurovision is an apolitical choice.
🇳🇱 BREAKING: Netherlands withdraws from #Eurovision 2026, following the results of the EBU General Assembly today.
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Good for the Dutch. And the Spanish, the Irish, the Slovenians. And Iceland deciding next week.
Not great for our national broadcaster, who still maintains that participating in Eurovision is an apolitical choice.
Not great for our national broadcaster, who still maintains that participating in Eurovision is an apolitical choice.
Havin' fun!
sometimes a masterpiece is too good to wait. from the upcoming show Strip Law, I give you the song "Pizza Party"
(a song written for a scene where i was just like lets have some fun pizza party music and then composer Casey Trela went Mozart-level hard)
(a song written for a scene where i was just like lets have some fun pizza party music and then composer Casey Trela went Mozart-level hard)
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Havin' fun!
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GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat—beautiful and terrible to behold!
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
October 15, 2023 at 4:56 PM
GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat—beautiful and terrible to behold!
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
Logeion Wrapped: "Once again, it's basically just ‘fero’ on repeat all year, isn't it? Wait, you're actually looking it up again right now. Rude."
Would 100% be sharing my Oracc Wrapped.
Can’t wait to share my Loeb Classical Library Online Wrapped with everyone 🤗
December 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Logeion Wrapped: "Once again, it's basically just ‘fero’ on repeat all year, isn't it? Wait, you're actually looking it up again right now. Rude."
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Classical scholars may be interested in their edition of Alcestis, as interpreted by Sonia H. Greene and H.P. Lovecraft, which is one of those "you can't make this up" pieces of literary history www.helios.house/books/alcestis
Alcestis: A Play — Helios House Press
www.helios.house
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Classical scholars may be interested in their edition of Alcestis, as interpreted by Sonia H. Greene and H.P. Lovecraft, which is one of those "you can't make this up" pieces of literary history www.helios.house/books/alcestis
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So I ended up having a really nice talk with the hand. He said he wasn't surprised that the face isn't listening. Said the face has been in a bad place since getting laid off and has started using again. We both want to help the face but obviously there's only so much you can do.
December 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
So I ended up having a really nice talk with the hand. He said he wasn't surprised that the face isn't listening. Said the face has been in a bad place since getting laid off and has started using again. We both want to help the face but obviously there's only so much you can do.
I was like, "Good gracious!"
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I was like, "Good gracious!"
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Currently at the Swedish Institute in Athens for the soft launch of www.periegesis.org/en/, which provides raw data of Pausanias's places, objects, people and events; side-by-side enriched texts in ancient Greek and English; maps and network graphs; and links to global authorities, e.g. Wikidata
Digital Periegesis of Pausanias Description of Greece - Periegesis Hellados
Visualization in maps and downloadable tables of places, events and persons mentioned in Pausanias’ Description of Greece
www.periegesis.org
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Currently at the Swedish Institute in Athens for the soft launch of www.periegesis.org/en/, which provides raw data of Pausanias's places, objects, people and events; side-by-side enriched texts in ancient Greek and English; maps and network graphs; and links to global authorities, e.g. Wikidata
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Job announcements: PhD position and postdoc position in Indo-European Studies in Copenhagen
A PhD position (36 months) and a postdoc position (20 months) have been announced within the research project “The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated” (rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/rese...).
A PhD position (36 months) and a postdoc position (20 months) have been announced within the research project “The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated” (rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/rese...).
The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated – University of Copenhagen
rootsofeurope.ku.dk
December 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Job announcements: PhD position and postdoc position in Indo-European Studies in Copenhagen
A PhD position (36 months) and a postdoc position (20 months) have been announced within the research project “The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated” (rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/rese...).
A PhD position (36 months) and a postdoc position (20 months) have been announced within the research project “The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated” (rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/rese...).
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I thought I could not be shocked by what prominent transphobes feel able to say about me. Turns out I was wrong.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I thought I could not be shocked by what prominent transphobes feel able to say about me. Turns out I was wrong.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
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Shared Fantasy, the first sociological monograph about roleplaying games, is about a period when established players are dealing with a new wave of younger players with different priorities. The period is 1978.
A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Shared Fantasy, the first sociological monograph about roleplaying games, is about a period when established players are dealing with a new wave of younger players with different priorities. The period is 1978.
Had to look up who Matt Mercer is because I am An Old and yeah, this seems fine.
The truth is that more people playing DnD today know who Matt Mercer is than know who Gary Gygax is and with good and appropriate reason.
November 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Had to look up who Matt Mercer is because I am An Old and yeah, this seems fine.
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RIP Tom Stoppard who did so much incredible work, not least writing every single line of dialogue in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard who did so much incredible work, not least writing every single line of dialogue in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.
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I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
Sometimes The Onion is fierce, brutal satire, sometimes it's just a delight.
Local Yak Makes Plea For Greater Understanding Between the Sexes https://theonion.com/local-yak-makes-plea-for-greater-understanding-between-1819564117/
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sometimes The Onion is fierce, brutal satire, sometimes it's just a delight.
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top notch mascottin'
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
top notch mascottin'
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Caught Stealing is now free on Netflix. Unfairly overlooked banger, imo vincemancini.substack.com/p/caught-ste...
'Caught Stealing' is the Best Y2K Indie Crime Movie Since the Y2K Era
Darren Aronofsky's gourmet 'Go' joins 'Weapons' and 'Sinners' in bringing back movie magic.
vincemancini.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Caught Stealing is now free on Netflix. Unfairly overlooked banger, imo vincemancini.substack.com/p/caught-ste...
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There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
BOSTON—Prematurely assuming he had reached the end of the 1977 rock masterpiece, local man Peter Verran, who thought Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” was over, was reportedly in for the thrill of his fucki...
theonion.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
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Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
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Now up on @yahoosports.bsky.social.
I wrote about the explosive Chicago Bears offense.
sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/...
I wrote about the explosive Chicago Bears offense.
sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/...
Bears' offense is humming under Ben Johnson, and it's thanks to more than just Caleb Williams' development
With the Bears, the discussion always turns toward Caleb Williams, and his play has certainly been encouraging. But Ben Johnson's offense builds truly builds out from another area.
sports.yahoo.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Now up on @yahoosports.bsky.social.
I wrote about the explosive Chicago Bears offense.
sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/...
I wrote about the explosive Chicago Bears offense.
sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/...
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With this, and still more with the laments of academics about marking, it becomes clear: GenAI is an energy vampire, feasting on our frustration and misery. The agonies of colleagues at having to waste time on this crap must be especially delicious.
thesphinxblog.com/2025/11/27/a...
thesphinxblog.com/2025/11/27/a...
Are We Human, Or Are We Chancer?
It’s weird that I haven’t seen any discussion of this, as it seems improbable that the robots would choose the University of Exeter’s Classics Department as the bridgehead for world conquest, but t…
thesphinxblog.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
With this, and still more with the laments of academics about marking, it becomes clear: GenAI is an energy vampire, feasting on our frustration and misery. The agonies of colleagues at having to waste time on this crap must be especially delicious.
thesphinxblog.com/2025/11/27/a...
thesphinxblog.com/2025/11/27/a...
You've gotta be thankful.
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
You've gotta be thankful.