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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 · 27m

My thoughts exactly.

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 22h

A cool charity in Hoxton that teaches & gives disadvantaged kids skills in filmmaking has asked me a question:

Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run?

They've been doing good work for 25+ years.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 2h

Bona fide theatre nerd endorsing this.

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2h

1) People are allowed to experience art without knowing all about it in advance, and
2) baffled frustration is 100% a valid and reasonable response to that motherfucking play

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 7h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 4h

And just as I was starting to get over Cronenberg making an NFT...

The rhetorical defense of AI here is *such* sophomoric debate club nonsense. The only comparison between now and the Renaissance is that a bunch of really evil families have all the money.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 19h

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 4h

Old Athens: High hopes
#Athens #UrbanPhotography

The facade of old military officer’s academy, the Evelpidon school, or school of those with high hopes, founded in the 19th century to craft modern military officers for the new Republic. A large complex built by Ernst Ziller in his signature high neoclassical style, it is now mostly hidden by metal fencing covered in graffiti, the horizontal lines of the barrier contrasting with the vertical columns of the gracious old building, painted in ochre, white, and tera cotta, and topped with a Greek flag.
Several military institutions still are housed there, I believe, as are law courts of the civil judicial system. I imagine you can get there on foot from somewhere, but not from this imposing old facade.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 10h

Can't even imagine the level of threats and rage that went into coercing Netanyahu to get the deal done before the Peace Prize is announced Friday.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 1d

Ruins of Athens: Behind the green door.
#Athens #UrbanPhotography

Image 1. Colour photo. An Athenian modernist garden gate in black-painted metal, with a solid panel below and square and rectangular bars above. The bars have been backed with a light green piece of foam insulation, the corner roughly cut out to allow access to the interior handle, the gate being held shut by a chain. This cheap and informal security hack suggests the building is being squatted. Some stairs can be discerned through the hole. More details in image 2.

Image 2. Colour photo. The view through the hole in the green insulation sheet in image 1. A small front courtyard and stairs leading to an open front door, the layout typical of ordinary housing, neither poor nor prosperous, in early-mid 20th Century Athens. A sturdy, simple little house. The house resembles a building site, with unrendered walls in concrete grey and no front door. Tiles in the courtyard, concrete steps. Nevertheless, it’s clean and tidy, several well-tended green plants brighten up the courtyard, several sets of shoes sit on the doorstep beside a shopping bag, and more plants, possibly artificial, adorn the front hallway along with a mirror. Someone is trying to make this place look attractive.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 20h

This is almost a genius post, but you got one name wrong. Excellent idea, though.

Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, good for you! I did the same a few years ago, and well remember being bare able to stand up afterward, at first. It is the most tremendous tonic, eventually, I promise.

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 1d

There must be a kind of traditional Tory, still, somewhere, surely, who looks at this aghast. Who believes in culture, and associated colonial ideals of supremacy. Who holds in highest esteem the study of the English canon at Britain's great old universities. For whom this is what national pride is.

Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 1d

I’d be a little less confident talking about “rip-off degrees like English” if I’d just misspelled the name of my country on my promotional chocolate.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 1d

Ruins of Athens: Behind the green door.
#Athens #UrbanPhotography

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 1d

Because second and third days are often the achiest, because when the body starts suddenly gett serious exertion it takes a while to adjust. Welcome to the fear-of-aging-exercisers club.

Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 1d

I think it might be, yes.

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 1d

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 2d

Old Athens: Neon depths.
#Athens #UrbanPhotography

Colour photo. Evening: looking down into the basement space of a commercial arcade (stoa) in the centre of Athens. Terrazzo flooring above, dimly lit, as are worn and cracked grey marble steps leading to a second terrazzo floored corridor below, which is brightly lit by neon. There’s a small placard on the wall with a display of artificial flowers and a sign advertising a business that makes them. These spaces, inside commercial buildings downtown, and largely dating from the mid 20th Century used to bustle with small shops and workshops - tailors, key-cutters, electricians, travel agents, and cottage industries on the smallest scale. They are now largely unoccupied, though some are more full than others and few are entirely deserted.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 2d

I believe we are currently meant to be angry, although I do my best to mute all relevant discussion.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 2d

I see a lot of "what did you expect?!?" posts on bluesky this week regarding the American electorate and Trump.

I'll be honest with you. I study authoritarianism elsewhere and I expected much of this. I did not expect any of it to happen so quickly or for institutions to surrender so abjectly.

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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 2d

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 2d

Scrolling
#Athens #UrbanPhotography

Colour photo. Seen through the scrollwork, vertical bars, and circle of of railings, the tiled open-air passage between two low neoclassical houses and the courtyard behind, showing further buildings in the background behind a tree. This is, I am pretty sure, a squat, in what was once a neighbourhood of sturdy and attractive working class housing, then neglected and increasingly abandoned buildings, and which is now near the cutting edge of the Airbnb boom.

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 3d

LAST ORDERS, FOLKS! This closes at midnight tonight!

It’ll take you ten mins, your anonymised answers will be used for the good of the whole comics scene, and you might win £50 to spend in your favourite online comic shop... 💰📕 ✅

Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby!

Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something.

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

A promotional image for the survey, reading “we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in?” Above a series of illustrated raised hands in various styles. At the bottom is the url ukcomicscreators.org.uk

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 3d

Yikes. Crucial is right.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 3d

Is it true? Is it false? Does he know he’s lying? Or is he high on his own supply of bullshit? None of it matters. It’s bullshit. All that matters is that it (claims that blue cities are dangerous & lawless) is useful, and he seems to think it is. So then, useful for what? Seems like we’ll find out.

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