Emily Deming

Even the introduction to @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social 's Iliad translation is breaking me open. I knew it was a good move to wait and read it when I really needed it.

29.07.2025 11:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Your aperiodic reminder that Mercury has a weirdly HUGE core for reasons we do not yet understand.

It's less a planet and more a molten ball bearing wrapped in a thin blanket of rock.

17.04.2025 17:19 — 👍 9426    🔁 946    💬 520    📌 153

Poilievre Stop in Fish Plant Smells | Canadian Journalist Conservative Party of Canada election campaign stop in a fishing village in Newfoundland turns into a spectacle of party animosity towards media coverage.

It's an old but extremely effective trick to accuse someone of being the aggressor while sucker-punching them (every sibling knows this).

Politicians who cry foul on reporters as loud as they can are afraid of their own foul acts being seen.

tinyurl.com/StafferStinks

04.04.2025 12:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

16.02.2025 15:14 — 👍 28080    🔁 13108    💬 2037    📌 1620

Step 1: Canada agrees to join US on the condition that each province is a state

Step 2: Give Dems overwhelming majorities in the Electoral College and Congress

Step 3: We get whatever we want, then give Canada its autonomy back and toss in North Dakota as a token of appreciation

13.02.2025 02:35 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0