Graeme Thomson

@graemethomson.bsky.social

British politics is a bin fire, obvs, but it's been nice to have had a week mostly free of Trump's bellowing mendacity/stupidity/hostility echoing around the place.

Dante Atkins

@danteatkins.bsky.social

New rule: you can only opine on the casting choices of Nolan's Odyssey adaptation if you can tell me what language was likely spoken in Bronze Age Troy

Joe Sheehan

@sheehannewsletter.bsky.social

Wrote about the weird digression over the last week, with the ball posting low drag figures while offense and slugging crater. (h/t @matrueblood.bsky.social for the idea) Excerpt:

www.joesheehan.com

The Newsletter turns 16 Sunday. Last day to get 16% off for 16 months.

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A is for Ahab

@aisforahab.bsky.social

Now Jonah's Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.

The Vagabond Tabby

@thevagabondtabby.bsky.social

Do

To do any one; to rob and cheat him. I have done him; I have robbed him. Also to overcome in a boxing match: witness those laconic lines written on the field of battle, by Humphreys to his patron.—’Sir, I have done the Jew.’

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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crafting a magic brushbug dreamhouse for coco

@calamitybeach.bsky.social

do you think that as hraesvelgr and nidhogg gouged each other with fang and claw on the final steps of faith, they remembered when they were wyrmlings and would tumble and play together?

Nixa Sedes, MD

@nixassedes.bsky.social

Lymph node remodelling underlies the attenuated form of HIV/AIDS in people with HIV-2 🔓
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UK News 🇬🇧

@news-flows-uk.bsky.social

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans review – immensely enjoyable return of the epistolary novel

This moving work about an irascible woman in her 70s who conducts her most intimate relationships through letters has been shortlisted for the Women’s prize Epistolary novels were once all the rage,...

Liz Renner, Ph.D.

@lizrenner.bsky.social

I've been reckoning w/a recalcitrant bout of insomnia in recent weeks as my postdoc contract draws to a close. Unable to sleep whatsoever Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, I rose at 5 AM for a morning workout before work, then set alarms for a 1-hr power nap that evening b4 trivia w/my friends. 🧵

Joe

@caballojoe.bsky.social

Two guys were coming out of a series of meetings at the White House. One complained about the monotony. "All day long it was discuss foreign policy, wake up Trump, discuss deportations, wake up Trump, discuss tax policy, wake up Trump." "Well, at least he stayed awake for the ballroom report..."