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A couple of older women saw me stretching my hip flexors while waiting for BART and now we’re all doing mobility stretches together

I really need rectangle wired glasses to go away, it’s bringing up memories long since buried

Sometimes Berkeley is pretty, pretty, pretty good

i understand why it's spring cleaning and not 'hot, sunny day cleaning'

What’s up with $100 tshirts, who is falling for that scam

August 1st means Californians can officially use DROP to delete their data from Data Brokers! privacy.ca.gov

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I’m sorry there’s “Instagram for TV” now?

LRB having Wilson's essay on The Odyssey and NYRB having Mendelsohn's is hilarious

What’s funny about The Odyssey is I don’t even care for Nolan that much. But people be wildin’.

The extent to which the whole Sophie sitch is manufactured to test the W’s willingness to cave is so telling

Classic heads rightfully dogpiling on the Aeneid, but I still love the moment Aeneas sees Dido in the underworld. It’s so metal in Latin and I’ll always love her as a character in classical texts.

730 Stanyan is finally open, totally fine and normal for affordable housing to take 8 years to build

I have unfortunately trained myself to do RDLs to Shakira and idk how to free myself from this prison

Anyway i'm just grateful most mainstream audiences don't bother care about accuracy in plays or operas, give me all the postmodern versions of The Ring Cycle or Aeschylus' Tragedies you can

i like and respect Emily Wilson a lot, but her LRB commentary on Nolan's Odyssey is ... weird? "Unlike some of Nolan’s other films, The Odyssey is not boring" There's a lot you can criticize Nolan for, but how can you accuse him of being boring?