One detail Nolan got wrong in The Odyssey is a key detail that EVERY SINGLE ADAPTATION of the Odyssey has gotten wrong for centuries In ancient Greece, the sirens were NOT voluptuous mermaids. They were birds with human heads A short thread of sirens in art 1/5
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MelArch 🕊️🇨🇦🌻
Профиль VivelyUofC Alumna. Mother, Wife, Albertan. Not AI 😂 Interests: Sarcasm, Plants 🌱🪴, Learning📚. Strongly Opposed to Reactionary Politics.
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Oh, and stop using the stupid "elephant versus mouse" metaphor. Canada has the 11th largest economy in the world. We're no mouse. If we started restricting oil and potash, the US would feel very real pain. We can hurt these fuckers. We *should* hurt these fuckers. Too bad our PM is a coward.
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Government-promoted anti-intellectualism is a common feature of fascist states, with “intellectualism” coded as feminine and/or Jewish/leftist.
NPRIf an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?
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Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.
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My sincere respect to Leonid for this decision. The MLI has become a hotbed of unprincipled, simplistic, and ugly attacks on the courts in the past year or two. It has left the Institute's reputation in tatters, and should concern anyone committed to judicial independence and the rule of law.
Leonid SirotaI have resigned as Senior Fellow of the Macdonald Laurier Institute, which in my view has abandoned its commitment to constitutionalism and the Rule of Law in Canada and become adverse to these principles. A bit more on my reasons for having come to this conclusion: doubleaspect.blog/2026/06/24/n...
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I have said it before, I will say it again. Every single councillor and the mayor should be required to take transit from their residence in their ward to work (i.e.: City Hall) once per week. Calgary Transit will better for all Calgarians when the decision makers use the services of the city. 7/
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NEW from us, on the latest wrinkles in the AHS/Mentzelopoulos/Mraiche affair: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”
The UnPopulistKennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.
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Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5