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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 3h

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Meanwhile: bsky.app/profile/shim...

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 2h

Just to furious to type - or proofread.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 3h

Empires fall. Athena’s temple stands.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 3h

Tyranny has pulled this trick here before, and no doubt will again. www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?...

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Hymn 28 to Athena, Εἲς Ἀθήναν

And also: The Venetian and British empires did a great deal more harm to the Periclean monuments of the Acropolis than the Ottomans. And then the Americans razed an entire working class neighbourhood so they could use the ancient Agora in their culture war against the Soviets.

When the power and the money shifted, it was rededicated to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, the Emperor Augustus’s right-hand guy who helped him overthrow the Roman republic. He was guid at building, unlike the current U.S. leadership, and he built us a nice odeon. Thanks, Agrippa.

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You can see the Agrippa pedestal to the left of Rubio’s shoulder. It was originally built for a monument to a king of Pergamon, to celebrate his chariot victory in the Panathenaic games - that’s ‘thanks for spending your tourist dollars here’ in Ancient Greek

but hey, take a look at my header.

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Is it infuriating that the world’s most famous fascist regime used it as a backdrop? Sure. I’m angrier with the slimy subservience of the Greek government that allowed it.

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The acropolis of Athens has been bombed, ransacked for building materials and munitions, built on, and fired at. Famously, it’s had many of its most beautiful pieces pried and sawn off and shipped overseas. It’s had a swastika draped on it.

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Athens has been colonised before. Those pretty sunlit columns behind Rubio have had monuments to foreign kings added to them - a couple of those are still there. The Parthenon has been a church, and a mosque, and then a different sect’s church. It’s been a house.

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I know, I promised to stay away from politics.

How many people who saw that fucking picture even know what the Pnyx is or why it matters?

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 9h

The Nazis put their flag on the Parthenon too.

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🚨 Latest from the border wall blockade: tree sit is still up, one land defender is locked down to machinery, Border Patrol has wrapped a Mylar blanket around them and is running the truck and pumping the blanket full of exhaust to try to gas them out, potentially killing them.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Anyone here got experience of working with a dramaturg to develop a script, especially a verbatim script? Would you be willing to talk to me about it? I am possibly looking for a dramaturg to collaborate with, but also I’d love to hear your take on the process. #theatre #theater #plays #dramaturgy

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 22h

Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 22h

Drizzled with olive oil, here. No za’atar, just oregano. Feta. Tomatoes if I’ve got good ones. But mostly avoiding bread these years, as the rest of me doesn’t seem to like it as much as my mouth does.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 23h

Gods, I hope you’re right. I often miss when people are being funny in this way. My mother has a horror of butter, and we didn’t have it in the house, so my relationship with it is unusual. I do love toast dripping with melted butter though (a special treat available from my divorced dad).

Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That sounds unpleasant. (I am of the opinion that ‘rat’ is like ‘cockroach’, where the singular is a misnomer; there is never just one.)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The five habits of highly successful opposition leaders:

1 Get a popular leader, or at least one who is less unpopular than their rivals.
2 Move towards the party that defeated you.
There is usually a reason why voters picked it, which should give you a clue about what direction you need to move in.
Neutralise your areas of weakness. In our country, for the Tories that typically requires that they minimise fears that they will knacker public services; for Labour that generally requires it to minimise fears that it will spend like a drunk in a casino.
4 Convince voters that you are competent and that you've changed.
5 Form a viable programme for government.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It does vary - posture, time of day, what kind of exercise you’ve been doing or not doing, hydration, stuff like that.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Πολλούς παπάδες βλέπω στο κέντρο σήμερα, έχει συνέδριο;

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I did. It wasn’t exactly what I thought I was signing up for, but it was interesting, seems likely to improve my skills, and it means I’m going to know people who are trying to break into/are on the fringes of the professional theatre world here. Those are my people, and they seem a nice bunch.

Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I went to a workshop yesterday and it was the first time I’ve been in a rehearsal studio working on skills here, the first time I’ve shown up as an actor in Greek, and one of a scant handful of times I’ve been in the same physical space as other performers since 2020.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/10/2026

Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value. OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.

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OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field (Gift Article)

After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What I have been practicing lately is that when I see something the young are into and feel excluded by their delight in it, catch myself thinking “I don’t understand this,” I add “and that’s okay, it’s a good thing, and how culture evolves”.