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corynomu.bsky.social @corynomu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Same, but somehow I don’t think they are meaning to evoke the artist’s existential dread about progress and modernity

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026

Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family.

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

When some on the right speak of reverence for “civilization,” what they’re doing is trying to anachronistically justify the hierarchy of race they would like to see enacted today by rooting it in antiquity. You cannot cast Black people in The Odyssey, because The Odyssey is a pillar of “Western civilization,” which they consider to be white. This faction of the far right imagines antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe of utterly separate civilizations, one in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist.

But Greece is not as far from Africa as the North American continent is, and the modern construct of race, a pseudoscientific product of the Atlantic slave trade, would not be invented until thousands of years after Homer. Black people are depicted in Greek art. Egypt, Libya, and “Aethiopia” are frequently referenced in ancient writings. As the Black classics scholar Frank Snowden Jr. wrote in the 1970s, at least one of the characters in The Odyssey, Eurybates, is specifically described as “black-skinned and woolly-haired.” As the Stanford classics professor Sarah Derbew notes in her book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Black people are referenced in plays by Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. They also appear in the writings of Hesiod and Herodotus. One of the lost epic poems is The Aethiopis, in which Memnon, the Aethiopian king and an ally to Troy, plays a major role.

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corynomu.bsky.social @corynomu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

That’s fair! Totally agree. Leni Riefensthal’s films were bad art, but it was art nonetheless, I guess.

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corynomu.bsky.social @corynomu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

In fairness, I don’t think he’s saying propaganda can’t be art or that art can’t be used as propaganda, but that that if something “only” aims to advance a political agenda then it’s “just” propaganda and not both art and propaganda. But I don’t think either Sinners or OBAA suffer from this problem!

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corynomu.bsky.social @corynomu.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

“Cleaning dust off your floor can be one of those everyday tasks that becomes a constant pain. This Shaker style broom made our Wirecutter tester cherish what used to be a chore.”

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corynomu.bsky.social @corynomu.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I love the aesthetics of a donabe, but as a person of Japanese descent, I have to say I have never seen anyone use this to cook rice over a rice cooker. Like, get real.

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corynomu.bsky.social @corynomu.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Maybe he needs to be reminded who is in the pictures.

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corynomu.bsky.social @corynomu.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This is Trading Spaces-level interior decorating

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corynomu.bsky.social @corynomu.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Very cute Asics x APC collab outfit

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corynomu.bsky.social @corynomu.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I saw this exhibition and here is a picture of the wall label in the room that says “Gonzalez-Torres cared for his partner Ross Laycock, named in the candy work's title, who died from HIV/AIDS in 1991.” I’m puzzled by what the writer thinks is being erased.

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