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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

How embarassing for you to not understanding the difference between a myth and just fictional characters. Also, mythical characters (human or not) are strictly linked to a specific people. I have no issues with a black (or any other race) actor. I have issues with distorting Homer's spirit.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Obviously. They are Greek myths. But Nyongo seems to be ok with ignoring race in Greek mythology but not with African one. So, it's a double-standard issue or doesn't she understand that Homer is mythology and not "adventure novel"?

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

There are different translations. Otherwise, why are you preferring one instead of another?

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I didn't object anything about race. Pls re-read my post and try to understand it.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

And? That's not "human engineering". It's a man-made toy imitating an insect shape (and not even moving decently). Insects have a huge power/weight ratio. Do we know how that toy is made? No. How about a 300HP steel sheep vs a real sheep, just for example?

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

You enjoying it doesn't mean it's "the best version". Maybe it's the most enjoyable for a modern American. But then you're not reading THE Odyssey, you're reading a novel based on the Odyssey's "plot".

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

black roles. But according to Nyongo that's not correct when portraying African myths.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

In fact, the point is not the actress's colour. It's the way the Odyssey has been treated: as a "modern version" of a novel. Anyway, Helen was not just a fictional character (as well as Ulysses and any other character): she was an archetype. For the same reason, you could have white actors playing

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Actually, no. She was part of a myth. Not the same thing.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Wilson's Odyssey is fiction (actually, modern fiction, by the way she treats the characters). The Odyssey is myth.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Likely the worst. Treating a myth as it was just an adventure novel and making a "modern" version of it. No respect for its nature.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

No. Expecially because Odyssey is a MYTH, not an adventure novel (although that translation massacred it.)

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

…myths should be played only by black actors. Oh! So, a double standard? What about a movie based on the American Revolution with Paul Revere as a Chinese on a taxi? Would you find it a "nice modern touch"? Remember: Odyssey is not "fiction". It's a MYTH, almost akin to a religious saga.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

… etc. The Odyssey is a MYTH, summing up the nature of ancient Greeks and if you change its spirit, you're just raping its value in order to get fame and/or money out of it. BTW, all that fuss about a black Helen being right or wrong… That same actress, when playing Black Panther, said that African…

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

NO. Emily Wilson distorted the Odyssey by making it "modern". She (and Nolan and most Americans) doesn't understand (or doesn't WANT to understand) that the Odyssey is NOT an "old" adventure novel that you can re-elaborate and make it "modern" by cleaning it from ancient concepts like patriarchy…

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Al centro commerciale dove vado ci sono un paio di file di carrelli bloccate da carrelli a loro volta bloccati dalla trovata del "McGiver de noantri" (che evidentemente non poteva permettersi di impegnare 1 euro per un'ora).

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

She wants to work as "tourist on a beach".

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Because Nolan doesn't understand what a "myth" is. He thinks Odyssey is just an adventure novel and he can use it as the plot for the nth Hollywood remake.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Non so come funzionino le elezioni in Germania ma se tutti 'sti "baldi giovini" se ne vanno al fronte in Donbas, prob non saranno a casa per votare…

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Per la precisione, è l'aspettativa di vita media di una nuova recluta se mandata in prima linea… ma va bene così. Mica andranno là per restare nelle retrovie, no?

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

While I heard that Lupita was adamant about black myths being played only by black actors.

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AllCuteDemocratsHere @democratcutie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A Special kind of stupid is way too common in this country and is only surpassed by its racism.

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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“I don't get political” translates to “This isn't hurting me yet and I don't care that it's hurting you.”

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

La "legittima difesa" di Meloni contro Vannacci…

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Considering the respect Nolan has for the poem, I wouldn't be surprised by an "alternative" ending.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Nolan thinks the Odyssey is just another book to use as a plot for an adventure Hollywood movie, probably 'cause he used the wrong translation. The Odyssey is a MYTH of a specific culture, not very far from a religious text. He can ignore it but pls be honest and don't say it's your "version".

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Newsmedia could sum up Trump's claims with: "Trump says all the elections he won or his admin managed were rigged."

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Maigret (Bruno Cremer)

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So, basically, Russian farmers have no gas to harvest grain. If they can harvest it, there's no gas to shift it by truck to a port. If it gets to a port, there are no intact ships to send it away.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Not "to the front". To first line assault.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So, they're selling an insider trading tool.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/07/2026

one of my favorite lenses for looking at american history is “country shaped by successive generations of people experiencing religious psychosis”

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Valerio Minato spent six years planning a photograph aligning the Basilica of Superga, Mount Monviso, and the Moon. The image earned international recognition after NASA selected it as Astronomy Picture of the Day.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Aside from what he really thinks, he knows that the very moment he says "that", Trump will dump him.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Sì, le app di news integrate nei vari sistemi operativi. Quando avevo un Samsung non riuscivo ad evitarle. Da quando uso Android cinesi riesco a spegnerle. Insieme alle inutili e insulse news arrivano le pubblicità. Ovviamente non puoi evitare gli annunci dentro le app che usi gratis.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Vero. Ma un attore non sarebbe un "tecnico" della politica (e Presidente non è un ruolo "specialistico" in nessun campo). Quello che intendo è che un generale non è necessariamente un buon Min.Difesa, così come un insegnate non è necessariamente un buon Min. Educazione, ecc.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Ho visto un esperimento fatto da Aschedamini (v. il suo canale YT) con telefono spento o acceso e si confermava la cosa. Anche a noi in casa succede. O meglio, a mia moglie e figlio. Io ho disabilitato tutti i servizi di "news" che tanto mandano solo pettegolezzi e minchiate + pubblicità.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I heard somebody say that sometime ago Nyong'o stated that "black mythology" should be represented only by black actors.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Be', non necessariamente un grande "tecnico" è un grande ministro (che sarebbe un ruolo più politico). Ma speriamo bene. Forse, durante una guerra va bene così.

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Duro @duro59.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Eh! La buona, vecchia selezione naturale! Un tempo, l'idiota usciva dalla caverna senza guardare e il leone se lo mangiava. Oggi, l'idiota esce dallo "stop" senza guardare e mette sotto un ciclista/motociclista/ecc.

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