Reposted by Niels GrotumGlennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 3hwhen you think it’s home time but there’s still 40 minutes to go 214934
Reposted by Niels GrotumNeville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 3hOn robots, cats, slaves and nakedness. thesphinxblog.com/2026/10/16/c...thesphinxblog.comClose To YouOne of the foundational texts of my early studies in ancient history – one of these days it might be interesting to think about which of the things I read as an undergraduate had the biggest … 232
Reposted by Niels GrotumMarta Zboralska @martazb.bsky.social · 6hThis is good www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-... 23628
Reposted by Niels GrotumJim Unwin @jimunwin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Found a folder of oil rigs. Not sure what I was researching? 1129149
Reposted by Niels GrotumEvan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s… 613285930
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026We've finally built Vault-Tec, from the video game series Don't Build Vault-Tec. 000
Reposted by Niels GrotumThe Hellenic Society @hellenicsociety.bsky.social · 13/10/2026'Where to start with: Anne Carson' 🏺 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...theguardian.comWhere to start with: Anne CarsonFrom essays on sexual jealousy to retellings of classical Greek tragedies, here’s a guide to the Nobel prize winning writer’s catalogue of work 052
Reposted by Niels GrotumLilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026missed National Coming Out Day. but came across this screenshot of the mass email i sent 12 years ago! 197113121760
Reposted by Niels GrotumCurtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 13/10/2026My latest for Salon, on Rubio's speech in Greece last week. With ongoing ICE violence, Hegseth calling for a public execution, $6/gal diesel, and embrace of AI nobody is falling for it anymore 1249
Reposted by Niels GrotumJourdan Rodrigue @jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social · 13/10/2026There were many NFL Week 5 standouts, from touchdowns to sacks. But you can argue that Jaguars holder Logan Cooke had the most elite individual performance of them all. From London, the unsung heroes that totally swung a game took me inside every incredible detail: www.nytimes.com/athletic/768...nytimes.comThe inside story of how unsung heroes flipped a Week 5 NFL game on its head (Gift Article)A former pitcher, a soccer dreamer and a fill-in snapper collaborated on some special teams magic for the Jaguars. 36710
Reposted by Niels GrotumMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 12/10/2026A haunted house where every room has several colleagues to whom you owe work, or email responses 22548104
Reposted by Niels GrotumIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026PROPOSAL: PervSpex should, while recording, blare out 'ATTENTION: [USER'S FULL NAME] IS FILMING YOU' and then list the user's search history, loudly. If I'm apparently not allowed privacy in public, neither are you, Sweaty Ron 511427
Reposted by Niels GrotumEvan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Adult life is like "Having friends and hobbies prevents you from getting lonely, experiencing health problems, and developing dementia," and then adult life does absolutely everything it can to prevent you from having friends and hobbies. 1640209
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026engaging with the kids voice: This is just like what happens when you have orthe doxa without true episteme. You'll still get where you want to go, even if you can't quite explain how it happened. 000
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026What are some planets that should trade for Marvin Harrison Jr.? Does Mars need wide receiver depth? 000
Reposted by Niels GrotumJonas Holm Jæger @jonasholmjaeger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Check it, nerds. Recent find of late stage Maglemosian (8400 BP) antler axe with preserved wooden handle from Egholm, Northern Jutland. Fantastic to see that we still have conditions in Denmark for such fantastic organic preservation. Because it probably won’t be long before we don’t. 2380109
Reposted by Niels GrotumRebecca McCarthy - Game Writing & Narrative🔜 MCM Comic Con @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Dressmaker is a masterpiece. 11798152201
Reposted by Niels GrotumJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Well-sourced, eye-opening (but in hindsight, unsurprising) piece from Adam. The main use of AI by publishers appears to be publicity/marketing. I would like to explain why this is a bad use from the perspective of someone who gets pitched dozens of books a week for coverage. 312756
Reposted by Niels GrotumShane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026McGill are bigging her up after closing her department. Clownshow all round. 18428
Reposted by Niels GrotumSoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 09/10/2026Our love letter to Epic poetry and ancient Greek mythology, Atrapos, has fully funded on Kickstarter! Huge thanks for all your support & if you haven't checked out this #TTRPG of doomed heroes, vengeful gods and perilous journeys home... nows the time! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...kickstarter.comAtrapos: A Roleplaying Game of OdysseyA doomed mythic fantasy roleplaying game of defying fate in an epic world of Gods and heroes. 185
Reposted by Niels Grotum"fart" @jonhendren.com · 27/02/2025mike ditka used to have a branded resort in kissimmee florida and there were lots of staged photos of mike ditka hanging out in it. i will post a bunch of them now. sorry for hte low resolution these are from like 2008 511346265
Reposted by Niels GrotumIsabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What?! And this was looking like a good day! (Translation into classics: that’s the club Routledge and, journal-wise, Symbolae Osloenses are in) 042
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I just saw that the guillotine league I got bounced from this week had Shipley going for $177 on waivers (CMC went for $455). In this economy. 010
Reposted by Niels Grotumkc green @kcg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the lexicon of comicana by mort walker is THE text 5399106
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's fun to charter an accountant And sail the wide accountancy To find, explore The funds off shore And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy It can be manly in insurance We'll up your premiums semi-annually It's all tax-deductible We're fairly incorruptible Yes, we're sailing on the wide accountancystatic.klipy.comMonty Python: Crimson Permanent Assurance DefenestrationAlt: The Raiders of Crimson Permanent Assurance making an executive walk the plank. 000
Reposted by Niels GrotumErica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Currently at the bathroom at NYCC having the worst shit of my life and someone outside of my stall says "Erica Henderson is here" and it takes me a few seconds to realize they mean the con and not the toilet 883335322
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Even if you don't enjoy Carson's work (not everyone does, that's fine, people like different things), I think we can all appreciate this: Some airtime for another version of antiquity than the ones Hegseths and Rubios of the world are pushing. Western values are being sad or horny or sad and horny. 010
Reposted by Niels GrotumRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026IT’S STEAL A LITTLE TIME FROM THE BOSS TO READ ANNE CARSON DAY 518235
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Here's something I didn't know: "Texts of critical editions are not subject to copyright protection under French law, as they do not constitute an expression of the editor’s personality" From which one can conclude that French judges do not spend much time hanging around with philologists. 110
Reposted by Niels GrotumSven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Balkans this week: Kosovo 🇽🇰 elected first Catholic President Serbia 🇷🇸 got first Lesbian President Bosnia 🇧🇦 elected 3 Presidents (2 female) Albanian 🇦🇱 capital Tirana's mayor will run the city as an Al avatar from prison 512628
Reposted by Niels GrotumPeter Huestis @peterhuestis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Max Beckmann is not generally regarded as being a barrel of laffs, but his 1947 drawing of a soldier and a prostitute is so hilarious and gets funnier and funnier the longer you look at it: 141
Reposted by Niels Grotumpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Once again, the Nobel prizes have been given to a bunch of nerds while all the recent advances that jocks have made in football go unrecognised 😞 201051103
Reposted by Niels GrotumThe Amityville Jordan (1979) @jackal27.bsky.social · 05/10/2026TIL that the opening of Onimusha 3 was directed by Takashi Yamazaki, director of Godzilla: Minus One! Sadly, nearly every upload of it is a stretched, GenAI abomination. So, I ripped and painstakingly upscaled what I consider the greatest video game cinematic ever from its 2007 PC release! Enjoy! 20586207
Reposted by Niels GrotumMatthew Scarborough 𓏎 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is now downloadable for free on the Faculty of Classics website.classics.cam.ac.ukA Practical Reader for Euripides' Ion | Faculty of Classics 0167
Reposted by Niels GrotumTom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm running another round of "Getting Started" training in November for the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. Details below. Please boost for visibility! 099
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Well sure, you can't injure the same ankle twice. Heraclitus could've told you that, and he knew ball. 010
Reposted by Niels GrotumMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this. 32829198
Reposted by Niels GrotumTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What if educational spaces worked to become one of the few places in life our students are not constantly surveilled under constant threat conditions? 413826
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The title defense in my guillotine fantasy league collapsed in ignomious defeat last night, so now I need to find something else to get riled up about on Sundays. Might be time to get into drugs, or religion. Or maybe model trains. 010
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Kincaid looking at his second 0/0 in as many weeks is not great news for my guillotine league. 010
Reposted by Niels GrotumLogeion Greek-Latin @logeiongklat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Today in terrible remixes (throw in a bit of bigotry, make money?). The 'author' calls this an auditable translation. Sorry, we all have better things to do, but I couldn't keep this indignation to myself.. Yours for $27.99 at Amazon. 3102
Reposted by Niels GrotumLiv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026🐒⌨️🐒⌨️🐒⌨️🐒⌨️🐒⌨️🐒⌨️🐒⌨️🐒⌨️ (Cic. ND 2.93) 1111
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No monkeys were harmed in the making of this hypothetical. 020
Reposted by Niels GrotumVince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I saw a bar called "Uncle Tom's" and wondered why it was called that. I discovered so much more. My favorite story yet for Fresnoland Food: fresnoland.org/2026/10/02/f... @fresnoland.bsky.socialfresnoland.orgFresno's historic dive bar, Uncle Tom's, and why it's called thatUncle Tom's is a century-old Fresno institution with a long history and a name that's worth explaining. 1365
![Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h5kgtr755iczaqxomeh2pmh7/bafkreicu2p2o3is64z5k37n222hgahp67ssca6ro3nggbjtpwasig2zzbi)
