Reposted by Christian PanasZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026People think Catholic and Jewish guilt are the same but it's actually getting the arrow of causality wrong. Jewish Guilt: I need my kid to do a task, so I deploy guilt. Catholic Guilt: I need my kid to feel guilt, so I deploy a task. 1022021
Reposted by Christian PanasAliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I’ve started writing about the theatres of Athens. Here is the first of what I intend as a series covering every venue I visit. alikichapple.net/posts/theatr... #Athens #Theatre #TheatresOfAthensalikichapple.netTheatre of Kolonos - meanderingsPrologue: Welcome to the first of what I intend as a series of posts about contemporary Athenian theatres. There are…hundreds of them, and I probably won’t cover them all. What... 42310
Reposted by Christian PanasNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Leopard-Head Decoration from a Ritual Robe from the Tomb of Tutankhamun. #Sculpture, New Kingdom, #Egypt (c. 1332–1323 B.C.) #art 128364
Reposted by Christian PanasThe Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 08/09/2026We remember poet, essayist, farmer, and environmentalist Wendell Berry, whose work called us toward deeper relationship with one another, the land, and the communities we share. May his words continue to inspire lives rooted in care, trust, and responsibility. #WendellBerry #UU #BelovedCommunity 0177
Reposted by Christian PanasGre-Gory Weird @gdub1972.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Happy 89th birthday to the MAD genius, Sergio Aragonés! 115035
Reposted by Christian PanasRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do?” --Wendell Berry 2665195
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 01/09/2026I just this moment discovered that Wendell Berry has passed. I feel such grief though he lived long and well. I don’t have it in me to find an essay or a poem right now, I just know the world has been made so much better by his existence and effort, and I’m trying to focus on that gratitude. 000
Reposted by Christian PanasDean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced his opposition to Medicare for All on the same day a CBS News poll found 90 percent of Democratic voters support the idea—and 72 hours after a Yale University study showed the program would save 114,000 American lives and $1 trillion every year.”levernews.comHakeem Jeffries’ Betrayal Shows Why Democratic Voters Are So EnragedHouse Dems’ leader declared his opposition to Medicare For All on the same day a new poll shows almost all Democratic voters support it. 75787236
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 11/08/2026I used Smitten Kitchen years ago when I ran the monastery kitchen and I still use it today. Worth a read. 000
Reposted by Christian PanasZach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 11/08/2026Over at @comicsjournal.bsky.social, a review of Tony Millionaire's bizarre and (probably) brilliant The Oddball's Odyssey.tcj.comThe Oddball's Odyssey #1 - The Comics JournalThe Oddball's Odyssey #1 (Bad Idea, 2026) by Tony Millionaire reviewed by Zach Rabiroff, who absolutely loved it. 3135
Reposted by Christian PanasSteve Lieber --> Bedrock City Comic Con @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Blessing the timeline with a 1935 photo of EC Segar in his studio. 723850
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 25/07/2026 "Robot from company that acquired sex doll maker to be introduced in school with large Native American population" What amazes me is just how surrreal and ludicrous is the dystopian world we keep building, as if that’s the intention.theguardian.com‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high schoolRobot from company that acquired sex doll maker to be introduced in school with large Native American population 000
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 22/07/2026Via The Browser (thebrowser.com), some important, little-reported history.mamathemagazine.comWhat Nobody Teaches You About the Holocaust — MAMAHow you would have died in Europe 000
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 20/07/2026Among a team of scum Paredes is perhaps the scummiest. Haha to Fernandez who deserved his two yellows & couldn’t keep his cool. After the end Argentine Nahuel Molina punched a Spanish sub running onto the field to celebrate in the stomach. What a scummy, LOSER team. HA HA. #worldcup #argentina 021
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 14/07/2026Posting this only because not one post or article I’ve read mentions my favorite Sam Neill film: Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World. A dreamy, sprawling sci fi epic from 1991. Find the long versions. Neill isn’t technically a lead, but his character is the narrator and ever-present. #samneillyoutu.beUntil the End of the World - TrailerYouTube video by AKA 000
Reposted by Christian PanasPaul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This is the oldest library regulation discovered to date. Found on the Agora of Athens, it states, chiselled in marble: No book shall be taken outside, for we have sworn an oath to that effect. The library shall be open from the first hour until the sixth. Pantainos Library, Agora Museum, Athens 1266
Reposted by Christian PanasTim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...bangordailynews.comThese Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big TechDespite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful. 6666412477
Reposted by Christian PanasAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Owl of Athena! 🦉❤️ A rare Athenian silver decadrachm, c. 467 BC. Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museum, Berlin 📷 ArchaiOptix #Archaeology 161037208
Reposted by Christian PanasUnicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026A victory has been declared in Athens, Greece after two activists suspended their hunger strike following a resolution to halt the plans to evict portions of the long-standing squatted community of Prosfygika. Tragically, both hunger strikers are in the hospital, one in critical condition.unicornriot.ninjaProsfygika Claims Victory: Hunger Strike Suspended Amid Ongoing Struggle Over Development - UNICORN RIOTA victory has been declared in Athens after two activists suspended their hunger strike following a resolution to halt the plans to evict the long-standing squatted community of Prosfygika. 16114
Reposted by Christian PanasChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 25/06/2026Or as @naomiaklein.bsky.social put it: 14837319
Reposted by Christian PanasDerf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.theguardian.com‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prisonAdvocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility 1523141320
Reposted by Christian PanasFrank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The Knicks victory is generating so much passion and excitement that if it ran in a primary election, Establishment Democrats would not support it. 262973525
Reposted by Christian PanasDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Did you know that bots are now responsible for over half of all internet traffic? With a staggering 1,000 automated requests for every human action, the online landscape is changing rapidly. What does this mean for our digital future? 🤖sinapti.caBots surpass human traffic on the internet for the first time: 57.5% is no longer from people - SinapticaBot traffic has surpassed human traffic on the internet for the first time in history, according to data from Cloudflare published on June 4, 2026. The company' 40311158
Reposted by Christian PanasPete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 03/06/2026Cory Doctorow was interviewed by Anna Foster on BBC Radio 4 Today on the topic of AI. I've captured a transcript of the questions here in a short thread (with the help of Google AI voice-to-text. Good AI, thank-you.) 1/5 6444181
Reposted by Christian PanasAliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Report on the human rights abuses, violence, extortion, and sexual exploitation of migrants as part of systematic pushbacks at Greece’s land border. 022
Reposted by Christian PanasAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Daughter woke me up this morning saying, “Daddy, play ‘Walking on, walking on,” by which she means this specific performance of Annie Lennox doing “Walking on Broken Glass” on Jools Holland. I guess I’m doing something right.youtu.beAnnie Lennox - Walking on Broken Glass (Later Archive)YouTube video by BBC Music 1403471321
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 15/05/2026Much agreed. Star Sign sucked me in and I still listen to them with pleasure today. 020
Reposted by Christian PanasDerf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The early 20th century was a period of class war unlike any in US history. Labor uprisings and bloody reprisals by oligarchs and their private armies resulted in national chaos. The cartoonists of The Masses were there to document it all. This is their story. THE DISSIDENTS, coming in Sept. 521658
Reposted by Christian PanasManisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.” 133136374612
Reposted by Christian PanasUnicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026🚨NEW: Our Common Language Is Resistance: Life Inside Prosfygika Come with us on a journey to Athens, and go inside the historic squatted community that's been inspired by the revolutionary models of Rojava and the Zapatistas and which is now under renewed eviction threat by the Greek state.unicornriot.ninjaOur Common Language Is Resistance: Life Inside Prosfygika - UNICORN RIOTWe take you inside Prosfygika, a historic community of squatted houses in Athens and under renewed threat of eviction. 05725
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 01/05/2026Leaving the house for a full day marshaling the march and then celebrating into the evening. Solidarity is how we win.maydaydc.orgMay Day DC 000
Reposted by Christian PanasThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Happy #MayDay and #InternationalWorkersDay! This poster by Dutch artist Jan Toorop was for the Hague's 1898 National Woman’s Labour Exhibition, which had the goal to improve women's wages and working conditions. More posters from Toorop here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... 08131
Reposted by Christian PanasStu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 01/05/2026A very merry International Workers Day to you. May we tear the rich from their perches of power and remake the world without them. 0214
Reposted by Christian PanasBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/05/2026May Day postcard by B. Parmeyev (1970) www.tumblr.com/sovietpostca... 2364
Reposted by Christian PanasLiza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Today’s moment of calm The first bluebells are out which means it won’t be long now until the orange tip butterflies will be flitting about. Just a bit of sunshine needed to get everything moving along, that’s all we need. 215530
Reposted by Christian PanasContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝 339136702722
Reposted by Christian PanasUnicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026NEW from Greece -- Exarcheia: Political Life Suffocated by State Surveillance Exarcheia has long been home to anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian groups. For that, it's under accelerated attack recently with forced evictions, police patrols, searches and the normalization of violence by police.unicornriot.ninjaExarcheia: Political Life Suffocated by State Surveillance - UNICORN RIOTA planned systemic attack on Athens' Exarcheia district has accelerated recently with forced evictions, police patrols, searches and the normalization of violence by police. 14920
Reposted by Christian PanasAliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Είμαστε και στην εφημερίδα: #NoKingsGreece 061
Reposted by Christian PanasPat Brosseau @droog811.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Me too, Popeye, me too... 0527
Reposted by Christian PanasG @gwill2k.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Hurray for the Riff Raff #AlbumoftheDay Live Forever album.link/LiveForever Rhododendron Nightblooming jasmine Deadly nightshade Fox Glove renegade Rhododendron I can hear u speaking You can feel me breathing Break my head open Rhododendron - Live song.link/Rhododendron #musicchallenge #musicskyyoutu.beHurray for the Riff Raff - Rhododendron (Live at Old Town School of Folk Music)YouTube video by Hurray for the Riff Raff 0111
Reposted by Christian PanasDoc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 20/03/2026When Temples Became Government The arrival of Buddhism in Japan during the sixth century was not simply the reception of a new religion. It was part of a wider movement of ideas, objects, and institutional models flowing from the Korean peninsula and the Chinese mainland into the Yamato court.open.substack.comWhen Temples Became GovernmentSurvey of Asian Art 052
Reposted by Christian PanasFirst American Art Magazine @firstamart.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Running Eagle, or Pi'tamaka in the Blackfeet language, shows up frequently in Terrance Guardipee's (Blackfeet) work. She was a powerful woman who would gain spiritual insights and power by visiting what is now Glacier Park. 1/4 2134
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 11/02/2026My teachers always used to stress that the Sangha was the most important of the “equal” Three Treasures (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha). I didn’t understand/felt irked by that then. I feel so much more appreciation for that understanding now. 021
![[Scene is a TV news DEBATE FORMAT like Newsnight or Laura K.
In the studio, NIGEL FARAGE is a guest on one side, and the GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND is the other guest.]
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FARAGE:
It's simply outrageous!
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FARAGE:
Replacing Sir Winston Churchill on the £5 note with a badger is woke madness.
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BANK OF ENGLAND GOVERNOR:
Mr Farage, I can assure you that I and my colleagues at the Bank of England have listened to your concerns,
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GOVERNOR:
And we have gone to great length to ensure
that the badger is, in fact...
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GOVERNOR:
...Anti-woke.
[The £5 note appears on the screen behind him. It shows a badger, with a black military cap on its head - looking suspiciously like a Nazi SS officer's cap.]
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[Beat of Nigel Farage reacting silently to the image on screen]
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FARAGE:
The badger is anti-woke.
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GOVERNOR:
Indeed!
[Pointing at the design on the screen]
If you look down the bottom we've included a quote from him...
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[Close up of the quote at the bottom of the new £5 note, which reads]:
"It's not racist to be concerned about immigration, Carol"
- The Anti-Woke Badger
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FARAGE:
The badger... said that?
GOVERNOR:
It's a comment he posted on Facebook.
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FARAGE:
Well he's quite right! It's not -
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[Farage pauses again, distracted by the image on the screen]
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FARAGE:
What's with the hat?
GOVERNOR:
He's into history.
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