Because I’m usually late to trendy titles, finally starting Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. I’m only about 15% in but this is a **very** interesting book so far. I see why it got so much buzz!

I saw “Kit Conner cast as Cyclops” trending and my brain is still in Odyssey mode and I genuinely thought for a second that another Odyssey adaptation had been announced

I read Discontent by Beatriz Serrano in one afternoon. I really enjoyed this book, and may identify with this protagonist than I’d like to admit. 😅 It truly put to words the existential dread of having to work in a capitalist world with such snark. I definitely recommend! #booksky

Robert Pattinson's Antinous is definitely one of the best parts of the movie The Odyssey. I'll be the annoying friend in the group chat using this GIF to death:

"I have learned that you get a lot more out of classics if you allow it to be a disruptive challenge to self-serving modern certainties, rather than turn it into an untouchable ancestor in whose shadow you should count yourself lucky to sit." Seems poignant to remember as folks watch The Odyssey.💙📚

Another great thread from a translator of The Odyssey, this time on the cover which features the “Ladies in Blue” fresco from Crete.

Finishing this weekend by continuing “Son of Nobody” by Yann Martel—which I’m enjoying immensely. It’s one thing for a novelist to retell a Greek epic, but another thing to create their OWN epic *and* tell the story of the translator at the same time. #booksky #currentlyreading

I see that Athena not only beautified Penelope in the Odyssey, but that extended to Anne Hathaway as well because she looks absolutely gorgeous.

Come join “one of the most intellectual channels on Twitch” today (7/6) at 6:00 pm CST (4:00 pm PST / 11:00 pm GMT) for a Co-Working and Study session! 🧵 1/3

The ancient Phoenicians didn’t just give us the alphabet, but they’re using it to control us from Hell. 😆 Thank you @realinfowars.bsky.social and I hope Alex Jones is absolutely hating what's happening to Info Wars now youtu.be/tnz6PTSXiI0?...

Oh hello my beautiful new friend! My collection of @princetonupress.bsky.social books continues to grow! #booksky #currentlyreading

It's usually never a good thing when something's trending on Bsky. So, seeing Obsidian on the list freaked me out. I use @obsidian.md to store ALL my notes and writing projects. Thankfully, it seems like it was for a different Obsidian than the notetaking software! 🙏 Crisis averted.

I'm hosting a Co-Working and Studying stream tonight from 6-8:30pm CST! It'll be three 40-minute working segments and 5-minute breaks in between. Tonight, I'm adding Marginalia from Canto X of The Divine Comedy and Careless People for an upcoming article I'm working on! twitch.tv/themythicglass

🎮 Everyone’s talking about preorders for GTA6. I’m over here eagerly waiting for a God of War Laufey release date. 😭

Odysseus says something very interesting in the tragedy, Hecuba, by Euripides: >"You know, this is how cities go wrong: when some brave and ready of heart wins no more glory than inferior men." (Lines 315-317 from Anne Carson's translation in "Grief Lessons") 🧵 #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky

I just got this Odyssey retelling from @mythsbaby.bsky.social for my nephew and after excitedly texting a bunch of pictures of the illustrations to his parents, they’re excited to read it too! (I told them that this book is their homework before the Nolan movie comes out.) #booksky

"War between fellow citizens tends to become an accustomed condition, once a city's divided." - Euripides in his (not lost) play, Antigone #currentlyreading #booksky

All it took to start the Trojan War was this and one golden apple.

Lyra, seen here, is giving me a book recommendation, making her opinion well known. #caturday

Watching the livestream of talking Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center on the same day as musk becomes a trillionaire because I crave some happy news..

Earlier this week, I annotated Hecuba and The Odyssey. So today, from 5pm to 9pm CDT, I'm live-streaming putting my annotations into Obsidian! If you've got a to-do list to knock out, feel free to join this co-working stream! We'll be doing 50-minute focus working sessions with 10-minute breaks!

I was already excited for this Catullus translation by @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social to come out next month. But also, last night on stream, someone mentioned that if Catullus were alive today, he'd be the *worst* on X/Twitter, and that reminded me of "Dumb and Poetic" by Sabrina Carpenter.

In preparation for the Christoper Nolan movie in July, I’m rereading the Odyssey and streaming annotating my copy and filling it with marginalia!

I’m going to start with the Greek tragedy, Hecuba, translated by Anne Carson in her collection Grief Lessons!

Fenrir is helping me organize my research material. #caturday #TheDivineComedy

Not my usual type of content, but I wanted to share in the internet void that this week was Week 1 of training for a 10k. I have always told myself that I’m not a runner or athletic. (In high school, I was allergic to sports and gym class.) #running #runner

I’ve never been to Coachella, but it’s got to be cathartic. With an endless deluge of digital ~content~ to rot your brain (that’s mostly AI-generated), seeing art performed in real life and forgetting about everything happening in the world - even for a moment - has got to be fucking exhilarating.

Spending my Saturday getting all my notes set up and linked in my #Obsidian vault. I previously kept all my Zettelkasten notes inside a different service that didn't link ideas very well, so I switched to @obsidian.md I'm OBSESSED with the graph view. I giddily look at it after I link notes.

I’ve never read a book like Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu before. It’s written in a TV script style with a second-person perspective; it's a satire that examines how Chinese and Asian people are typecast into specific roles to make their "foreignness" more palatable to other Americans. 🧵 #booksky

A cofounder of Anthropic wrote in a Substack article that spending time with family rather than asking AI to absorb research papers made him feel guilty. Although Dante didn’t live in the age of AI, I’ve read this in The Divine Comedy. 🧵