Mastodawn

Fade Jul 22, 2023

Time to push the big terrifying button for the move to @fade. Wish me luuuuuuuuck (and direct any lingering responses to me from stuff here to me over there, I guess?).

Fade Jul 22, 2023

Lorena H Jul 22, 2023

Contrary to popular belief, you CAN have TOO MUCH HELP when you are self-employed. My unpaid interns may be cute as hell but I am *more than* ready for them to graduate and be gone. #ceramics #pottery #handbuiltceramics #kittensofmastodon #shopcats

Fade Jul 22, 2023

Foreign Policy Jul 22, 2023

The U.S. military’s admiration of a proto-fascist city-state is based on bad history. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/22/sparta-popular-culture-united-states-military-bad-history/

Sparta Is No Model for U.S. Soldiers

The U.S. military’s admiration of a proto-fascist city-state is based on bad history.

Foreign Policy

Fade Jul 22, 2023

I'm starting my transfer from this account to @fade today. Pray for me. (Or burn an oatcake to a relevant deity, whichever best suits.)

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Fade Jul 22, 2023

I've got multiple good options for the Plautus I've chosen, and decent ones for Terence, and then for Aristophanes and Menander I end up reaching for the Loebs. Which are not expensive, but it means one book per author, and that adds up for students! I'm also looking for easily available options for the ‘Now pick another play to read on your own time' part of the final project.

(Fragments I can get fair-use-sized translations of, but more options are better.)

Fade Jul 22, 2023

Incidentally, for those in #classics (or just adjacent to it): if anyone has a recommendation for a good modern translation of any ancient comedy--especially Menander, Aristophanes, & Terence (I'm set on Plautus), but frankly any at all, including satire & invective & mime & fragments—that's available either 1) freely online (legally!) or 2) cheaply in print, I would /very much/ appreciate the recs before I finalize my book list for this Ancient Comedy class.

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Fade Jul 22, 2023

(Specifically, jokes about horrible bodily harm, and how they can /be funny/. There's hilarious stuff for these in both movie & show: the peasants singing about a happy marriage in the midst of their grim life in Galavant, Danny Kaye trying to keep up a cheery tune while witnessing all the horrors that could happen to him if he's caught as he enters the castle…)

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Fade Jul 22, 2023

Realized while in the shower that the best way to explain some of the jokes in Plautus that horrify modern audiences when read as text would be to show some musical clips from The Court Jester and/or Galavant, and I guess now I gotta find out what I can link to easily online in fair-use-sized chunks, because the Macalster library does /not/ have the budget the UMN one does to just get the rights for a full movie for a little class.

Fade Jul 22, 2023

Sophie 🎲🏳️‍⚧️Jul 20, 2023

Why does every project have the trajectory of:

“oh yay, I got it working!”

“Hmm but I could polish it just a little…”

“Why in the hell do I have to write my own parser for text in the clipboard from scratch? What the fuck kind of plaintext standard removes the line breaks?! I need those, you bastards! Every single person on the W3C is now on my list, may god have mercy on them BECAUSE I WILL NOT.”

Fade Jul 22, 2023

ink and yarn Jul 22, 2023

TIL that the French version of _Murderbot Diaries_ is _Journal d'un AssaSynth_ and this is just :chefkiss: