Vayne

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A screenshot of a paragraph from 'An uncomplicated man', Emily Wilson's review of Nolan's The Odyssey film adaptation (from https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man). The text in the screenshot reads: Despite all this, the release of The Odyssey is still an event to celebrate. In what we are told is the streaming era, this epic is bringing audiences back to cinemas. In what we are told is a time of declining literacy and the ‘death of the humanities’, translations of The Odyssey, including mine, are flying off the shelves. Some of those who buy the book or show up in cinemas to watch Tom Holland may go on to study ancient Greek. Perhaps the film will persuade a few college administrators not to cut their literature, language and history departments. Nolan, who studied English at University College London – where students still study The Odyssey as a first year ‘foundational text’ – is doing his best to get the general public reading again, and I am grateful.
Picture of a dog getting its head smooshed with a combination head pat and chin scratch, captioned "oooh who's an edgy boy? who's an edgy boy?! yes you are! oooh what a hot take! your statements are so controversial! what an edgy boy"
A screenshot of the user profile for @davehaterofracism.bsky.social showing that he is now blocking me.
The 'Officer down!' star meme with the text edited to say 'WIDDECOMBE DOWN!' A large yellow five pointed star sits in the upper middle of the image with googly eyes and a widely grinning mouth, expressing extreme enthusiasm. Two disembodied thumbs ups float to the right and left of it, and it is surrounded by balloons and party poppers, clearly celebrating a major achievement. The text "WIDDECOMBE DOWN" has been overlaid across it diagonally, from mid-lower-left to mid-upper-right.
Three pictures of the Lincoln memorial reflecting pool taken from above on different days, showing the progression of the algae bloom. On the left there is no algae, the pool is full of clear blue water. In the centre, the pool is light green with some darker spots. On the right, the pool is much greener with large dark spots at the top and bottom.
A scene from episode 25 of the 1988 anime adaptation of Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Ansbach, a caucasian man with short brown hair wearing an Imperial officer's uniform (black long-sleeved shirt with decorative silver cuffs, collar and shoulder/neckpieces) is standing in a dark room holding a futuristic heavy weapon on his right shoulder, with both hands on the foregrip/trigger. His mouth is open, his eyes are closed.
Screenshot of part of an article from Wikipedia titled Compass (think tank). The text of the article reads "Compass is a British centre-left pressure group, aligned with the Labour Party which describes itself as: "'An umbrella grouping of the progressive left whose sum is greater than its parts". Like the formally Labour-affiliated think tank the Fabian Society it is a membership-based organisation and thus seeks to be a pressure group and a force for political organisation and mobilisation."
Richard E Grant in a nice suit and waistcoat standing in an art gallery with his hands in the air shouting "One hundred million clams!" Andie McDowell is in the back right of the shot watching with surprise while in the middle of a phone call.
Cartoon by Mattie Lubchansky depicting Ed Zitron as a gameshow host standing on a stage flipping a big switch, with his other hand cupped to his ear. Both positions for the switch are labelled with '?'. Behind the host is an illuminated sign reading "Is that good?". In the foreground numerous audience members can be seen, with speech bubbles indicating they're shouting what appears to be the gameshow catchphrase: "IS! THAT!! GOOD!!!"
A picture of Marsha, a tortoiseshell cat with a mostly white body, with orange/tabby patches on her face around her eyes and an orange tail. She is looking down at the camera from halfway up a wooden ladder, climbing onto a loft bed. She is standing on the toes of her back feet on a lower rung, resting her front paws on the rung above as she leans through the ladder.
The box art for the 1998 video game Star Wars Supremacy (Released as Star Wars Rebellion outside the UK). At the top are the words "LucasArts Entertainment Company Presents", then below that is the title "Star Wars Supremacy", both on a white background. Below that, fading out of the white, it depicts the bottom half of an Imperial Star Destroyer viewed from the rear (a large, triangular grey hull with multiple large engine thrusters at the back), with a red planet with an asteroid ring in the lower centre that the Star Destroyer is clearly flying towards. To the left and right of the planet, distant from the camera perspective, are two fleets facing each other. The one on the left is made up of Imperial vessels, the one on the right is made up of Rebel Alliance vessels. The LucasArts logo is in the bottom right corner. The entire left side of the image has "Star Wars" written vertically in gold text on a blue background.
The same table as in the previous post, comparing undergraduate admission numbers for Oxford and Cambridge for 2020-2024. Additional columns have been added to calculate the % of applying students who are admitted, and the rate of students who apply who get admitted. Oxford compares 'State' and 'Indepenent', Cambridge compares 'Comprehensive' and 'Independent' due to their providing more detailed figures. Both tables show significantly higher rates of admission for Independent school students vs State school students, with the peak in 2024 as 16.26% (1 admission per 6.15 applications) from State schools vs 22.09% (1 admission per 4.53 applications) from Independent schools for Oxford, and 15.91% (1 admission per 6.29 applications) from State schools vs 20.32% (1 admission per 4.92 applications) from Independent schools.
Table showing the breakdown of applications, offers and admittances to Oxford and Cambridge universities. Oxford is divided between 'State' and 'Independent' and shows between 1% to 5% greater offer rates for independent school students compared to state-educated. Cambridge is divided between 'Comprehensive' and 'Independent' as their reporting gives a more detailed breakdown of application source, and shows closer offer rates but still approximately 1% higher offer rates for Independent students.
A screenshot of a quote-tweet taken from Twitter. The quoter is "Thoughts on this? @lib_crusher", quoting a tweet from "Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenberg". The quoted tweet shows a McDonalds restaurant on the Guantanamo Bay US military base, with three flag poles outside of it. The poles, from left to right, hold (presumably) a military unit flag, the US flag and a flag with the bright red and yellow McDonalds logo. All 3 flags are at half-mast. The text of the tweet is "The flags were lowered last night by order of President Trump after the killing of Charlie Kirk and will stay at half-staff on this base in southeast Cuba until sunset on Sunday." The tweet quoting that has added the text "The Guantanamo McDonalds flag is at half-mast to honor Charlie Kirk", quite possibly one of the most ridiculous yet succinct sentences possible to construct in 2025.
A screenshot of a quote-tweet taken from Twitter. The quoter is "Thoughts on this? @lib_crusher", quoting a tweet from "Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenberg". The quoted tweet shows a McDonalds restaurant on the Guantanamo Bay US military base, with three flag poles outside of it. The poles, from left to right, hold (presumably) a military unit flag, the US flag and a flag with the bright red and yellow McDonalds logo. All 3 flags are at half-mast. The text of the tweet is "The flags were lowered last night by order of President Trump after the killing of Charlie Kirk and will stay at half-staff on this base in southeast Cuba until sunset on Sunday." The tweet quoting that has added the text "The Guantanamo McDonalds flag is at half-mast to honor Charlie Kirk", quite possibly one of the most ridiculous yet succinct sentences possible to construct in 2025.
Text: "“But even more people will feel once again a sense of hope, a belief that things can and will get better, feel that the promise of renewal can become a reality, and my government will make it that reality.”" taken from https://archive.is/WQURR because fuck the Guardian, transphobic pricks that they are.
Text: "In his new year message, the prime minister said voters would begin to see their lives improving in 2026 in what his chief adviser, Morgan McSweeney, has called “the year of proof”." taken from https://archive.is/WQURR because we don't give the transphobes at the Guardian clicks.
Text " Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/0a07cbc3-dac4-4b89-9f26-038deb833060?utm_social_handle_id=FuckOff&utm_social_post_id=FuckOff Shaz Ansari, professor of strategy and innovation at Cambridge university, said a company’s capacity for successful reinvention “derives from business-specific agility: the way it handles failure, the way it reallocates resources”. “Nokia has got the rare ability to cut off businesses when they’re not working,” he added. “It has been able to pivot not [just] across products, but across industries.” Hotard, who succeeded Lundmark in April, has sought to position Nokia to capitalise on the “AI supercycle” that is catalysing hundreds of billions of dollars of data centre spending each year. Nokia’s optical technology enables information to be passed between data centres, and it produces routers that enable cloud-based services. The latest transformation caught the interest of chipmaker Nvidia, widely seen as the kingmaker of the AI revolution. News of the investment from the world’s most valuable company sent Nokia’s shares up by 25 per cent. Today the group is valued at about €32bn, albeit that is still a fraction of the dizzy heights scaled during the heyday of the 3310." copied from https://www.ft.com/content/0a07cbc3-dac4-4b89-9f26-038deb833060
Megabyte, from the CGI animated TV series ReBoot
Headline cropped down to just say "Tony Blair plotting"
Picture of Marsha (mostly-white cat with tortoiseshell patches) sat on a mat, biting my hand as I stroke her chin and belly.
Inquisitor Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau from Warhammer 40k's 1st Edition (Rogue Trader). He is a grimacing human with a moustache and a long mane of beard sticking out from his jawline, staring at the viewer with a look like they just questioned the virtue of his mother. He wears a fedora and a long duster-like coat over some kind of shirt and trousers. The duster has a checkerboard pattern along its hem. The shirt has a yin-yang symbol just below the collar. He is wearing dark boots with what look like white ankle warmers, and thick gloves. He holds a boltgun single-handed in his right hand, and a chainsword in his left.
Box art for the 1999 video game Homeworld, depicting the giant mothership surrounded by frigates and fighters.