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Aliki Chapple
@commonmugwort.bsky.social
Literary translator, actor, early modern drama enthusiast.
Luddite geek. Greek. Truth, justice, and the comics. Mostly in Athens.
(@amaenad from Twitter but more chill)

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Hello theatre pals, and everyone. It’s nice to see you here.
I live in Athens now, and I’ve been taking a lot of pictures, relearning my way around the old place.
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Like I said before, it’s the thinking that if only you can gather enough honey in one place, it will spontaneously generate bees.
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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It’s almost December. Some of your relatives will be expecting greetings cards. Why not send them something fun, that shows you care but also acknowledges this season is a bit ridiculous?

I GOT YOU.

hannahberry.bigcartel.com/category/cards
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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This is so funny.

"I'm afraid the economy now runs primarily on me and my idiot threads throwing more and more money at the Create the Torment Nexus project. We can't afford to go backwards. Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne."
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Ruins of Athens: Lemon courtyard.
#Athens #UrbanPhotography
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Old Athens: School
#Athens #UrbanPhotography
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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And what does this say about all the social media research based on Twitter/X, which has helped fuel the moral panic about the role of social media in contemporary politics?
The location ID on twitter revealing that 99% of the horrible shit on that website is just posted by people in India honestly soothed me a lot. Its literally all just fake.
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I learned, because they are terrorising my cat, resident there until my apartment in Athens is a safe home for him, that there are raccoons on the west coast of Corfu.
Why are there raccoons in Corfu?
a close up of a cat 's face looking at the camera .
Alt: Cat making a frightened wtf face.
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Old Athens: School
#Athens #UrbanPhotography
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Smash the Patriarchy, Charlie Brown: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I don’t know why my Bluesky web interface eats the last letter before every punctuation mark, but I am very tired of it.
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Ruins of Athens: Kountouriotika
#Athens #UrbanPhotography
#AbandonedPlaces
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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So, to recap, just this week...

-- Trump's negotiators adopt Russia's "peace" (surrender) plan for Ukraine;

-- Farage's Reform UK colleague is sentenced to 10 years in prison for pro-Russia bribery;

-- Musk accidentally outs numerous "MAGA" accounts as Russian troll farms.

#RussiaRussiaRussia
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Holy Hecate. That is bad.
Oh, God, this is one of those "where do I even start" things, because Roblox is, like, *fractally* fucked. They are terrible at content moderation. A lot of the games are rated incorrectly, so kids can encounter graphic content (sex or violence) out of nowhere --
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Ruins of Athens: Kountouriotika
#Athens #UrbanPhotography
#AbandonedPlaces
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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We cannot fix the woowoo until we get rid of the assholes.
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Today, let’s bow before this feline magnificence, enthroned in a work of public art.
#CatsOfAthens #Athens #UrbanPhotography #cats #Caturday
November 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Ernst Haas moved to the United States in 1951 and soon after, began experimenting with Kodachrome color film. He went on to become the premier color photographer of the 1950s. In 1953 LIFE magazine published his groundbreaking 24-page color photo essay on New York City.
November 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.

“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —

altermag.com/articles/the...
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Today, let’s bow before this feline magnificence, enthroned in a work of public art.
#CatsOfAthens #Athens #UrbanPhotography #cats #Caturday
November 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Or maybe there’s a difference between the magnetic force of narcissism and true charisma.
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares,
Aleister Crowley's been kicked down the stairs.

bsky.app/profile/gwen...
It always cheers me up to contemplate the fact that least-worst member of the Golden Dawn, W.B. Yeats, threw Aleister Crowley down the stairs once.

He had it coming.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Bears in the backyard, wolves at the door: Greek villages have a growing predator problem.
By Costas Kantouris

apnews.com/article/wild...
Rural Greece struggles to cope with predator comeback
Populations of brown bears and wolves are burgeoning in Greece, thanks to conservation efforts. But not everyone is enthusiastic about the comeback.
apnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM