Zenobia Neil
@zenobianeil.bsky.social
Writer of historical fiction and mythic retellings.
Might talk too much about Medusa, Dionysus, sexuality fluidity and diversity in the ancient world.
Might talk too much about Medusa, Dionysus, sexuality fluidity and diversity in the ancient world.
When I was in Sparta, I passed a low-roofed restaurant at night full of nothing but men, mostly old. I imagine they were
eating black broth and speaking the old tongue.
greekreporter.com/2025/09/16/a...
eating black broth and speaking the old tongue.
greekreporter.com/2025/09/16/a...
Tsakonika: Defying the Odds, a Spartan Dialect Endures - GreekReporter.com
Tsakonika, the language of ancient Sparta, still survives today, despite the ravages of time and the many reversals of fortune in Greece.
greekreporter.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
When I was in Sparta, I passed a low-roofed restaurant at night full of nothing but men, mostly old. I imagine they were
eating black broth and speaking the old tongue.
greekreporter.com/2025/09/16/a...
eating black broth and speaking the old tongue.
greekreporter.com/2025/09/16/a...
I loved Nietzche as a teenager. I had a rubber rat named Zarathustra.
September 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I loved Nietzche as a teenager. I had a rubber rat named Zarathustra.
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"Lower the temperature" say the people with their hands on the thermostat mashing it into the "hell" setting.
September 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"Lower the temperature" say the people with their hands on the thermostat mashing it into the "hell" setting.
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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“Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America.”
September 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America.”
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California will not let a compromised federal agency endanger our people.
We are partnering with Oregon Governor @tinakotek.bsky.social and Washington @governorferguson.bsky.social to launch a new West Coast Health Alliance in the face of Donald Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists.
We are partnering with Oregon Governor @tinakotek.bsky.social and Washington @governorferguson.bsky.social to launch a new West Coast Health Alliance in the face of Donald Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists.
Breaking News: Saying the CDC has become “a political tool,” California, Oregon and Washington announced plans to form an alliance that would coordinate vaccine recommendations for the three states.
Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines
Governors in California, Oregon and Washington said their states would work together on vaccine guidance in a time of turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
nyti.ms
September 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
California will not let a compromised federal agency endanger our people.
We are partnering with Oregon Governor @tinakotek.bsky.social and Washington @governorferguson.bsky.social to launch a new West Coast Health Alliance in the face of Donald Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists.
We are partnering with Oregon Governor @tinakotek.bsky.social and Washington @governorferguson.bsky.social to launch a new West Coast Health Alliance in the face of Donald Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists.
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What we’re witnessing in this country is textbook authoritarianism.
Trump thrives on targeting those who are least able to defend themselves, exerting control and cruelty to tighten his grip on power.
To think it ends here is naive. We cannot let this go on any further.
Trump thrives on targeting those who are least able to defend themselves, exerting control and cruelty to tighten his grip on power.
To think it ends here is naive. We cannot let this go on any further.
September 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What we’re witnessing in this country is textbook authoritarianism.
Trump thrives on targeting those who are least able to defend themselves, exerting control and cruelty to tighten his grip on power.
To think it ends here is naive. We cannot let this go on any further.
Trump thrives on targeting those who are least able to defend themselves, exerting control and cruelty to tighten his grip on power.
To think it ends here is naive. We cannot let this go on any further.
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Chicagoland folks:
September 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Chicagoland folks:
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
September 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
Mark your calendars!
🚨 SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 18.
Millions of Americans took to the streets in June to drown out Trump’s birthday parade.
As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on 10/18 for a nationwide day of peaceful protests to say NO KINGS: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Millions of Americans took to the streets in June to drown out Trump’s birthday parade.
As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on 10/18 for a nationwide day of peaceful protests to say NO KINGS: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
September 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Mark your calendars!
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How tough Greek women can be.
August 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
How tough Greek women can be.
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Thou shalt not listen to a damn thing that RFK Jr. says.
August 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Thou shalt not listen to a damn thing that RFK Jr. says.
Ah, how I miss a good old #phallusthursday
I don't often whip out a #PhallusThursday these days, but as @partialhistorians.bsky.social did, here's an incised graffito of an ithyphallic Satyr on the Reverse of a Gorgoneion from Magna Graecia, ca. 525-475 BC. 🏺
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art (1994.8). Link - clevelandart.org/art/1994.8
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art (1994.8). Link - clevelandart.org/art/1994.8
August 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Ah, how I miss a good old #phallusthursday
This is NOT what Democracy looks like.
Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.
August 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This is NOT what Democracy looks like.
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🧵🚨 URGENT: Join Indivisible Memphis’ Safety Team! 🚨
We can’t hold powerful, visible actions without a strong safety team — and right now, we need YOU.
We’re recruiting Safety Marshals, Legal Observers, and Street Medics to help protect participants and de-escalate situations.
We can’t hold powerful, visible actions without a strong safety team — and right now, we need YOU.
We’re recruiting Safety Marshals, Legal Observers, and Street Medics to help protect participants and de-escalate situations.
Safety Team Sign-Up Form
Please Note: The next Marshal Training is Monday, August 25 at 6pm. This is an in-person training. Location TBD.
The next Medic Training is Saturday, September 6 from 12-2pm. This is an in-person tra...
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August 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
🧵🚨 URGENT: Join Indivisible Memphis’ Safety Team! 🚨
We can’t hold powerful, visible actions without a strong safety team — and right now, we need YOU.
We’re recruiting Safety Marshals, Legal Observers, and Street Medics to help protect participants and de-escalate situations.
We can’t hold powerful, visible actions without a strong safety team — and right now, we need YOU.
We’re recruiting Safety Marshals, Legal Observers, and Street Medics to help protect participants and de-escalate situations.
Every day they do something more horrific.
Yesterday they took parents from a welfare agency and left the kids behind.
Yesterday they took parents from a welfare agency and left the kids behind.
Sick fucks
ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children
The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted
Women and children in parks
The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted
Women and children in parks
June 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Every day they do something more horrific.
Yesterday they took parents from a welfare agency and left the kids behind.
Yesterday they took parents from a welfare agency and left the kids behind.
Thinking about how these images are understood only with context, like Odyssey holding onto the underside of a sheep. Imagining some future culture seeing them and wondering what they're about. But to us the meanings are clear.
June 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Thinking about how these images are understood only with context, like Odyssey holding onto the underside of a sheep. Imagining some future culture seeing them and wondering what they're about. But to us the meanings are clear.
This falls under WTAF.
History will not be kind to Speaker Johnson. Nor should it be.
June 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This falls under WTAF.
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See you out there!
#nokings
#nokings
Thank you @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social!
You heard the man ❌👑
Trump and his ilk want you to feel small and alone. Tomorrow, we're doing something really fricken big, and we're doing it together. Join us!
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
You heard the man ❌👑
Trump and his ilk want you to feel small and alone. Tomorrow, we're doing something really fricken big, and we're doing it together. Join us!
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
June 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
See you out there!
#nokings
#nokings
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The first known detention by the US Marines in their recent Los Angeles deployment is of... a US Army veteran on his way to an office at the Department of Veteran Affairs building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
www.reuters.com
June 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The first known detention by the US Marines in their recent Los Angeles deployment is of... a US Army veteran on his way to an office at the Department of Veteran Affairs building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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If you are feeling helpless and adrift in the face of current events, I PROMISE you that finding a protest and joining (if you are able and have capacity) really can make you feel profoundly a part of things in an empowering way.
June 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If you are feeling helpless and adrift in the face of current events, I PROMISE you that finding a protest and joining (if you are able and have capacity) really can make you feel profoundly a part of things in an empowering way.
"None of this had to happen!" We could have had a sane, reasonable President who wanted our country to succeed.
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
"None of this had to happen!" We could have had a sane, reasonable President who wanted our country to succeed.
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🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
June 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...