BeijingPalmer
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
nah the police are always all over Tiananmen Square, they respond very quickly to anything out of the norm there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
nah the police are always all over Tiananmen Square, they respond very quickly to anything out of the norm there.
(Part of the brilliance of that scene is that a Greek audience would know that Hector's son will be murdered - as a child - by the Greeks when they take the city so that he doesn't take revenge for his father. By Odysseus, in at least one tradition!)
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
(Part of the brilliance of that scene is that a Greek audience would know that Hector's son will be murdered - as a child - by the Greeks when they take the city so that he doesn't take revenge for his father. By Odysseus, in at least one tradition!)
It's part of his general decency - the other Trojans blame Helen for being the cause of the war, Hector sees her as a person and a victim. Goes along with his gentleness inside the walls and his own affection for his wife and child (the nodding plume, etc.).
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
It's part of his general decency - the other Trojans blame Helen for being the cause of the war, Hector sees her as a person and a victim. Goes along with his gentleness inside the walls and his own affection for his wife and child (the nodding plume, etc.).
film starts well and then completely falls apart. a few brilliant bits but it's just a wild mess.
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
film starts well and then completely falls apart. a few brilliant bits but it's just a wild mess.
see the difference between Hasan and Beijingers is that Beijingers love their dogs.
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
see the difference between Hasan and Beijingers is that Beijingers love their dogs.
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i am mad as shit about the democrats caving, have a very good memory, and if you quiz me on exactly what happened this week on election day 2026 i will get maybe 30% right
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
i am mad as shit about the democrats caving, have a very good memory, and if you quiz me on exactly what happened this week on election day 2026 i will get maybe 30% right
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Tesla engineer was concerned about known thermal runaway problems in the batteries, elon and his head of security concoted a mass shooter threat pretending to be him, leaked it to the press and got a bolo issued to tried to get him swatted, Elon then stiffed his head of security
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Tesla engineer was concerned about known thermal runaway problems in the batteries, elon and his head of security concoted a mass shooter threat pretending to be him, leaked it to the press and got a bolo issued to tried to get him swatted, Elon then stiffed his head of security
they didn't have angling (with fake insects) either; the point of Logue is that he takes Homeric metaphors - in this case Patroclus spearing a man like a fisherman hooks a fish onto land - and reworks them into the idioms of modernity, especially modern war.
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
they didn't have angling (with fake insects) either; the point of Logue is that he takes Homeric metaphors - in this case Patroclus spearing a man like a fisherman hooks a fish onto land - and reworks them into the idioms of modernity, especially modern war.
look Homer was just a very prescient author
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
look Homer was just a very prescient author
may I recommend instead a version of the Outlaws of the Water Margin in Scots.
www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/document/?do...
www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/document/?do...
SCOTS - The Mossflow
www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
may I recommend instead a version of the Outlaws of the Water Margin in Scots.
www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/document/?do...
www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/document/?do...
War Music is $2.99 on Kindle, people. www.amazon.com/War-Music-Ac...
War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad
War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad - Kindle edition by Logue, Christopher, Reid, Christopher. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad.
www.amazon.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
War Music is $2.99 on Kindle, people. www.amazon.com/War-Music-Ac...
Christopher Logue's rendition of the Iliad, War Music.
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Christopher Logue's rendition of the Iliad, War Music.
(I mean, the actual answer here is that it's about lots of things, but Priam and Achilles is, I think, the key emotional point of the story)
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
(I mean, the actual answer here is that it's about lots of things, but Priam and Achilles is, I think, the key emotional point of the story)
it's about how cool it is to hook a dude from his chariot like you're fishing
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
it's about how cool it is to hook a dude from his chariot like you're fishing
I think this is probably because they got mad about Emily Wilson, right?
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I think this is probably because they got mad about Emily Wilson, right?
the national reserve of alphanium was running low.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
the national reserve of alphanium was running low.
yeah, they wouldn't have thought of it as metagaming, though. you, the player, were a consistent entity, not the character.
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
yeah, they wouldn't have thought of it as metagaming, though. you, the player, were a consistent entity, not the character.