Rainbow_Cons

I found a 14th century poem by a rabbi wishing he had been born a girl & I cried for half an hour Absolutely heartbreaking that practically every single trans person born more than 100 years ago had to die without transition. And even worse that so many of us still have to

Bacon, and the choice would be easy!

sometimes I'll hear about an interesting sounding history book, and then I do some more research and learn that historians actually consider it the stupid book for morons that you should only read if you want to be wrong about everything

Working class communities don’t want to be told they got Brexit wrong. They were sending a message, and Labour still hasn’t properly heard it. They voted for change, and they’re still waiting for politicians to deliver it - for their towns, their industries, their way of life. That means secure work, pride in place, and control over their own communities. A Labour party worth its name stands with them, not above them. That is the test for any Labour leader.

The face of a Barbarian according to Ancient Greeks.

what’s the greatest opening line to a song?

Probably the most outrageous mistranslation by Emily Wilson is found in Book XXIV, line 303. Wilson translates: "Lying Odysseus replied, 'I will tell you the truth completely.'" Wilson misrepresents the meaning of πολύμητις. Murray for example translates this as "of many wiles", which is also a bit misleading. But to translate πολύμητις as lying is outright evil. πολύμητις is reminiscent of πολύτροπον in Book I, line 1. πολύμητις means to be thoughtful, circumspect, in many ways and in this way cunning.

If you're wondering where Karl Marx ended up, he ended up here with all his communist friends, with Satan in Hell :

"Why does an actor's race matter?!" Ok… now imagine it was this: