Alexia Burrows Charalambidou 🇨🇾🇬🇧🇪🇺

Classics Postgraduate student at the University of Nottingham | Helen of Troy enthusiast | She/They

[Alexia Burrows Charalambidou 🇨🇾🇬🇧🇪🇺 @AlexiaSBCL]

"Well in the original myth" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[milos @miloslines]

is nothing sacred 💔 not my beautiful wife oxford comma

[Yves ౨ৎ @yvessirae]

Millennials aren't breaking down at 50 they're burning out at 30. Why? Because Boomers sold a story that no longer works. Millennials were told:
"Go to college. Follow your passion. Success will follow." Instead, they inherited a rigged system.
Student debt has tripled since 2000. Housing prices are up 150% in just two decades. Entry-level jobs now demand 3+ years of experience, while wages barely moved since the 1990s. The result is brutal. Millennials became the most educated generation in history, yet also the most anxious, overworked, and underpaid. One in four has no savings. 62% live paycheck to paycheck. Nearly half say they feel burned out all the time. Gen Z watched this collapse in real time. That's why 70% prioritize mental health over money, and college enrollment is down 15% since 2010. Gen Z isn't lazy. They're adapting to a system that failed the generation before them.

[chase @_chase_____]

getting a job is easy all u have to do is get through 14 separate interviews, complete 6 aptitude tests, solve an unanswerable riddle, defeat a cyclops and steal his golden fleece, and be related to somebody at the company

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

“I’ll take care of it in June”

June:

[Icona @iconawrites]

You can buy any book you are looking for on the internet. But we need physical, independent bookshops because that is where you discover the books you were not looking for, and never knew you needed.

[Nick Lehmann @NickStopTalking]

Being a person with a brain and someone who can read during this period of history is really really difficult

[INACTIVE - workingclassicists.bsky.social @WorkClassicists]

ANNOUNCING...

A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉

📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now)
🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales2
✍️ 117 different writers
🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @drcorabeth
👇 Read more...

[Alexia Burrows Charalambidou 🇨🇾🇬🇧🇪🇺 @AlexiaSBCL]

I am so happy to say I have been a part of this project! And I am beyond excited to read this, and a big congratulations to @WorkClassicists on their first book!

[INACTIVE - workingclassicists.bsky.social @WorkClassicists]

ANNOUNCING...

A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉

📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now)
🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales2
✍️ 117 different writers
🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @drcorabeth
👇 Read more...

[Claire 💙 @clairebubblepop]

You destroyed a library. It was MORE than a library, it was a food bank, a source of heat for people in the winter, a place for kids from low income families to use the internet, or do their homework. Why destroy something so vital? Yeah you’re so patriotic guys.

[The REAL Dr. Dré @DrDre1914]

Just a reminder

[GL @gldivittorio]

All I'm saying is if I'm a nearby country previously occupied by the British, the queen is dead, the monarchy is tanking public trust via photoshop, the spare is in California making podcasts, and the real government blew through 3 prime ministers in a year + brexit, I'm invading

[Gina Miller @thatginamiller]

On behalf of my brothers, sister, son, nephew, in laws, aunts and uncles working in the NHS - thank you @DrHilaryJones for this clear explanation #DoctorsStrike -

But also the daily abuse they have to put up with. Vocation always comes before money but things have become so stressful that as you say, many #NHS staff, at all levels are thinking of leaving

Politicians must wake up to this crisis
@gmb

[King of Megcenae @agameganon]

the longer I stay in higher education the more I think it’s unacceptable to share information from your students on social media. positive or negative, whether it’s praising a quirky quote or lamenting late submissions I think that you, as an educator, should keep it private

[Alexia Burrows Charalambidou 🇨🇾🇬🇧🇪🇺 @AlexiaSBCL]

I hope anyone who was watching the livestream last night, or attended the game is okay. It was deeply traumatic, please seek help if you need it.

Thoughts go out to Johnson's family and friends. I hope the Panthers and Steelers teams are okay as well. #RIP #47

[Alexia Burrows Charalambidou 🇨🇾🇬🇧🇪🇺 @AlexiaSBCL]

People need to stop sharing the video of Adam Johnson from the Panthers V Steelers game last night. It is deeply traumatising. A man has died, have some god damn respect.

[Alexia Burrows Charalambidou 🇨🇾🇬🇧🇪🇺 @AlexiaSBCL]

@ClelandAoife @WillBowden1 @Buildingbod @UoNArch Well done Aoife 👏👏👏

[Percy Jackson News @updatespercy]

Rick Riordan on representation and writing #PercyJackson in 2005 compared to now:

“I do think that the main reason that I wrote the books is for my own son to feel seen and represented because he had learning differences… Kids, they need to feel seen, and they need to feel like they can be part of whatever adventure or wonderful fantasy they're reading. So that's always been kind of very near and dear to my heart, and I have certainly tried to kind of expand on that over the years. I'm not perfect at it, obviously, and I have a lot of blind spots, but I rely on Becky, my wife, and I rely on my editors and sensitivity readers and friends and colleagues to kind of help me make that attempt a little bit bigger and make sure that kids feel like they can be demigods and heroes.”

[Dalia Gebrial @daliagebrial]

Brand blacklisting women after sleeping with them.

Fox degrading a woman journalist by saying he wouldn't have sex with her.

A girl in Croydon stabbed for turning down a man's flowers.

The underside of patriarchal desire is revulsion, violence and hate