Nicole

"Il faut savoir ce que l'on veut. Quand on le sait, il faut avoir le courage de le dire. Quand on le dit, il faut avoir le courage de le faire." (Clemenceau)

[Nicole @Eleutheria29]

Paris : Bd Raspail - Rue Monge
Ca va, @Paris @ClearChannelFr ?
Les piétons ne vous dérangent pas trop ?!

[Laetitia Portal @LaetitiaWilfert]

Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Moon Over Water
1923

[ᅠ ᅠ @greenvibe]

Every step deeper into the green unknown..

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Border Collies when there's no sheep to herd. 🐕🐾😅

[Nashville Zoo @NashvilleZoo]

A #caturday throwback with clouded leopards Joker & Quinn 🐾

See how much bigger this duo is now at their temporary habitat within the Critter Encounters area!

📹 Keeper Sloane

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

Around 21,000 years ago, someone crossed the muddy shores of what is now White Sands National Park, carrying a toddler before returning hours later alone. Their 1.5 km journey left over 400 footprints behind-an ordinary moment that survived the Ice Age.

[Julien Barbier 🙃❤️🏴‍☠️ @jbarbier]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

- George Orwell, 1984

[Dan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Kingbingo_]

I’ve now seen the Odyssey - My review:

TLDR: Nolan wounds Poseidon's son Homer and can’t help boasting about it and in return Poseidon makes his film as torturous as possible without outright killing it.

A thread 🧵

[Overton @overton_news]

Victor Davis Hanson was blown away by the fact that the actress playing Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s new film had never actually read The Odyssey.

What confused him even more was that she began criticizing Homer’s epic for not having enough “feminist” characters, despite never having read it.

HANSON: “Lupita Nyong’o, she said something, I couldn’t quite believe that…she got her master’s in theater arts at Yale, and she said she had never read The Odyssey before.”

“And she’s 42…and I thought, well, how is that possible?”

“Her undergraduate institution…was excellent. She went to Yale, but she’s never…”

“I taught 21 years at Cal State Fresno, Humanities 10, Introduction to Western Humanities. We started with Homer, so I would either have The Iliad, but mostly I taught The Odyssey…”

“So I had 2,000 students at Cal State University taking that class, and most of them were from families below the median income…”

“My point is, they were not from old families and they weren’t at a privileged institution, and yet they had experience with The Odyssey…”

“So when I hear this actress and she says that she has never read it before, well, that’s okay.”

“But then she starts opining on what’s wrong with it, and she says that it doesn’t have enough ‘feminist’ characters.”

[Kyrios Mykonos @kyriosmykonoss]

Relationship to the dead reveals the heart of a civilization.

In Nolan's Odyssey, the dead Sinon, a victim, reprimands Odysseus.

In Homer's Odyssey, the dead Achilles, a hero, redirects Odysseus.

In one world, the dead bequeath wisdom. In the other, grievances.

[Kyrios Mykonos @kyriosmykonoss]

Homer's Odyssey began circulating at the dawn of a civilization. Nolan's has come at dusk. Therein lies the reason for thematic differences.

[Kyrios Mykonos @kyriosmykonoss]

Homer's Odyssey: Hubris —> Nobody —> Memory —> Home

Nolan's Odyssey: Sin —> Memory —> Guilt —> Exile

In Homer, memory is restorative. Odysseus remembers who he is—recognizing his limitations—and reclaims his home. Memory generates civilization.

In Nolan, memory is condemnatory. Guilt severs him from his home. Memory judges and destroys civilization.

A depressingly modern reinterpretation.

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Moana hired a full team of Polynesian consultants to police everything from tattoos to how the heroine addresses her elders. The Odyssey cast zero Greek or Mediterranean actors in a story that belongs to Greece.

One culture got a "Cultural Trust". The other got mocked for asking.

Why is Hollywood like this?

[Nicole @Eleutheria29]

S’il n’y avait que l’agriculture qu’il avait liquidé…

[CNEWS @CNEWS]

«Emmanuel Macron a liquidé l'agriculture française», affirme le vice-président de la Coordination rurale https://t.co/F53MxW3wIg

[Nicole @Eleutheria29]

Le régime iranien serait soudainement moins fréquentable ?
Quelle surprise…
Ça valait la peine de décerner la Légion d’honneur à l’un de ses agents dans la dernière promotion.

[Bastion @BastionMediaFR]

🔴🇮🇷🇫🇷 𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗛 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 — Deux agents de l’ambassade de France en Iran ont été détenus, interrogés et molestés pendant plusieurs heures par des services de sécurité iraniens ce dimanche soir.

Le ministre des Affaires étrangères, Jean-Noël Barrot, dénonce une agression qui « ne pourra rester sans conséquence ». Les deux agents ont depuis rejoint l’ambassade, où ils sont désormais en sécurité.

(Source : ministère des Affaires étrangères)

[Tribune Populaire🌐 @TribunePop23]

📂🇫🇷FLASH INFO - Le journaliste Marc Endeweld révèle, dans une enquête consacrée aux années géorgiennes de Raphaël Glucksmann (2009-2012), que celui-ci, alors conseiller du président Mikheïl Saakachvili, ne se serait pas limité à la communication et à la rédaction de discours, mais aurait également été impliqué dans des dossiers liés aux importations d’armes.

[Nicole @Eleutheria29]

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[Olivier Varlan @VarlanOlivier]

C’est vrai que je n’avais pas pensé à l’aspect pluie.

[Olivier Varlan @VarlanOlivier]

Laissez-nous le temps de digérer la défaite en demi-finale avant d’annoncer une nouvelle catastrophe…

[jdse @JCQDSE]

Plus de 1 500 décès supplémentaires en 6 jours.

Le ministère de la Santé s’abstient de publier les chiffres pour Paris. Ils sont probablement très supérieurs dans notre capitale « adaptée au réchauffement climatique » au taux moyen de + 122 % observé en Île-de-France.

[Enzo Morel @mtwit75]

Beau message de recevoir celui dont l'ancien bras droit et ministre vient d'être condamné à 24 ans de prison pour crime organisé, corruption, détournement de fonds et trafic d'influence, et dont la femme et le frère sont mis en examen pour de multiples affaires.