Hanesherway

born and raised in Atlanta. I like books, cats, and tea. Fandoms include Harry Potter, Star Trek, Dr. Who, Anglophile

[Willie Lutz @willie_lutz]

Releasing a CGI-heavy, unfinished trailer the Monday after Christopher Nolan puts out a handcrafted masterpiece like "The Odyssey" is completely insane

[Bruno Carvalho @ligadoemserie]

Sinopse de A Odisseia:

"Jason Bourne perdeu-se no mar por anos. Sua esposa, Mulher-Gato, encontra-se desolada e está sendo cobiçada pelo Batman. O filho de Bourne, Homem-Aranha, foi procurar o pai com a ajuda do Justiceiro".

[Deb @DontCallMeDebby]

Joe Biden won the 2020 Election
Trump is in the Epstein files
And, I’m pretty sure Canada is trying to sage us.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

He’s losing to a bin isn’t he? lol

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

It really is worth going to see the Odyssey. But my problems with it are not to do with the armour or the colour of the actors’ skin. It’s more about the lack of humour/irony - and the “sexlessness”. So: seen the film, now read the book!

https://t.co/zcAsT3E49k

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

As you watch the scramble for U.S. Senate in South Carolina...

Lindsey Graham was sworn on January 3, 2003, succeeding Strom Thurmond.

Thurmond took that seat on November 7, 1956.

That's only two Senators in nearly 70 years.

[Hanesherway @ktagart]

@SketchesbyBoze Currently the Count of Monte Cristo for my Summer reading. Approximately 30% of the way through. I have some Agatha Christie lined up after that as a chaser.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

The situation is so much more desperate than you probably realize.

University professors are saying they're now unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. Their students are simply incapable of reading more than a few pages.

Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.

There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.

If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything. This is civilizational.

Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:

Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.

Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history. We must continue to form new minds in this same model if we're going to keep it.

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

The Atlantic’s new cover story on the decline of reading features a Harvard student who complained that he had to read a book written in "Old English."

Now, you might be thinking that he was assigned Beowulf or The Canterbury Tales.

Nope.

This student was assigned A Clockwork Orange—and used ChatGPT to “translate” it.

A Clockwork Orange was written in 1962 (not 1692, which is still modern English, by the way). This student’s grandparents were alive in the 60s. Is he also using a translation bot to speak to them?

Yes, I had an easier time than most people with the novel's Nadsat slang because I speak Russian, but you catch on very quickly if you turn on more than two brain cells—and the entire point is to compel you to inhabit Alex’s deranged mind, which is cool!

For the first time in my life, I feel bad for Alex from A Clockwork Orange for being so misunderstood.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

THE TRUMP EFFECT: The USA just lost to Belgium in the World Cup Round of 16 by a score of 4-1, right after Trump personally called FIFA to clear star striker Balogun to play.

Sports fans are calling it the Trump curse.

He attended the Super Bowl and predicted a Chiefs win, but the Eagles blew them out.

He was there when the Commanders hosted the Lions and lost at home.

He watched from a suite as Miami fell in the College Football National Championship.

He sat in the owner’s suite when the Knicks snapped their huge playoff streak in NBA Finals Game 3.

And he attended the Ryder Cup where Europe topped the US team.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

IDIOCRACY wasn't this stupid.

[Slate @Slate]

It was a relic of the ’90s. The food was OK at best. Now it’s the hottest restaurant in America. What happened? https://t.co/5AG8zbdr6P

[Scott LaFoy @wslafoy]

Celebrating the 250th with Dunkin's refreshing new canopic jar

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

the caulk is oozing i repeat the caulk is oozing

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Trump wants to cut down Washington DC's oldest grove of cherry trees along the Mall and eliminate the public biking path and picnic areas so he can build a Trump golf course on public land, using public dollars, and taking spaces away from the public.

[Classic Movie Hub @ClassicMovieHub]

"Playing good girls in the '30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress."
Celebrating Olivia de Havilland born July 1, in 1916.
Over 55 roles including Captain Blood, Dodge City, They Died with Their Boots On, To Each His Own, Dodge City, The Snake Pit, The Heiress - & of course Gone With the Wind & The Adventures of Robin Hood!
#botd https://t.co/eTHZ9zfEt5

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

BREAKING: Spirit Halloween has officially taken over Trump’s Great American State Fair.

[Softboy @softboywin]

I’m officially at the age where I understand why my parents never wanted to go anywhere after work.

[Hanesherway @ktagart]

@lisavsworld Ciarin Hinds is handsome, but you can buy that he is a Captain at sea. Rupert Penry Jones not as much

[Hanesherway @ktagart]

@AbigailFalanga Where is Jane Austen's biting, sometimes caustic wit?