Tolkein also meditates on the cost of war - every hand that strikes a fatal blow to a powerful enemy in righteous battle is itself broken. People talk a lot about Eowyn's coma but Frodo loses a finger and also spends quite some time unconscious, and he did not strike so directly.

There's some real ineptness at work, here. Someone had to turn around and fire in completely the wrong direction for this to occur.

to be fair it worked for tolkein,

I mean, this was in fact how Tolkien and his wife conducted their romance.

It's okay to actually compliment a Democrat when they do something we've been complaining about for months

it used to be better for the role but it just doesn't fit with the necessities of modern combat

take: neathery's Endtown is toontown crossed with fallout with a splash of dr who for flavor

loooool lmao

G-d, famous for telling you exactly what His schedule is,

The three pillars of literary Bluesky are Tolkien, Borges, & Melville, & any bit that features them skillfully wins a poster immortality

You're basically just getting spammed with pretty sky pictures from now until April when the midnight sun comes back, just fyi.

i should work out more, today's activities were kind of punishing on my core and calves

i am also making a very big announcement on Monday about autism

If you tell me something is the worst movie you've ever seen, I'm compelled to watch it like now positive review could ever achieve.

party rock being in the house tonight implies the existence of party ska being in another house this very same night

I think people in line for top government positions taking bribes to funnel government money to the bribers is corrupt and bad, not good. When law enforcement catches one taking bribes, they should prosecute that official rather than protect them. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

Is hostility to immigration something that people develop spontaneously based on their own experiences, or is it deliberately cultivated by politicians and the press? The authors of this FT don’t say so, but it’s hard not to see this figure as evidence for the latter. www.ft.com/content/43da...

Military lawyers within the Pentagon have taken issue with the legal justifications for the strikes, warning that the soldiers involved could be held personally liable for the killings.

lmao

ah so, the slave trade where the lack of legal protections for people not born there leads directly to horrific abuse and high death rates among workers in multiple industries?

🔶 had a realization

thinking about the time my mom took me to observe a Catholic latin rite mass just to show me what it was like

@the-wheezer.bsky.social we missed it D:

once again reminding people i have joined the war on autism on the side of autism

the rn shortage has been going so long, my dad got citizenship through a program meant to try to fill those seats

Disco Elysium is so leftist that the 4 founders split up into 5 rival studios. How they physically managed this I still do not understand. It's like something out of a failed algebra answer "invalid solution", but they pulled it off.

Do I know anyone in the greater Seattle area that has a decent looking (won’t look jank on camera is a lowish bar) Sasquatch costume?

Like, look at this shit. He is starting to have negative net approval with *every single possible demographic*, and yet people are convinced that he is stronger and more unassailable than he ever was.

Do not allow journos to retcon history like this. Olivia Nuzzi was fired because her fiance Ryan Lizza and her former employer New York Magazine found out she was sexting presidential candidate RFK Jr while she was reporting on the incumbent president Joe Biden's reelection campaign.

"the us is a Latin American Country" part 2000

you guys wanna see a dead body

“When was Joe Biden president?” remains the most difficult question in politics

i have pdfs i can't even open in acrobat and the ai addition moved the threshold from 1gb pdfs down to about 200mb pdfs, it's so fucking bad

Obama on Charlie Kirk:

now that i think about it Stargate was probably impactful in party because "running around with an airsoft P90 within 200 miles of Vancouver BC" was basically my childhood

I know many are saying “go to the protest just don’t sign up.” That’s fine, who cares? But if you’re convincing people they’re in a world where putting their name on a website could get them disappeared, you’re describing a world we’re not yet in but using fear to make it more likely we will be.

A continuing reminder that your sanity will be well served if you realize that Miller, Trump, Bondi, etc. saying something is not a sufficient condition to bring that thing into being. Voices that tell you that this is the case should be ignored, because they're mostly farming engagement.

Yesterday was incredibly productive, and then amazing, but I didn’t get any time chasing little buddies around the yard. Here’s some from Monday, though! This finch threatened to send his goons if I didn’t throw out more sunflower seeds 😬 #photography #birds #pnw

my wife has very photogenic plants

tbh to put on my security practitioner hat if you're really worried about being targeted for purges you need to invent a time machine and prevent yourself from having ever signed up for this website

D is intensely powerful and because it has Vietnam, the Philippines, and Australia, it allows you to backdoor modified versions of the best things from A/H/G

I’m sticking with “assassination is bad” and add “if, as these charges suggest, you assassinated someone to fight hate, you absolutely condemned a bunch of other people to die as a natural consequence.”

lmao this is the closest we've gotten to Randomly Woke Matt Walsh in *years*

hell yeah go mariners

lol, comma, lmao

i wonder if fallout new vegas players have a statistically significant distrust for the text generation machine because it talks like the Yes Man

all journalism that has been any use to me whatsoever starts from the following presuppositions: - things can be done, or happen - whether a particular thing has been done or has happened can be discovered - once discovered, what has been done can be proven to a high standard (1/3)