I think it depends on where you look. For instance, if you take a good look at The Last Alliance, there's roughly a decade between the armies marching to Imladris to train and the end of the war, and it seems a bit like the commanders gather near Barad-Dur to draw Sauron out.

A thread. Happy reading!

The guy who leads the country thinks he solved two wars between two countries that are 2000 and 6000km apart.

Never say "You have lost my business forever." If you want a behavior modified, the behaver has to have a way to win. "You have lost my business UNTIL X" gives them a path to win. No path to the win? No reason to change. That corner of the world keeps sucking.

We're just repeating the "Bank buys failing bank only to fail and be bought by multiple banks" part of 2008 but with tech conglomerates and in smaller chunks. It journalistic malpractice to not just outright refer to this as a circular vendor ponzi scheme being floated by the shovel salesmen.

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Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. (Published 2021)

Report: Two-Thirds of Heat Deaths in Europe This Year Were the Result of Climate Change – Mother Jones share.google/MZGm2kHPtlIQ...

I always come back to this: Pratchett taught me ethics. You do the job that's in front of you and you never treat people like things.

academic conferences are simply going to need to offer virtual options

Part of a generally good thread. Happy Batman Day to those who celebrate.

A comment on the general state of affairs:

Is there an email address? For us overseas viewers?

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TIL about the illustrator Gregory Blackstock, famous for his "visual lists" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory...

If Democrats want to continue to erode Trump's support with young men, they should be trumpeting about how his tarrifs are making their video games more expensive, I'm not even joking

Important to note that the person who posted this false accusation is the Illinois state director for The Conservative Caucus

The federal workers who take care of our veterans, inspect our food, and help people through natural disasters know Trump’s lawlessness is hurting everyday Americans and they are begging Congress to stop it.

In which the Secretary of Energy peddles climate nonsense:

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

Here's a graph of the lowest Arctic ice extents which includes 2025. bsky.app/profile/zack...

Sporadic check for news of the OMB Nazgul: prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Daily Dems doing the work making noise and fighting back day 236 Today’s theme is telling stories to fight back. When our Democrats message it’s not because they want to hear themselves talk, it’s because the real change happens with us. I know it’s hard to believe, 1/

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Schrodinger's fascist: Both the toughest, big boy alpha male that can do whatever they want because of their sheer strength, and simultaneously a constant victim who is always just unfairly maligned and can't actually do anything because they're just a wittle guy... 🥺

🔌💡 The #ClimateTechAtlas is your guide to identifying the technologies that can accelerate decarbonization at scale. climatetechatlas.com Developed with contributions from Breakthrough, Elemental Impact, Energy Innovation, McKinsey Sustainability & Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability 👇

this is an absolutely massive deal

1. How is it I'm not on Tumblr? 2. Silmarillion answer was "Invent the dragon."

Every now and then I bop over to Reason. I don't read much of it, but I like to know what they're headlining.

Sen. Andy Kim is introducing a bill to end profiteering by Trump, lawmakers, and the Supreme Court, so we don’t have “an egotistical, narcissistic, and corrupt government." EXCLUSIVE: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I went looking for a picture of mutated Senator Kelly because of a Thiel video. Found this instead. comicbookmovie.com/x_men/x-men-...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Let's play "Conspiracy Theory, or Conspiracy?" The media mergers, emptying of newsrooms, and death of print were never about profits. Billionaires just wanted to quash all reporting on their actions, and removal of accountability was worth the price tag to them: a little giftie to themselves.

U may see Greta Thunberg's lifework & think "wow this kid really embodies the Christ Consciousness" but what if I told u a white German South African American man who made his riches selling the blood of young people to now fund AI war machines & turn the US into an open oligarchy said she is Satan

Gregory Bovino, leader of Trump’s LA and Chicago raids, personally testified that he saw a protestor strike a Border Patrol agent. The jury did not believe him and the protestor was acquitted. The Trump admin is losing these cases left and right. Their credibility with jurors is virtually nil.

Here's the monologue that got Jimmy Kimmel canceled. Judge for yourself. youtu.be/-j3YdxNSzTk?...

A whole lot of people are coming for @angryblacklady.bsky.social today for saying "do not put your name on a list of people attending a protest, what the fuck" with responses like "you're just discouraging people!" and "but they already know who you are!" and "DON'T LET THE TERRORISTS WIN" etc

The ACLU has written a guide to basic protest OPSEC that addresses the very basic risk factors -- it's nowhere near fully comprehensive, but it's the absolute table stakes for responsible protest: aclu-wa.org/story/Protes...

"Antifa, shorthand for anti-fascists, is an umbrella description for the far-left-leaning militant groups that resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations and other events." Funny, I thought it was a description of reasonable people. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:

so: what do we need you to do? two things. 1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures? Let us pierce the veil. For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture. Consider this an urgent warning: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

Afraid the current political climate might last a long time? Consider this: ICE officers wear masks because they're afraid it won't.

Read this right now please.

I think maybe it's time to start a think tanks. I have no money, in a very literal sense, but a great idea: Democrats should run on ideas that on average 70% of Americans agree on. Fight climate change. Inspect food. Preserve wild spaces. Infrastructure. Education. Consumer protections. Rights.