My pitch for a Game of Thrones spinoff is the tragic rise and fall of the person making the giant outdoor banners with the various house insignias that hang on the exterior of the castles. They get an order for a hundred new ones only to have the ruler be killed as soon as they finish them.

This is where the Soviets were when I was born; I would have starved to death if we hadn’t had an American on the way with a suitcase full of formula. (True story.)

Parenting is in many ways a parasocial relationship

I cowrote an essay in a book being published by an academic press that is coming out soon. I just got a mass mailer advertisement about a Christmas sale from that academic press. They added my name to their mailing list.

This reminds me of when Mayor Pete said that weapons of war should be used overseas but not at home. Our chickens always come home to roost. Violence here or overseas should be unacceptable and a tragedy.

I saw this image at a friend's house and I'm super confused as to what the knight is doing. He appears to be charging but is headed away from the dragons?

This plus Trump's concerns about getting into Heaven make me think that Trump does actually want to do good things but is constantly letting the passions control him. Whereas Vance and Stephen Miller have somehow made peace with the fact that they will never see the face of God.

Yoram Hazony on Ross Douthat's podcast asking why the political party embracing his nationalism project is suddenly antisemitic and blaming the Left

This matches the experiences in my own parish, lots of young men coming to services and talking about masculinity. Some do soften a bit when they get more involved in person but there's still plenty of Orthobros who are being influenced by online communities.

I read a right wing dystopian novel where a "woke" leftist government targeted Christian churches during Easter as the first move of their take over of civil society & creation of a totalitarian regime.

I honestly believe this thing is covered by the Biblical commands against necromancy

I grew up in a conservative evangelical home, I was told by my parents and the grownups in our church & homeschool circles that Jesus wanted us to feed the poor & needy. And that government shouldn't tell private companies how to run their businesses. Guess they were all lying about that.

Let Scherzer pitch to Ohtani you fucking cowards

"The hard men of Gondor"

I’m getting bombarded with ads for the second edition of John Company the board game where you play board members of the East Indie Trading Company and this is the first time I feel like the algorithm has truly gotten me.

Charcuterie board for a Halloween party 🎃

I got invited to a Halloween party where the theme is Tiny Terrifying Things

Did we ever figure out why Mike Johnson doesn’t have a bank account?

Can’t believe Trump is rubbing salt in the wound that is the Treaty of Trianon to his supposed allies in Hungary

A reminder on today when so many are trying to rehabilitate historical atrocities to excuse their own actions. Thank you, Sister Dr. Catherine for the reminder.

I’m going to tell any MAGA people I encounter that I was going to vote for Trump in 2028 but then he got vaccinated

Growing up in the Air Force I just have to say that the Qatari training facility is not that big a deal. We have similar facilities for dozens of nations around the country. The main thing that is confusing is putting it in Idaho which doesn't prepare them weather wise for flying in the Gulf region.

I'm watching the new season of Critical Role and Brennan is a genius, funeral is my new favorite starting location for a campaign now. It brings a wide variety of people together, emotions are raw and on edge. Plus it makes the PCs think about what they still want to do with the life they have left.

To me there is no greater example of how capitalism works in this country than Weather Underground, a free* (some ads with an ad free subscription) weather app that is named after a Marxist Militant group that bombed government buildings & banks in the 70s. 1/2

To everyone who celebrates October 3rd

Dinner party with gnocchi and fresh baked bread

Saruman warns that fearing the Palantir or attempting to regulate his production of Uruk-hai will hasten the coming of Sauron

I've been thinking about rolling dice in #TTRPG lately. I think we roll dice too often, especially in systems like D&D where you are rolling so many times during combat and for doing basically any physical feats or learning anything about the environment or NPCs. 1/8

Something I've been noticing lately is hobbyist brands (think tabletop games including board games, war games, miniatures, & RPGs) have started advertising products as manufactured in the US. It took me a bit to realize it isn't a reactionary thing but a way to say tariffs won't effect us.

During the Pandemic a friend & I watched the Brazilian film O Último Cine Drive-in (The Last Drive-in Theater) about a family run drive-in that is going to be demolished. The mother of the family is in the hospital with a chronic condition. They put on one final show at the drive-in 1/7

I’m tired of headlines like “State Legislature of X might pass crazy law about Y” because it is always the craziest most partisan legislators proposing a bill that will never pass to get headlines. No, Oklahoma is not going to pass a law that every university build a Charlie Kirk statue.

From listening to how Christians I know who are MAGA or MAGA adjacent talk about Kirk it seems clear to me that most of them did not know who he was and if they did they thought of him as a Christian influencer rather than a political activist. 1/4

Season 3 of Strange New Worlds was bad. Biological determinism was the central theme in multiple episodes this season. Undercutting one of the three good episodes this season which attempted to fix the mistake of previous seasons that had cast the Gorn as genetically evil.