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Published poet, Renaissance faire worker, Pisces, she or they, disability life chose me, f/sf/Tolkien dork, troptwt refugee from the Bad Place. ngl.link/voiceoftruth
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Just so folks know, I am mercilessly blocking any and all accounts that share AI slop political memes like that Charlie Brown shit with two Snoopy and four Linus. Lazy boomerposting instead of USING YOUR WORDS? "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" - Audre Lorde
With "remember" bearing the load here: Rankin-Bass's animated Hobbit. I did not want to go down, down to Goblin-town and once there, we met frog dude Gollum. Eat your twisted, racist heart out, Serkis.
October 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
With "remember" bearing the load here: Rankin-Bass's animated Hobbit. I did not want to go down, down to Goblin-town and once there, we met frog dude Gollum. Eat your twisted, racist heart out, Serkis.
I don't know how many dollars Rick "Sapience" Heaton has raised for Extra Life, a charity in which the gaming community supports medical treatment for kids, but now he's the one who could use the help. As Elda said, even signal boosting helps here.
@rickside.bsky.social needs your help folks. He is one of the former Lord of the Rings Online CM's and he could use your help whether it is reposts or donations. Every bit helps. @officiallotro.bsky.social @lotrofamily.bsky.social #lordoftheringsonline Link in comments.
October 5, 2026 at 12:26 PM
I don't know how many dollars Rick "Sapience" Heaton has raised for Extra Life, a charity in which the gaming community supports medical treatment for kids, but now he's the one who could use the help. As Elda said, even signal boosting helps here.
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This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does:
If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us
get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us
get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
October 5, 2026 at 1:17 AM
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does:
If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us
get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us
get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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The Court of Strahd arrives October 14th! MMORPG.com has an exclusive interview with Senior Game Designer Torc about this upcoming event: https://www.mmorpg.com/videos/exclusive-chatting-the-court-of-strahd-and-u82-with-ddos-brent-walton-2000139009 #DDO
October 2, 2026 at 8:45 PM
The Court of Strahd arrives October 14th! MMORPG.com has an exclusive interview with Senior Game Designer Torc about this upcoming event: https://www.mmorpg.com/videos/exclusive-chatting-the-court-of-strahd-and-u82-with-ddos-brent-walton-2000139009 #DDO
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When people talk about rape culture this is exactly what they mean: Michaels and Herbstreit minimizing and dismissing the allegations of dozens of women.
Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week.
'TNF' looks at Deshaun Watson's season 🏈 📺
Al Michaels: "If you follow football, you know the story ... we don't have to go through the whole Deshaun Watson thing."
Kirk Herbstreit: "When you convert on 3rd downs, you hit passes, you lead this team to victories, those boos turn into cheers."
Al Michaels: "If you follow football, you know the story ... we don't have to go through the whole Deshaun Watson thing."
Kirk Herbstreit: "When you convert on 3rd downs, you hit passes, you lead this team to victories, those boos turn into cheers."
October 2, 2026 at 10:43 AM
When people talk about rape culture this is exactly what they mean: Michaels and Herbstreit minimizing and dismissing the allegations of dozens of women.
"Journey's End" #tolkientrewsday Some characters have ends to their journeys before the book ends. Théoden King's is almost like Thorin's writ even larger: forgiveness spoken to a hobbit on a battlefield. But also the horse! "Faithful servant yet master's bane / Lightfoot's foal, swift Snowmane."
September 29, 2026 at 7:03 PM
"Journey's End" #tolkientrewsday Some characters have ends to their journeys before the book ends. Théoden King's is almost like Thorin's writ even larger: forgiveness spoken to a hobbit on a battlefield. But also the horse! "Faithful servant yet master's bane / Lightfoot's foal, swift Snowmane."
Does this woman (Hughes, I mean, not Caraballo) think you go to gender clinics and get repeatedly kicked in the knee? I mean, she DOES think there are clinics replumbing young kids, which is arguably a dumber idea to hold, but way to make it about you I guess. I mean both gender and your kid's knee
September 28, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Does this woman (Hughes, I mean, not Caraballo) think you go to gender clinics and get repeatedly kicked in the knee? I mean, she DOES think there are clinics replumbing young kids, which is arguably a dumber idea to hold, but way to make it about you I guess. I mean both gender and your kid's knee
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The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives
September 28, 2026 at 2:25 AM
The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives
#hobbitday "I am in fact a hobbit" -- Tolkien's female characters are underdeveloped but the redemption arc in "The Scouring of the Shire" is Lobelia, jailed for attacking a Sharkey minion with her umbrella. "They've took some we miss more, but there's no denying she showed more spirit than most."
September 22, 2026 at 1:05 PM
#hobbitday "I am in fact a hobbit" -- Tolkien's female characters are underdeveloped but the redemption arc in "The Scouring of the Shire" is Lobelia, jailed for attacking a Sharkey minion with her umbrella. "They've took some we miss more, but there's no denying she showed more spirit than most."
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🌻 Hobbit Day Give Away 🌻
Win a little handmade fridge magnet, shaped as cute Resident of the Shire diploma.
4” tall & 3” wide
Rules
🔸 Follow this account
🔸 RT this post
🔸 Comment and tell be about you favourite autumn food
Winner announced Sep. 28th.
#hobbitday #tolkienweek #handmade #humanartist
Win a little handmade fridge magnet, shaped as cute Resident of the Shire diploma.
4” tall & 3” wide
Rules
🔸 Follow this account
🔸 RT this post
🔸 Comment and tell be about you favourite autumn food
Winner announced Sep. 28th.
#hobbitday #tolkienweek #handmade #humanartist
September 21, 2026 at 2:20 PM
🌻 Hobbit Day Give Away 🌻
Win a little handmade fridge magnet, shaped as cute Resident of the Shire diploma.
4” tall & 3” wide
Rules
🔸 Follow this account
🔸 RT this post
🔸 Comment and tell be about you favourite autumn food
Winner announced Sep. 28th.
#hobbitday #tolkienweek #handmade #humanartist
Win a little handmade fridge magnet, shaped as cute Resident of the Shire diploma.
4” tall & 3” wide
Rules
🔸 Follow this account
🔸 RT this post
🔸 Comment and tell be about you favourite autumn food
Winner announced Sep. 28th.
#hobbitday #tolkienweek #handmade #humanartist
Re "toxicity" scores for bsky accounts, which is something they do want to implement: so if I qrp a piece of art that popped up on my For You from a user I don't follow, and it's so good that I exclaim, "Look at this fucking brilliant art," my toxicity score goes up. What could go wrong
No, and not because of bias but because of how the score is calculated.
This can be inferred by Aaron’s thread.
Posting doesn’t affect the score. Replying to or quote reposting users who do not follow you and using profanity/“toxic” language does.
“dogpiling” is what they consider toxic.
This can be inferred by Aaron’s thread.
Posting doesn’t affect the score. Replying to or quote reposting users who do not follow you and using profanity/“toxic” language does.
“dogpiling” is what they consider toxic.
September 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Re "toxicity" scores for bsky accounts, which is something they do want to implement: so if I qrp a piece of art that popped up on my For You from a user I don't follow, and it's so good that I exclaim, "Look at this fucking brilliant art," my toxicity score goes up. What could go wrong
This is an inexpressible number of times funnier for Dead Heads who were always like "Bobby hired fuckin who now?"
Ed Sheeran has disappointed me , I am returning to the original dumb white dude with a guitar of John Mayer .
September 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM
This is an inexpressible number of times funnier for Dead Heads who were always like "Bobby hired fuckin who now?"
With regard to the Ed Sh**ran debacle:
just spent like ten minutes explaining this all to my husband and he goes “at this point wouldn’t it genuinely be easier to just Free Palestine” and he’s not wrong
September 16, 2026 at 1:05 AM
With regard to the Ed Sh**ran debacle:
#tolkientrewsday theme: "City of Dreaming Spires" which of course was Matthew Arnold's phrasal invention for Oxford in "Thyrsis" - both an elegy and a heckin chonker of a poem, with an invented rhyme scheme. All very Tolkien. Out of context the phrase nods to Gondolin & to Tirion upon Tuna.
September 15, 2026 at 12:36 PM
#tolkientrewsday theme: "City of Dreaming Spires" which of course was Matthew Arnold's phrasal invention for Oxford in "Thyrsis" - both an elegy and a heckin chonker of a poem, with an invented rhyme scheme. All very Tolkien. Out of context the phrase nods to Gondolin & to Tirion upon Tuna.
#TolkienTrewsday - if we do not as a fandom IMMEDIATELY confront our racism/all the -isms problem then we are cooked, chat. We know what RoP antis say about Arondir and Disa, and we know what LOTRO players mean about Umbar and Harad not feeling "like Tolkien," and nobody is willing to talk about it.
September 8, 2026 at 10:40 PM
#TolkienTrewsday - if we do not as a fandom IMMEDIATELY confront our racism/all the -isms problem then we are cooked, chat. We know what RoP antis say about Arondir and Disa, and we know what LOTRO players mean about Umbar and Harad not feeling "like Tolkien," and nobody is willing to talk about it.
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don't read morgoth's ring cause you'll realize sauron is like the worst AuDHD traits cranked up to eleventy-thousand, the perfectionism and obsession with things he can't control, and you'll be like DAMN i can't believe i relate to sauron
but at least he serves cunt? so that helps a bit
but at least he serves cunt? so that helps a bit
September 3, 2026 at 7:52 PM
don't read morgoth's ring cause you'll realize sauron is like the worst AuDHD traits cranked up to eleventy-thousand, the perfectionism and obsession with things he can't control, and you'll be like DAMN i can't believe i relate to sauron
but at least he serves cunt? so that helps a bit
but at least he serves cunt? so that helps a bit
"Former Kanye West aide" are quite the words to have on your resume. Former lickspittle to the world's most famous nitrous fiend Nazi, then attempted White Savior of same. Also why tf does he look like Lowtax of Something Awful fame, rip in piss
Former Kanye West aide Milo Yiannopoulos walks back his support for Trump after his ICE arrest:
"If I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would have never gotten involved in supporting Trump in the first place"
"If I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would have never gotten involved in supporting Trump in the first place"
September 2, 2026 at 12:34 AM
"Former Kanye West aide" are quite the words to have on your resume. Former lickspittle to the world's most famous nitrous fiend Nazi, then attempted White Savior of same. Also why tf does he look like Lowtax of Something Awful fame, rip in piss
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If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
August 31, 2026 at 2:35 PM
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
There are two people who have a permanent seat at any TTRPG I ever run in my life. Both are on Bsky. September 1 is the birthday of one of them: @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social. I have a picture of child-Laura on my fridge and I feel like she'd be proud of the adult she became. I sure am.
September 1, 2026 at 12:56 AM
There are two people who have a permanent seat at any TTRPG I ever run in my life. Both are on Bsky. September 1 is the birthday of one of them: @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social. I have a picture of child-Laura on my fridge and I feel like she'd be proud of the adult she became. I sure am.
Halloween is going to be piercingly sad for a lot of us but at least the art will still slap
this piece suddenly started getting attention and i just knew. Rest in Peace to my favorite performer
Happy Birthday Mr Curry thank you for awakening my interest in beautiful evil men
August 27, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Halloween is going to be piercingly sad for a lot of us but at least the art will still slap
I can't with how beautiful this is. I guess all you need to know about me is that my high school yearbook quote was "Don't dream it, be it" -- this is a painting I can hear
digital painting study from like ~15 seconds of the RHPC movie i did last year
RIP Tim Curry what a guy
RIP Tim Curry what a guy
August 27, 2026 at 1:42 AM
I can't with how beautiful this is. I guess all you need to know about me is that my high school yearbook quote was "Don't dream it, be it" -- this is a painting I can hear
Rice, newspapers, squirt guns, lighters, toast, playing cards
August 26, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Rice, newspapers, squirt guns, lighters, toast, playing cards
OK, so I had this discussion with two of the four Gandalf cosplayers I saw this weekend. What is the plural of Gandalf? a. Gandalf is also the plural, like moose/moose; b. Gandalfs, as here; c. Gandalves, because JRRT had to fight his publisher to get "elves" and particularly "dwarves"; or what?
A group of Gandalfs at Peter Thiel’s house protesting against mass surveillance😭
August 18, 2026 at 10:45 AM
OK, so I had this discussion with two of the four Gandalf cosplayers I saw this weekend. What is the plural of Gandalf? a. Gandalf is also the plural, like moose/moose; b. Gandalfs, as here; c. Gandalves, because JRRT had to fight his publisher to get "elves" and particularly "dwarves"; or what?
This is why I hate this "cute trend." Like I'm glad for all the Bsky users who survived septic wounds inflicted by gerbils, but my gerbil incident was following advice to "give Doug another chance." Beside my champagne for when It Happens that all Americans have, there is another bottle
Hi, I'm intimate partner violence.
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you.
Hi, I'm medical fatphobia and misogynoir.
Hi, I'm medical fatphobia and misogynoir.
August 14, 2026 at 11:46 AM
This is why I hate this "cute trend." Like I'm glad for all the Bsky users who survived septic wounds inflicted by gerbils, but my gerbil incident was following advice to "give Doug another chance." Beside my champagne for when It Happens that all Americans have, there is another bottle