Dinotopia Enjoyer

Hey, the common loon called. Yeah, it was hauntingly beautiful

John Wick gold coins but for the secret league of sysadmins

Grumpy old man

A sorcerer or some such standing on top of a bit of a ruined castle.

Played with my markers a little

A galloping horse evading some arrows.

Three vikingish raiders running, all fully erect.

A wyrm.

A drakkar-like ship.

Was in the mood for something minimalistic so have these

it wasn’t an “alien abduction” I begged them to take me

got this quote at a neo-Nazi event at the University of Florida in 2017, & in the nearly 8 years since it goes viral like this every few months — I suspect because it's a pretty good summation of where the GOP has gone

Thesis: Disney’s Robin Hood (the apotheosis of Eroll Flynn’s Robin Hoods)
Antithesis: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Synthesis: Robin Hood: Men in Tights
a perfect example of Hegel’s dialectic theory.
In this essay I will…

"SCPs that got hoovered up and regurgitated by chatbots end up giving tech executives schizophrenia" is perhaps fittingly a very SCP thing to happen

Back in the 90s Cyber Psychosis was supposed to be brought on when your implants and augmentations started to interfere with the regular function of your nervous system.

These days, dweebs are catching it just because a chatbot called them "bestie"! Pathetic.

Yes.

Well, you know what they say: fortune favors the mold

Dr. Teeth but he’s creepy with a cane and his cape has toothy mouths inside it

Dr. Teeth

Life goals

I’m assuming all those corded ware pots Tom took from the barrow downs.

Obviously Lotho painted Lobelia’s toenails

Stout and buxom

Tolkien gave her a name that literally meant ‘old woman’

The less often mentioned women of Lord of the Rings: Goldberry, Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, Rosie Cotton, and Ioreth of the houses of healing in Minas Tirith.

A company of orcs
(An Isengard uruk, Mordor orcs, and Moria goblins)

Legolas

Galadriel

Ghân-Buri-Ghân

Tom Bombadil

I’m rereading Lord of the Rings and have been enjoying making some drawings of various characters (mostly while I’m at work at the library).
Question is, who else should I draw?

Dope thread

a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.

UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.

Our full statement below. ⬇️
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During the 2019 Hong Kong protests, various factions that ranged from clergy to suburban moms, lawyers to anarchists, coalesced on the four-part slogan:
不篤灰 (no snitching)
不割席 (no severing ties)
不分化 (no forming of cliques)
不指責 (no scolding)

Seems like new American anti-fascists are (re)learning!

Note that the administration’s claim of a 700% increase in assaults on ICE agents is likely made up mostly of incidents like this: claims that a 71-year-old citizen “pushed” a masked armed agent.

Engraved line of chinese poetry captioned "Stroking the sword while lamenting the social realities" (tE 剑伤世路），engravedbyShen Qianqiu. Ming Dynasty (Fig. 14)

Who up stroking they sword while lamenting social realities

I’m out here in Camarillo, CA, with @acatwithnews.bsky.social, where hundreds of demonstrators have gathered to protests today’s raids. As we walk up, you can hear hundreds chanting. Lots of press here as well

As a person who also can’t spell this brings me immense joy

Aight man.

Poetry Vowel Mishap (PVM) is the 3rd leading cause of death for poets, beating out cigarettes and ennui.

Has there been a legal case yet to set legal precedent about whether companies are responsible for when their LLMs hallucinate dangerous lies yet? I would 100% sue if I were these guys

ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it The application, which allows users to add a pin on a map to show where ICE agents have recently been spotted, has climbed to the to the top of the App Store charts.

ICEBlock, an app for people to report and be warned when ICE raids are occurring in a 5 mile radius, is now the top social networking app in the iOS App Store.

We are all living in a Black Mirror episode.

Just called a ride to my friends’ Fourth of July party and the license plate contains my exact initials together in order. Good omen or bad omen?