I have to say, whichever AI program they got to replace Kristol and sound like him while posting sensible things on Bsky is doing a great job!
27.01.2026 01:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jessnevins.bsky.social
Encyclopedist, college librarian, writer, ttrpg writer. I like to talk about Mesopotamia & Vikings. Always outnumbered, never outgunned. My podcast, "The History of Comic Books in 500 Issues," is at http://500issues.com
I have to say, whichever AI program they got to replace Kristol and sound like him while posting sensible things on Bsky is doing a great job!
27.01.2026 01:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'll post a list tomorrow
27.01.2026 01:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ma`inmu.
26.01.2026 23:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0firmament who not only hate all life but feed on it, and further are able to trace the path of the yΓ nΓ-bΓ‘ ships back to Earth and are headed in that direction at the time of the game?)
(Fortunately, the yΓ nΓ-bΓ‘ have encountered buried space gods before and know how to deal with them).
the stars never sent any messages back to Gorilla City.
(It's either because traversing the firmament is a lot more difficult than the yΓ nΓ-bΓ‘ assumed--maybe it's not really skin, as Marduk claimed, but water or stone, as later accounts say--or it's because there are things living in the
All I wanted to do today was to finally write up the Gazetteer entry for Gorilla City for my Mesopotamian rpg.
That's all. Shouldn't have taken more than a thousand words or so.
But here I am, 4k words into it and still going, devising competing theories for why the six separate expeditions to
Who faked his death, and reappeared as Adam Weishaupt?
26.01.2026 23:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Straight from the Wikipedia entry!
(I have no knowledge of V:tm lore, sorry)
Aw, him I knew about!
26.01.2026 23:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0!
26.01.2026 22:44 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Further confirming my opinion that Ray Winstone can do anything.
26.01.2026 22:44 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pretty much, yeah.
26.01.2026 22:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are all of us living in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the gods. Who are looking back at us with eyes big as clouds. It's really pretty creepy.
26.01.2026 22:43 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0But! In the KJV, Tubal-cain is described as an "instructor of every artificer in brass and iron," meaning that all the artificers learned it from him.
(Sidenote: etymologies of "artificer" and "mechanique" are pretty interesting).
And, apparently, making swords provokes bloodlust. Who knew?
I must admit to being a little hurt that none of you told me about Tubal-cain and I had to find out about him in the street, like a guttersnipe. Seventh generation descendent of Cain (whose murder Tubal-cain lets happen), the first blacksmith and the "forger of all instruments of bronze and iron."
26.01.2026 22:30 β π 49 π 3 π¬ 14 π 1I've typed and deleted three separate posts that were fedposts.
26.01.2026 20:35 β π 24 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0There's a pretty clever "Cleaning a UFO" video going around, and I'd love to share it, except it's AI, which means I can't, darn it.
26.01.2026 18:39 β π 19 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Just a heads up, tomorrow is Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder, hope you've done your shopping and holiday meal prep.
26.01.2026 17:46 β π 371 π 101 π¬ 11 π 7When you've pissed off Jack Zipes...!
26.01.2026 15:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An *awful* lot silver flowed into Scandinavia during the Viking Age. The Mongols would definitely have found it worth looting.
26.01.2026 15:16 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Can I live in that country?
26.01.2026 15:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I am disappointed by the social media and media in America by their poor use of language when depicting events in Minneapolis, where I live. They have not accurately described the putrid creatures who have invaded our fair city. Their reports are disgusting lies, nor do they help people in the world to understand what is really happening in America.. For instance, the newspapers, radio, and tv generally call the murderers of innocent people "Ice agents" when they should actually be called stinking Nazis. They refer to the slimy Donald Trump as President Trump when he should be called demented dictator. The putrid invaders of Minneapolis are actually cockroaches who have infested the clean and kind communities in Minnesota. Moreover, there are some 50 million people in America who voted for the demented dictator who are mice and linked to Ice. Perhaps the worst cronies of the slimy dictator are his appointed heads of National Security and the FBI. not to mention the Supreme Court of despicable ass-kissers. When and if people learn grammar correctly and to speak honestly with one and other and to write and read specifically, we may be able to live in peace and discover what humanity means.
Jack Zipes, who knows better than nearly everyone about folktales and fairy tales and how they are used and misused, and who misuses them and why, has something to say about what's going on:
26.01.2026 13:57 β π 46 π 17 π¬ 2 π 2I am a huge fan of Sugar as well a Husker Du (HD was the single loudest concert I've ever been to).
26.01.2026 12:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Only if they're human.
26.01.2026 12:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I can't say that Mould is underrated--I think people have a healthy appreciation of him--but there needs to be a Banger scale, because he'd rank really high on that.
26.01.2026 12:04 β π 26 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0That was someone else, yeah.
26.01.2026 11:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Made up scandal, yeah
26.01.2026 02:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0No, they were the (successful) Evil Empire for twenty years. Now they're back!
25.01.2026 23:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Oh my goodness. I hope your birds appreciate you!
25.01.2026 23:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0