Gareth Roberts

I present, the lenition hypercube

DOJ Scrubs Jan. 6 Attack From Court Record After Suspending Career Prosecutors Read more here.

This is next level authoritarianism.👇

"Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."

If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):

I joke! I joke!

This is horrendous.

It is a bit better than Friends though.

Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.

WTF 🤬

A police officer in Baltimore, Maryland, attempted to run over and kill a civilian who refused to answer their questions.

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

Struggling to imagine the chutzpah it takes to say that someone "doesn't understand New York culture" because they're an immigrant.

Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview.

This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association.

I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.

including via their attitude to climate change!

He did, yes!

"Lion-god arrives the same time as Father Christmas"

(I always find this one especially amusing for some reason, perhaps partly because Lewis referred to it later as an obvious clue.)

(Roughly pi-TROFF, in case you're wondering!)

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Following your discussion of how to pronounce Luthier: Did you know that Arkhipov stressed his name on the second syllable (so [arˈχipəf], very roughly "ar-HEE-puff")? I doubt he'd care very much how Canadians say it when honouring him though.

A screenshot of a tweet by Elon Musk (@elonmusk). The tweet reads: “When Tolkien wrote about the hobbits, he was referring to the gentlefolk of the English shires, who don’t realize the horrors that take place far away. They were able to live their lives in peace and tranquility, but only because they were protected by the hard men of Gondor. What happened to the nice man who was brutally murdered while walking his dog will happen to all of England if the tide of illegal immigration is not turned. It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die.” Below the tweet is a grey box that says: “This post is unavailable" indicating that the Tommy Robinson tweet he's QT'ing is missing. The timestamp reads: “8:02 AM · Oct 29, 2025 · 1.9M Views”.

The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl.

The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.

Here’s the truly stupid part:

All these MAGA warriors cheering that SNAP is being cut off because they bought the lie that it’s “waste, fraud, and abuse” don’t get it.

They won’t see a dime, a benefit, or a tax break because SNAP is cut—just more hungry families and weaker local economies.

Next up on CBS News: Constitutional law scholar Nicholas Cage!

this is beautiful. From Swamp Yankee to South Asian, the fictitious-kin auntie custom has united us all

So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?

BREAKING: millions go to church every sunday and call the priest "father" but he's not really their dad.

CNN is reporting that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social referred to a voter he was meeting as “my man” at a campaign event today, even though the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution has made it illegal to own human beings since 1865 and remains the law in states including New York

I hear he even takes his wife out for nice meals now and again.

Nice work by the New York Post for making every single person in the nation find a way to relate to Zohran Mamdani, who has tons of unofficial "aunts" and "uncles" just like the rest of us.

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

Can’t quite believe it’s done but it’s done.

Two years of translating and unpicking (and growing a human somewhere in the middle) the most bizarre yet brilliant manifesto by Dr William Price: Gwyllllis yn Nayd.

Spoilers: these aren’t the ravings of a lunatic as previous biographers have concluded.

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

There's an annoying subtype (or perhaps a partially overlapping set) who sees what you're saying here as equivalent to saying that everything's fine or that everything's not fine be we need do nothing to oppose it. Some of them have already shown up in your mentions!

"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.

Don't say the second when you mean the first.