The Hall of Fire

Medical applications could be awesome. But a Musk-owned company is the last entity I would want to cut into my brain. Twitter induced brain damage is bad enough. Although anyone who volunteered is not going to come out of surgery any dumber than he went in. Because, cars are simpler than brains and ...

Some more conservative accounts I follow on Twitter for Ukrainian updates (Republican but not Pro-Trump, mostly ex-military) have been talking about EDA for months and blame Biden squarely for slow-walking Ukrainian weapons and making sure Ukraine doesn't win. One result of Ukraine running out of US...

Apologies for an irrelevancy, but why are all these people have names like they are in old DC comics m. Nauta. Habba. Even Trump is such a lazy villain name. And Cannon could be a hero.

Wordle 957 2/6

Elves singing?

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:22 am I do think some of this is mere baiting by Republicans trying to rile up their base and that neither Democrats nor Swift should overplay their responses.

Note the date of the tweet

On the other hand, it is possible that Swift's base is bigger than trump's.

Some idiot posted today that Kelce's $70K bonus paycheck is the reason Taylor, who is one of the world's largest economies all by herself, is dating him.

The funniest thing I read today - an account live tweeting a party meeting in the UK (the context is lost on me) and faithfully reporting the rage that ensues in the meeting when they realize they are being live tweeted and can't find the leak. Unrolled, because you can't see Twitter threads anymore...

Maria wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 7:28 pm I mean... our own primary method of communications is blowing air over strings of flesh, modulated by the fleshy hole it passes through. When you think about it, having that same method develop in a different ecology is mindbogglingly slim.

They're Made out of Meat

Narya, I'm glad you shared your feelings on Witch King. As I've said, I thought it was a masterclass in providing just enough information to orient the reader while avoiding infodumping. It's a good reality check to hear that it doesn't work for everyone. (and yeah, what's up with the title when he'...

Almost through Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree. It's a fun, undemanding fantasy story, in which an orc helps revitalize a struggling bookshop and also there's a necromancer. Just about my speed rn. Also my library just got an audiobook of the Children of Húrin read by Christopher Lee. :chee...

About athelas?

They should start polling Biden against Hailey.

A bunch of people on Twitter made some variation of a joke that DeSantis should be forced to carry his campaign to term.

Faramir?
Wait, no, Boromir?

Spoken by Sam?

Probably too early in the game to take anything seriously. Even if the source is reliable, everything may still change. That said, did they imply that Tom Bombadil was Melkor? Because that may be a bridge too far even for me. However, I do remember someone making a half-serious but compelling case f...

Where did I see that meme with Groucho Marx? A lady tells him, I believe Trump was sent by God, and he replies, "Why, did He run out of locusts?"