Hieronymous Alloy
@hieronymous.bsky.social
A villainous goon with good intentions. He/Him. Georgist. Former Public Defender. I will recommend you a book if you ask.
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Ok, small story for the end of Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access
I've always, going way back, given my RPG characters little van dyke mustaches, like Cardinal Richelieu in a Three Muskeeteer's movie.
"That's what a dashing, derring-doer looks like," I'd think.
I've always, going way back, given my RPG characters little van dyke mustaches, like Cardinal Richelieu in a Three Muskeeteer's movie.
"That's what a dashing, derring-doer looks like," I'd think.
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65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
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Establishing an authoritarian state while simultaneously destroying state capacity was never going to work; it's just going to be massively unpleasant to live through, and for those of us who aren't young it will probably consume the remaining years we have.
I am well aware that they are and will continue to do massive damage to this country
but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
November 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Establishing an authoritarian state while simultaneously destroying state capacity was never going to work; it's just going to be massively unpleasant to live through, and for those of us who aren't young it will probably consume the remaining years we have.
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No single thesis has ever been so vindicated as 'they like Trump and want him to win'
About the same time the NYT sat on a scoop tying Trump to Epstein, Maggie Haberman was downright giddy (y'all) about NYT promoting an anti-Hillary Clinton book.
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 AM
No single thesis has ever been so vindicated as 'they like Trump and want him to win'
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cannot believe I have to now hand it to the kooks who insisted the government was being run by a shadowy cabal of pedophiles
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
cannot believe I have to now hand it to the kooks who insisted the government was being run by a shadowy cabal of pedophiles
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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complaining to the mods over a non-perma...posting has grown soft and decadent. back on the forums you'd eat this with a smile goddamnit.
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
complaining to the mods over a non-perma...posting has grown soft and decadent. back on the forums you'd eat this with a smile goddamnit.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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There hasn’t been this many people lining up around the country to get food assistance since the last time Trump was president.
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
There hasn’t been this many people lining up around the country to get food assistance since the last time Trump was president.
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"We’re no longer in the usual realm of Republicans whitewashing or downplaying the darkness in our history... This administration has upgraded the earlier model, showing through word and action that it believes the shameful sides of America’s past were, in fact, good—even examples to follow today."
The Pro-Massacre, Pro-Segregation, Pro-Eugenics Administration
The Trump administration is seeking to rewind the clock on an entire century of legal—and moral—progress.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"We’re no longer in the usual realm of Republicans whitewashing or downplaying the darkness in our history... This administration has upgraded the earlier model, showing through word and action that it believes the shameful sides of America’s past were, in fact, good—even examples to follow today."
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/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.
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SCOTUS : it would be an irreparable harm if children got a poptart while Trumps ballroom is as yet unfinished
BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.
Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown. U.S.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
SCOTUS : it would be an irreparable harm if children got a poptart while Trumps ballroom is as yet unfinished
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and if you *are* a ghoul, faking decency is the price of admission into polite society. seethe about it on your own time
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
and if you *are* a ghoul, faking decency is the price of admission into polite society. seethe about it on your own time
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
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This may be the greatest grouping of nominees in a single category in Grammys history: for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording, the nominees include the Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Dalai Lama, Trevor Noah, and one of the dudes from Milli Vanilli.
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This may be the greatest grouping of nominees in a single category in Grammys history: for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording, the nominees include the Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Dalai Lama, Trevor Noah, and one of the dudes from Milli Vanilli.
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ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”
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Jurors determined that the man who threw a footlong sandwich at a federal agent in viral online footage this summer was not guilty of assault. The Trump Admin previously tried to hit him with a felony, but a grand jury refused.
Sandwich guy innocent
Sandwich guy innocent
Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Jurors determined that the man who threw a footlong sandwich at a federal agent in viral online footage this summer was not guilty of assault. The Trump Admin previously tried to hit him with a felony, but a grand jury refused.
Sandwich guy innocent
Sandwich guy innocent
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GET YOUR DIGITIAL CALIPERS OUT, BOYS, WE'RE GOING MEASUREHEAD MODE !
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
GET YOUR DIGITIAL CALIPERS OUT, BOYS, WE'RE GOING MEASUREHEAD MODE !
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The Reddit community r/Democrats has a conspicuous absence of any news about Zohran Mamdani today. But that's by design.
The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.
www.reddit.com/r/democrats/
The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.
www.reddit.com/r/democrats/
November 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Reddit community r/Democrats has a conspicuous absence of any news about Zohran Mamdani today. But that's by design.
The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.
www.reddit.com/r/democrats/
The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.
www.reddit.com/r/democrats/
For those of you playing Outer Worlds 2, here is a short, two-minute video tutorial I put together for defeating the Skeleton Crabble on any difficulty.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
For those of you playing Outer Worlds 2, here is a short, two-minute video tutorial I put together for defeating the Skeleton Crabble on any difficulty.
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...
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