Lauren Ortega
@laurenortega.bsky.social
I dunno I'm a lesbian who likes a buncha stuff
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Reactionaries love talking about “knowing history” when what they mean is being indoctrinated into a founding myth. It truly unites all nationalists, from Albion to Zion.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Reactionaries love talking about “knowing history” when what they mean is being indoctrinated into a founding myth. It truly unites all nationalists, from Albion to Zion.
I grew up with Tolkien and Lord of the Rings and I'm generally comfortable at my current age of going "He was a nice man and I am fond of these books"
I just think he's also a titanic fucking dweeb and everything Moorcock says about him in Epic Pooh is true and also I think his metaphysics suck.
I just think he's also a titanic fucking dweeb and everything Moorcock says about him in Epic Pooh is true and also I think his metaphysics suck.
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I grew up with Tolkien and Lord of the Rings and I'm generally comfortable at my current age of going "He was a nice man and I am fond of these books"
I just think he's also a titanic fucking dweeb and everything Moorcock says about him in Epic Pooh is true and also I think his metaphysics suck.
I just think he's also a titanic fucking dweeb and everything Moorcock says about him in Epic Pooh is true and also I think his metaphysics suck.
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In ancient Mesopotamia, astronomers needed to know the moon’s position, even on a cloudy night.
So they made records and calculations of the moon’s positions and velocity measured in degrees. This record from Uruk or Babylon from the Seleucid period covers 248 days.
📸 by Dr K. Wagensonner
So they made records and calculations of the moon’s positions and velocity measured in degrees. This record from Uruk or Babylon from the Seleucid period covers 248 days.
📸 by Dr K. Wagensonner
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
In ancient Mesopotamia, astronomers needed to know the moon’s position, even on a cloudy night.
So they made records and calculations of the moon’s positions and velocity measured in degrees. This record from Uruk or Babylon from the Seleucid period covers 248 days.
📸 by Dr K. Wagensonner
So they made records and calculations of the moon’s positions and velocity measured in degrees. This record from Uruk or Babylon from the Seleucid period covers 248 days.
📸 by Dr K. Wagensonner
Solomon Kane's the most compelling Robert E. Howard protagonist to me personally because I am legitimately fascinated by the history of Protestantism and the whole "I will chase you across the world and kill your ass in the name of my cold and humorless god" is super badass.
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Solomon Kane's the most compelling Robert E. Howard protagonist to me personally because I am legitimately fascinated by the history of Protestantism and the whole "I will chase you across the world and kill your ass in the name of my cold and humorless god" is super badass.
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Fucking idiot
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Fucking idiot
My biggest take away with "Dungeons and Dragons has gone woke" people is they never have a particularly good leg to stand on because I also think they've got absolute dogshit aesthetics.
November 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My biggest take away with "Dungeons and Dragons has gone woke" people is they never have a particularly good leg to stand on because I also think they've got absolute dogshit aesthetics.
Once you hit 1:52 here we're talking perfection for me
In the name of Jesus Christ, won't you fear my name
I've been around since Moses, your preacher never came
In the name of Jesus Christ, won't you fear my name
I've been around since Moses, your preacher never came
The Watchman
YouTube video by Fields of the Nephilim - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Once you hit 1:52 here we're talking perfection for me
In the name of Jesus Christ, won't you fear my name
I've been around since Moses, your preacher never came
In the name of Jesus Christ, won't you fear my name
I've been around since Moses, your preacher never came
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/Getting chastised about sex stuff by Nicole Kidman in her camisole/underwear outfit from Eyes Wide Shut "Yeah, yeah, for sure, I hear you but I have to go rent a mask and robe thing. It's for sex-related reasons but not what you're talking about. It's way worse. But let's circle back."
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 AM
/Getting chastised about sex stuff by Nicole Kidman in her camisole/underwear outfit from Eyes Wide Shut "Yeah, yeah, for sure, I hear you but I have to go rent a mask and robe thing. It's for sex-related reasons but not what you're talking about. It's way worse. But let's circle back."
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In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Pharaoh: Total War is scratching a very specific itch for certain stylized Bronze Age aesthetics right now.
But oh man if somebody could make me a good Mesopotamian-focused strategy game right at the arrival of Persia/twilight of the Neo-Assyrian empire? I'd REALLY respond to that.
But oh man if somebody could make me a good Mesopotamian-focused strategy game right at the arrival of Persia/twilight of the Neo-Assyrian empire? I'd REALLY respond to that.
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Pharaoh: Total War is scratching a very specific itch for certain stylized Bronze Age aesthetics right now.
But oh man if somebody could make me a good Mesopotamian-focused strategy game right at the arrival of Persia/twilight of the Neo-Assyrian empire? I'd REALLY respond to that.
But oh man if somebody could make me a good Mesopotamian-focused strategy game right at the arrival of Persia/twilight of the Neo-Assyrian empire? I'd REALLY respond to that.
Saw another person share "We have spent far too much time culturally with anti-heroes" and man I gotta tell everybody something I just profoundly don't trust is when I hear leftists start saying shit like that.
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Saw another person share "We have spent far too much time culturally with anti-heroes" and man I gotta tell everybody something I just profoundly don't trust is when I hear leftists start saying shit like that.
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Exhausted Stable Boy Clearly Just Going Through Motions Of Tearing Open Bodice https://theonion.com/exhausted-stable-boy-clearly-just-going-through-motions-of-tearing-open-bodice/
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Exhausted Stable Boy Clearly Just Going Through Motions Of Tearing Open Bodice https://theonion.com/exhausted-stable-boy-clearly-just-going-through-motions-of-tearing-open-bodice/
LOL I actually got into an argument along these lines a few months ago and I still chuckle over it.
This is literally what happened with national histories and not even the ancient ones.
Historians Admit To Inventing Ancient Greeks https://theonion.com/historians-admit-to-inventing-ancient-greeks-1819571808/
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
LOL I actually got into an argument along these lines a few months ago and I still chuckle over it.
Rod Dreher's various conversions always make me howl because he's the perfect symbol for "reactionary guy flitting between denominations entirely due to the aesthetics."
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Rod Dreher's various conversions always make me howl because he's the perfect symbol for "reactionary guy flitting between denominations entirely due to the aesthetics."
I've said this before and I'll say it again:
Everybody joking about tradcaths is working a little under heavy amounts of cope.
Everybody joking about tradcaths is working a little under heavy amounts of cope.
Catholic schools are used as legal conversion therapy because you have to wear a gendered uniform cut your hair a certain way etc etc and you are expelled if you don’t. Do you understand this. do you understand how many kids at each school are there for that reason
I don’t actually think you people comprehend the kind of suffering on even a school level scale the queer people and children at these institutions have to go through like you’re actually brain dead stupid
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I've said this before and I'll say it again:
Everybody joking about tradcaths is working a little under heavy amounts of cope.
Everybody joking about tradcaths is working a little under heavy amounts of cope.
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“Dasha fired by Gersh.” You bolt awake on the banks of the Danube. You are not online. It is 1241 CE and you are Batu Khan. Western Civilization must not come to pass.
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
“Dasha fired by Gersh.” You bolt awake on the banks of the Danube. You are not online. It is 1241 CE and you are Batu Khan. Western Civilization must not come to pass.
One of the few things I get kinda prickly about with fantasy writing as a whole is I think the vaguely irrational avoidance of firearms.
Which seems really basic of me! But I think that's a real sign of certain types of RPG brain filtering into things.
Which seems really basic of me! But I think that's a real sign of certain types of RPG brain filtering into things.
46) Gunpowder is Not Incompatible With Swords & Sorcery
In Tim Powers' THE DRAWING OF THE DARK, the business of blades, badassness, and wizardry coincides with the Siege of Vienna. Solomon Kane carries a musket. The mere existence of gunpowder doesn't negate S&S, it forces it to get creative.
In Tim Powers' THE DRAWING OF THE DARK, the business of blades, badassness, and wizardry coincides with the Siege of Vienna. Solomon Kane carries a musket. The mere existence of gunpowder doesn't negate S&S, it forces it to get creative.
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
One of the few things I get kinda prickly about with fantasy writing as a whole is I think the vaguely irrational avoidance of firearms.
Which seems really basic of me! But I think that's a real sign of certain types of RPG brain filtering into things.
Which seems really basic of me! But I think that's a real sign of certain types of RPG brain filtering into things.
I like Gunn and I think a V for Vendetta television series sounds fucking BAD! Don't do it!
Also I think the Wachowski adaptation also fucking sucks! Sorry friends I support those girls but I also think they're fucking stupid.
Also I think the Wachowski adaptation also fucking sucks! Sorry friends I support those girls but I also think they're fucking stupid.
'V for Vendetta' TV series is in the works at HBO and DC
James Gunn will exec produce
(via Variety)
James Gunn will exec produce
(via Variety)
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I like Gunn and I think a V for Vendetta television series sounds fucking BAD! Don't do it!
Also I think the Wachowski adaptation also fucking sucks! Sorry friends I support those girls but I also think they're fucking stupid.
Also I think the Wachowski adaptation also fucking sucks! Sorry friends I support those girls but I also think they're fucking stupid.
"I bet Elon Musk never even read The Culture"
I bet he has! If anything the doubters always strike me as the types to have an overinflated sense of media literacy's actual worth.
A lot of people are just kinda stupid and bad and would just shrug at any other political messaging.
I bet he has! If anything the doubters always strike me as the types to have an overinflated sense of media literacy's actual worth.
A lot of people are just kinda stupid and bad and would just shrug at any other political messaging.
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"I bet Elon Musk never even read The Culture"
I bet he has! If anything the doubters always strike me as the types to have an overinflated sense of media literacy's actual worth.
A lot of people are just kinda stupid and bad and would just shrug at any other political messaging.
I bet he has! If anything the doubters always strike me as the types to have an overinflated sense of media literacy's actual worth.
A lot of people are just kinda stupid and bad and would just shrug at any other political messaging.
Somebody I like said Predator: Badlands doesn't quite work because it's hard to make a compelling main character out of the bad guys.
And not to be a titanic dork but I actually don't think of the Yautja as bad! And yes I also call them Yautja(as is proper)
And not to be a titanic dork but I actually don't think of the Yautja as bad! And yes I also call them Yautja(as is proper)
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Somebody I like said Predator: Badlands doesn't quite work because it's hard to make a compelling main character out of the bad guys.
And not to be a titanic dork but I actually don't think of the Yautja as bad! And yes I also call them Yautja(as is proper)
And not to be a titanic dork but I actually don't think of the Yautja as bad! And yes I also call them Yautja(as is proper)
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Folks this is NOT a drill, the big official long-awaited Charles Saunders biography finally has a locked-in title and release date and is open for pre-orders. www.amazon.ca/Leave-Warrio...
To Leave a Warrior Behind: The Life and Stories of Charles R. Saunders, the Man Who Rewrote Fantasy
To Leave a Warrior Behind: The Life and Stories of Charles R. Saunders, the Man Who Rewrote Fantasy : Tattrie, Jon: Amazon.ca: Books
www.amazon.ca
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Folks this is NOT a drill, the big official long-awaited Charles Saunders biography finally has a locked-in title and release date and is open for pre-orders. www.amazon.ca/Leave-Warrio...
Sorry to be a hater but only one of these was an actual good movie.
True News: Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are back for THE MUMMY 4 with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett from Radio Silence (Scream, Ready or Not) directing the brand new installment in the '90s action-adventure-horror franchise!
‘The Mummy 4’ – Radio Silence Directing Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz in Long-Awaited Sequel!
The Brendan Fraser-led The Mummy franchise that kicked off in 1999 is coming back to life with a brand new movie starring Brendan Fraser, THR reports this afternoon. Both Brendan Fraser and franchise ...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Sorry to be a hater but only one of these was an actual good movie.