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James R.
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You may once have known me as notthathelpful at Twitter. I'm here now, seemingly to stay. :-) I write about things at times, from LOTR https://sites.google.com/view/pandemiclotr to sandwiches https://700sandwiches.wordpress.com/
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Since everybody will name the Baldur's Gate series (correctly) & probably Planescape: Torment too (also correct), I'll throw Wildermyth into the mix. It's deeply addictive & I've played hundreds of hours.
The top of the image portrays four characters from the video game Wildermyth. They look like colorful paper dolls, and each have fantastical props or features, ranging from a wolf's head to wings to a glowing arcane staff. All are standing slightly crouched as though about to leap into battle. Below them, the game's title, Wildermyth, appears in a stylized white font: the capital W looks like two trees in autumn turned golden, as though leaves are about to fall.
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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This is another photo from this event (screenshotted from the AJC) - it looks like to his right are Jane Pratt, president of Girls' Clubs of America, and Gloria Johnson, treasurer for the Coalition of Labor Union Women.
Screenshot from AJC: Headline "Jimmy Carter's contributions to Women's History Month" Image is of Jimmy Carter seated at a large table signing a document - to his right, also seated, are a black woman wearing glasses and a white woman with dark hair. Several other people are seated in the background behind them. The image is black and white. The caption reads "Jimmy Carter signs document at the White House in Washington DC on Feb. 28, 1980 proclaiming March 2-8 National Women's History Week. To the President's right are Jane Pratt, president of the Girls' Clubs of America, and Gloria Johnson, treasurer for the Coalition of Labor Union Women."
September 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Phil Hartman, as Bill McNeil on the sitcom Newsradio, says "The man's going nuts and we've got front row seats." In the foreground we see the backs of the heads of Dave and Lisa, his coworkers.
July 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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In the app, when you're viewing your notifications, tap on the gear you see in the top right (on Android, at least).
Notifications header for Bluesky app, displaying a gear button on the right side
July 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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A gif shows a scene from the beginning of the Fellowship of the Ring movie, with a caption on the screen reading "And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of Men, who above all else desire power." Behind that caption, we see the nine recipients of those rings, seemingly all old men wearing crowns of different kinds, standing together and facing the camera ominously, lowering their hands in unison that each hold one of the nine rings.
July 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Fresh squeezed orange juice and orange zest - with all due respect to the more "fall" flavors of a lot of other recipes, zucchini bread is a summer recipe, to me, and it should taste like summer.
A full loaf of zucchini bread that has been covered in an orange juice based icing that is dripping down the sides of the loaf and onto the white platter it is sitting on. A cross section of a slice of zucchini bread that is yellow-orange with flecks of zucchini and orange zest visible within. The orange juice icing is just visible at the top and sides. The bread is resting on a white platter with green leafy designs.
June 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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In case folks are wondering if this is satire, it's not. It's something called Cluely. And it's only made less terrifying by the fact that it's 2025 and there are a lot of threats to our humanity right now and not just this.
A screen capture from the creepily Orwellian Cluely website reads "We just raised $5.3 million. Invisible AI to CHEAT on Meetings. Cluely is a completely undetectable desktop assistant that sees your screen and hears your audio."
April 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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David, I looked in its mirror and oof.
The cred.blu score is displayed here as 296/1000 with the descriptive labels "Moderately Engaging Explorer" and "Unengaged Text Poster".
February 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Most welcome again, Marshall. Sarah Binder talks at length about this in TNR today, and I thought this was both brief and a useful summary, maybe worth sharing:
An excerpt from The New Republic reads, "Well, what is a case of disagreement? Disagreement has a formal parliamentary definition in the House and Senate, and it requires action by both chambers. If the House passes the adjournment resolution and the Senate ignores it because there's reluctance to disagree, does that count as disagreement? Probably not, according to Senate precedents. Would the president make a proclamation sending them home anyway? That's a whole legal step we are going to put aside."
November 19, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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Bluesky, it's been a hell of a day, huh.
A screenshot from the Bluesky feed shows the user Jason H asking "Do you think whale head juice makes your jizz taste weird?" immediately below a post by the user Pwnallthethings saying "what a terrible day to know how to read".
September 20, 2024 at 4:12 AM
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Repost with a favorite book from your childhood.

I know mine won't exactly hit the nostalgia button for most people, but the wide array of the covers I'm seeing is part of the fun, I think. :-)
The cover of the book Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome. In the foreground, four children are sailing a small boat with a red sail through artistically represented waves. In the distance, near a tree lined shore, there is another small boat with a white sail and a skull and crossbones pirate flag, sailing away from them.
August 25, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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If you see this, post a bird
This is a black and white portrait photograph of Admiral Richard Byrd, the first person to reach the South Pole by air. This kind of pun, alas, is my sense of humor. My apologies.
July 6, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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Post four books you've read more than half a dozen times each.
The cover of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring. A tree in the foreground sits in front of a pastoral landscape of rolling hills and trees, with two large birds in the middle distance and a far away village. The cover of C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold. A white woman stares directly at the viewer in the foreground, her wild hair flowing partially in front of her face. The space behind her is murky, with some kind of ruined structure in the distance. The cover of Connie Willis's Doomsday Book. The cover presents a scene as a triptych - the center image is of a young white woman bundled up, wearing a blue garment and a heavy gray cloak, next to a tree heavily drifted in snow. The smaller panels on either side depict a very different scene - a modern city with a car on the left and a pedestrian with an umbrella on the right, with backlit windows suggesting that it is nighttime. The cover of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. On a completely icy and snowy landscape, in the foreground there is a massive sculptural figure - facing left is a feminine face and facing right is a masculine face, both carved into a central pillar of ice that seems to be shaped into a single crown above both heads. The black sky above the ice has a single planet visible in it, banded with clouds much like Jupiter.
February 22, 2024 at 9:33 PM