Fidel Destro
@fideldestro.bsky.social
Tech artist, writer, anti-establishment agitator, broke anarchist, and the sovereign Witch King of Mars. I'm using science & art to make magic and fight evil. I don't like your employer and I don't like your party.
Foster human excellence.
Foster human excellence.
...and here's a kick in the pants. See, I loved watching The Last Kingdom, and what I didn't pick up on until I started remembering the show... because I'd been in denial... is that Alfred the Great had the exact same illness I do.
He didn't have Crohn's. He had fucking Celiac and only ate bread. 😅
He didn't have Crohn's. He had fucking Celiac and only ate bread. 😅
![Alfred died on 26 October 899 at the age of 50 or 51.[164] How he died is unknown, but he suffered throughout his life with a painful and unpleasant illness. His biographer Asser gave a detailed description of Alfred's symptoms, and this has allowed modern doctors to provide a possible diagnosis. It is thought that he had either Crohn's disease or haemorrhoids.[165][166] His grandson King Eadred seems to have had a similar illness.[167][g]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ydalwkfrphq7kdtuilptjnrc/bafkreih7ibvklpjn2bmqclszwmrdwgdm2fugata2z4wcx4ahi3tdmrypsq@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
...and here's a kick in the pants. See, I loved watching The Last Kingdom, and what I didn't pick up on until I started remembering the show... because I'd been in denial... is that Alfred the Great had the exact same illness I do.
He didn't have Crohn's. He had fucking Celiac and only ate bread. 😅
He didn't have Crohn's. He had fucking Celiac and only ate bread. 😅
...and good golly am I having a laugh right now that the very unusual looking fellow they tapped to play ELVIS (the KING) got his start playing an ELF in a show where the secret is it's actually set in the future.
What a marvelous world we live in.
What a marvelous world we live in.
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
...and good golly am I having a laugh right now that the very unusual looking fellow they tapped to play ELVIS (the KING) got his start playing an ELF in a show where the secret is it's actually set in the future.
What a marvelous world we live in.
What a marvelous world we live in.
Girl, what on Earth are you doing to your cheek?
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Girl, what on Earth are you doing to your cheek?
I dunno about you, but I'm pretty worried about the guy in the bar behind her. He's so into that game, he's lost his head.
November 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I dunno about you, but I'm pretty worried about the guy in the bar behind her. He's so into that game, he's lost his head.
Oh, I forgot the lead image for her, with the most mystifying mirror I've ever seen, and knees of rather different heights.
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Oh, I forgot the lead image for her, with the most mystifying mirror I've ever seen, and knees of rather different heights.
"I'm just a simple model from Moldova. I don't know why everyone thinks my pics are fake." 👽
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
"I'm just a simple model from Moldova. I don't know why everyone thinks my pics are fake." 👽
My, what a spacious living room. What is that, like 20 ft of couch?
November 12, 2025 at 4:58 AM
My, what a spacious living room. What is that, like 20 ft of couch?
I find the hand and hamburger pretty unconvincing. Maybe I'm just being picky about how many fingers people have.
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I find the hand and hamburger pretty unconvincing. Maybe I'm just being picky about how many fingers people have.
...an oldie from 2021.
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
...an oldie from 2021.
Lol.
Really just on Tinder and Bumble looking for the fuck ups in all the generated profile pics now.
Really just on Tinder and Bumble looking for the fuck ups in all the generated profile pics now.
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Lol.
Really just on Tinder and Bumble looking for the fuck ups in all the generated profile pics now.
Really just on Tinder and Bumble looking for the fuck ups in all the generated profile pics now.
Look, I don't always turn off the audio and read body language, but I'm getting the feeling he isn't actually all that into these sponsored earbuds.
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Look, I don't always turn off the audio and read body language, but I'm getting the feeling he isn't actually all that into these sponsored earbuds.
In other news, the bulk of my monthly budget is going to new shoes, because I'm tearing through anything attached to my feet and picking up blisters at a high rate. I usually look for "what would a space ninja wear?" and this is that... but a bit more wood elf. 42 bucks on Amazon.
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In other news, the bulk of my monthly budget is going to new shoes, because I'm tearing through anything attached to my feet and picking up blisters at a high rate. I usually look for "what would a space ninja wear?" and this is that... but a bit more wood elf. 42 bucks on Amazon.
Friends, when you've got the mind of a circus bear, you're always on top of the world.
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Friends, when you've got the mind of a circus bear, you're always on top of the world.
...and as I was walking around thinking about these bright, talented, clever people with uncanny skills, whom I Believe to be hidden throughout human civilization... I was like... aw crap.
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
...and as I was walking around thinking about these bright, talented, clever people with uncanny skills, whom I Believe to be hidden throughout human civilization... I was like... aw crap.
Title: Flux Interocitor
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Title: Flux Interocitor
Meanwhile, I've got a couple skills that might lead you to believe I know a thing or two about a thing or two. 🤷♂️
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Meanwhile, I've got a couple skills that might lead you to believe I know a thing or two about a thing or two. 🤷♂️
I should go back to work on my flocking node group sometime. I was getting really nice results before I moved along.
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I should go back to work on my flocking node group sometime. I was getting really nice results before I moved along.
Family is treating me generally like my scientific suspicions are nuuuutttttyyy... but hey, I'm just watching PBS and paying attention to what they tell me, like I've been doing since childhood.
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Family is treating me generally like my scientific suspicions are nuuuutttttyyy... but hey, I'm just watching PBS and paying attention to what they tell me, like I've been doing since childhood.
Well, it's entirely reasonable to suspect I may be a descendant of this Grijalva, who surrounded himself with "Alva" names, and is apparently responsible for the conquest that followed.
My best friend was an Alvarado. How very interesting.
My best friend was an Alvarado. How very interesting.
![After rounding the Guaniguanico in Cuba, Grijalva sailed along the Mexican coast, discovered Cozumel on 3 May 1518, and arrived on 8 June 1518 at the Tabasco region in southern Mexico.[2] The Río Grijalva in Mexico was named after him. He was also the first Spaniard to encounter Moctezuma II's delegation. One of the natives joined them, being baptized as Francisco, and became a Nahuatl interpreter on Cortes' expedition. Bernal Díaz del Castillo wrote about the travels of Juan de Grijalva in his book Historia de las Indias..[1]: 27–43, 82
According to W H Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico," Grijalva was the first Spaniard to bring back word of the plentiful gold hoard of the Aztecs, inflaming passions for conquest. In 1518 Hernán Cortés stayed at Juan's home in Trinidad, Cuba, at the start of his Mexican expedition. He recruited men there, including the five Alvarado brothers.[1]: 49–50
Juan de Grijalva was killed by natives in Honduras on 21 January 1527.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ydalwkfrphq7kdtuilptjnrc/bafkreidchbrx7m6tbdzpyerhxc5pcr7z25xnnneqo6qthbuxortdaxyiea@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Well, it's entirely reasonable to suspect I may be a descendant of this Grijalva, who surrounded himself with "Alva" names, and is apparently responsible for the conquest that followed.
My best friend was an Alvarado. How very interesting.
My best friend was an Alvarado. How very interesting.
....and here's a fun one for the pile. Look at the phone. Look at the phone within the phone. Realize the device is somehow supposedly taking the photo you're looking at right now.
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
....and here's a fun one for the pile. Look at the phone. Look at the phone within the phone. Realize the device is somehow supposedly taking the photo you're looking at right now.