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.
"What a shame that all the mysteries are solved and I know what lies over every hill without ever having to check. It's so boring. I don't even know why I bother."
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"Oh. I guess I don't."
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"Oh. I guess I don't."
November 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"What a shame that all the mysteries are solved and I know what lies over every hill without ever having to check. It's so boring. I don't even know why I bother."
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"Oh. I guess I don't."
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"Oh. I guess I don't."
My mom: "But he was a king."
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Me: "Even kings ate bread in England in the 10th century."
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Me: "Even kings ate bread in England in the 10th century."
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November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
My mom: "But he was a king."
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Me: "Even kings ate bread in England in the 10th century."
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Me: "Even kings ate bread in England in the 10th century."
Me (spastically): "A King around the 10th century who's responsible for uniting England."
My mom: "Did they even mill wheat in England in the 10th century?"
Me: 😐
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Me: "Yes, they milled wheat and ate bread in England in the 10th century."
My mom: "Did they even mill wheat in England in the 10th century?"
Me: 😐
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Me: "Yes, they milled wheat and ate bread in England in the 10th century."
November 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Me (spastically): "A King around the 10th century who's responsible for uniting England."
My mom: "Did they even mill wheat in England in the 10th century?"
Me: 😐
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Me: "Yes, they milled wheat and ate bread in England in the 10th century."
My mom: "Did they even mill wheat in England in the 10th century?"
Me: 😐
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Me: "Yes, they milled wheat and ate bread in England in the 10th century."
...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. 😅
Because I seem to be recapitulating his First Men shit, and I'm sharp enough to have noticed that ol' George R.R. isn't writing fantasy. He's writing a different version of history with some fantastical elements. And I can't know for sure which parts he thinks are true.
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Because I seem to be recapitulating his First Men shit, and I'm sharp enough to have noticed that ol' George R.R. isn't writing fantasy. He's writing a different version of history with some fantastical elements. And I can't know for sure which parts he thinks are true.
It's of interest right now because in some Germanic languages (including modern German), it's simply "elf," followed by zwolf (tsvelf). Then we return to boring numbers, never to consider the elves again.
...and I'm thoroughly amused that its meaning can reasonably be rendered as "one left behind."
...and I'm thoroughly amused that its meaning can reasonably be rendered as "one left behind."
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It's of interest right now because in some Germanic languages (including modern German), it's simply "elf," followed by zwolf (tsvelf). Then we return to boring numbers, never to consider the elves again.
...and I'm thoroughly amused that its meaning can reasonably be rendered as "one left behind."
...and I'm thoroughly amused that its meaning can reasonably be rendered as "one left behind."
Elvis, I'm told, comes from Scandinavian. The earlier form would be Alvis, meaning "All wise". Funny... the Aelf in Aelfred the Great is also given as "wise" council... even though it can also be rendered as "elven" council.
Funny, funny, funny.
Funny, funny, funny.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Elvis, I'm told, comes from Scandinavian. The earlier form would be Alvis, meaning "All wise". Funny... the Aelf in Aelfred the Great is also given as "wise" council... even though it can also be rendered as "elven" council.
Funny, funny, funny.
Funny, funny, funny.
Y'know Alfred The Great? That's more properly rendered Aelf-read... "Elven Council".
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Y'know Alfred The Great? That's more properly rendered Aelf-read... "Elven Council".
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...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.
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He recognized already in that time that the latin people, the people of the Americas, were not indio, or gringo, or asiatico, or negro... but all of the above. Mestizo. Mesclada. That we were a great couldron of races and cultures, swirling together, and revealing secrets long hidden away.
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
He recognized already in that time that the latin people, the people of the Americas, were not indio, or gringo, or asiatico, or negro... but all of the above. Mestizo. Mesclada. That we were a great couldron of races and cultures, swirling together, and revealing secrets long hidden away.