gnomic heresy
LightNews LightNews
banner
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
gnomic heresy
@gnomicheresy.bsky.social
840 followers 1.1K following 2.6K posts
It's like gnostic, but shorter and more confusing.
Posts Replies Media Videos
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
I almost never have time to bake, but today I had a lot of Things to deal with, and at one point I got stressed enough that I had to make something.

Nothing like Things to make me need to bake.

#glutenfree chickpea peanut butter Blondie protein bar with chocolate chips and cacao nibs
A tray of chocolate chip Blondie health food trying to be a dessert bar, and mostly succeeding in looking like dog food. It rests on top of a blue lid for contrast, itself on top of a white gas cooktop that manages to look clean only thanks to the cunning angle of the shot. There are crumbs on the blue lid.
August 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Another one for the "AI has doomed us all but in a different way than we thought it would in 1985" files:
A search page. The search string is "sea floor vs seafloor". The searcher probably means to check whether it should be written "sea floor" as two separate words, or "seafloor" as one word. Below is the heading "AI overview" And beneath that is the text: 'Both "seafloor" and "sea floor" are acceptable ways to refer to the bottom of the ocean. "Seafloor" is more commonly used as a single word, while "sea floor" is sometimes seen as a two word phrase. They both refer to the same geological feature.'
August 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
I do not believe that a farmer who meant to kill foxes would be leaving tasty food out for them in neat shiny metal contraptions, nor waiting with a shotgun to protect the food from theft by other animals. This isn't to say there aren't very worthy criticisms to be made.
A screenshot of a Xitter post by Magdi Jacobs @magdi_jay: "I do not believe that a gov't that was using starvation as a tactic of war would be delivering food to civilians. This isn't to say there aren't very worthy criticisms to be made. Nor is it meant to defend the gov't. But delivery of aid is incongruent w/ deliberate starvation."
July 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
But you still get stuff like this
Photo of a Waldorf classroom project table with cutesy stained glass inspired paper ornaments, handcrafted fairy-angel type dolls, felted soaps, woodland leaves, knitted woodland creature hats, and tulle netting and fairy lights everywhere
July 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Who are they calling "soot" exactly?
Screenshot from Wikipedia: "John Cabot and his son Joseph Cabot became highly successful merchants, operating a fleet of privateers carrying opium, rum, and enslaved people."
July 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Code Words is free and open source and you can do as many as you want. It's on f-droid. (I don't benefit from it at all except that I love playing it.)

You can also adjust the length of the word from 3-12 letters. My sweet spot is 8 letters.
A screen shot of one of my rare Code Word triumphs: Two eight letter words. The first word is "outraise" with the T in red and the u, r, and e in blue. I will pause here for you to guess, if you want. Pausing. The second word is all in red. It is "returned". Anyway. I love this version of the game. NYT can suck themselves.
July 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
A clip from the linked Guardian article: "His long career of daredevil jumps included skydiving across the English Channel and parachuting off the Petronas Towers in Malaysia. "In Austria he was also known for courting controversy with views that included expressing support for dictatorship as a system of government. "Baumgartner was fined 1500 Euros after he punched a Greek truck driver in the face during a 2010 altercation that broke out in a traffic jam near Salzburg."
July 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
This is a reminder to myself that gnomespouse really really loves me. Even when things are hard between us and I need the reminder.

He brought me a turtle friend!
A tiny alligator snapping turtle in a plastic box, trying very hard to be a rock and succeeding admirably. It is black and bumpy and about the size of a small key lime. Like bigger around than a half dollar coin but smaller than a tangerine. Its small pointy nose is pointed down to help it hide from predators maybe? Very good wee bitey rock!
June 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Got this from a friend who still has one foot in Zuckland.

It's cute, but it will outlast the joke. Our grandkids will be like "Why is our cooking stove shaped like Jeremy's house?"
June 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
A quiz question asks: Which of the following is most distantly related to the other three? A. An eel-looking fish B. A big grouper looking fish C. A balding human male (identified as a Danny DeVito) D. A speckly fish The answer, which is not given in the image, is D. Something something lobe fins and ray fins and something? I don't know, do I look like an expert on fishes and Danny DeVitos?
June 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Bunnihz! The little ones are about the size of softballs.
Tall grass. A nest of about seven fully furred but rather small juvenile cottontail rabbits. They are being very still so the big human doesn't eat them.
June 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Gavin Newsom's campaign robotexted me.

"Is there anything I can do to convince you to donate to my campaign?"

I had an answer ready.
You can stop appeasing fascist by hosting them on your podcast while you laughingly throw trans people to the wolves. I can't believe the gall of you to text me a trans man asking for money after you failed us so completely. When they are rounding us up next, you've shown the only thing you'll do is make sure we're killed in a separate gas chamber so we can't make real men and women uncomfortable. I know these responses are going into a digital void but it sure does feel good to imagine a staffer printing them out and bringing them to you. I hope you get a lot of these. I hope they cost your campaign money. You have lost your way, and nothing on Earth could induce me to throw money or votes at you ever again, you slimy, disloyal, craven opportunist.
June 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Sometimes the timeline produces a gem
Snapshot of two apparently unrelated Bluesky posts by different users, one above the other. The top one says "@support.bsky.team please tell me the servers are ready for when one of them dies?" The next post says "call me when one of them kills the other one. i've been burned before"
June 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Yes this is the way

Minigoats at pride

Someone get me the Democratic strategy team on the horn right now
Holly Kim, county treasurer, scritches her miniature goat, Tanya, in the middle of a grassy field. She is black and white and has a rainbow heart dyed on her sides. Kim is an Asian woman in a yellow shirt with long black hair and wearing glasses.
June 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
We have tiny softball sized baby bunnies hopping about the yard!
A nest of fully-furred and hoppable wild bunnies, each about the size of a softball, hidden in grass. The grass is long and uncut because I am not some kind of monster. It's hard to see how many. One is clearly visible, two are strongly suggested, and maybe three to four more are just peeking out. Also some of the grass around them is visibly nibbled.
May 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Alternet, do you know if your editors are human or not?
A headline on an alternet.org post reads "Geological 'trawl' pours cold water on JD Vance's claim of being 'Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart'". The lede reads, "A 'trawl of genealogy records' had called into question Vice President JD Vance's self-declared status as a 'Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart', the Times reports." The OP is just nerdily pointing out that geology and genealogy are different fields. That's it. That's the whole bit.
May 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Timeline checks out
May 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
V. Mad Noodle for a peace offering
A human hand belonging to a foolhardy outdoor educator holds a juvenile garter snake while relocating it from inside a cabin. The little snake displays EXTREME ANGRINESS by opening its mouth SO BIG and HISSING LOUDLY. It is not fooling anyone.
May 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
This guy
An old Jewish guy in his 70s dressed in a homemade concentration camp uniform with a blue triangle on his chest holds a sign saying "it's happening again: 1933-1945 migrants sent to Nazi concentration camps in Europe. 1942-1946 Japanese Americans sent to concentration camps in USA. 2025 Trump sends migrants to concentration camps in Guantanamo and El Salvador." He's standing holding this sign on the sidewalk of a downtown Chicago street.
May 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Oh yes I should try this again! Please enjoy my felt gnome Rabbi inspired by Baba Ibrahim Farajaje.
A needle felted gnome doll with a dark brown face and long white beard and long grey hair and bushy grey eyebrows. He wears a black fedora hat with a pink flower on the right side. He is also supporting an iridescent fossil ammonite.
March 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
I cannot emphasize enough how
Emoji screaming in terror
February 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM