arramol.bsky.social
Sysadmin, volunteer freelance political analyst (nobody would be stupid enough to pay for my opinions!), geek. He/him
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My profile pic is an icon of Alexios Komnenos, the emperor whose call for aid culminated in the First Crusade. Makes me wonder what he would say if he could view this. Strange, to admire one piece of art and then imagine it conversing with another, older piece from a vanished empire.
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Right? How do I cancel his evolution into a teenager in a few years?
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My 8yo son is playing his first Pokémon game. This morning, I woke up to find him bouncing off the walls with excitement to trade me a Pokémon. It turned out to be a Luvdisc (a pink heart-shaped fish) he'd nicknamed "I love dad." So yeah, feeling that final panel in my bones today 🥺
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All I can think every time I'm reminded of this:
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Assuming Donaldos refers to the obvious, may I suggest Κοπρώνυμος as a cognomen?
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Whelp. Never looking at that one the same again.
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I hate those things so much. Even discounting the ethical issues, it just looks trashy. Although I suppose making me feel embarrassed to check my Facebook might actually be a good thing...
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Elon having a normal one as usual, I see.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: RFK Jr wouldn't know good science if he found it dead on a beach and strapped its rotting corpse to his minivan.
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Calm down, Satan.
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To adapt a quote from 8-bit Theater: the thing to remember about moose cavalry is that they are nearly as dangerous to your enemy as they are to you.
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Very wise.
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Hell, Collin Kaepernick literally just took a knee during the anthem, and even that was enough for the right to absolutely lose their shit.
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I remain bewildered at how much difficulty people are having with the idea that the bad guy will in fact do bad things regardless of how good the good guys are. Big "daddy only hits me when I'm bad" energy from that crowd.
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Even in space, it's World War II. The Battle of Endor could easily be Hollywood Midway with spaceships. And then they take it even further in (shudder) The Last Jedi by having level bombers and arcing (laser?!) fire in *space* for some reason.
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This has rabbit holed me to your article on volley fire. I particularly enjoy the qualifier that deer do not *generally* wear armor, leaving room for the occasional terrifying deeraphract stampede.
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The fight:
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Reminds me of when history writers can't decide how much background to give. "Napoleon...well, let's back up a bit. Charlemagne...no, wait, first let's talk about the Romans...no, no, okay, so Homo erectus..."
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Best I can do is make the list, then get wasted and leak it on Temu-brand Signal.
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Arctodus simus?
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Early modern Big-Mouth Billy Bass did *not* mess around.
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This guy wouldn't know good science if he found it dead on a beach and strapped it to the roof of his minivan.
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That awkward moment where the funny video game website has better political analysis than 80% of the legacy media...
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Don't threaten me with a good time.
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I always use text for the first read, then text or audiobook for re-reads. I've now associated your prose so strongly with Simon Vance's voice that my brain emulates it when I read. It's not my fault. They go together well. Like chocolate and peanut butter. Or perhaps gin and vermouth?
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Apparently it's short for "states' rights to oppress." Never "states' rights to *not* be assholes."
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Man, these Monster Hunter collaborations just keep getting weirder and weirder.
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They're very different, honestly, but I enjoy both. One of Wexler's recent series was essentially Star Wars minus the space element, for example.
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I look forward to it, and also lament the cruelty of the calendar, bringing me at least two new books to read (yours and Django Wexler's) the day after a three-day weekend that would have been perfect for them. Ah, well. So it goes.
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That's hilarious! I can totally believe it, though. I've heard recordings of what I sound like talking to my son, and it's very different from how I sound elsewhere. Different enough that I once cracked my wife up by reading him an instruction manual in my "storybook voice" when he was a baby.
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That's freaking awesome! Although I wonder if your son knows what he's missing by not hearing your narration with it. My wife isn't even into history, but she'll listen to Tides with me because your presentation is so damn good.
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No, of course not!
His wife did.
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I think Hun-dreds of days are needed, Frankly.
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I look at what true, genuine geniuses in ancient Greece came up with using those methods--Euclid believing that the eye projected radar-like rays, for example--and quickly realize I should probably stick to relying on empiricism, because I doubt I'm drastically smarter than Euclid.
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I read them for the first time as a Calvin-like kid, and thought they were brilliant. Then I read them for the second time as the father of a Calvin-like kid, and oh my *God.*
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Although, for the record, I laughed at the Tungsten Arm post every single time.
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An actual IRL Marty Stu. In general, I don't like that the Dodgers can just bury any other team in a bidding war whenever they want. But in this case...baseball is better when the best player is on a team that can use him for more than just "Tungsten Arm" memes.
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Wow, it's officially more self-aware than Elon!
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Have you checked for new super powers?
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Can we also talk about the spending limit on Sifo Dyas's corporate card? And who the *hell* approved his expense reports?! "'Clone army, 8.6 gajillion dataries.' Yeah, sounds legit."
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I had a feeling they would absolutely lose their fucking minds over you running for Congress. Wish I was more surprised. I especially like the passive voice "referred to as." I'm just going to assume there's an unspoken "by the voices in my head" there.
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I have long wondered if, buried beneath all their more serious objections, authors also resent a certain politician because they could never get away with writing such a buffoonish, one-dimensional villain in their novels. Fiction, after all, has to be believable.
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How long before they trade him?
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Bet you a nickel he believes in the health benefits of "living water." Come to think of it, I haven't heard anything from that specific crowd in a while. I wonder why...