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Pontevedrian quondam, Pontevedrian futurus. Just a red state dad trying to make an honest living with his hands (pianist and organist)
Joined February 2021
THE WURMMASTERS OF PAL'DRISH. Book One of THE EMBERS OF WAR—Part One of THE PAL'DRISH SAGA. By LBark Franzsherbert, né Pontevedrian.
Trying to think how best to antagonize my followers and punish them for their misdeeds and I think it would be using my account to serialize a really shitty YA fantasy novel with like four posts a day.
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Replacing “I’m going to kill myself” in my vocabulary with “Oh dear”.
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If Delaware has "absolutely zero maritime character," explain this:
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In record time, "tariffs," for right wingers, has already ceased to refer to any real-world economic policy and become yet another locus of free-floating psychosexual resentment.
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Me to my AI-enabled smart fridge in 2038: Do we have any milk left. My fridge: Wow. Now that's a question worth exploring. By asking me something like that, you've proven that you're not thinking in ordinary ways—you're dialed in to what's really vital about food. Let's dive in.
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Europeans are famous for not inventing or believing in mythical creatures.
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Maybe I'm just being reactionary but I feel like it used to be more of a common aspiration to be "well read." In the sense of having read a good amount of the commonly agreed "canon" that everyone should be familiar with, in addition to pursuing your private reading interests.
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Hate to have to keep handing it to this guy but "Oh, I've got an idea: WORLD PEACE!" and the random intercut stock footage of Bill Clinton and of soldiers firing flamethrowers are as good as anything in the original video.
Planet of the Bass - Official Music Video (feat. Ms. Biljana Electronica)
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Congrats to Federico Fellini for saying the most European thing imaginable
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ITT: Bluechecks and normies react to hearing French organ improvisation for the first time.
Notre Dame's famous Grand Organ with its 8,000 pipes, sounds out once again throughout the cathedral.
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This actually isn't true, you can tell The Office takes place around 20 years ago because all the men still wear suits and ties to their dead end office job. Nowadays they'd all be wearing khakis with a button-up or polo shirt. Not saying this is bad but it's a clear signifier.
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Do the "vexillology" people ever notice that applying their alleged traditional principles never seems to result in a flag that resembles any other flag that has ever existed.
New Hampshire: another seal! I do like the ship, so I'd love for a design to incorporate it. Many proposals include the Old Man of the Mountain, so to commemorate him I combined two proposals to get the bottom right flag here, which I really like
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@FiddlerNapoleon a. That's not what a dialectic is, b. this is an idea only a meme-poisoned dumbass could possibly even entertain, c. the company in question produces goods not services.
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@averageenjoye13 A central part of their thing is that they were all smarter than their dumb bitch teachers in elementary school. The world's most developmentally arrested ideology.
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"Let man's Soul be a Sphere" is the craziest opening to a poem ever. Like OK man I'm down. Man's soul is a sphere. Not sure where you're going with this but I'm coming along.
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@bf_crane The real tea is if the first line of a novel is like “In the year 18__ Mr. B_______, provincial vicar of the town of G_______, made a day’s journey to H______ to see to some business that had recently occupied his affairs” you know it’s going to slap.
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Are they using a bespoke definition of literacy or something? I don't understand how you even get through everyday life if you actually literally can't read words, don't see how it's possible that 1 in 5 people is like that.
US literary statistics 2022/2023:.-21% of US adults illiterate.-54% of adults literacy < 6th grade.-45 mio functionally illiterate (<5th grade).-130 mio adults unable to read simple story to their children.- Only ~50% adults read > 0 books a year.
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@olhaotchetche @haramcart Yeah I sometimes think this is a conclusion people jump to too quickly but in this case I really do think it's because they just hate women.
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This is the worst prank I've ever heard of lol.
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The Haitian goose/pet libel is yet another example of the slopification of the US right. Every single piece of evidence put forth is like a post they saw on Facebook or a YouTube video their coworker told them about. Literally zero ability left to distinguish truth from slop.
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I bet I could think of a list of say 25-50 books where if everyone had read say 70% of it intellectual life would be in inconceivably better shape. Idk why I would though since no one will ever read a book ever again.
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Tbc I think this is a very good and noble thing to try to be, but I also feel like practically no one I know irl even conceives of it as something they could or should do.
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@BigBlobApe Yeah but have you considered that I imagined this benefiting someone I don't like so now it must be destroyed.
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This has changed my mind on copyright because the instant something enters public domain now the immediate first thing anyone does with it is make the most Reddit horror movie of all time. Copyrights should last for 10,000 years.
First poster for the ‘PINOCCHIO’ horror movie. Set in the ‘Poohniverse’
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If you find Shakespeare inaccessible you should just try harder.
@youdoingtoomuch @NastiaTrixie I’m a former English major, and I strongly disagree. Shakespeare is inaccessible and alienating to the vast majority of children and, frankly, to many adults. Lit teachers have a romantic attachment to it that’s deeply detrimental to the learning of contemporary students.
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A little behind the scenes action: I had to put in the second "of" because otherwise one of you smartasses would've been like "Oho, so was Bill Clinton firing a flamethrower too??".
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Why are all of these accounts desperate to retvrn to stomp clap hey IPA drinking suspenders days.
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This sort of tumblrfied disability discourse is absurd. I don't want to speak for disabled people but I wasn't under the impression for example that paraplegics really just love not being able to walk.
I wanna talk about the disabled angels: there's so many 'in heaven they will finally be free of their wheelchair' and 'they will be made whole again in heaven' narratives around disabled people, so to see visibly disabled angels means everything, thank you @neilhimself #GoodOmens
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You can check the replies and see that people are STILL mad about this video. To the naked eye it's the exact same as 80,000 other TikToks that get posted every day but apparently it was actually some sort of MKULTRA trigger for a bunch of people.
Never forget that millions of people voted for economic seppuku and massive global catastrophe because they were radicalised by a video made by an Australian skincare startup in Sydney with like 4 employees who are all girls in their 20s
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Losing my mind because I just learned that Dimitri Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar on two consecutive evenings in London in 1972.
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I'm sorry but this shit has me rolling. Lmfao.
The Slop situation is getting so dire man.I found a video with millions of views claiming to be Classic Christmas music, but all of it is just weird AI covers of the songs, with thousands of comments that seem unable to tell the difference
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Sorry but it's kind of funny to do a Representation Matters about a character who starts his play off by going "Well, it's time to be evil, on account of my deformity"
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[someone says one of the Ten Commandments verbatim] Erm. methinks she did the mother flipping meme!.
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@ClwnPrncCharlie The idea that the organ was renovated and then this random posse of organists came in and ruined it is also funny. They're the titulaires, they're supposed to be there!.
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Cannot stop watching this lmfao. This is Simpsons-level comic timing.
they decided to launch a $20,000 agriculture drone from an active road
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Tl;dr:
Let's Use AI For 'The Glory of God': Priest & Teacher Unite to Make Beautiful Saint Images with AI Technology. Amid a technical revolution, many questions about the goodness of technology arise. Currently, these questions center around Artificial Intelligence (AI) – and many
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@BreadDryer1 @olhaotchetche @haramcart It's a very strange and not healthy reaction to hate someone based on a silly 30 second video lol.
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Watched part of Goblet of Fire with the 9yo and loled at this shot. Real.
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It's funny that Ken Jennings was so good at Jeopardy! they just made him the host. Congratulations, you did so well on our game show you won the special secret prize, which is you hosting it from now on.
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Kind of crazy that Holst wrote The Planets. All of his other pieces are called like "Ploughman's Hornpipe for Military Band" and then he casually drops one of the hardest orchestral suites of the 20th century.
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Seems like a bizarre failure of imagination or empathy not to realize that, moral concerns aside and whatever you personally believe, 99% of people would be completely devastated if their spouse did this to them.
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It's unbelievable how he always completely nails being the most annoying possible version of the guy he is. I couldn't have come up with a list this bad and Reddit if I were trying to make fun of him.
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Walking by this not paying attention scrolling on my phone and it thwacks me through the church wall leaving a perfect hole in the shape of me looking at my phone.
Viva Cristo Rey! Christendom unveiled its new botafumeiro this afternoon as part of the college’s Summer Consortium event. The botafumeiro, which is the largest in the world, will be used for select liturgical celebrations throughout the year, celebrating Christ our King. 👑
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All those years of maps with solid color red or blue states gave everyone a brain disease where they think there are states where basically every single person is GOP or Dem, instead of it being like 51/47. About half the people in your "red state" are libs!!.
I do NOT envy liberal people trying to make friends in red states. I don’t know how yall do it
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This is the objective correct answer. It towers over its genre.
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In any case in the video when he says he can't imagine putting the conservative 1950s suit guys in the 60s instead of the hippie that's exactly the problem with what he's doing. Huge amounts of people still wore conservative suits in the 60s, probably more than dressed "hippie".
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It objectively is not. This has never been the norm, or even something I've ever heard of, either in the history of screen acting or among other Christian actors.
The secular Left (and too many conservatives) would call this "weird," but it's actually quite normal by Christian as well as historical standards.
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One of the odder parts of the "cathedrals were for rich people" thread is the implication that medieval serfs survived on less than 100 calories a day
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@HolidayKirk This stuff gets posted constantly by people who have no conceivable ulterior reason to do so. It's obviously mercenary in many cases but that doesn't mean it's not real.
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@HannahPosted Obviously ADHD is a real condition but there's also a Twitter version of ADHD where you happen to have a special, unique type of brain that likes doing fun things more than doing chores or going to bed.
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JD Vance being the nation's most prominent Catholic convert is the worst possible publicity for us lol. Singlehandedly stamping out any hint of positive public perception of Catholics.
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Made myself lol last night imagining an enterprise called "Ripley's Do Not Believe It!" where they just present outrageous lies with no expectation that you'll accept them.
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I'm still not really sure why the first Harry Potter book was released here as "Sorcerer's Stone" instead of "Philosopher's Stone." Did they think Americans wouldn't know what the philosopher's stone is? Did they think we'd assume it was about philosophy and be bored?.
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So part of the explanation is that the further away the decade the more we tend to reduce it down to one caricatured stereotype and then believe that's what everyone looked like. We don't think everyone in the 2000s wore crop tops or had frosted tips because we remember the 2000s.
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You will not be prepared for how normal this clip sounds lmao. I thought they would at least find some hard bop or something to try to make their philistinic point. This is not even in the ballpark of atonality.
Controversial opinion: Jazz is simply failed music. It sounds like a child scribbling all over the page. Formless, meaningless, and unpleasant. Just a bunch of random noise that people trick themselves into liking, while they become numb to true musical quality in the process.
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In German when you talk about washing your hands, you don't say "I wash my hands," you say "I wash me the hands." And I love that because it implies that your hands aren't something you have. They're just something you wash for a while. Later, you might wash something else.
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Yeah that's cool man. Quick question: what the fuck is happening at all in this picture.
AI art does not “lack soul.” ChatGPT does, but that’s because it sucks and is primitive. What comes out of MidJourney is in fact quite aesthetic and you sound like a pretentious art snob when you try to impose metaphysical concepts onto beauty. Most real human-produced art
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Don't really get this conception of reading fiction. You're supposed to "get" a certain set of ideological propositions "out of" a novel and then if you agree with those ideas you have successfully enjoyed the book. Like when people go "uhh how do Republicans like Star Wars???"
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Hey look I made one too
The AI Rockwell art is some of the most unsettling and profoundly stirring art I’ve seen in a long time. Whoever did this is a genius. Intense and relentless propaganda is required to normalize the demonic characteristics of modern life. The demonic placed within the actual frame
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Guys like this think Ben and Jerry's has that many calories because of Chemicals or Seed Oils or whatever instead of because it's an entire pint of cream and sugar.
So let me get this straight???. The guy who sells an 1100 calorie pint of ice cream that cost like $7 is mad at the guy trying to make our food healthy…. Got it. Just checking
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Can anyone explain this in a way that actually makes sense. Is it just that Brits aren't used to hotter weather or is there actually something different about the climate or construction there that makes 79°F even worth mentioning let alone dangerous.
Americans explaining to Brits how 26 °C (79 °F) isn’t hot while living in air conditioned detached houses made of wood.
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Fun Fact: Possession by demonic/unclean spirits in the New Testament is a metaphor for the effect empire has on colonized communities. In other words, the demonic isn’t literal but it is very real.
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@bf_crane Looking back it was such a cynical way to press the reset button. Oh no we're not gonna do Rebels vs Empire again but uhh oh here's this group that was "inspired by" the Empire and looks and acts exactly the same and here's the Reb—uh, Re. Resistance, that's it.
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As long as I'm Harry Potter posting (Allah forgive me) I may as well reiterate how shockingly bad the climax/dénoûment of the last book was. The ultimate triumph of good happens due to a technicality of wand lore based on a convoluted chain of ownership that barely makes sense.
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This confirms what I've been saying which is that the song isn't a gritty portrait of what the honest hard-workin' men 'round these parts felt in their hearts when they learned the ol' auto plant was shuttin' down, it's about reading stuff on your phone and getting mad at it.
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I'm the guy who's both Lutheran and Eastern Orthodox but outside of the universal Church.
@speedysteve07 @Fionnbarra90 @TheRealLogosT @leonevangelisch That is copium. Rome isn't the church. Christ's Kingdom is growing.
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Tapping the sign
He is quite literally the sum of every white male in modern commercials:. - Always the fool.- Subordinate role.- Fat dad.- Bumbling customer.- Ignorant questioner.- Cynical inquirer
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Dale Cooper was able to enter the shadow realm where evil dwells in pursuit of his love, but his lack of perfect courage led to defeat by his own doppelgänger and subsequent imprisonment in the shadow realm for 25 years. This was considered normal in the 90s when the show began.
George Costanza was able to pull an endless sequence of stunningly beautiful women for casual sex while being short and bald, dressing like shit, and living with his parents. This was considered normal in the 90s when the show began.
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Treating a novel like a code that has to be deciphered to get at the real content, i.e. the "themes," is already taking the wrong approach before you've even started so it's no wonder that they aren't enjoyable to you.
Most so-called “great novels” are absolute snoozers. And a large chunk of them, especially those written in the 20th Century, aren't worth the time you spend deciphering theme, motif, symbolism, etc because once you do, you find they're just another paean to dissoluteness.
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Homeschool great books mfs be like, We study the best of all that has been thought and written: Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Chaucer, J. R. R. Tolkein,.
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I think it should be more widely acknowledged as a crisis that like 70% of the music in your average American Catholic parish is idiotic pablum, and has been for decades.
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More importantly than either of these, paganism is a dead letter. The age when it was possible to actually be a pagan has passed and it will never come again. You might say or even think you believe in paganism but you don't. Truly the great god Pan is dead.
I hate how horror movies have convinced people that paganism is some dark and evil thing, instead of a beautiful set of religions that honor nature, your ancestors, and the gods.
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This is a complete lib thing to say but it is, even though we're all used to it, kind of ironic that the people gleefully embracing hateful xenophobia subscribe to a religion that contains multiple explicit injunctions against maintaining any kind of ingroup/outgroup boundary.
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Like you can't read street signs, product names, your car manual, your mail???.
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When I browse the TL I mentally preface each and every one of your guys' tweets with this
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It's funny that for years we've been talking about how bad omnipresent screens and devices are for kids' education and just in the last year or two it somehow found a way to get exponentially worse (LLMs), which I really didn't think was possible.
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Why are Tolkein fans, and Tolkein, so insistent that he wasn't influenced by Wagner. Of course he was. It's like the most obvious borrowing in the history of art. It's fine! Who wasn't under the shadow of Wagner? Is there some sort of weird anxiety of influence thing going on?.
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Unironically good bit to go viral with a song that's like "Pedo elites keep on raisin' our tax/While the fat welfare queens keep on munchin' their snacks" and then get mad at Republicans for liking it.
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I remember a couple decades ago when The DaVinci Code was widely mocked for having prose that was slightly better than this. I guess this is normal now.
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