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Please don't use unroller bots on my threads. ADHD, TTRPGs, Queer Shit, Nerd Shit, History, Animals. Will yell about Star Trek on demand. Queer, Disabled, He/Him 🐦@NomeDaBarbarian 💰 https://ko-fi.com/nomedabarbarian 📌 Denver

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · Oct 11

Time for the best first impression ever, fuck yeah. My name's Nome. I write words. Sometimes people think the words I write are good.

See below for my thread of threads of threads - things I've written that I'd like to be able to find or reference, many of them ported over from my time on Twitter.

a cartoon of stitch with the words just-a-happy-clinger underneath it

ALT: a cartoon of stitch with the words just-a-happy-clinger underneath it

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 4h

I believe it!

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 4h

Oh, neat, I already had them blocked. No list or anything, just an artisanal one done by hand.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 4h

I apparently cannot just make a bowl of instant ramen without fucking with it.

Jalapeno, Mushroom, Shredded Cabbage, Dehydrated Green Onions, Poached Eggs, and Roasted Pork Tenderloin, with an extra spicy beef Nongshim ramen. Added a spoon of miso for body.

A bowl of ramen, with a poached egg split open and oozing yolk.

Pork, mushrooms, jalapenos, cabbage, poached eggs, and miso arranged in a white bowl.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 5h

Oh, I deleted it entirely. I'm not playing around with my day like that.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 5h

I just categorically do not have the energy to have a thread being shared around by resistance accounts.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 8h

Annual reminder:

By the standards of his time and position, Columbus was a monster. He was noted as a monster by peers who were themselves fine with being members of a colonial occupying force using slave labor and collective punishment.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 8h

I mean even if you pick Benito then we could have a holiday where we hang and beat Pinatas.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 8h

Yup.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 8h

name an italian

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 15h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 8h

Short version: Bad.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 8h

Real bad!

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 10h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 8h

Mad, incidentally, is not angry, but deranged.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 8h

I'm sorry, but you've lost that one - much like you just used "dumbest" to mean "least intelligent" and not "most silent," that one's just changed in common meaning.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 9h

For sure - there's an Arab expression you may like that's similar, "blood is thicker than milk."

It means what you're looking for - that people who've forged a bond together (become blood-brothers, etc) have a closer bond than an accident of birth.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 9h

The specific phrasing that got popular on Tumblr is specifically from a Messianic Preacher in 1994, who didn't cite any sources, and who claimed that this was the "original meaning" without evidence.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 9h

Not sure which side of this is making you angry, but:

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 9h

That one is unfortunately not true - the original meaning *is* "you have a closer bond with kin than otherwise," dating from at least the 1600s.

The "the blood of the covenant" expansion on it is later - there's a 1652 sermon where a pastor suggested that *Jesus's* blood was the thick blood /

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 9h

linking people together strongly, but that was playing on a proverb that was already in use.

There's a German version of it going back at least to the 1100s, too.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 9h

I think it's more Crime and Punishment, or maybe even something like Dickens or Austen, because it's a classic *of a genre*, a later step in literary development that's underlying some fundamental part of their society, still relevant to this day.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 9h

"The customer is always right"

... IN MATTERS OF TASTE.

Prof_Dapper 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 @prof-dapper.bsky.social · 19h

Incomplete phrases *curiosity killed the cat* ...and satisfaction brought it back

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 9h

It's been in use in medicine since the 1800s. The fact that ER popularized it in the public consciousness - including among doctors who watched ER - doesn't change its meaning.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10h

Hey Colorado residents, particularly people in Fort Collins, but also those who are somewhat near: my sister and brother in law are running a study on an easy, portable method to help maintain indoor air quality during adverse outside events (like smoke or pollution).

Participate in our Clean Air Study | sapphires

humanenvironments.org

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 9h

"Poses the question" is still useful, and it's not an 'idiom in philosophy,' it's a common rhetorical trick that people are subjected to *constantly* where someone will sneak unsupportable assertions into their questions instead of stating them outright.

It is *bad* that folks don't know it.

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