Minas Tirith City Planner
@chrisker.bsky.social
Old dad who watches too many movies
Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/lw5Z
Movies, politics, Indianapolis, baseball (usually Cardinals related), other stuff
(not a real city planner, just have some ideas for the White City of Gondor)
Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/lw5Z
Movies, politics, Indianapolis, baseball (usually Cardinals related), other stuff
(not a real city planner, just have some ideas for the White City of Gondor)
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A jazz band hears Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box for the first time, then covers it.
Jazz Band Covers Nirvana On The Spot (Ft. Ulysses Owens Jr.)
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A jazz band hears Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box for the first time, then covers it.
We Cardinals fans are solidly in “rooting for the rest of the org to do its best within ownership’s constraints” territory.
At least getting we’re getting on with it in earnest.
At least getting we’re getting on with it in earnest.
Jeff Passan writes:
Full trade
Boston Red Sox receive: Sonny Gray and cash
St. Louis Cardinals receive: LHP Brandon Clarke and RHP Richard Fitts
#STLCards
Full trade
Boston Red Sox receive: Sonny Gray and cash
St. Louis Cardinals receive: LHP Brandon Clarke and RHP Richard Fitts
#STLCards
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
We Cardinals fans are solidly in “rooting for the rest of the org to do its best within ownership’s constraints” territory.
At least getting we’re getting on with it in earnest.
At least getting we’re getting on with it in earnest.
Jsut googled Brandon Clarke and boy is Chris O’ Leary (inverted W guy) having a normal one right now.
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Jsut googled Brandon Clarke and boy is Chris O’ Leary (inverted W guy) having a normal one right now.
My theory on the acceptance of AI art is a lot of people don’t realize they need reading glasses
lol this rocks
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
My theory on the acceptance of AI art is a lot of people don’t realize they need reading glasses
Star Wars arguments doing little to disprove this (not judging).
everyone is 12 theory chugging along
A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Star Wars arguments doing little to disprove this (not judging).
This is pretty close to how these look, except you can’t really look *at* them, and I basically can’t see anything near the arc, which expands over about 15 minutes and then fades slowly away.
I've been "enjoying" scintillating scotomas more often recently. They're difficult to describe, and images online don't really capture it. But the first thing I thought when I saw them was "I should make a shader of this" – so here's a demo, it's pretty close: meetar.github.io/scotoma/
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
This is pretty close to how these look, except you can’t really look *at* them, and I basically can’t see anything near the arc, which expands over about 15 minutes and then fades slowly away.
AI recognition tip:
The sentence structure
“it’s not just ____ — it’s ____”
I see this all the time now. Often multiple times in the same article or blog post.
The sentence structure
“it’s not just ____ — it’s ____”
I see this all the time now. Often multiple times in the same article or blog post.
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
AI recognition tip:
The sentence structure
“it’s not just ____ — it’s ____”
I see this all the time now. Often multiple times in the same article or blog post.
The sentence structure
“it’s not just ____ — it’s ____”
I see this all the time now. Often multiple times in the same article or blog post.
Thank you randos on Bluesky for reminding me that Trump is not good now and will go back to fascism tomorrow.
I am only three years old so I forget this stuff.
I am only three years old so I forget this stuff.
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Thank you randos on Bluesky for reminding me that Trump is not good now and will go back to fascism tomorrow.
I am only three years old so I forget this stuff.
I am only three years old so I forget this stuff.
Evergreen skeet
Laura loomer is crashing out
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Evergreen skeet
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I love Bob Dylan so much, he is the antidote to everything dumb about culture, like the Kardashians exist? No they don’t because listen to “When I Paint My Masterpiece” ChatGPT wrote a novel? No it didn’t because I married Isis on the 5th day of May
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I love Bob Dylan so much, he is the antidote to everything dumb about culture, like the Kardashians exist? No they don’t because listen to “When I Paint My Masterpiece” ChatGPT wrote a novel? No it didn’t because I married Isis on the 5th day of May
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Remember: the only way to save New York City from Donald Trump’s wrath is electing Andrew Cuomo.
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Remember: the only way to save New York City from Donald Trump’s wrath is electing Andrew Cuomo.
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Primary everyone. All of em. I'm serious. They have the worst political instincts in history in addition to being a bunch of pricks with a cushy job. Time to leave and go write your book, assholes. Take Tapper and the other dickheads with you on the way out
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Primary everyone. All of em. I'm serious. They have the worst political instincts in history in addition to being a bunch of pricks with a cushy job. Time to leave and go write your book, assholes. Take Tapper and the other dickheads with you on the way out
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He look like Garfield
this is the first time I’ve ever seen him look like he hadn’t *just* done a bump. looks miserable. love that for him.
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
He look like Garfield
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the moral of Drive was that it's cool to cruise around the city at night listening to synth music
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
the moral of Drive was that it's cool to cruise around the city at night listening to synth music
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On a new ONE HOT TAKE at @ohmpods.bsky.social - Incredibly late to the party on #Splitsville, but as you’ll hear from @splicedpersonality.bsky.social and I, you should drop everything and see it
open.spotify.com/episode/5Rgp...
open.spotify.com/episode/5Rgp...
ONE HOT TAKE: SPLITSVILLE w/ Sean Burns
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
On a new ONE HOT TAKE at @ohmpods.bsky.social - Incredibly late to the party on #Splitsville, but as you’ll hear from @splicedpersonality.bsky.social and I, you should drop everything and see it
open.spotify.com/episode/5Rgp...
open.spotify.com/episode/5Rgp...
RETWEETS ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS!! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
RETWEETS ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS!! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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I thought there were three books but every few months I hear about Hunger Games: Lamentation of the Sower and Hunger Games: Dusk of the Plaintive Wife
First look at Ralph Fiennes as President Snow in ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.’ Out November 20, 2026.
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I thought there were three books but every few months I hear about Hunger Games: Lamentation of the Sower and Hunger Games: Dusk of the Plaintive Wife
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There are like *so* many things for which you can criticize the Al Saud regime
Running one of the most repressive autocracies in the world? Yes
Spreading Salafist fundamentalism the world over? Absolutely
Killing Jamal Khashoggi? You betcha
But jfc it didn't do 9/11
Running one of the most repressive autocracies in the world? Yes
Spreading Salafist fundamentalism the world over? Absolutely
Killing Jamal Khashoggi? You betcha
But jfc it didn't do 9/11
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 AM
There are like *so* many things for which you can criticize the Al Saud regime
Running one of the most repressive autocracies in the world? Yes
Spreading Salafist fundamentalism the world over? Absolutely
Killing Jamal Khashoggi? You betcha
But jfc it didn't do 9/11
Running one of the most repressive autocracies in the world? Yes
Spreading Salafist fundamentalism the world over? Absolutely
Killing Jamal Khashoggi? You betcha
But jfc it didn't do 9/11
Ended up getting through about 70% of the Abundance audiobook before I had to return it and more than anything else it reminded me tonally of kids books about science or history. Lots of short hero stories about the past.
I’ll have to wait and see if the final 30% offers any real path.
I’ll have to wait and see if the final 30% offers any real path.
"maybe government should work better" is not an original, interesting, or particularly useful argument, much less any serious ideology
Abundance and the Left
Ezra Klein talks with Bhaskar Sunkara about Abundance, Zohran Mamdani’s victory, and why progressives need a state that works at the speed of their ambitions.
jacobin.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Ended up getting through about 70% of the Abundance audiobook before I had to return it and more than anything else it reminded me tonally of kids books about science or history. Lots of short hero stories about the past.
I’ll have to wait and see if the final 30% offers any real path.
I’ll have to wait and see if the final 30% offers any real path.
I don't think Andre Carson is perfect, but considering Indiana Dem politics we'd probably have someone like this otherwise. Anyway, score one for nepotism.
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I don't think Andre Carson is perfect, but considering Indiana Dem politics we'd probably have someone like this otherwise. Anyway, score one for nepotism.
Hey @cardinals.com, when you planning on starting to post here?
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Hey @cardinals.com, when you planning on starting to post here?
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BREAKING: AMC announces Larry Summers will no longer deliver “heartbreak feels good in a place like this” line
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
BREAKING: AMC announces Larry Summers will no longer deliver “heartbreak feels good in a place like this” line
