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Jude
@jude.athrabeth.com
360 followers 180 following 980 posts
i do some podcasts:
- Athrabeth, @podcast.athrabeth.com
- Nionwe on @athraplay.athrabeth.com
- Babylon Podject, @babylonpod.page
- @compleat.bibliography.show‬

Tolkien Academic, Space Lizard Appreciator, Necromancy Enthusiast, Krakoan Ideologue

he/him
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jude.athrabeth.com
man fuck those transphobes wizard houses, the real ones wanna know which Evangelion figures you have on your shelf
February 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
this tolkien thing i'm working on has me reading about the most boring aspects of the Catholic church than i could ever have wanted to
February 3, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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akelacooper.bsky.social
This is the quote he's referring to and damned if every one of us who's worked in traditional tv prior to the streaming era isn't silently screaming in frustration right now. TV worked perfectly well before everyone tried to become GoT
question and answer on a deadline interview with HBO chief Casey Bloys. Deadline: is the success of the pitt a lesson that you don't have to spend twenty million an episode to get a big commercially successful and acclaimed show? Bloys: I don't know if it's a lesson so much as it's the history of television, there is a reason why shows were designed this way. what we were hoping for and what the pitt delivered was more than six or eight weeks of episodes, 15 weeks of weekly engagement but also and probably most importantly in this environment setting up a show that is creatively capable of coming back within a year and with producers who are able to do that. that obviously used to be the norm ans as an industry we've gotten away from it as shows have gotten bigger and more complicated: special effects, shooting overseas and all of the things that make shows bigger and more cinematic but also more challenging to produce. the idea of getting back to the basics back to what television was the people who know how to do that, it's a skill and john and scott and noah know how to do that, john has made some of the best shows with the highest episode counts there are. so if you want to achieve those things you have to go to people who understand how to set it up and execute on that.
February 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
Charmander is five years old. He just today figured out fetch. Despite his sister literally living for the ball. That dog hadn’t got two brain cells to rub together.
February 1, 2026 at 5:25 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
fucking techbros
January 29, 2026 at 1:36 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
Finally, someone Nionwe hates more than Elrond
January 28, 2026 at 8:12 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
i respect that apple's knucklehead UI choices and my other grumble of the day (why you so expensive HiMD! 50 bucks for a single disc?!?!?!?!) are extremely petty and small. thats all i got bandwidth for today.
January 28, 2026 at 5:26 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
if you love liquid glass, i'm happy for you, but i think its ugly as fucking sin and its a constant annoyance to me that i can't turn that shit off.
January 28, 2026 at 5:06 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
i sometimes look at my skeets and then think about all the tolkien scholars who follow me and worry about the fact that next time we talk at a conference the fact that i post horny on main about space lizards will be hanging there in the air between us
oldenoughtosay.com madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · Oct 1
I once again apologise to anyone who followed me for professional reasons
January 27, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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3mipop.bsky.social
Kermit the frog sitting on a log surrounded by flowers Text: "what radicalised you?" empathy bro, literally just wanting people to be treated like human beings
January 25, 2026 at 9:33 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
it takes the slightest mention of l5r to re-ignite my love for that trash franchise. i dont know what it is about this problematic magical samurai world that has its hooks in me but every time it comes up im fighting the urge to bribe my friends to play the old ccg or start a new rpg campaign
January 23, 2026 at 7:32 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
asking the real questions over here
impavid.us 🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 11d
Why are people bent out of shape about He-Man having pronouns when the actual thing we should be upset about is Jared Leto playing Skeletor
January 23, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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bitterkarella.bsky.social
credit where it's due, this is nice at least
aridrennen.bsky.social Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 11d
Notching a rare win: House passed spending bills with all anti-trans riders removed—no care bans, no school funding threats, nothing.
Sarah McBride and Dem appropriators fought for this for months. open.substack.com/pub/aridrenn...
BREAKING: House Passes Spending Bills With All Anti-Trans Riders Stripped Out
Provisions targeting gender-affirming care and trans students were removed during negotiations. The bill now heads to the Senate
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:49 AM
jude.athrabeth.com
its colder than a wampa's taint out there today. be safe everyone
January 23, 2026 at 1:50 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
this is the same idiotic behavior that resulted in perfectly good cubicles being replaced with those godawful open floor plans
January 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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markpopham.bsky.social
of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible
jessothomson.co.uk Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Oct 9
It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case
October 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
jude.athrabeth.com
god this is cool. i miss google reader every day. its death really was the start of the enshittification of google
disnetdev.com Tim Disney @disnetdev.com · 14d
Oops, I started a new project: Skyreader, an RSS reader on the AT Protocol. Share cool articles like it's 2010 and Google Reader would never die. skyreader.app

www.disnetdev.com/blog/2026-01...
Skyreader: A RSS Reader on the AT Protocol
Introducing a RSS reader for the AT Protocol where you feeds and article sharing are portable
www.disnetdev.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:57 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
in which jude, once again, has an absolute fit about the fact that bajorans dont know what orbs are
babylonpod.page Babylon Podject @babylonpod.page · 14d
This week, the gang has to do a mirror universe without the mirror universe, we really didn't miss Bareil, and oh boy, would you look at the autism metaphors!
S4E70 - The O stands for Ozempic
S06E08: Resurrection; S06E09: Statistical Probabilities
babylonpod.page
January 20, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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apzonerunner.com
"What's your favourite Beatles album, then?"
"Tough one! I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"
January 20, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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therisingtithes.bsky.social
"Cholera could stop spreading if people stop drinking from this dirty river," warns man who shat in the river
January 20, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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lebassett.bsky.social
Roses are red
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
its the year of our dark lord 2025 and i'm buy l5r starter decks to try and hook my mtg group
January 16, 2026 at 4:06 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
i feel this in my aching soul
richardkadrey.bsky.social Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 19d
When my rent is due, I sometimes long for the days of a day job and a regular paycheck. But then I remember this stuff and go back to looking for loose change in the sofa.
via Cacela Lansbury: Working at any office is like "Ok. We're transitioning to Salarya, but payroll is still in Bullfrog—did you see my Noosecock post? Submit your timecards on Fireplayce then jizz me on Smackdog. Do NOT upload to Crackerz without Yammer approval."
January 15, 2026 at 4:12 PM