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Jude
@jude.athrabeth.com
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
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
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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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
February 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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
fucking techbros
January 29, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Finally, someone Nionwe hates more than Elrond
January 28, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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
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
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
I once again apologise to anyone who followed me for professional reasons
January 27, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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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...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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January 25, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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
asking the real questions over here
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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credit where it's due, this is nice at least
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
its colder than a wampa's taint out there today. be safe everyone
January 23, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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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of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible
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.
October 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
god this is cool. i miss google reader every day. its death really was the start of the enshittification of google
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
in which jude, once again, has an absolute fit about the fact that bajorans dont know what orbs are
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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"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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"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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Roses are red
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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
i feel this in my aching soul
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.
January 15, 2026 at 4:12 PM