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Non-practicing intellectual sharing historical oddities and contemporary jeremiads. Loathe AI. My apologies in advance.

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · Jan 15

Excellent obituary of Karen Wynn Fonstad, the superlative cartographer of Middle-earth, Pern, D&D, Narnia, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth (Gift Article)

She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 3h

The real cover:

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 18h

I'm Sorry You Can't Afford To Be Alive
And Other Stories Of America

Picture is of Grover the Doctor waving at you from a hospital. There’s an “aborted dreams” signature and maybe they’re who made this idk

It wasn’t me, I’m only posting it myself because no one else had alt text lol

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 18h

Heh. 50centadjustedforinflation.com

50 Cent Adjusted for Inflation

109 Cent

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 18h

You can only join this social network that only work if your phone battery is at 1%. 🪫 vole.wtf/one-percent/

The 1% Guild 🪫

An exclusive club for those who live life on the edge.

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 18h

“The highest point of anxiety is when you click the submit button for your latest card application. And then, as soon as it’s approved, there’s that adrenaline hit.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/b...

They Each Own 50 Credit Cards. Should You?

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 1d

Every player on the Clippers: “I’m getting too old for this shit.”

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 1d

Bryan Stevenson founded “Legacy Site” museums and monuments in Montgomery, Alabama, that are focused on the US history of racial injustice. The sites don’t accept federal money, which is *particularly* key during this administration. 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 1d

Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature for chronicling right-wing populism and extremism. 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...

She Studies the Russian ‘Red Man’ Whose Bloody War Evokes Soviet Tyranny

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · Sep 2

They were meant to be lasting reference sources. The hand lettering here is crazy.

Infographic about balances of international payments on heavy paper stock with colorful hand drawn illustration.

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, but during the rectal exam, the doctor poked J.D. Vance in the eye.

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 2d

Ain't seen no Golden Age yet, son.

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, you think Cambria is "the bomb"? Then let me tell you about the Applied Lettering of Proportional Modification.

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a place called Bucksnort, Tennessee. Huh.

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile, in the U.S.: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/c...

An Immense Solar Project Just Got Canceled Under Trump

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 2d

PRESIDENT NOW AUTISTIC

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Spice 💕 @spicedyde.bsky.social · 3d

🐶: “Very spooky! A corpse is a dead body.”

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 3d

There's a carbon monoxide leak at the White House.

(It's the only explanation.)

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 3d

"What're you going to be for Halloween?"

"I'm dressing as Henry Clay sewing up Andrew Jackson's mouth in 1828."

"Gnarly, dude!"

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 3d

The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, “but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket and watching UFC seems to build gender solidarity.” lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere

The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket...

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 3d

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

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