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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 2d

Samwise reaching out to Frodo shouting "Reach!", while Frodo is barely clinging onto a ledge inside Mt Doom. Sam is captioned with "my nose hairs", Frodo is captioned with "my stray mustache hairs"

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 6h

Before rudders, ships used a single large oar to steer themselves. Usually that oar was placed on the right side. This came to mean the steering side, or 'steorbord' in Old English

This is how starboard came to mean the right side of a ship!

#etymology

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 5h

I think the single most important skill you can have online right now is being able to ask the question “is this person a journalist or a content creator” and then knowing what to do with that difference

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 4h

Orson Welles was spot on about him

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 4h

he's the patron saint of guys who think their biggest flaw is being awkward and shy, rather than being insidiously evil. And there's a lot of guys like that here

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5h

Peisistratos literally tried once to overthrow the Athenian government using an unusually tall woman masquerading as the goddess Athena.

They have always been this dumb. They sometimes succeed anyway.

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 5h

oh I don't disagree, I love that movie. "Nothing...Everything" is one of my favorite moments in film

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 5h

between the show ending horribly and the books never coming out I've lost all emotional attachment to that world. Honestly amazed that people can still get invested. Like, genuinely, good for them, they still have magic in their hearts

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 5h

wdym you don't love 3 hours of orlando bloom looking slightly annoyed that he forgot his sunglasses at home?

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 6h

what was the Roman version of Ronkonkoma

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 6h

we've got literal Praetorian Guard-ass politics now except instead of elite legionaries it's our finest bikelane blockers

Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 6h

I am dead serious when I say Mamdani should be assembling a private security force in the event he wins

remember when NYPD kidnapped DiBlasio's kid because he suggested maybe they should murder fewer innocent citizens?

yeah

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 6h

Yep that's exactly where it came from. Since the steering order was on the right side it'd get in the way of docking. So ships docked with the left side towards the dock (and therefore the port)

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 6h

Before rudders, ships used a single large oar to steer themselves. Usually that oar was placed on the right side. This came to mean the steering side, or 'steorbord' in Old English

This is how starboard came to mean the right side of a ship!

#etymology

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9h

Dropsite reporting confirms the deteriorating condition of the starving Gazan child highlighted by the NYT was in fact a direct consequence of the Israeli-imposed famine, regardless of ‘pre-existing condition’ (exclusively blamed by Bari Weiss’ The Free Press).

www.dropsitenews.com/p/bari-weiss...

When Israel imposed a full-spectrum blockade in March, Muhammad was just 15 months old. “Until the end of March, Muhammad’s health was still good, he weighed around nine kilograms. But since then, his health has deteriorated week by week. He lost roughly one kilogram every month. Today, at 19 months old, he weighs only six kilograms,” she said, showing Drop Site photographs and videos before and after.

Muhammad was admitted to the hospital for several days and diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition, the most extreme and life-threatening form of malnutrition.

“They say that the skeletal body of Muhammad is due to another health condition,” Al-Mutawaq said. “But if so, why isn’t this skeletal body visible in his photos only a couple of months ago? Why did he become like this only after Israel started starving us?”

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 9h

the quoted post is a fake edit meant to stoke antisemitic outrage. The original doesn't mention gumbo at all

Article heading:
"Israeli Food

Israelis have developed and continue to enjoy a delicious cuisine rooted in the uniqueness of Israeli society itself.

By My Jewish Learning"

At the bottom is a picture of some hummus

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 11h

You are posting a Nazi meme created exactly for this reaction, genius

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 20h

need a movie where both Rami Malek and Christoph Waltz where play two normal completely not-unsettling dudes with regular jobs

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Actually circulating videos of Candace Owens that make her seem reasonable because she’s correct on *one* issue is not good work

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 2d

We are in a time when people are being victimized daily on a national scale for the color of their skin, the cultures they come from, and the people they love. If you think the answer to that is to suggest our responsibilities and risks should be viewed equally in light of that? You're the enemy.