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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 4h

If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):

An image of a passage from the Return of the King, in which Robin the Hobbit Shirriff explains that 'the Chief' (Saruman) has coopted the shirriffs and uses them to lock up or beat people who protest is tyranny - and he always wants more shirriffs, "with all these new rules."

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 16h

Halloween special on the @prospectmagazine.co.uk #podcast!

I chatted with editors @aloner.bsky.social & @ellenhalliday.bsky.social about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, and "monstrification":
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💙📚 🗃 #politics #monsters #monstertober #spookyseason #HAMH

Halloween special: Surekha Davies on AI and modern monsters

The historian on how monsters are created—and how technology is reshaping what it means to be human

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 1d

Ditto--my dad’s cousin (and said cousin’s wife) were my cousins, but my grandfather’s friend across the way was my Uncle Bill.

Which actually also confused me because Uncle Bill was older than Methuselah, I was told, and felt more like a second grandfather, but whatever.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 1d

Does he not understand the term “obligate carnivore”?

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 2d

Just posted one!

Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 2d

So it turns out that in addition to cured meats (duh), fish (duh), and seaweed (huh?), MewMew is a fiend for apricots.

Meanwhile Natasha still favors potato chips and popcorn.

A cat on a kitchen chair sniffing excitedly at an apricot

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 2d

So it turns out that in addition to cured meats (duh), fish (duh), and seaweed (huh?), MewMew is a fiend for apricots.

Meanwhile Natasha still favors potato chips and popcorn.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 2d

Stop me if I am off base, here, but: Not sure that we want to learn how to manage our business rivals from *checks notes to make sure* a man assassinated by his rivals? www.management-issues.com/opinion/7761...

What leaders can learn from how Julius Caesar won followers and managed rivals

One of the secrets to Julius Caesar's success was the way that he developed and marketed a personal brand based on values and delivering on these values.

www.management-issues.com

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 3d

Progress!

The top of an unfinished brown ballet flat

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 3d

Oooh

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 3d

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 3d

"and then I realized I have become That Guy, and am seeking help immediately."

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 4d

Thermasilk socks and gloves with the fingertips cut off are my go-tos. Plus a hot water bottle for my toes.

Have already managed a shade of purple this season, ugh.

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Yun Xie @yunxie.bsky.social · 4d

In the special collections exhibition at the KU Leuven Library, two 18th-century silk prints: one a graduation thesis and the other a congratulatory poem, both common subjects for silk printing at the time. @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 4d

Nice!

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 5d

Amateurs. My spouse is *very* into making cocktails and will begrudgingly provide me with the Sir Laurence:

-fill the glass with olives
-then and only then add the dirty martini around them

So-called because it's "olivier" than he considers reasonable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/d...

How Much Dirtier Can the Dirty Martini Get?

www.nytimes.com

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 7d

Oh nvm now I’m mad/upset/baffled

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 7d

Oh

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire
East Wing

Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks I hate it

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t know why but I really am stuck on the hearth. Also the part where it looks like a circular firing (skewering?) squad.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 7d

Which medievalist wished we were more relevant, c’mon, fess up, I know it was all of us but only one had the monkey’s paw

Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 7d

Realizing @lollardfish.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com have surely already seen this, but I guess everything’s medieval now.

Except I’m not sure my house actually has a hearth? and it’s a century-old house, not a modern apartment. Am I defending my heat pump? My microwave?

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 7d

oh boy, that there sure is an AI medievalism

A DHS skeet reading “the enemies are at the gates” with a circle of men in dark armor, some wielding not one but two swords, pointing inwards

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 7d

Like aside from how fast this is happening, during a shutdown, the mind also boggles at the current and future security implications.

Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 7d

Not just that, but it’s in constant use and the needs have changed. I’m not mad we’re building a ballroom, even—we do use the White House for diplomacy and large events. Probably should’ve prioritized more office space first. DEFINITELY should‘ve gone through some kind of permitting and planning.

Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 7d

Academically I can see why people are bothered by the demolition of the east wing of the White House but ultimately it's a Presidential Palace built by slave labor that has ossified - it *should* be a living building, we should be Ship of Theseusing that shit.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 7d

Oh, I think I can guess.

My sister gets to inherit great-grandma’s secretary desk. Why? Well, she has a very nice signature. She practiced it a lot, as a little kid, while on the phone. And when she’d run out of legal pad…

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 7d

Would Great-great Aunt Arbeth have imagined her fancy marble tabletop being used to skive and tool leather? Probably not. But seeing as how she lived through the Depression, and the tables themselves are lost, I doubt she’d have minded the repurposing.

A compass and a blue wallet in progress atop a white marble slab

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