Jennifer Brooks
jzbinhi.bsky.social
Jennifer Brooks
@jzbinhi.bsky.social
Lurker extraordinaire
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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and of course this is not the only English cathedral we have done this to! It's just the one we haven't figured out how to fix yet. At Winchester they had a guy spending six years diving into water filled with decaying bodies to build a cement foundation idk
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And of course Winchester and the diver (famously the statue is of the wrong person)
November 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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It's Tuesday. It's November. And it's been awhile. So lets tell the story about the eel, the scheming wife who ate it, and the talking magpie that ratted her out!

That's right! It's time for the eel tale from the 1370s blockbuster hit, "The Book of the Knight of the Tower." 1/5
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November 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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A Marmot’s Guide to Yawning. Your yawn should start at the hind end, traveling up to your head and culminating in a dramatic silent scream. Complete with lip smacking to communicate how deeply satisfying this was. Strike a dramatic pose while receiving yawning admiration from onlookers.
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Donatives for the troops
Incompetent ruler with no clear heir
Fading international prestige
Powerless legislature

Welcome back Crisis of the Third Century!
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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damn. hoping it at least signifies something
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
October 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)
October 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE ERA RODNEY DANGERFIELD: i tell you i get no respect. the daimyo says i have to commit seppuku to restore my house’s honor. okay. i write my death poem, no problem. i ask my wife if she’ll be my second and she says she wants to be my FIRST!
May 22, 2024 at 4:18 AM
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A reminder alert popped up.

"Oh," the Supervisor said, "it's time to check in on Sol-3 again. Szrpt, can you handle that?"

Szrpt bowed a frond. "Yes, of course."

"Don't forget to reset the killer asteroid if the sapients pose no threat."

"Once!" Szrpt bristled. "I only forgot that once!"
August 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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centuries of fairy tales & folklore about not trusting glittering, deceptive entities that flatter our vanity and look at us. eating the fae food, mesmerized by the mirror, etc. clown behavior.
August 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Sea lions are seals that are missing an electron
July 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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People are weirdly precious about the morality of Austen novels. ‘I don’t think Emma should have married an older man who knew her as a child’. Okay? I don’t think the green knight should be gadding about chopping heads off
July 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Look out #Canada
June 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Come out ye whites and klans, come out and fight me like a man, show your wife how you had met us at home depot. Tell her how the USA made you run like hell away from the green and lovely lanes of California
June 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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The sigil was drawn in salt and ash, the candles lit at the pentagram points, the incantation declaimed.

There was a shimmer - a demon appeared.

"Curious. What ritual is this?"

"I got it from ChatGPT. I included all protections in my prompt!"

"I see," the demon said and stepped out of the sigil.
May 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Miss Universe Philippines has a mythology theme going on this year, which is great for anyone whose interests contain both monster girls and mahou shoujo villains (like yours truly).
May 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Terracotta child's rattle in the form of a pig
3rd–2nd century B.C.E. #Cyprus (Met Museum)
April 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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More mid-1600s swashbuckling killer-for-hire critters: a possum dismissed from the guard for drunkenness, despite being one of their finest blades, and an otter who treads the boards but turns to cutthroating because the theater doesn't pay well enough to cover his debts.
April 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Happy Moose Monday!
April 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵
April 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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March 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Picture time! 📸🐕💝
March 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM