Tomochman (he/him)
@tomhochman.bsky.social
Not a Democrat, nor independent. Rather zealous humanist, fiercely hopeful ...
(my real name's a pseudonym).
(my real name's a pseudonym).
The great majority of the laws of the United States and component elements have been in place for over 20 years. We demand enforcement.
December 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The great majority of the laws of the United States and component elements have been in place for over 20 years. We demand enforcement.
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
– Voltaire
– Voltaire
December 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
– Voltaire
– Voltaire
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate."
– Carl Jung
– Carl Jung
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate."
– Carl Jung
– Carl Jung
"Language is the first prison - people cannot escape systems whose vocabulary defines the limits of thought."
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
I've tried to get this across, before. In one sense. I would change the last word to 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, but I'm not disagreeing with him.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
I've tried to get this across, before. In one sense. I would change the last word to 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, but I'm not disagreeing with him.
December 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
"Language is the first prison - people cannot escape systems whose vocabulary defines the limits of thought."
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
I've tried to get this across, before. In one sense. I would change the last word to 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, but I'm not disagreeing with him.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
I've tried to get this across, before. In one sense. I would change the last word to 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, but I'm not disagreeing with him.
Diego María Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez
born 8 December 1886
Guanajuato, Mexico
born 8 December 1886
Guanajuato, Mexico
December 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Diego María Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez
born 8 December 1886
Guanajuato, Mexico
born 8 December 1886
Guanajuato, Mexico
The first known use of ‘conspiracy theory’ was in 1863…or so they want you to believe.
– via Merriam Webster
– via Merriam Webster
December 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The first known use of ‘conspiracy theory’ was in 1863…or so they want you to believe.
– via Merriam Webster
– via Merriam Webster
Do you know how they make peppermint bark?
They pull her tail.
They pull her tail.
December 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Do you know how they make peppermint bark?
They pull her tail.
They pull her tail.
It was announced that RFKJr will be given the first FIFA prize in public health, physiology, or medicine!
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
It was announced that RFKJr will be given the first FIFA prize in public health, physiology, or medicine!
"Poverty isn't a mistake of capitalism, it's the invoice for someone else's luxury."
– Karl Marx
– Karl Marx
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"Poverty isn't a mistake of capitalism, it's the invoice for someone else's luxury."
– Karl Marx
– Karl Marx
"An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?"
– Annie Dillard
– Annie Dillard
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?"
– Annie Dillard
– Annie Dillard
Groovy, Snazzy or Stylin'?
December 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Groovy, Snazzy or Stylin'?
How is Spotify supposed to pay artists now that they've stopped making pennies?
December 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
How is Spotify supposed to pay artists now that they've stopped making pennies?
Alligator Bags Intrigue Me,
but if I'm just home from the grocery store, and I have the canned peas ... I like having hands. Peas are not that important.
but if I'm just home from the grocery store, and I have the canned peas ... I like having hands. Peas are not that important.
December 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Alligator Bags Intrigue Me,
but if I'm just home from the grocery store, and I have the canned peas ... I like having hands. Peas are not that important.
but if I'm just home from the grocery store, and I have the canned peas ... I like having hands. Peas are not that important.
“I struggle in the dark with the enormity of my soul, trying desperately to be a great rememberer redeeming life from darkness…”
– Jack Kerouac
– Jack Kerouac
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
“I struggle in the dark with the enormity of my soul, trying desperately to be a great rememberer redeeming life from darkness…”
– Jack Kerouac
– Jack Kerouac
Death has many benefits people won't talk about.
Awkward pauses. The invitations that are accepted because they should be. Hiccoughs. Gas bills. Gallagher and Jackass on YouTube. Stubbing one's toe. Food stuck in our front teeth. Smiling to be considerate. Getting dirty right after bathing ...
Awkward pauses. The invitations that are accepted because they should be. Hiccoughs. Gas bills. Gallagher and Jackass on YouTube. Stubbing one's toe. Food stuck in our front teeth. Smiling to be considerate. Getting dirty right after bathing ...
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Death has many benefits people won't talk about.
Awkward pauses. The invitations that are accepted because they should be. Hiccoughs. Gas bills. Gallagher and Jackass on YouTube. Stubbing one's toe. Food stuck in our front teeth. Smiling to be considerate. Getting dirty right after bathing ...
Awkward pauses. The invitations that are accepted because they should be. Hiccoughs. Gas bills. Gallagher and Jackass on YouTube. Stubbing one's toe. Food stuck in our front teeth. Smiling to be considerate. Getting dirty right after bathing ...
This is a Norton Anthology. Released in June 2007. 𝑨 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉. It's a good time to look at pigin and creole as sources of serious literature.
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
This is a Norton Anthology. Released in June 2007. 𝑨 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉. It's a good time to look at pigin and creole as sources of serious literature.
𝑭𝑰𝑪𝑬 should be someone's word of the year.
December 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
𝑭𝑰𝑪𝑬 should be someone's word of the year.
I Figured it Out!
By covering and creating every base like the FIFA peace prize, MFOTUS and friends have conspired to kill all the jokes.
By covering and creating every base like the FIFA peace prize, MFOTUS and friends have conspired to kill all the jokes.
December 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I Figured it Out!
By covering and creating every base like the FIFA peace prize, MFOTUS and friends have conspired to kill all the jokes.
By covering and creating every base like the FIFA peace prize, MFOTUS and friends have conspired to kill all the jokes.
International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
...
Organization
The IERS was established in 1987 by the International Astronomical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.
www.iers.org
...
Organization
The IERS was established in 1987 by the International Astronomical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.
www.iers.org
IERS
International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) - Homepage
www.iers.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
...
Organization
The IERS was established in 1987 by the International Astronomical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.
www.iers.org
...
Organization
The IERS was established in 1987 by the International Astronomical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.
www.iers.org
The little car just sits there, and the clowns keep emerging.
December 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The little car just sits there, and the clowns keep emerging.
"A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue."
– Ἀριστοφάνης (Aristophanes)
– Ἀριστοφάνης (Aristophanes)
December 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue."
– Ἀριστοφάνης (Aristophanes)
– Ἀριστοφάνης (Aristophanes)
I bet MFOTUS would whine, lie, and desecrate less if he was given a nice grave!
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I bet MFOTUS would whine, lie, and desecrate less if he was given a nice grave!
Someone found out the local zoo is going to close for a couple of days.
I think they have a mole!
I think they have a mole!
December 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Someone found out the local zoo is going to close for a couple of days.
I think they have a mole!
I think they have a mole!
This is what failure looks like. Thank you, to all law enforcement, and all sworn elected officials.
December 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This is what failure looks like. Thank you, to all law enforcement, and all sworn elected officials.
Thomas Merton –
"Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible."
"Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible."
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Thomas Merton –
"Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible."
"Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible."