Thomas A
@warioprofiteer.bsky.social
Raging lefty, cat dad, heavy reader, library guy (he/him)
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Something I understand after learning to drive in my 40s: That bit in "Shop Vac" when JoCo complains about how hard it is to make a left turn at the not-as-good Starbucks
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Something I understand after learning to drive in my 40s: That bit in "Shop Vac" when JoCo complains about how hard it is to make a left turn at the not-as-good Starbucks
Introduce yourself with 5 movies you'll be watching this festive season
•Gremlins
•Muppet Christmas Carol
•Muppet Treasure Island
•Muppets Take Manhattan
•The Muppet Movie
•Gremlins
•Muppet Christmas Carol
•Muppet Treasure Island
•Muppets Take Manhattan
•The Muppet Movie
Introduce yourself with 5 movies you'll be watching this festive season
- The Thin Man
- Black Christmas (1974)
- Silent Night Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!
- Trancers
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
- The Thin Man
- Black Christmas (1974)
- Silent Night Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!
- Trancers
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
Introduce yourself with 5 movies you'll be watching this festive season
- Muppet Christmas Carol
- Scrooged
- Love Actually
- About a Boy
- Death Comes to Pemberley
- Muppet Christmas Carol
- Scrooged
- Love Actually
- About a Boy
- Death Comes to Pemberley
November 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 movies you'll be watching this festive season
•Gremlins
•Muppet Christmas Carol
•Muppet Treasure Island
•Muppets Take Manhattan
•The Muppet Movie
•Gremlins
•Muppet Christmas Carol
•Muppet Treasure Island
•Muppets Take Manhattan
•The Muppet Movie
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I more or less grew up in one of these libraries. My mom was a librarian for many years in rural middle Tennessee. This is a travesty either way, but it's also personal.
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.
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Alarm as Tennessee libraries shut down for Republican 'book purge'
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.For Popular Information, Rebecca...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I more or less grew up in one of these libraries. My mom was a librarian for many years in rural middle Tennessee. This is a travesty either way, but it's also personal.
I got a zoomie lens for my DSLR and I'm enjoying it very much
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I got a zoomie lens for my DSLR and I'm enjoying it very much
Arcanum but also if they took out that questline, you know the one
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Arcanum but also if they took out that questline, you know the one
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I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes
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Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
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The second Biscuit Makers' Union poster follows the workers of biscuit making from "from field to tummy." This journey is depicted literally in the poster: starting with farm fields, through harvest, and production. A closer look at the bottom reveals a fleet of trucks ready to deliver biscuits...
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The second Biscuit Makers' Union poster follows the workers of biscuit making from "from field to tummy." This journey is depicted literally in the poster: starting with farm fields, through harvest, and production. A closer look at the bottom reveals a fleet of trucks ready to deliver biscuits...
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#OtD 19 Nov 1915 Joe Hill, Swedish-American @IWW union member and songwriter was executed by firing squad for a murder he did not commit. In his final letter he wrote: "don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
#OtD 19 Nov 1915 Joe Hill, Swedish-American @IWW union member and songwriter was executed by firing squad for a murder he did not commit. In his final letter he wrote: "don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
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"4 Hours Work, 4 Hours Nappin" from 2021.
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"4 Hours Work, 4 Hours Nappin" from 2021.
Canticle for Leibowitz and Emily Wilson's Iliad
alright let’s get something more pleasant going. what two books would you leave out on your coffee table so a reporter can mention you have them. doesn’t matter if you’ve read them. for me it’s Pale Fire (which I did read) and Ulysses (got like 15% of the way in)
November 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Canticle for Leibowitz and Emily Wilson's Iliad
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yo mamma’s kerning so bad, all her hyperlinks say “dick here”
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
yo mamma’s kerning so bad, all her hyperlinks say “dick here”
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
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If you ever thought of literary translation as some mathematical formula where there was somehow in there a literal solution, take a gander at a handful of professionals translating the first line of Beowulf and realize that it's art, and that these translators are as much authors themselves.
...if I'd done even the barest comparative reading of just the first line of Beowulf, I'd have been well on my way to a better sense of what literary translation involves.
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
If you ever thought of literary translation as some mathematical formula where there was somehow in there a literal solution, take a gander at a handful of professionals translating the first line of Beowulf and realize that it's art, and that these translators are as much authors themselves.
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Spydere Man, Spydere Man
Doth al things a spydere kan
Sondry webbes he kan weaven
Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen
Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
Doth al things a spydere kan
Sondry webbes he kan weaven
Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen
Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Spydere Man, Spydere Man
Doth al things a spydere kan
Sondry webbes he kan weaven
Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen
Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
Doth al things a spydere kan
Sondry webbes he kan weaven
Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen
Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
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#OtD 20 Mar 1911 women at the Glasgow Singer factory went on strike after popularizing the @IWW slogan "an injury to one is an injury to all" in a non-union factory. They triggered a decade of class struggle that became known as "Red Clydeside" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...
March 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
#OtD 20 Mar 1911 women at the Glasgow Singer factory went on strike after popularizing the @IWW slogan "an injury to one is an injury to all" in a non-union factory. They triggered a decade of class struggle that became known as "Red Clydeside" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...
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