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Hieronymous Alloy

@hieronymous.bsky.social

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A villainous goon with good intentions. He/Him. Georgist. Former Public Defender. I will recommend you a book if you ask.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · Aug 2

Ok, small story for the end of Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access

I've always, going way back, given my RPG characters little van dyke mustaches, like Cardinal Richelieu in a Three Muskeeteer's movie.

"That's what a dashing, derring-doer looks like," I'd think.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 5m

Being a wrecker is a whole industry these days.

Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 2h

Dude is a poster

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

🔥 @aoc.bsky.social says Republicans have been successful with a clear message of division, which helps Trump, Musk and the Billionaires keep us divided as they “get away with highway robbery” — and to counter that Dems need to be equally clear in their message of solidarity.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 18h

This is something people need to come to terms with if we want actual reform. Democracy in America is a historical aberration, not a norm, and has only existed for a few decades at most and even then only in some regions of the country

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 1d

Decency is their villain; they're trying to stamp out the concept of public virtue, because such ideals are contrary to their values.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 1d

Makes sense. I find real value in the classics for online book clubs, because they're generally free downloads so more people can participate, and unpacking them gives something to talk about.

Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 1d

ok, i get he's a kennedy, but *how*

he always looks like a corpse that's been soaking in river clay for three days, and he always sounds worse

what on god's green earth is attractive about that

Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah both of these are true. Fortunately Plattner is significantly outperforming Mills in the polling.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 1d

I went through a competitive phase right after the Kindle was first released where I realized I could "game" my Amazon reviewer ranking by posting intelligent things about unreviewed out-of-copyright classics. I was briefly in the top 1000!

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I assign nothing. Read as thou wilt is the whole of the law.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 2d

Those riot police were their parents.

Donald Trump's dad got arrested at a klan rally back then.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 2d

It's great but in all the ways that a bad English class will avoid talking about, like how gloriously gay it is, or the way whole chapters are just "Whale Facts: Whales are Fish" anticipating silly wikipedia dives by a hundred years

Go in planning to have fun and it's fun

Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 2d

What's next?

Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 2d

Same! I took a course in Anglo-Saxon, learned how to pronounce it all correctly by listening to audio tapes, found a copy of Tolkien's critical work on it, and got blown away.

Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, if people are particularly interested in that sort of thing, a few years ago I ran a "Let's Read" of the first half of P&P on an old internet forum, using an annotated edition, which people can still read if they so desire:
forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...

TBB BotM: September: Let's Read: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice!

forums.somethingawful.com

Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 2d

Other great annotated editions: Martin Gardner's Annotated Alice, Leslie Klinger's Annotated Sherlock Holmes, and the entire "Landmark Edition" series of the classics (especially Herodotus and Xenophon)

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 2d

addenda: this is also a great reason to buy physical books, not just ebooks. The annotations never work right on a small screen. They need the columns and the columns need the double facing spread page.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 2d

Annotated editions are *great* for this. The annotated Pride & Prejudice especially is transformative for modern readers, because Austen explained *nothing*, assuming her readers would all just *know* how a dog-cart differs from a barouche-landau.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 2d

And it's a meditation on the death of his friend Bertie.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday Grilled Cheese:

Cheddar and Bacon on Caramelized Pecan Chocolate Banana Bread, with honey butter

Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 4d

Saturday Night Dinner: Julia Child's Boeuf Bourguinon, with chuck roast and red box wine, over egg noodles

Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 4d

This court is using "standing" as a stand-in for "I, the judge, either do or don't want to pay attention." It's just bad faith argument all the way down.