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Non-practicing intellectual sharing historical oddities and contemporary jeremiads. My apologies in advance.

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · Jan 15

Excellent obituary of Karen Wynn Fonstad, the superlative cartographer of Middle-earth, Pern, D&D, Narnia, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth (Gift Article)

She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

www.nytimes.com

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 2h

There's a carbon monoxide leak at the White House.

(It's the only explanation.)

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 2h

"What're you going to be for Halloween?"

"I'm dressing as Henry Clay sewing up Andrew Jackson's mouth in 1828."

"Gnarly, dude!"

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 3h

That'll help the farmers in the Midwest! Great job, sir.

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 4h

The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, “but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket and watching UFC seems to build gender solidarity.” lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere

The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket...

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 7h

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19h

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10h

Pretending every huge peaceful protest is worse than January 6th while also pretending January 6th never happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 8h

"More than once, contestants complained about Trump going backstage when they were undressed—something he did not deny in a 2005 interview with Howard Stern."

What we're hearing is that it's time to release the Epstein files.
🎁 link:
www.wsj.com/politics/the...

The Beauty Queens of MAGA World

From cabinet secretaries to state legislators, many women in today’s GOP have one thing in common: they got their start in public life by winning pageants.

www.wsj.com

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 10h

Qataris training with the Aryan Nation, it's a science-fiction novel come true.

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 10h

WHAT

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 11h

EDIT: They aren't "lectures," they're "ravings." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 12h

It’s an amphibious assault.

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 12h

“On the Tibetan Plateau, nearly 10,000 feet high, solar panels stretch to the horizon and cover an area seven times the size of Manhattan. They soak up sunlight that is much brighter than at sea level because the air is so thin.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 1d

How is this a question? 🎁 link: www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Tesla Self-Driving Technology Breaks Traffic Laws. Can the Feds Stop It?

Safety investigations and the bully pulpit could complicate the automaker’s development of automated driving systems, but only if regulators want to.

www.wsj.com

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, you like adventure? Then you'll love Davy Crockett's...

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 1d

Warrior ethos:

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 1d

Oof.
theneedling.com/2025/10/08/5...

5 Fun Places to Go Apple Picking This Weekend Because ICE Scared Off All Their Farmworkers

There’s no better time to go apple picking at these five fun and picturesque orchards than this weekend because the fall air is as crisp as the fruit and, of course, ICE raids have left no one else…

theneedling.com

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m so embarrassed on behalf of my Republican colleagues for not even being willing to say that you shouldn’t jail your political opponents.”

— Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 1d

If a small town were run with a commensurate level of corruption (e.g. “Councilperson Accepts $500 from Police in Sting”), its leaders would be thrown out muy pronto.