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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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.
hieronymous.bsky.social
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.bsky.social
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.bsky.social
Yeah both of these are true. Fortunately Plattner is significantly outperforming Mills in the polling.
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paris.nyc
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
hieronymous.bsky.social
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!
hieronymous.bsky.social
Oh, I assign nothing. Read as thou wilt is the whole of the law.
hieronymous.bsky.social
Those riot police were their parents.

Donald Trump's dad got arrested at a klan rally back then.
hieronymous.bsky.social
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.bsky.social
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.bsky.social
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.bsky.social
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)
hieronymous.bsky.social
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.
hieronymous.bsky.social
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.
hieronymous.bsky.social
And it's a meditation on the death of his friend Bertie.
hieronymous.bsky.social
Sunday Grilled Cheese:

Cheddar and Bacon on Caramelized Pecan Chocolate Banana Bread, with honey butter
hieronymous.bsky.social
Saturday Night Dinner: Julia Child's Boeuf Bourguinon, with chuck roast and red box wine, over egg noodles
hieronymous.bsky.social
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.
hieronymous.bsky.social
Nobody is funding the development of it.
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richraho.bsky.social
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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utopia-defer.red
anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide
larrrrrry.bsky.social
her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character
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cstross.bsky.social
On pedocon theory: why movement conservativism is inextricably entwined with paedophilia (and why the POTUS is probably a paedophile too):
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/
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phoebe11.bsky.social
Money over Integrity!
hieronymous.bsky.social
Are we fucking everything before or after covering everything with Mac and cheese
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prospect.org
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign shows that democratic socialists can win support from all corners. The tens of thousands of DSA members turning out to canvas in NYC “are not only Zohran Mamdani’s socialists; they’re Michael Harrington’s socialists, too.” From Harold Meyerson: trib.al/xAWFNLZ
The Rift in American Socialism
Today on TAP: Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.
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