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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺

@thraexbarbatus.bsky.social

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E: he, him. L: is, eius. Classical philologist. Mediocre swordsman. I write when I can. Latin, myth, Star Wars, Tolkien, Left.

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 1h

It's giving

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 10h

When has an outrageously costly adventure in Syracuse ever gone wrong before?

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 23h

The federal government might be a shitshow, but today I got a request for a document from a state government turned around in just over an hour after they told me it would take 5-15 business days, so that's nice.

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 1d

"No, officer, I'm just a huge fan of very cold water. This isn't an abbreviation for anything."

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 2d

And Adobe's always making the reader worse and worse

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 2d

So how far can we push this reverse psychology? If non-republicans protested in favor of something he was doing would he stop it? Or does it only work if it was a thing he was already thinking?

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

everyone: we don’t want kings

rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king

the entire trump administration:

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 2d

For the record, yes, from a left-wing perspective, obviously he sucks. But from the right? Is that all it took to make them so mad?

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 2d

Retrospectively, we should have been very concerned that people felt so strongly about hating Joe Biden that they would purchase decorations to their cars and houses to that effect. Like, what did he do to you aside from beating your guy in an election to make you feel this way? Anything?

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 3d

Have fun No Kingsing without me, comrades. I'm trapped at home under a pile of grad school reading. The good news is that it'll enable me to covertly bring woke to the teens by smuggling it in under the Freirean notion of "conscientização".

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 3d

a drawing of a cartoon character grinch with horns

Alt: Blue Grinch ("Blinch" to his friends) thinking about how knee surgery is tomorrow

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 4d

Formal logic expert who also bakes, call him the Proofmaster

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 4d

a man with a tattoo on his chest is sitting in a dark room .

Alt: Drax the Destroyer from Guardians of the Galaxy standing so still that he's invisible while eating a zargnut

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 4d

A "Teen Comix" strip:
Panel 1: A teen wears a shirt reading "No Kings" while a friend waves at him
Panel 2: The friend's shirt is revealed to say "The UK is still a monarchy".
Panel 3: The first teen's shirt now reads "One King"

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 5d

D&D idea: have the monsters brag about the mechanics of their powers and defenses like anime villains

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 8d

Oh yeah I remember him from Batman Forever when I watched it this summer.

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 9d

I don't think a humidifier and a dehumidifier in the same room would cause an explosion, but they COULD become a whimsically inefficient method of wireless water transfer if you're just a few feet short of hoses or pipes.

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 10d

I never have been a religious believer and I don't intend to change that, but I would happily stand with these priests and call them friends in opposition to any other atheists who support ICE. Some beliefs are more important than the theistic question.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10d

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.”

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 10d

Geordi meme in which Geordi, labeled as "Alexander Fleming", rejects "cancel culture" while approving "penicillin"

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 10d

Bill Nighy the Acting Guy-y

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 11d

Precision engineered to kill any diabetics who wander inside

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 12d

Well I just think it's also cool that it's Shakespeare-compatible.

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 12d

Friendly reminder that the verses of this song are in iambic pentameter

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 12d

Have we tried explaining to people who think "Nazi is short for National Socialist so they must be socialists" that Antifa is short for Anti-fascist so they must be against fascism?

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 12d

youtu.be/IDl3oehGhLc?...

Neil Cicierega - Imma Let It Be

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 12d

As some Roman dude probably said, "Quis pollinget ipsos pollinctores?"