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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 6h

I mean, not many Hapsburgs know what Rock is...

I shall let you draw your OWN conclussions.

Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 6h

OK but if you go to ancestry. Com and put in "pale clone people" I think you're going to find a surprising connection

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 6h

would you say he is a product of

the Laurentian elite?

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 11h

lol that's some bravado

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 11h

We had a 2D Design class where one guy typed something into his word processor, cranked the font up to something ridiculous, and printed it off on 300 pages.

The prof was not impressed by the shallowness of the effort.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 12h

oh shit

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 13h

next question: do they say which startup he's "partnering" with

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 15h

tfw you go out and come back in but everything's still the same

A fawn greyhound laying on a brown couch with his tail curled around him and a weary look on his face

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 15h

to be fair, a lot of US legislation was drafted under the influence of leaded gasoline so it's not a unique problem

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 16h

he better stay out! that place gives you cancer!!

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 16h

wow I didn't know God was californian

The Onion @theonion.com · 16h

Legal Ruling Forces God To Add Cancer Warning To Earth https://theonion.com/legal-ruling-forces-god-to-add-cancer-warning-to-earth/

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 16h

peak midwesterner to get in the car and go "well, you know how Janet is..."

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 16h

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a screencap of my timeline. first post is Matt Zoller Seitz sharing the video of the Portland Frog getting pepper balled by ICE.
directly following that is John Rogers sharing a conversation with his mother that goes as follows
ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 17h

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 17h

well hang on, how soft are these mules?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 21h

idk maybe we shouldn't be selling out most of our sports and entertainment to a country with a litany of human rights abuses

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 1d

'Gaming is the new oil:' How the EA buyout 'diverges from the traditional playbook'

Analysts explain how the high-risk leveraged buyout will impact Electronic Arts and the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 23h

@asterionhex.monster seems like a cool folk horror RPG you and @nullzone.bsky.social would enjoy hosting

Idle Cartulary @idlecartulary.itch.io · 1d

Today, I read Harvest, the game of creeping folk horror. Is this island a place you want to visit, or should you stay well away? Find out! idlecartulary.com/2025/10/09/i...

I Read Harvest

I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually…

idlecartulary.com

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 1d

Evie, I told you not to post about our new Square Root of Zero Grain bread until the executive suite signs off on the final packaging! Evie!!

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

If I was told I couldn’t do a job Meghan McCain did I think I’d become a monk

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 2d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Trash @trash69.bsky.social · 1d

I do think it's terribly funny in a post-ironic sense that the viewer managed to, accidentally, self-insert themselves into the work and experience the themes firsthand. you couldn't pay for that level of metatextual immersion in a semiotics course

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 1d

Again, I cannot emphasize enough how chickenshit corporate "leadership" is. These people have one - and only one - guiding principle: polishing their golden parachutes.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 1d

Blocked another Resistance account that just screenshots popular posts from people like Robert Reich and then reposts them without alt text.

Friends. Stop following and reposting engagement farmers.

It's just a *slightly* more sophisticated spin on the RT If You Agree! grift.

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