Aaron Brown
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Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer –
That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils!
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter:
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...
That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils!
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter:
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...
December 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer –
That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils!
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter:
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...
That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils!
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter:
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...
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Some great festive news. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Wounded Bondi hero Ahmed al-Ahmed recovering well and may soon leave hospital
The 44-year-old has gone through three rounds of surgery in a Sydney hospital since after suffering five gunshot wounds
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Some great festive news. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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people should say bye on the phone in tv shows and movies
Let’s air those grievances. I want to hear your pettiest gripes on this the holiest of days.
December 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
people should say bye on the phone in tv shows and movies
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My favorite historical costume designer is Sandy Powell, and she has an amazing trick that it took me years to realize: Be conservative with color and lean into modern shapes with your hero, and put your villain in the most outrageously period-specific costume you can.
December 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
My favorite historical costume designer is Sandy Powell, and she has an amazing trick that it took me years to realize: Be conservative with color and lean into modern shapes with your hero, and put your villain in the most outrageously period-specific costume you can.
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
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setting up a little camera pointed at the abyss to free up some of my time
December 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
setting up a little camera pointed at the abyss to free up some of my time
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ask and you shall receive (via Evan Rosenfeld over at the other place)
December 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
ask and you shall receive (via Evan Rosenfeld over at the other place)
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Five holly leaves from the same tree 🌳
If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same
Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get
Photo: Emmanuel Lattes
If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same
Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get
Photo: Emmanuel Lattes
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Five holly leaves from the same tree 🌳
If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same
Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get
Photo: Emmanuel Lattes
If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same
Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get
Photo: Emmanuel Lattes
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This was a description (accurate) of ska shows but I read it as being about TNG...
it’s so topsy turvy like up is down! black is white! the trombonist is getting all the pussy!
December 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
This was a description (accurate) of ska shows but I read it as being about TNG...
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Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care.
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care.
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
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OK, I'm going to do my refusing to sell cigarettes to a minor story.
Note first that (whether this is still the case or not I don't know) when I worked in the ciggies kiosk 1, if you were caught selling to underage folks both the store AND the individual got a big fine and 2, the cops would send...
Note first that (whether this is still the case or not I don't know) when I worked in the ciggies kiosk 1, if you were caught selling to underage folks both the store AND the individual got a big fine and 2, the cops would send...
man i have never had as many stupid questions as when i worked at Lush, just thinking about it now and we really put retail workers Through It don't we
December 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
OK, I'm going to do my refusing to sell cigarettes to a minor story.
Note first that (whether this is still the case or not I don't know) when I worked in the ciggies kiosk 1, if you were caught selling to underage folks both the store AND the individual got a big fine and 2, the cops would send...
Note first that (whether this is still the case or not I don't know) when I worked in the ciggies kiosk 1, if you were caught selling to underage folks both the store AND the individual got a big fine and 2, the cops would send...
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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it's good that people who work for ICE are being ostracized by their communities and confronted at their churches. that's actually what living in a society is
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
it's good that people who work for ICE are being ostracized by their communities and confronted at their churches. that's actually what living in a society is
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I think it's actually down to the way in the 1960s Britain caught on to American culture at a bit of a time-lag, plus the breakup of the Beatles. I shall explain in a thread.
I wonder how much of this difference comes from American Christmas being rooted in German culture?
December 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I think it's actually down to the way in the 1960s Britain caught on to American culture at a bit of a time-lag, plus the breakup of the Beatles. I shall explain in a thread.
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You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
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You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
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There is no point in debating someone who says a man taking off his shirt as he sits atop his destroyed vessel is a dangerous act that merits an air strike. That person is lying and will lie no matter what you say. At that point you need to tell him that you know he’s lying.
December 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
There is no point in debating someone who says a man taking off his shirt as he sits atop his destroyed vessel is a dangerous act that merits an air strike. That person is lying and will lie no matter what you say. At that point you need to tell him that you know he’s lying.
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Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
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Most accurate post about Trump remains that Reddit post that was like “Stupid Americans are the new Irish Americans and Trump is their JFK”
*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
December 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Most accurate post about Trump remains that Reddit post that was like “Stupid Americans are the new Irish Americans and Trump is their JFK”
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Just a wholesome sketch with a perfect punchline: www.instagram.com/reel/DR3uPKZ...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just a wholesome sketch with a perfect punchline: www.instagram.com/reel/DR3uPKZ...
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we are lucky that these fascist war criminals are total morons who are clearly going to be unable to install a durable authoritarian regime.
however, if these fascist war criminals do not face serious legal consequences, we will likely not be as lucky with the next round of fascist war criminals
however, if these fascist war criminals do not face serious legal consequences, we will likely not be as lucky with the next round of fascist war criminals
I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
we are lucky that these fascist war criminals are total morons who are clearly going to be unable to install a durable authoritarian regime.
however, if these fascist war criminals do not face serious legal consequences, we will likely not be as lucky with the next round of fascist war criminals
however, if these fascist war criminals do not face serious legal consequences, we will likely not be as lucky with the next round of fascist war criminals
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Steve Cropper was an amazing guitarist. He knew when to play, when to groove. Much more of a lasting influence on me (and I'm sure many, many folk) than early obsessions with Hendrix, Clapton and the like.
I've done a mix highlighting his guitar on Johnnie Taylor's Who's Making Love (right channel)
I've done a mix highlighting his guitar on Johnnie Taylor's Who's Making Love (right channel)
December 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Steve Cropper was an amazing guitarist. He knew when to play, when to groove. Much more of a lasting influence on me (and I'm sure many, many folk) than early obsessions with Hendrix, Clapton and the like.
I've done a mix highlighting his guitar on Johnnie Taylor's Who's Making Love (right channel)
I've done a mix highlighting his guitar on Johnnie Taylor's Who's Making Love (right channel)
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Shared Fantasy, the first sociological monograph about roleplaying games, is about a period when established players are dealing with a new wave of younger players with different priorities. The period is 1978.
A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Shared Fantasy, the first sociological monograph about roleplaying games, is about a period when established players are dealing with a new wave of younger players with different priorities. The period is 1978.