Athie Gnome
@athiegnome.bsky.social
Trans fem gnome, ✡️, interested in talking about trans experiences, Judaism, social science/data science, and your insights!
What Musk puts forward isn't just a misreading of Tolkien; it's a worldview that the narrative actively considers and rejects. This is the perspective of Boromir, and this view leads to Boromir's corruption and fall.
I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
November 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What Musk puts forward isn't just a misreading of Tolkien; it's a worldview that the narrative actively considers and rejects. This is the perspective of Boromir, and this view leads to Boromir's corruption and fall.
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All the pundits and news outlets that bought into these schmucks’ transparent nonsense about antisemitism at the Ivies should reflect for a few minutes on how badly and easily they were played.
1. A watershed moment.
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
All the pundits and news outlets that bought into these schmucks’ transparent nonsense about antisemitism at the Ivies should reflect for a few minutes on how badly and easily they were played.
I'm sure it's good and valid that sports leagues in the U.S. have partnered in depth with gambling operations, and it's probably just growing pains that a major U.S. league is currently seeing its integrity called into question because of infiltration by the literal mafia.
October 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I'm sure it's good and valid that sports leagues in the U.S. have partnered in depth with gambling operations, and it's probably just growing pains that a major U.S. league is currently seeing its integrity called into question because of infiltration by the literal mafia.
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"According to the government’s case, the defendants’ all-black clothing, handheld radios, and use of encrypted messaging apps serve as evidence, not of their being security-conscious protesters in a period of escalating political repression but, rather, of being members of a 'militant enterprise'."
These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump’s War Against “Antifa”
If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.
truthout.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"According to the government’s case, the defendants’ all-black clothing, handheld radios, and use of encrypted messaging apps serve as evidence, not of their being security-conscious protesters in a period of escalating political repression but, rather, of being members of a 'militant enterprise'."
I think this ought to be pretty uncontroversial. People comfortable connecting themselves with Naziism can certainly grow and change, but they don't need to be senators. Leadership isn't for everyone, right?
Also it doesn’t matter.
Nazi tattoo = NOT THE CANDIDATE FOR US SENATE
WTF Murphy.
Nazi tattoo = NOT THE CANDIDATE FOR US SENATE
WTF Murphy.
October 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I think this ought to be pretty uncontroversial. People comfortable connecting themselves with Naziism can certainly grow and change, but they don't need to be senators. Leadership isn't for everyone, right?
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Also it doesn’t matter.
Nazi tattoo = NOT THE CANDIDATE FOR US SENATE
WTF Murphy.
Nazi tattoo = NOT THE CANDIDATE FOR US SENATE
WTF Murphy.
October 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Also it doesn’t matter.
Nazi tattoo = NOT THE CANDIDATE FOR US SENATE
WTF Murphy.
Nazi tattoo = NOT THE CANDIDATE FOR US SENATE
WTF Murphy.
This account is pro-Nazi Buddhism content. Weird stuff, we're seeing some things these days. Thanks, Platner, I guess.
It doesn't matter lol. The modal american probably has a nazi or nazi-adjacent tattoo or knows someone who does
October 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This account is pro-Nazi Buddhism content. Weird stuff, we're seeing some things these days. Thanks, Platner, I guess.
Interesting that Jacobin regards antifascism as "wokeness." I do not understand the apparently magnetic appeal of Nazi dudes for some segments of society. We need deep change in our path as a community.
Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.”
But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
Democrats Cynically Wield “Wokeness” Against Graham Platner
Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.” But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
jacobin.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Interesting that Jacobin regards antifascism as "wokeness." I do not understand the apparently magnetic appeal of Nazi dudes for some segments of society. We need deep change in our path as a community.
In a functional world, the $2 billion quid pro quo pardon of crypto criminal CZ would lead to presidential impeachment and removal all by itself.
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
In a functional world, the $2 billion quid pro quo pardon of crypto criminal CZ would lead to presidential impeachment and removal all by itself.
People want to talk about whether Graham's "transformation" and "apology" can be accepted. A key point is that he didn't come forward with his recent homophobic past of his own account. He had hidden this and didn't take accountability until forced to do so. This doesn't give authenticity.
There's lots of homophobia in Platner's posts, including from a few years ago. #mepolitics
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits using ‘indefensible’ antigay slurs in unearthed Reddit posts. www.advocate.com/politics/gra...
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits using ‘indefensible’ antigay slurs in unearthed Reddit posts. www.advocate.com/politics/gra...
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits using ‘indefensible’ antigay slurs in unearthed Reddit posts
"Today I find that stuff abhorrent," Platner told The Advocate. "And I am sorry that I ever used it.”
www.advocate.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
People want to talk about whether Graham's "transformation" and "apology" can be accepted. A key point is that he didn't come forward with his recent homophobic past of his own account. He had hidden this and didn't take accountability until forced to do so. This doesn't give authenticity.
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I always thought, "Well, of course, they had to execute John Brown." But yesterday—AND I'M SORRY I FORGOT WHO—someone noted we didn't execute Robert E. Lee, and I'm really embarrassed that I never made that connection before.
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I always thought, "Well, of course, they had to execute John Brown." But yesterday—AND I'M SORRY I FORGOT WHO—someone noted we didn't execute Robert E. Lee, and I'm really embarrassed that I never made that connection before.
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I’m not going to rant about this. We’ve seen enough
Young Republican Nazis
October 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I’m not going to rant about this. We’ve seen enough
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we are not cannon fodder for "revolutionary fantasies" any more than sylvia rivera was cannon fodder for queer liberation. we are its beating heart. every trans person is proof that humanity can know itself better, can express its joy, can live authentically and with intent. we ARE a revolution.
October 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
we are not cannon fodder for "revolutionary fantasies" any more than sylvia rivera was cannon fodder for queer liberation. we are its beating heart. every trans person is proof that humanity can know itself better, can express its joy, can live authentically and with intent. we ARE a revolution.
If a rabbi is thrown out of a study hall but lands such that one of his feet is within 50 cubits of the study hall and the other is farther, do I get to keep the rabbi?
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
"Yirmeya raises a dilemma:"
"Yirmeya raises a dilemma:"
"by Joseph Kohen-Zedek"
October 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
If a rabbi is thrown out of a study hall but lands such that one of his feet is within 50 cubits of the study hall and the other is farther, do I get to keep the rabbi?
Institutions need to be a broad, collective project or they just mean nothing. You can't look at them like an economics problem; if people are all approaching institutions in a spirit of self-interest, it's all already over. A functioning society needs community.
No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.
October 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Institutions need to be a broad, collective project or they just mean nothing. You can't look at them like an economics problem; if people are all approaching institutions in a spirit of self-interest, it's all already over. A functioning society needs community.
People need to be taking Fuentes more seriously. The guy is the smartest, most competent leader the American far right has had in a long time (Trump definitely included). The danger level here is as high as it gets.
Not the least surprised by this. I’d hope it might finally wake up some mainstream libertarians to what Smith is really about. But it probably won’t.
October 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
People need to be taking Fuentes more seriously. The guy is the smartest, most competent leader the American far right has had in a long time (Trump definitely included). The danger level here is as high as it gets.
People who support Gavin Newsom are risking the end of the Democratic Party, just like Starmer is doing to Labour.
he's a yank keir starmer with shit hair.
October 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
People who support Gavin Newsom are risking the end of the Democratic Party, just like Starmer is doing to Labour.
The current Secretary of Defense did serve in the military. He guarded people in Guantanamo, acted as a civil affairs officer, and taught a class at a school.
No wonder he's an expert in hard-core macho war-fighting. Because he avoided it, like any reasonable person.
No wonder he's an expert in hard-core macho war-fighting. Because he avoided it, like any reasonable person.
October 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The current Secretary of Defense did serve in the military. He guarded people in Guantanamo, acted as a civil affairs officer, and taught a class at a school.
No wonder he's an expert in hard-core macho war-fighting. Because he avoided it, like any reasonable person.
No wonder he's an expert in hard-core macho war-fighting. Because he avoided it, like any reasonable person.
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John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine
October 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine
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The compact is an effort to turn that around, to create new terms of engagement with universities in which DOJ has the trump card of saying "well, you violated our compact, so now you've agreed we can take away all federal funds from you, and more."
Nobody but Liberty University should sign this.
Nobody but Liberty University should sign this.
October 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The compact is an effort to turn that around, to create new terms of engagement with universities in which DOJ has the trump card of saying "well, you violated our compact, so now you've agreed we can take away all federal funds from you, and more."
Nobody but Liberty University should sign this.
Nobody but Liberty University should sign this.
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This can take the form of focusing on specific behaviors rather than the animating conflict. For example, if one was trying to get rid of a polite transphobe, one could point to his history of frivolous legal threats instead of trying to explain to the unconvinced he's a transphobe.
October 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This can take the form of focusing on specific behaviors rather than the animating conflict. For example, if one was trying to get rid of a polite transphobe, one could point to his history of frivolous legal threats instead of trying to explain to the unconvinced he's a transphobe.
The person you're discussing made his entire career out of harassing people. It's entirely what he's known for. If you're saying that doesn't change minds, and you're defending him, does that mean you agreed with him from the start?
Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.
October 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The person you're discussing made his entire career out of harassing people. It's entirely what he's known for. If you're saying that doesn't change minds, and you're defending him, does that mean you agreed with him from the start?
A single case study with countless treatments and unmeasured confounding. What's not to learn?
Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?
The real scientific insights from Bryan Johnson’s immortality quest
Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?
www.newscientist.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A single case study with countless treatments and unmeasured confounding. What's not to learn?
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Right now, coming out as trans doesn’t end the fight. It often begins it.
But it also begins life.
And life, once claimed, grows louder than any attempt to erase it.
But it also begins life.
And life, once claimed, grows louder than any attempt to erase it.
October 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Right now, coming out as trans doesn’t end the fight. It often begins it.
But it also begins life.
And life, once claimed, grows louder than any attempt to erase it.
But it also begins life.
And life, once claimed, grows louder than any attempt to erase it.
There are a whole variety of areas like this. The US right now is the walking dead. Policy decisions already made have determined an outcome worse than any in American living memory. It just hasn't quite happened yet. So we get to watch people carry on until the curtain call.
US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
September 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
There are a whole variety of areas like this. The US right now is the walking dead. Policy decisions already made have determined an outcome worse than any in American living memory. It just hasn't quite happened yet. So we get to watch people carry on until the curtain call.