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Hieronymous J Doom

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Two of my sister's cats trying quite hard to occupy the exact same space.

Two small black cats curled up together on a yellow blanket where there isn't really space for both of them.

October 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM

Hieronymous J Doom

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Look everyone! The lizardman is capable of basic empathy! A millionaire experiencing the bare minimum you would expect from a functioning human is somehow news!

Picture of William Windsor looking sad on the BBC website. The headline reads: William visibly moved as widow tells of husband's suicide

October 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM

Hieronymous J Doom

@hjdoom.bsky.social

Searching for guidance on a crossword clue with 9 letters and the AI summary excels itself by providing 9 nine different answers and not a single one actually has 9 letters. How is Google this fucking shit all the time now?

• Al Overview
Two prominent Russian cities with nine letters in their English names are Vladivostok and Murmansk. Vladivostok is a large port city in the Russian Far East, while Murmansk is a major port city north of the Arctic Circle.
Here are some other 9-letter Russian city names:
• Belgorod
• Birobidzhan
• Novokuznetsk
• Pyatigorsk
• Ulan-Ude
• Yakutsk
• Yekaterinburg

October 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM

Hieronymous J Doom

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Good news! Someone killed and pickled Elsa and The Hulk and now you can buy their tiny corpses in a corner shop.

Terrifying jars filled with an unknown fluid with a sort of chibi Elsa and Hulk in them.

October 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM

Hieronymous J Doom

@hjdoom.bsky.social

Pleasantly gynocentric depiction of The Universe in a copy of Hildegard of Bingen’s mystical theology.

The world is surrounded by a field of stars and a border of divine flame in this medieval illustration. It looks like a vagina with the flames forming a halo of blond public hair. There’s a clitoris and everything.

October 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM

Hieronymous J Doom

@hjdoom.bsky.social

Self-storage liminality.

September 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM

Hieronymous J Doom

@hjdoom.bsky.social

Turns out if you believe in yourself and train hard amazing things are possible. I'd like to thank all the people who have supported me along the way. Top of the world Ma! TOP OF THE WORLD!

A packet of Seabrook Worcester Sauce flavour crisps that are all that stands between me and total mental collapse.

September 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM

Hieronymous J Doom

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This rubber band ball is made entirely out of rubber bands from Aldi spring onions. It is arguably the greatest accomplishment of my life.

I don’t know what to tell you. It’s a rubber band ball made entirely out of blue rubber bands. It’s maybe three cm across.

September 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM

Hieronymous J Doom

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Seen lurking by the side of a gate while taking my brother’s dog for a walk. Later a man asked if I was local and nodded to himself when I said I wasn’t.

A naked manikin in the form of a child looms out of the darkness on a country lane. Is that another shadowy figure behind it?

August 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM

Hieronymous J Doom

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Look we’ve all been there. Suck it up and get out there and gorilla.

A comic panel. In the foreground a man wearing the bottom half of a gorilla costume looks down sadly. Behind him there is a poster bearing the legend ‘Fred Pearson in The Great Gorilla’ beneath a picture of a gorilla. There’s a sticker over the top reading ‘3rd big year’. The sad man, clearly the lead in the show. He says: I’VE BEEN PLAYING THE MAIN ROLE IN THIS SHOW FOR TOO LONG! I FEAR IT’S DONE SOMETHING TO ME… SOMETHING TERRIBLE!

July 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM

Hieronymous J Doom

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Asking the important questions.

Additional questions from a Google search query.

His many panopticons are there in Lancashire?
What is the panopticon controversy?

July 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM

Hieronymous J Doom

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Love this gem about threatening to become an actor if he didn’t get paid.

George Soane tried to extort money from his father in March 1814 by demanding £350 per annum, and claiming he would otherwise be forced to become an actor. (Wikipedia)

July 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM

Hieronymous J Doom

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Draw your own conclusions.

A black cat sprawled on a rug looking to one side like something has caught his attention. It hasn’t he’s just waiting for the next thought to arrive. It will be a long wait. He is lying on his right side in defiance of science.

July 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM

Hieronymous J Doom

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Good news! I wrote an additional verse of Highwayman by The Highwaymen positing that the unnamed narrator reincarnated into Rod Hull.

I was Rod Hull, the British public I did charm
With an emu on my arm
Many an actor was assaulted by that bird
Causing chaos but he never said a word
I fell off a bungalow because the roof was wet
But I will linger yet

July 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM

Hieronymous J Doom

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Currently reading The Occult Elvis: The Mystical and Magical Life of the King by Miguel Conner. It’s early days but it’s every bit as mad as I could have hoped.

Cover of The Occult Elvis by Miguel Conner.

June 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM

Hieronymous J Doom

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From Richard Stark's Parker novel Flashfire written in 2000. Always nice to see someone throwing shade at Trump before it was fashionable.

Inherited money was best, which almost went without say-ing, though Lesley did say it, indirectly, more than once.
Married money was okay, second best, which was why people here didn't inquire too much into new spouses Pasts. Earned money was barely acceptable, and then only if it acknowledged its inferiority, and absolutely only if it wasn't being earned anymore. 'Donald Trump never fit in here,' Lesley said, having pointed out Mar-a-Lago, which for many years had belonged to Mrs Merriweather Post, who definitively did fit in here, and which after her death had been for years a white elephant on the market - nobody's inherited money, no matter how much of it there was, could afford the upkeep of the huge sprawling place
- until Trump had grabbed it up, expecting it to be his entrée to Palm Beach, misunderstanding the place, believing Palm Beach was about real estate, like New York, never getting it that Palm Beach was about money you hadn't earned.
I should be pleased Mr Trump took over Mar-a-Lago, Lesley said, I think we should all be pleased, because we certainly didn't want it to turn into Miss Havisham's wedding cake out there, but to be honest with you, I think a place must be just a little déclassé if Donald Trump has even heard of it.'

June 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM

Hieronymous J Doom

@hjdoom.bsky.social

We're all just training our large language models/entertainment today isn't worth paying for but you still need to blot the world out somehow/it somehow costs £1000 a year to watch every premier league game in the UK/stealing from Disney should be made legal as recompense for Iron Man 2.