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Just a regular human guy. Interested in (but not necessarily knowledgeable about) politics, philosophy, religion, neurodiversity, horror, sci-fi & fantasy. Friend to an ageing cat and a diabetic beagle
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I'm working my way through Michael Taft's recorded meditations. I really like the one's on metta because it's like an alternative way of caring about people to my usual way of feeling swamped and suffocated by all the bad stuff in the world! www.youtube.com/live/c9aPmcX...

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Watching the X Files episode where a guy preys on overweight women. Except they're only overweight in the same way that Bridget Jones was supposedly fat

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possum. oil on board, 9x12 inches

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I watched John Wick. Meh...

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Today Jimmy Carter is officially too old to play with Lego

Lego box 
Ages 4-99
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Amazon were quick changing The Woman in Black (1989) from free with Prime to only available to rent or buy. I was half way through!

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Man I totally forgot JD Vance is a tolkien fan and his mentor literally has the identical beliefs to ar-pharazon @dov.bsky.social

Yes, Thiel said, perking up. “There are all these ways where trying to live unnaturally long goes haywire” in Tolkien’s works. But you also have the elves. “And then there are sort of all these questions, you know: How are the elves different from the humans in Tolkien? And they’re basically — I think the main difference is just, they’re humans that don’t die.”


“Why can’t we be elves?” he said.

These few sentences contain drastic misinterpretations of the world Tolkien created, specifically about the natures of elves and men, the differences between them, and the consequences of trying to overcome these natures. It is worth examining each in turn and assessing what these misunderstandings might reveal about Thiel.


Fans of only The Lord of the Rings or its film adaptations, which tell the story of a quest to destroy a ring of great power, the One Ring, created by the Dark Lord
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The Logansport Daily Tribune, Saturday,September 30,1916

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If you have Prime video (in the UK at least), the 1989 version of The Woman in Black, screenplay by Nigel Kneale, is up to watch now. Highly recommended, for one of the best genuinely scary moments you'll find in all of horror, but beyond that, a beautifully made, compelling, and haunting film.

Screenshot of The Woman in Black available to watch on Amazon Prime
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James
@avauntguard.bsky.social
Just a regular human guy. Interested in (but not necessarily knowledgeable about) politics, philosophy, religion, neurodiversity, horror, sci-fi & fantasy. Friend to an ageing cat and a diabetic beagle
70 followers217 following311 posts