Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

Things that people will always mention in conversation (with an important addition): - went Harvard Yale Princeton - am a doctor lawyer - "live in Berkeley" (addition)

Day four without salad. Morale is low.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but there were Roman soldiers from Africa in York England and on Hadrian's Wall, so, anyway...

Feeling great about my decision to not care about Wordle.

The best to ever do it! 🩵💙🩵

DJ Mike V@djmikev.bsky.social · 3w ago

Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou Linda Ronstadt is celebrating a birthday today! I still love this version of the Roy Orbison/Joe Melson track. What a voice! #LindaRonstadt #MusicBirthday #MusicSky #MusicCover #RoyOrbison #BlueBayou youtu.be/Kp9G0zkorio?...

Apropos something… it’s time to bring back my “Concerning Racism” in Tolkien fandom and scholarship piece: journals.tolkiensociety.org/mallorn/arti...

It's because that's his name!!!

Joe Yerdon@joeyerdon.bsky.social · 3w ago

Telemundo referring to David Beckham as “Spice Boy” has made my day

Andy Serkis has made some very ignorant remarks, and it seems like this blog post may (unfortunately) be relevant again: luke-shelton.com/2022/02/12/w...

Why Calling Tolkien’s Work “A Mythology for England” is Wrong and Misleading

The idea that Tolkien wanted to create a ‘mythology for England’ is still a popular notion among fans, and it needs to be clarified (and, to be frank, popularized) that this is no longer the prevai…

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A good vibe can even come out of Oklahoma! Exhibit A:

Westerns & the Old West@davidlambertart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Happy Birthday to the great Woody Guthrie, born Woodrow Wilson Guthrie 114 years ago today

In true Silmarillion fashion for #TolkienTrewsday - there were no horses to help the Noldor on the Helcaraxë, but Fëanor found room for them on the ships.

Pauline Baynes forever!!!

Brian Weaver@brianitguy.bsky.social · 3w ago

The grey mare of Farmer Giles of Ham illustrated by #PaulineBaynes #TolkienTrewsday #Tolkien

Kids going to school in the dark for four months what could go wrong?!?

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

The House overwhelmingly voted to pass a bill to make daylight saving time permanent

people angry about a movie based on a 2800-year-old poem should be forced to go to war for ten years and then take another ten to get home

Thomas More: complicated. So true so true.

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sir Thomas More, 1527. A complicated character, here brilliantly portrayed by Hans Holbein whose day is today.

Yes two yeares bitwene seasouns ys bad but ymagine finisshinge *The Iliad* and *The Odyssey* and then havinge to wayte about seven hundrede and a halfe yeares for *The Aeneid*

Two octogenarian scholars at IMCLeeds overheard us talking about someone getting their DPhil at Oxford on Tolkien. Their response: - "I didn't know one could get a DPhil in Tolkien" (derogatory) - "quite"

Plese repost & share! Teachinge or studyinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level? Heere ys a free, open access, scholar-creatid resource: #OA #OER opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

S/O to the young woman on my 8 hour flight who never for a moment stopped shaking her leg up and down rapidly enough to shake the entire row. True commitment.

Patti Lupone the woman that you are!

HJ Heinz and Co. of Pittsburgh PA has 24 hours to respond:

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Huh! Well, these actually are like my favorite pickles already, so... that's good to know? 👍 www.witn.com/2026/06/29/m...

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As we enter prime VBS (Vacation Bible School) season, please remember that the trauma is real and be kind to yourself.

Alternatively known as "Kitty myrtles" in my world.

Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is called "trilling" and it's the sweetest sound in the world. 😻 TT: harryandlippy

Tolkien at Kzoo paper went well, despite my 2am arrival! "we who endured the Grinding Ice." 🥶🧊💙 #FirstAgeBestAge

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Narratyves of inevitable acceptance of technologye Are an ideological tool

Scholars yn the humanityes who are at prestigious institutions and who have clout and reache sholde be usinge everye single minute of their tyme to protecte programs at less prestigious institutions. Ther sholde be a moratorium on researche until the futures of their fieldes are safe.

Two of the greatest comments from student evals over the years: 1. "fled is that music. Do I wake or sleep?" 2. "To dance beneath the diamond sky w/ one hand waving free." 3. Keep the naughty Earl (Earl of Rochester).