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I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose

Drawing of Tolkien characters. Arwen in the center is holding an open Red Book of Westmarch. She is surrounded by Goldberry, Galadriel, Rosie Cotton, and Eowyn

Happy International Women’s Day! ✨

Art featuring some women of the Legendarium: Goldberry, Galadriel, Rosie Cotton, Arwen, and Eowyn! #Tolkien #art

A thumbnail with a selfie from Tolkien scholar Mercury Natis with the label “Tolkien, Queer Theory, and Punk Rock” for the Tolkien Pop podcast

Latest podcast episode with @mercuryreads.bsky.social and it is a nerdy, hopeful, and fun one! 🤘🏼 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Updating: The woman is Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi, a current resident of Skokie who was born in Evanston

Nah, I haven't really dipped my toe into Tolkien scholarship yet. Too intimidated, and haven't read enough of the previous work. Plus it's kinda nice to just attend an event where I don't have to do anything, since I'm always heavily involved in @mythsoc.bsky.social events. 😅

Rogan Calls Trans People “Perverts,” Spreads School Shooting Lies On Show This week, on The Joe Rogan Experience: Steve-O and more anti-trans hate.

1. Yesterday, Joe Rogan called transgender people perverts and school shooters to his audience of tens of millions of people.

It was his most overt display of transphobia yet.

Democrats wanted to court this man and his listeners.

The latest from our journalist, S. Baum.

Progress Report #1 for the upcoming #Mythcon54 is now up at www.mythsoc.org/assets/mythc...

It's shaping up to be a great event! We hope to see you there in person or virtually. Also reminder that the CFP is still open! For CFP details, go to www.mythcon.org

“If, as I believe, a good story is one which can persuade us to face life neither with despair nor with false hopes, then The Lord of the Rings is a very good story indeed.”

W. H. Auden, "Good and Evil in The Lord of the Rings"
#Tolkien

I just registered myself. It would be great to meet you there, and I would happily peruse your wares!

Just normal Tolkien things happening on twitter with this executive of Palantir.

Is this bad? It seems bad.

Tumblr post by mercurialmilk: screenshot of a comment that reads "I guess you could interpret it that way if you wanted something to be upset about" with caption: new reaction image for 'posting something on the internet and having it be wildly misinterpreted'

oh this is becoming a regular in my lexicon

We've got great Nazi-wrecking video games and great superhero games out there... But I wish there were a game where I could play a superhero that just fucks up fascists. Like I want a Spider-Man game where I get to web Nazis to a wall and then hurl manhole covers at them.

Fuck off clanker. No one wants you.

The Valar smile upon you.

FotR, b/c if you're anything like me and don't want to do ugly cry in public, you don't wanna watch RotK. 😅

"Why should I bother to read something you couldn't be bothered to write?"

There are some people I work with where I can very clearly tell when they did and did not use AI to write emails or social media posts. 🤦

Comic making fun of AI in a sad and bitter way

Every now and again I feel obliged to repost David E. Alter Jr's brilliant 1982 pic Bilbo's Great Adventure. Like a cross between a Victorian neo-medieval tapestry and an 8-bit platform game it condenses the whole story of The Hobbit into one image. My fave #Tolkien detail...that awesome little Bard

My review of QUEER APPROACHES TO TOLKIEN (ed. Robin Anne Reid, Christopher Vaccaro, & Stephen Yandell) is out in the open-access Journal of Tolkien Research.

I had a lot of thoughts on this book, mostly very positive! Thankful to Douglas A. Anderson for commissioning this. tinyurl.com/ezbhcxn7

How to live a Merrier Middle-earth Life in 2026 “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” Make your world merrier by mooting with fellow fans in 2026!

Mythcon 54 is featured in this article from TORn on North American Tolkien-related events happening in 2026!

www.theonering.net/torwp/2026/0...

Y'all, why does my hotel room in Philly have a dimmable wizard's staff in it?

A whistleblower just told Congress that ICE is teaching new recruits to violate the Constitution.

They’re telling agents to enter homes and arrest people without a judicial warrant.

This war on our American rights and freedoms has to stop.

Is the secret third thing abolishing the monarchy entirely?

Good to know there are multiple progressive options that aren't beholden to the Israeli lobby.

The ones that are friendly with AIPAC you mean?

A kid with glasses and wearing a backpack, winding up a punch with the caption “POV you just told me there’s only one way to interpret The Lord of the Rings”

POV you just told me there’s only one way to interpret The Lord of the Rings:

I'm just assuming it's a Doctorate in Homeopathy or some other pseudomedicine.