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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Not sure I'm following you, Mel.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I'm imagining the awkward conversations in the meeting when they were deciding on what glyphs to use. 😏

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

But I kinda love this idea! I'm just starting to get into Dolmenwood, & something I recently read mentions that one who levels into nobility (not born into a noble house) might or might not ever be fully accepted. These genetic characteristics could be a way Breggle sniff out the "nouveau riche."

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Now that I think of it, how long has this narrative been out there? The first time I remember being called a paid protester by Right-wing Media was during Dubya's administration.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Right? I keep wondering when those fat Soros checks are going to drop. These bags of room-temperature cat vomit have been calling me a "paid protester" for *years,* and I've yet to see a single penny.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

@stefanmilo.bsky.social Just watched your "bread loaf idol" video (excellent work, as usual ... thank you). Has anyone compared these to medieval "split tally sticks"? They were a fairly popular way of formalizing contracts by breaking a stick so that each party to the agreement could keep half.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This seems like a wonderful gesture. At least some 15 US scientists will be able to continue their work. It's not many, compared to the harm Trump is doing, but if more of this comes from other institutions it should mitigate some harm.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Y'all give Tony some feedback on this, please. I'm hoping to benefit from the answers he gets.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Both, indeed. In related news, I suspect it's because the people who wanted the info can't get security clearance.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/01/2025

We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation. We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Credit @alli.gay @erininthemorning.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social @miralazine.bsky.social @lizsaila.bsky.social

A screenshot of a multi‐column table listing several U.S. presidential Executive Orders relating to LGBTQ+ rights and antidiscrimination policies. Each row has columns for “Origin” (POTUS), “Number/Identifier” (e.g., EO 13988), “Title” (such as Preventing and Combating Discrimination…), “Action Type” (e.g., Broad Nondiscrimination, Military Nondiscrimination), “Summary” (key points of each order), and “Date Signed.” The listed orders span from early 2021 through early 2025, covering topics like preventing discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, banning conversion therapy, rescinding prior harmful EOs, and restricting or expanding DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives.

A spreadsheet at the top shows columns tracking anti‐LGBTQ bills by status and year: total bills (334), 2025 bills (327), 2024 rollovers (7), how many passed committees (3), passed one chamber (5), passed both chambers (0), enacted (1), vetoed (0), failed (3), and carried forward (0). Below that, another header row lists different types of anti‐LGBTQ legislation (e.g., gender‐affirming care bans, pronoun bans, “Don’t Say Gay,” drag bans, bathroom bans) with the total count of each category (e.g., 55 for gender‐affirming care bans, 20 for pronoun bans, 14 for “Don’t Say Gay,” etc.). A color‐coded U.S. map spans the lower half, with states shaded from light orange to deep red according to how many anti‐LGBTQ bills they contain. Texas appears in the darkest red (46 bills), with lighter shades indicating fewer bills in other states. A note at the bottom right explains that the map shows total tracked bills per state, which does not necessarily reflect each bill’s likelihood of passage.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I very much enjoyed this. Maybe you will, too. What do we owe each other? youtu.be/xWfHyEyRXcU?...

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The Evolution of Absolutely Everything

YouTube video by Curious Archive

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I don't know the situation within his range, but is there a chance he was eating livestock feed? I know water plants are their jam, but how strict is that?

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Indige Tea 🦬🧡 : ✊🏾 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital. You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library. You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library. You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library. You want sourced info? Library.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

When I was teaching undergraduates, I was always gobsmacked by the number of young men (mostly) who wore shorts and flip-flops year round. Yikes!

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Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This, this, this, one thousand times this. And - this paved road wasn't necessary for humans to travel through the forest. It became necessary for humans to GO FAST through the forest. Cars kill everything.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Well, that sure is pretty. I can't tell ... Are those trees sheathed in ice, or is that just how the branches are reflecting the light?

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Just an addendum: I gobbled that book up that same night. Riveting and creepy and full of texture. The creep and the adorable whimsy just can't keep their hands off each other.

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Tiffany Drastic @pdxeleven.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Days without a school shooting: ZERO We made this two years ago. 😐

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WARNING: This video will change you

YouTube video by Eleven Films

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Wait, what‽ Of all the things shit-wits could find in your content to take umbrage at, your gestures are what they've decided to come for? Glad you're greeting this "criticism" with the amused disdain it deserves. Just discovered you through your "Female Character Rules" video. Well done!

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

If it's on the coast of Ireland (any of them), the storm is in progress, gearing up, or brooding on the horizon. Don't fret about the storm.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

We've got to be ready to push back, HARD. The way I see it, our best path forward is to thrash them in 2026. Take the House. Take the Senate. Until then, no rest for any of them. Rs must be opposed and Ds must be flogged into action. If you're more progressive than your local Dems: Run. For. Office!

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Just seeing this. I'll see you tomorrow!

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I'm not on tiktok, and I just found you on Bluesky, but I will come get this book tomorrow, if you still have some in stock!

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I'm with you, Peter. In 1979 I turned 13 & discovered DnD. At first, I would tell everyone I met all about it. That didn't last long, though. When the Great Panic™ began I started being careful who was around when I talked about it-especially teachers and parents, but also some other kids. Less fun.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

We wanted to understand what’s going on in South Korea. So we talked to three Joe Rogan listeners at an Arby’s in Harrisburg

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I'm talking about government institutions, of course, but also the media and grassroots organizations as they try to keep people aware and engaged.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Even before the Republicans take office, we're already starting to see TONS of this nonsense from all Trump's announced appointees. This is our reminder that they're going to hit us with an endless firehose of these things in hopes of overwhelming our institutions' ability to deal with them.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

"But despite claims to be 'pro-life,' anti-abortion activists do not care. "Instead, they are on Twitter griping about how comprehensive reproductive health care access 'promotes sexual promiscuity.'" www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...

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Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it

Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Oh, please! This has GOT to happen. Not only is this Olympic-level trolling, but removing his ability to pardon himself would mean that the precedent wouldn't be set. We'd still ... at the very least ... get to live in a country where no president has ever pardoned himself.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Makes me want to tell her congratulations and get her a graduation gift.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I think seeing this sort of thing is useful for keeping front-of-mind what's at stake in our current sociopolitical moment.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Also, just because I'm curious: Did you notice how the head was made to accommodate a turning tool (screw driver)? I can see a notch on the side but the angle of the photo doesn't show the top.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Ok! Thank you for the clarification. I guess that falls somewhere between "largely constructed using" and "single bespoke purpose." Something like "repeated bespoke purpose." 😄 Still interesting, though! Looking forward to learning more.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I want to emphasize that I'm not knowledgeable in this topic at all. These are just the thoughts that ran through my mind when I saw your post. In grad school I focused on medieval astronomy writing, if that gives you any idea about what quarter my curiosity comes from. 5/5

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

But if the building in your picture were *largely* constructed using screws, wouldn't that suggest that someone was able to manufacture sufficient numbers of these things cheaply enough to make it practical? And that shank suggests that they'd be using it like we do: to draw two planks together. 4/

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A single wood screw being used for a bespoke purpose wouldn't, I suppose, be all that surprising, since screws have been around since classical antiquity (Archimedes, for example). 3/

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Nails have been around for a long time, of course, but I think that in the middle ages they had to be hand forged, and so they were expensive. 2/

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Sure. I'm less confused than surprised. My knowledge here is sharply limited, and I'm very much eager to be educated by you. I've always been under the impression that construction joinery was usually accomplished with joints (like mortise and tenon, for example) augmented by pegs/trennels. 1/

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

We sure have. One of those bodies is about to be overseen by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 🤢 Now we need to come up with a system that prevents these great ideas from being hijacked by sociopaths.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This is cool. Eagerly awaiting more.

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Trey Gorden @dendranthrope.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I'm very interested in this research. "Screw" technology isn't unheard-of in the middle ages. Medieval folks were using this technology to pump water, for armor attachments, and a host of other applications. But wood screws for construction? I haven't heard of that. Look at that shank! Looks modern!

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It is exhausting having to research and figure out everything from black plastics to best ventilation practices to COVID vaccine schedules, I know this is a wild idea but have we thought about creating publicly funded government bodies that could manage and regulate this stuff on our behalf

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