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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm so glad that even in this AI era, human ingenuity is still expanding our moral horizons.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No, you're correct, this one is arguably even better than

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of the interesting things about Trump's America is that virtually anyone who has *literally any moral beliefs at all* eventually ends up bitterly opposed to Trump. Hence stuff like Resistance Liberal Bill Kristol or Kamala Supporter Liz Cheney.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Right, yeah. Nationalize Indeed and then require a one-time account registration fee to post jobs or apply. Say,

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"why are Americans against their electric bills doubling to feed a robot that also takes their job"

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sunday Night Dinner: pork tenderloin with cumin and coriander and banana-date chutney, after an old Cook's Illustrated recipe (pork, cumin, coriander, dates, apple vinegar, butter, red onions, garlic, ginger, brown sugar, curry powder, diced jalapeno, banananananananas)

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Saturday Night skillet: slightly mangled cacio e pepe with bacon (parmesan, romano, black pepper, spaghetti).

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sunday Dinner! Lamb, beef, and apricot tagine with carrots, chickpeas, olives, lemon zest, cumin, coriander, cinnamon, cardamom, tomato paste, over pearl couscous, with cilantro garnish

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'm gonna recommend that everyone check out The Thaumaturge, a disco-like CRPG from a couple years ago. You're a wizard in 1905 revolutionary Poland and you collect and battle demons like they were Pokemon. Gameplay is solid, writing is good, aesthetic and vibes are absolutely fabulous

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Sunday Dinner: Shrimp Etouffee! Made a shrimp stock from the shells and tails, then separately a bacon fat roux, toasted celery, onions, bell peppers, garlic, tony chachere's, Worcestershire, diced tomatoes, then added back in the shrimp broth and four pounds of the shrimps, serve over rice

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Anyone who wants good Robin Hood right now just read Howard Pyle BotM August: THE MERRY ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD by Howard Pyle - The Something Awful Forums share.google/opFols6b3oMY...

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Best book club discount card of all time

Waldenbooks "Otherworlds Club" card, which gave a lifetime discount after a one-time purchase of the card

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

There is no remedy. It's a broken egg.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Saturday Night Dinner: Avgolemono Soup! From scratch: twelve eggs, eight lemons, dill, carrots, onions, celery, and a rotisserie chicken. Two big personal triumphs: first was using the rotisserie chicken carcass to make stock for the base of the soup, second successfully blending in the eggs.

Blue and White "Calamityware" china bowl filled with avgolemono soup, topped with dill, and a silver soup spoon.

Marseille Blue Le Creuset dutch oven filled with delicious avgolemono (egg-lemon) soup

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The world *does* need a period-accurate adaptation of Mary Renault's _The King Must Die_, tho

Artistic reproduction of accurate, fully tits-out Minoan culture

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Oh look another one of these "best book" lists www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Indy, very importantly, *dresses well*. One of the last male stars to really suit up on screen in major roles.

Indiana Jones in his classroom tweed suit for teaching

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Made Chef Boyardee's original pasta recipe, following www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/chef... Tasted like I remember it tasting from childhood, not how it tastes from the can today. The noodles had a special distinctive textured bite. Not a complex recipe but nothing wrong with it at all.

sphaghetti with tomato sauce in a blue and white china bowl

Le Creuset dutch oven filled with spaghetti sauce on an oven top next to a demeyere pot containing spaghetti and a wooden spoon

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The actual sad-funny thing about this is that the Somethingawful forums have an ongoing, still-active thread posted originally by Vilerat. It's about trying to fight bullshit right-wing email forwards. forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...

"We all have those crazy family members who feel it’s their duty to forward on every single ridiculous piece of political garbage that hits their inbox to everybody on their mailing list. Unfortunately every time we see another email from granny it’s a 50/50 chance it’s either a rundown of how their day went with pictures or some terrible forwarded chain letter that usually describes Obama as a baby eating Nazi Jew who will put granny in a death camp while swallowing your soul. Many of us probably even set up their computer enabling this and a good chunk wish we could go back and maybe write them hand written letters some more so they wouldn’t feel they had to get the internet in order to keep track of the family.
Oh well, damage done.

This thread is going to serve two purposes:

A. A repository of all the crazy we get emailed so we can laugh at them.
B. A place for you to write out thoughtful “canned” responses to mail back so maybe, just maybe, some of them can be reached with logic and reason.

Oh well at least we can still have some laughs.

~How this works~

If you receive an email from granny that is one of your typical lunatic fw:fw:FW:You won't believe this but it's true!!! style emails we want you to post them in this thread. We'll all have a good laugh at them but more importantly some of you will write out a reasoned cited response which we will then link in the OP. People will inevitably get the same email since these go around in cycles and you'll then have a ready response for when you inevitably get the same one in your email."

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Sunday Dinner: lamb shank tagine with sweet potatoes, cumin, coriander, cinnamon, diced tomatoes, lime, over couscous

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Grilled Cheese Saturday! Swiss, provolone, mustard, pickle relish, and lightly fried beef slices on "Cheesecake Factory" brown bread

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Saturday Supper: Irish Stew of lamb, bacon, and potatoes, after @tastinghistory.bsky.social

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This, and also, very often, not only are they not leftists, they aren't even people!

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This is my daily driver these days.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

People really need to start operating from the presumption that if it looks like a wrecker, it's a wrecker

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

"The time changed in the night," murmured Fred. / "And now it is different instead: / "Is it early, or late? Should I hurry, or wait?" / "Perhaps I should go back to bed."

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I've been going *deep* into dwarf fortress after the Seige Update made "star fort" style designs practicable. Here's a video of a full scale goblin seige with a demon and a cave dragon running full tilt into this fully armed and operational battle station. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jcx...

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We have done this to ourselves. The prisoner's dilemma is not a hypothetical but rather the governing law of our lives. We must love and trust each other or perish.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Sunday Dinner! Sage Sausage and Cannellini Bean Soup with shredded Parmesan, grilled bacon egg and cheddar sandwich on the side

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Saturday Night Soup: Mulligatawny! Apples, carrots, onions, diced tomatoes, red lentils, curry powder, garam masala, coconut milk, and a rotisserie chicken

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