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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

nobody knows plague exists in the US already and can fuck these guys’ shit up

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

put me in coach I’m ready to “play” today

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well that’s where I call it a night.

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

time for some radical acceptance about this baseball team

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Morgoth after the War of Wrath be like:

lol get wrecked n00b

(POV perspective of Morgoth falling into the void with his hands outstretched at the last glimpse of light)

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Part of what to me is the best passage of the book. To come to grips with the dual nature of reality, both utterly wonderous and utterly callous, alters the psyche. For Pip, it destroys reality Ahab, is hardened forever against reality And Ishmael accepts the reality: he is insignificant.

“The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.”

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#newpfp #templeowls turning manifestations into reality via the magic of photo editing

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What started as an innocent visit by a Downy Woodpecker to the Pain household this morning, was removed of all innocence as soon as the Merlin app gave us this handy guide.

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

sorry buddy, they’re going to make you throw your little lunchbox out

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

me when I found out we're forming a shield wall

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

oh, I haven't played TW: attila in a while, lets see what historically accurate mods they have oh, nevermind

mod called age of vikings (that's allegedly good) with vikings bearing the vegvísir on their shields which is attested to the 19th century

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

my people have long guarded the secret of defense against the mummy, we know the one way to properly dispose of their kind

a locomotive firebox being loaded with coal

ps my people are autism

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

they really nailed penn state's defensive scheme this year

vile penn state linebacker committing a blatant facemask against heroic temple halfback

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

mirror universe Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz

beloved retired NBC10 meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz with his bow tie in front of a winter storm map of the Delaware Valley

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I wonder if Tolkien deliberately lined up his Tengwar letter "anga", which when used for English represents the letter j (as in jump), to look like cg, which is how the /dʒ/ sound was written in Old English.

Tengwar letter anga which represents /dʒ/ in English mode.

cg in insular script from the Nowell Codex

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think left/center-left/center/center-right/right is perfectly fine for general use. Like this graphic, it's too deterministic and has too many categories (cropping is deliberate). Also, the right I would say favors capital/privatization and the left favors labor/nationalization.

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

He says what I am trying to say in a much more succinct manner.

Socialism is a very different project. This is not to say that socialists haven't done terrible things. They have. It is not to deny that violence is not a special political tool of the right. It has also been used by the left. Social violence is a serious problem. But to use it as if it were something peculiar to one or the other side, misses the real point. It misses what is different about them, in whose interests, toward what ends are the means used, means that you approve of, means that you don't. Criticize those that you don't, but don't lose sight of what fundamental difference divides the one from the other.

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

googling the sun's orbital inclination and its LLM is spitting out garbage saying "60º to the galactic plane" (which is its axial tilt) LLMs are semantically relating inclination and tilt and cannot distinguish their definitions in astronomy anyway here's our orbit around the galaxy per google

a universe sandbox screenshot showing the sun's obit around the Milky Way at a 60º orbital inclination which would pop the solar system out of the galactic plane for most of its orbit

while this would probably look sick irl it's not real, tldr llms are garbage

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

nothing will ever get between me and my toad best friend

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