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E: he, him. L: is, eius. Classical philologist. Mediocre swordsman. I write when I can. Latin, myth, Star Wars, Tolkien, Left.


Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺's avatar Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social
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I've been undergoing constant exposure to Catholicism in my working life for 8 years, and it is NOT persuasive. Such converts are not the scintillating intellects they make themselves out to be.

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚃𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑's avatar 𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚃𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑 @unfitz.bsky.social
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Saw an AI fireworks show and a guy lost all 7 fingers on one hand.

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Jeph Jacques's avatar Jeph Jacques @ass.golf
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I wish the Grinch would steal the Fourth of July!!!!!!!like and subscribe

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺's avatar Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social
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Ah yes, the "Mechanism diagram of alkaline water treatment for chronic gouty arthritis"

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Hah, raining on the 4th. Get rekt, nationalist fireworks enjoyers.

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Seu, "Quare Latine non loquuntur?" "Quod pauciores homines hoc saeculo intellegere poss--" "VIDETVR MIHI PROBLEMA PERSONALE!"

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"You cast a filthy German as a Roman emperor?" "He's English, actua--" "THAT'S A TYPE OF GERMAN!"

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Media Matters for America's avatar Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺's avatar Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social
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It probably would be good for a lot of politicians to get their ribs broken

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺's avatar Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social
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Oh so I'd have to pay or start all the way over, well that sucks.

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺's avatar Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social
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So after I already played through the base game I can play the expansion stuff without having to re-subscribe?

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺's avatar Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social
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Expanded? That mean they're gonna let me get another free trial?

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Makes me wish it wasn't sub to play because I have too many other games to work on this summer to justify the cost.

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If Rocket Money is a subscription service that tells you when you have subscriptions that you don't need, will it ever tell you that its job is done and you don't need to pay for it any more?

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺's avatar Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social
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Hey where do the people live who pay my service provider to install trash games on my phone without my consent I just wanna talk

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This is precisely a best practice for teaching literacy, including in second languages.

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Maximus wasn't born yet when the Romans were fighting over those cliffs.

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OMG I just watched this episode this week

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As a Latinist, it's all just ablative to me.

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When you're under doctor's orders to always wear [x] when walking around, you gain a level of empathy with Darth Vader having a little nook where he can just take off his apparatus and chill for a spell.

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Finally watching the DBZ movies and I must say I'm loving the trope of having a fever-dream-ass kid Gohan scene in the first act.

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺's avatar Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social
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I totally had SimIsle on CD-ROM as a kid and could not figure out what the fuck to do.

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺's avatar Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social
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ハム He should hang out with へのへのもへじ

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺's avatar Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social
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It's true, two of the most stalwart defenders of Roman values were the Porcii Catones, which is Latin for "Sharp Pigs".

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Why does Zelda look so buff when she's disguised as a man? Protein Sheik

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺's avatar Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social
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Heartbreaking that this is how people say it while also letting the fundie chicken restaurant be pronounced "fillét" when it's clearly spelled to be pronounced "fìlluh".

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺's avatar Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social
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Aw yeah, I've reached the part of Assassin's Creed 2 where in order to continue the story you have to do timed parkour with zero margin of error using the game's shit-ass controls so that you always fall and have to murder civilians to reset the race repeatedly until you uninstall the game in rage.

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The technology might not vanish but for all you know it'll get locked behind a paywall if that's what suits the owners.

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CEO of Sienar Fleet Systems: "Oh yeah, the TIE will maneuver circles around those boats from Incom." Imp Moff: "Great. How many shots from a medium laser cannon will the shields handle?" CEO: "The shwhat?"

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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I want to dig into this, since my book VERY FINE PEOPLE comes out today, and it's in large part about precisely this sort of polemic trickery in service of bullshit apologia of supremacy. There's a sleight of hand at the start that catapults us into a massive lie.

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ChatGPT, write me a five-paragraph essay on the meaning of "boithday"

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I actually say that a lot when teaching high school classes because other things that I might say after "what" might get me fired

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺's avatar Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social
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Rule of driving: everybody with a modicum of patience is behind you already, which is why you never see them on the road.

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Chekhov's Chekov: a Star Trek series will have a protagonist in the main cast whose people were previously regarded as "the enemy".

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*earth-shattering organ solo followed by universe-shattering guitar solo*

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