Nome

11 Oct 2024

Time for the best first impression ever, fuck yeah. My name's Nome. I write words. Sometimes people think the words I write are good. See below for my thread of threads of threads - things I've written that I'd like to be able to find or reference, many of them ported over from my time on Twitter.

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️

@arepublic86.bsky.social

13h

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

HEY GUESS WHO FOUND WHERE HIS CAT HAS BEEN GOING TO SECRETLY SPIT UP THE PILLS SHE LET HIM THINK SHE HAD SWALLOWED

CHRIST

LISTEN HERE YOU SMUG SHIT

HEY GUESS WHO FOUND WHERE HIS CAT HAS BEEN GOING TO SECRETLY SPIT UP THE PILLS SHE LET HIM THINK SHE HAD SWALLOWED

@meganimation.bsky.social

THIS CAT IS ACTIVELY TRYING TO KEEP ME FROM SAVING HER LIFE, AND SHE IS VERY GOOD AT IT

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meganimation🍊✨

Replying to @meganimation.bsky.social

during the 2023 WGA strike. a real one.

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meganimation🍊✨

@meganimation.bsky.social

Just found out out I'm speechless. Bauza was the nicest guy... Never acted the big guy around crew even on the smallest productions, dude would show up at muppets just for a bootstrap pizza party, zero ego and so genuine. Didn't know him well but truly shocked to hear this

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Ju-ohn Keeps on Bloodsuckin’ 🚛🧛‍♂️

@johndrew-sky.bsky.social

THERE ARE FOUR KINDS OF BLUESKY USERS!!!

It's a good pumpkin this year.

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Olivia Hill

@machineiv.bsky.social

From the first page of #iHunt The RPG.

Bluesky has four types of users.

Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social

Bluesky has four types of users.

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calamity jenn.

@shehulking.bsky.social

The Bayeux Tapestry was sewn by hand by women almost a thousand years ago and every single fucking horse is different, just like the people are different But sure, AI, what we want is everything to be identical, that’s what we like to look at

Nome@nome.bsky.social

WHY ARE ALL OF THE HORSES IDENTICAL, AND WHY ARE NONE OF THE HORSES WEARING ANY KIND OF ARMOR, IF THESE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE HEAVY CAVALRY?

Better late than fucking never.

Senate Majority PAC@majoritypac.bsky.social

Republicans, they're not like us.

gizmodo.comElon Musk's AI-Generated 'Odyssey' Is Here to Save Western Civilization“Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.”

Literally the first shot of this "historically accurate" Odyssey movie shows a boat that A) Has no steering oar. B) Is under full sail *and* full rowers while entering a cave, presumably to dock inside.

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

I *think* this is supposed to be scale armor (technically possible), and it's wild that a guy wants to wear scale WHILE GETTING READY TO SAIL, but also DOES NOT WANT HIS SCALE ARMOR TO COVER HIS GUTS OR PENIS. THOSE ARE LIKE MY NUMBER ONE AND TWO PLACES ON THE "DON'T GET STABBED" LIST.

Here we see someone wearing a cloak WITH FIBULAE, era appropriate at last, but A) This means it had no excuse to give everyone else celtic brooches, and B) The man next to him is wearing a "cloak" that is actually a sack with a hole for his head as some kind of mantle.

gizmodo.comElon Musk's AI-Generated 'Odyssey' Is Here to Save Western Civilization“Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.”

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

Okay, having been pissed off more by that, I've gone back. There's a long passage that says how many ships each king brings. Odysseus has twelve ships. There are fifteen being loaded with troops and men, here. And so folks know - he likely had Pentaconters, fifty-oared ships like this:

Fair point! Correcting myself, the Penteconter is an archaic greek ship, not a Bronze Age Greek, so this is still anachronistic - we'd be looking at something more like this Minoan ship. Got stuck on the penteconter because Homer says each of Odysseus' ships had ~50 men, as opposed to the ~20 here.

state song thread guy@statesongxprt.bsky.social

do we know if that ship design goes back to the bronze age? ...both of us are putting so much more thought into this than Elon or any of his goons

gizmodo.comElon Musk's AI-Generated 'Odyssey' Is Here to Save Western Civilization“Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.”

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

I am now *two* minutes in.

I SPOKE TO GODDAMN SOON, APPARENTLY SOME OF THEM ARE WEARING THEIR ARMOR ON THE BOAT TRIP, AND ALSO, WHAT IN THE REN FAIRE FUCK IS THIS ARMOR SUPPOSED TO BE?

gizmodo.comElon Musk's AI-Generated 'Odyssey' Is Here to Save Western Civilization“Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.”

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

Also, for some goddamn reason, half of them have their oars in the water.

You're just going to have to take my word for it, but when in motion none of these men are doing anything that makes any goddamn sense if what they're doing is "preparing to leave." At least they're not in fucking armor this time, Elon. But they *are* in tunics, not era appropriate chitons.

gizmodo.comElon Musk's AI-Generated 'Odyssey' Is Here to Save Western Civilization“Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.”

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

But I think it's worth mentioning that Penelope is played by at least four different women, and that's fine, because the people making it could not possibly care about her as a character, just 'hot wife he's gotta get back to.'

These are not Bronze Age Greek Ships. The curving thing, that they want to put at the front and back of the ship? That should only be at the back. What these are, instead, are bronze age Nordic longboats.

gizmodo.comElon Musk's AI-Generated 'Odyssey' Is Here to Save Western Civilization“Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.”

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

Penelope is watching from behind a wooden lattice, that - no surprise here - makes no sense. Has random pieces misalligned. As soon as she steps out from behind it, her skin tone changes, the fire that was lighting her from in front is now behind her, and the lattice has iron rivets or similar.

That's the last "wait what the fuck, ai?" one I'm going to mention, because that way lieth madness. I'm just going to focus on things that stand out to me as glaringly historically inaccurate, as someone with training in history but *none* in the Bronze Age Mediterranean.

gizmodo.comElon Musk's AI-Generated 'Odyssey' Is Here to Save Western Civilization“Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.”

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

Also its horns are in a different position, now. Also, I am less than a minute in to this.

The only owl that looks similar to this in Greece is the European Barn Owl. That owl has a white body, and is (like most owls) Nocturnal. If they wanted an owl to represent Athena, they could have gone with the ONE NAMED AFTER ATHENA, THE LITTLE OWL.

gizmodo.comElon Musk's AI-Generated 'Odyssey' Is Here to Save Western Civilization“Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.”

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

They get full credit for making (I assume) Menelaus red-headed. That's in the text, even if this guy looks German instead of Greek. But then they give him a medieval Celtic Brooch to hold his cloak together, instead of a bronze age Fibula.

It also has his ox suddenly joined by a horse *also* pulling the plough, apparently by magic, because neither of them is wearing a yoke.

gizmodo.comElon Musk's AI-Generated 'Odyssey' Is Here to Save Western Civilization“Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.”

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

@deadlyfredly.bsky.social

It then shows a field being ploughed by what looks like a modern English Longhorn bull, when we know from ancient depictions that bronze aged Greek cattle looked *nothing* like that. And I've got no idea what kind of yoke that is, but it's not the kind that pulls a plough.

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A ton of #iHunt and that's not all for $25? All treat, no trick. itch.io/s/204657/oct...

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️

@trans.bsky.social

rewatching Agatha All Along for the lore

Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️@trans.bsky.social

oh damn the new agatha show gets GAY gay.

An amazing actor, who I remember most for being one of the best Magnificent Bastards on screen, the genial, avuncular, always smiling man who was nonetheless capable of atrocities. Rest in peace to one of the best.

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

I got a chance to meet him and shake his hand at a con - and he was as always charming, and kind, and generous with his time. I'm glad we got a chance to tell him we loved him while he was here.

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Jesse Thorn

@jessethorn.bsky.social

Shape Sender Deluxe ⭐️ by Dead Teapot

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

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@deadteapot.games

Between Tim Sweeney being an absolute AI chud and the harassment of our beloved @kenney.nl, we've decided to cancel our previously announced Epic Games Store release for Shape Sender Deluxe 🚮

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com

I can't believe he's still at it, it's been days

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Jacob Oller

@jacoboller.bsky.social

Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

Important chobani update

Plus: still baby

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okpoke.bsky.social

@okpoke.bsky.social

Lula Goes HARD

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Molly Knight

@mollyknight.bsky.social

Hello darkness my old friend

Daybreak System@daybreak-system.bsky.social

bruh these numbers