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@evanmcdonell.bsky.social

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Former nuclear engineer, current stay-at-home dad, trying to get by in this hellscape. Linguistics, science, politics, and pop culture preferred. Committed anarchist | Devoted Tolkien Fan | Devout sci-fi and fantasy fan. Pen velain pen chîr!

Image of Kiff and Barry looking at the mountain where they must journey to destroy the evil ringlight. It makes sense in context.
Image of a moderator comment on the SCOTUSBlog Love Feed saying “5-4 on the meaning of the Constitution is shockingly close, in my view.”
Ungoliant and the Two Trees by Ted Nesmith The spirit Ungoliant in spider form, devouring the light of the Two Trees in Valinor.
Fictional band Bobby Knight Ranger
Meme from an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which Commander Data casually mentions the Irish Unification of 2024
Tom Bombadil dances through the forest, wearing a buckle hat with a feather and big, yellow boots
Tevildo and Tinúviel by Alan Lee Tinúviel, an elf, is pressed against a pillar in a large hall while an enormous black cat, Tevildo, stalks towards her.
Cover of Ed McBain’s classic detective noir novel, So Nude, So Dead
In June 2019c American anti-vaccination activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Samoa to meet with local anti-vaccination activists including Taylor Winterstein and Edwin Tamanese, whom he called a “medical freedom hero”. Kennedy also discussed vaccines with then-Prime Minister Tuila’epa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi, and campaigned against the [MMR] vaccine on social media.
Tengwar of the Sindarin translation of “no gods no masters” pronounced “pen velain pen chîr” with the “ch” as in the Scottish “loch”
“The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists — in Washington or anywhere else that they meet on a day-to-day basis. When professional antagonists become after-hours drinking buddies, they are not likely to turn each other in.” -Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72
Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs looking down into the well holding Catherine telling her, “it puts the lotion on its skin or else’s it gets the hose again”
An “I Voted” sticker for Chesapeake, Virginia
Image of a clean-shaven Viggo Mortensen
Image of The Real Ghostbusters cartoon with the boys driving ECTO-1 down the street following Slimer and basting their proton beams!
“I've always seen nuclear power referred to as "clean" energy, and while I'm no expert in how power is generated, having to bury tons of spent fuel doesn't seem all that "clean" to me, especially compared with wind and solar power. Anyway, my point is that while nuclear power usage has declined from its peak in the 1990s, it remains a common and widely used power source worldwide.”
Tim Robinson from I Think You Should Leave wearing a hotdog costume trying to figure out who drove the hotdog car through the store’s front window
Image of the wall in a Dominoes restaurant, missing letters and numbers to make it read “Delivering Oven-Baked Goo ness Since 960”
Ball-and-stick model of ethylene glycol showing its unstable triangular structure
Text of a poem by me! Le Château Charybdis-en-Lethe What ancient visage o'er this place does watch, And watching, bides its time, to wait a while, "Til once again, through rotting, gabled arch A morsel comes. And then there glints a smile A hungry, spiteful look, a dreadful wile — As victim falls down ever deeper still. Has Zion in its wisdom set this trial? Can she who wanders ever set her will Against the terror waiting in the darkness' chill? What unpretentious frame about its door, And Lo! its shutters such a subtle shade. Its name is washed from Hist'ry's farthest shore, Its garden lawn a sea through which to wade Of grasses tall, of verdant weeds cascade. And o'er it all an awful silence lies, Which slices deep as Siegfried's fabled blade Through quarry's mind to cut off any cries. And deeper yet in labyrinthine halls she hies. The Harvest will begin in chasms lost To Clio's scroll. But never in return Can such a feast as she repay the cost Of subtle Majiks it did seek to learn From demon's fiery breath: a life eterne. Oppressive, dark, and evil in its lack Of any soul not set for Hel to burn. And though its edifice stays silent black, Thus does the awful firmament decay and crack. And silence falls again where silence reigns: A house in solitude, aware, unmoored From anywhere. Within, no sound remains, Though once, perhaps, were feet upon these boards, Now only apathy of beast abhorred, Esurience and deathly, creeping fear. This edifice, decaying and ignored, Would tell a gruesome tale where sin inheres, But even echoes are forgotten ever here.
A Klingon B’Rel Class Bird of Prey cloaking device
Image of the Crying Minotaur album art from the Radiohead album Amnesiac.
Image of NYT Breaking News alert showing Kristi Noem has been fired as head of DHS and Markwayne Mullins selected to replace her.
Political caricature of the caning, depicting Sumner on the floor holding a pen and his "Crime against Kansas" speech as Brooks lunges at him with text added to label Rep Preston Brooks with Sen Sheehy and Sen Charles Sumner as the Marine veteran protester
Dock Ellis pitching for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Image from ICE website showing Uncle Sam saying “America Needs You”
Image of the US stock market rebounding immediately after Trump’s remarks to remove the threat of tariffs over acquisition of Greenland