Willemite Crater

@willemite.bsky.social

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It's me, that guy you know from real life, or maybe from Twitter! Making my name unsearchable to fundamentalist evangelicals since 2020.

The poster for the film recording of Hadestown The Musical.
A screenshot of that scene from arrested development where Lindsay are sitting in a bed talking about how to save their marriage. Lindsay says, "Well, did it work for those people?" And Tobias chuckles and says, "No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but..." Then he turns to her seriously and says, "...but it might work for us."
Charlie from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, standing in front of his conspiracy board, wild-eyed and gesturing with a cigarette.
A photo of the sky with a rainbow glowing in the high-altitude clouds
A woman in a movie theater cries while saying "it's so beautiful"
A picture of Qlipoth, the Aeon of Preservation from Honkai: Star Rail. THEY are a giant golden stone golem with a stone head, halo, and arms all attached with floaty-glowy orbs, and no legs.
My Destiny 2 Titan again, except now she's got the SRL emblem, full ridiculous anime robot racing armor with silly little wings, and the cool racing sparrow with electricity arcing between its arms, and all decked out in SRL red, yellow, and teal.
A screenshot of my Destiny 2 titan with her old SRL-style sparrow and full racing gear, looking very slick.
The "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point" meme, with the guy scowling at the camera, except the headline has been changed to say "Heartbreaking: The Worst Political Tool You Know Just Got Used To Do Something Good"
Greg from Over The Garden Wall, a frog next to him and a teapot on his head, looking off into the distance and saying, "Ain't that just the way."
A video of the San Francisco Bay — a spout of steam shoots up, followed by the back of a Gray Whale rolling above the water while it takes a breath before diving to the bottom, its tail fully lifting out of the water.
The Denali puppies all curled up in a pile asleep. They're incredibly fluffy and adorable.
A product image of Suntone AM/FM headphones. They're bright yellow and gray with a big black antenna sticking up out of one side
A bright red bird with wings that fade toward darker reddish-brown, perched on a tree branch and looking torward the camera
Jonathan Frakes in Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction, saying "We made it up"
From The Evangelicals, by Frances Fitzgerald, pg. 265, "The plan devised by Pressler involved turning the centralized bureaucracy of the SBC to their own purposes. If they could elect one of their own as president for the next ten years, their presidents could appoint the members of the board that appointed the trustees of the seminaries and denominational agencies; the trustees could then appoint the presidents and directors of these institutions and gradually change their nature."
From The Evangelicals, by Frances Fitzgerald, pg 254: "In the mid-I960s Republican politicians led the effort to change state laws to permit what were known therapeutic abortions. Barry Goldwater supported abortion rights, and in 1967 Governor Ronald Reagan of California became one of the first two Republican governors to sign a bill permitting abortion in cases of rape, incest, or potential damage to the mother's health."
From The Evangelicals, by Frances Fitzgerald, pg 254: "As for abortion, the neo-evangelicals did not oppose it in principle; indeed, during the 1960s they and the Southern Baptists supported the liberalization of state laws against it."
The front page of the linked website with WAY more text than I can put in here, but it's formatted in that old-school internet style with tables, borders everywhere, simple black text on white background, and TONS of hyperlinks.
From Frankenstein, chapter IV, "A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Caesar would have spared his country; America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed."
The doorway to the kitchen at Outback Steakhouse, looking very ominous in white all-caps Eurostyle Bold Extended on a black background
White text on a black background, in the style of a Neon Genesis Evangelion episode title card, says, "Go to church find Jesus, episode 4: I mean, like, who is everybody so horny here?"
My feet, wearing running shoes with the laces going straight across perpendicularly instead of cross-crossed
A sourdough loaf on a counter
A quote from chapter 39 of Self Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, that says, "If anything is true in this world, it is that wise and trustworthy guides will urge you to develop your own potential instead of expecting your adoration. They will educate and encourage you, not recruit you as their acolyte."
A screenshot of the text of the interview in the original post: "Why, unlike most of your Democratic colleagues, have you chosen to support the current war with Iran?" "Well, I wouldn't describe it as that."
The iconic image from the Clickhole article titled "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point"; it's a middle-aged man staring at the camera with a pained and slightly angry look on his face
A frame from Thomas The Tank Engine, but the face of Ichabod Crane from The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad has been photoshopped over his face.
ProtoArc EM03 trackball mouse with a purple ball
King Theoden from The Lord Of The Rings, looking off pensively into the middle distance, saying "How did it come to this?"
The Glassdoor logo, zooming in on the opening quotation mark that's literally a floating comma, getting glitchier as it zooms in
A photo of The Evangelicals by Frances Fitzgerald, with a finger marking about one quarter to one third of the way through the book and a piece of paper making the start of the footnotes.
An excerpt from The Evangelicals, by Frances Fitzgerald, that says (about Billy Graham), "[in a] meeting in early 1957 he called his critics 'extremists,' and decried the tendency to 'think a person is not a Christian unless he pronounces our shibboleths and clichés exactly as we do.' As if that were not enough, he utered what to strict fundamentalists were fighting words: 'The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.'"
A screenshot of the Wikipedia page about Vivaldi browser, focused on the line that says, "Vivaldi features the ability to 'stack' and 'tile' tabs"
Major Kusanagi from Ghost In The Shell, looking to the left with a city in the background and cables coming out of the back of her neck
The front page of Sam Houston State University's website, with "You are who you choose to be" in very large letters right in the center
Am except from The Evangelicals, by Frances Fitzgerald, that says, "The job was nonetheless taxing, for even before Riley's death, the faculty of the schools and others in the Northwestern community had become engaged in a typical fundamentalist struggle: the militant separatists against the more militant separatists."
A screenshot of the above comic, zoomed in on a man ominously staring out a window
The Steam download screen showing Nier:Automata being downloaded
A deer poking its head over a stone wall, looking at the camera
A screenshot of an old Ovaltine commercial with the subtitles saying "More Ovaltine™ please!", but "Ovaltine" has been covered over with the word "WHALES"
The cover of "Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents", subtitled "Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self & Live with Confidence", by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD
A line of cars, receipt the middle one is a 10-foot tall shopping cart on a car chassis with a dude sitting up in the handle.
a screenshot of a Youtube video feed with red lines along the edges of video thumbnails, showing how each row of thumbnails has different, and differently-uneven spacing between them. The first row is evenly spaced from the edges and each other; the second row has the last thumbnail bumped over to the right, the third row has the first two thumbnails bumped over to the left while the last one remains in line.
From The Evangelicals, by Frances Fitzgerald, pg. 101: "Like Darby, he assigned Jesus' life to the older Jewish 'dispensation of the law,' rather than to the Christian 'dispensation of grace'—thus relegating the Sermon on the Mount and the Lord's Prayer to a pre-Christian era."
A screenshot of a YouTube ad for Pocket FM with an AI garbage picture, showing the ad runtime to be 23 minutes and 15 seconds.
The Evangelicals, by Frances Fitzgerald, pg 90: "Speaking at a meeting in New York City in 1876, when fifty thousand men were out of work because of the latest financial crash, he declared that the cause of the suffering was that 'the sufferers have become lost from the Shepherd's care.' As he explained it, the poor were responsible for their poverty. 'I do not believe we would have had these hard times if it had not been for sin and iniquity. Look at the money that is drank up! The money that is spent for tobacco! That is ruining men--ruining their constitutions.' In Moody's view there could be no other explanation. 'We live in a land flowing with milk and honey,' he said, 'God has blessed this nation; yet men complain of hard times.' He was not against charity, but charity for him was always secondary to soul winning. And too much charity in his view did 'a great deal of mischief' by encouraging people to expect handouts when they should be working for a living. In the I87Os it was hardly uncommon for Protestant clergymen to preach that the Puritan virtues of thrift and industry would help a man succeed in life. But Moody went a step farther, He preached that conversion itself would bring prosperity."
The Evangelicals, by Frances Fitzgerald, pg. 89: "In any case, his own role was clear to him. 'I look upon the world as a wrecked vessel,' he famously declared. 'God has given me a lifeboat and said to me, 'Moody. save all you can.'' Consistent with this position, Moody said nothing of social reform or of the obligation of Christians to the welfare of the society at large. While he spoke of doing all for the glory of God, there was no Puritan command to responsibility for the community, no call to disinterested benevolence, or to building the Kingdom of God on earth. The highest duty of Christians, he said, was 'to visit the homes of the poor and wicked and tell them how the Son of God came into the world to seek the fallen and those who were lost.'"
The Evangelicals, by Frances Fitzgerald, pg 66: "...had much to say about wealth, inequality, and labor. "We must," he said "make men believe that Christianity has a right to rule this kingdom of industry, as well as all the other kingdoms of this world." His philosophy was that, just as individuals practiced the Golden Rule. so employers and their employees should practice cooperation and disagreements should be negotiated in a spirit of fellowship. In an effort to mediate a strike in Cleveland in 1886 he endorsed trade unionism while condemning the warlike tactics of both sides. "Are you not all children of one Father?" he asked. His first strategy was to appeal to the moral feelings of the owners and business executives, but eventual, realizing that altruism was possible only in small groups, he preached a decentralized economic democracy where profit sharing would substitute for wage labor. In the mid-1890s the deepening conflict between capital and labor drove him to a more realistic view of the economy and to an explicitly pro-union stance. He opposed socialism-- or state ownership of most businesses-- on the grounds that it would stifle creativity, but more important because it seemed to him far too grandiose a project for this enormous continent and one that would require an unimaginable degree of human wisdom to work. Still, he believed that the monopolies-- in those days the railroads, the telephone services, the electrical and water supply companies that effectively taxed the public as opposed to responding to the laws of supply and demand-- should eventually be state-controlled. And he came to believe that if the dream of a cooperative economy could be realized, it would be as a form of industrial democracy gained through union-organized collective bargaining. Gladden's views about the means of achieving a just society changed over time but Gladden never had any doubt that social reform was an integral part of the Christian Mission..."
Roy from The IT Crowd on the phone saying "Hello, IT, have you tried turning it off and on again?
The description page of Bubblegum Crisis from the Just Watch app. At the top is a picture of 4 mech-suited people, and underneath it says: Bubblegum Crisis MegaTokyo 2033: Tokyo was left flattened as a result from a great earthquake. A new city, MegaTokyo, was then recreated due in no small part from the aid of a multi-million dollar company, Genom Corp. Genom created and mass-produced biomechanical creatures called Boomers to aid in the restoration of MegaTokyo. When the Boomers began to run out of control, the ADPolice at first tried to stop them, but they proved to be far more difficult to deal with than was first imagined. Under the ever looming Boomer threat, a group of four girls from varying degrees of society banded together. Calling themselves The Knight Sabers, they were the only ones with enough firepower and resourcefullness to defend the fledgling MegaTokyo from Genom and it's berserk Boomers.
A screenshot of my feed with one post saying Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill to put restrictions on minors using chatbots, while the other says he signed a law putting restrictions on minors using chatbots.
Fig. 1: The Carson Olshansky Gender Quadrant (from their YouTube video titled "Theories of Nonbinary Heterosexuality"). The X-axis has "Woman" on the left and "Man" on the right, while the Y-axis has "No gender" at the bottom and "Lots of gender" at the top, and scattered around are pictures of various celebrities based on where they fit.
The Starship Troopers "I'm doing my part" meme
A Red-shouldered Hawk (I'm pretty sure) stands in a field on the other side of a stone wall with the sun shining through its feathers as it looks down at something on the ground
The box for the Magic The Gathering precon commander deck "Living Energy", being held by me in my car. It's a green/blue/red deck, and the box says "stockpile energy / charge up artifact creatures"
Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop in the episode where some people rescue him from burning up in the atmosphere by catching his space ship in a restored NASA space shuttle, only to risk also burning up in the atmosphere themselves. He's sitting in the dark, smoking a cigarette, saying, "Whatever happens, happens." Come to think of it, this scene was extremely formative for me when I saw it as a freshman in college about to drop out because nothing in life made any sense.
My post from November that says, "I just can't believe that AI is anything more than another stupid tech bubble. Is anyone actually profiting off of it? All these companies are pouring so much into it, but afaik everyone either hates it or is just scrambling to figure out what to do with it because the hype makes it seem necessary."
The little clock from the first painting, shaped like it's been turned to putty and stretched into a vaguely 5-pointed-star-shape