🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

Map makers from 1950 (before software).

It is truly mind boggling that in a single persons lifetime we went from inventing the first plane and flying for the first time, to being on the moon. Could you imagine being the person who lived for those years and seeing that.

Now we are arguing with people who think covid and viruses in general dont exist and the earth is flat. Might be another few thousand years before we start progressing again.

A bidet is like having a thousand dancing angels lick your butthole clean. I highly recommend.

Some of my absolute favorite Tolkein quotes:

“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.” -- The Children of Hurin

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” -- The Fellowship of the Ring

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”

"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” -- The Fellowship of the Ring

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.” -- Return of the King

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”

“But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.” -- The Return of the King

#lotr #tolkein #LordOfTheRings #quote #quotes

Merry Christmas!

#Christmas #MerryChristmas

I love librarians and readers in general. They arent necessarily brilliant mathematicians or revolutionary historians. But they love to learn and evolve and grow and imagine. There arent enough people like that and i love being around them.

@posrev conspiracy theorists.

Id say this sums up america pretty well.

It never ceases to amazes how headstrong conspiracy theorists are when they dont even understand basic terminology.

Awl, i just got random spam from #trump asking me to join #TruthSocial. This guy is a joke, now i wont sign up just to spite him and show him spam doesnt work.

You aren't famous until you can search for your feet on the internet and find it.