TROPY nominations close TOMORROW.
I will then take the top 4-6 nominations for each category, create a new form, and we will vote!
#TheRingsofPower #TROPYawards
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The TROPY Awards are a fan-made awards show created to recognize our favorite aspects of the The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Join us in celebrating this season’s highlights!
The TROPY Awards are a fan-made awards show created to recognize our favorite aspects of the The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Join us in celebrating this season’s highlights!
The nominations form closes February 8th; voting opens mid-Feb. Watch the TROPY Awards on Youtube in March (TBD)!
A vintage close-up photo of a young boy, looking down with a slight smile.
7 February 1932 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Salomon Niekerk, was born in Rijswijk.
On 20 January 1944 he was deported from Westerbork to the Theresienstadt ghetto and on 16 May 1944 sent in a transport to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network.
As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.
Black and white portrait of a Dutch Jew, Bob Hanf, was born in Amsterdam. A painter, writer, violinist & composer. He is wearing a suit and bow tie, looking directly at the camera.
Artwork depicting several figures, one playing the violin, with expressive, somber faces in a dark, muted palette.
25 November 1894 | A Dutch Jew, Bob Hanf, was born in Amsterdam. A painter, writer, violinist & composer.
He was arrested on 23 April 1944 & incarcerated in Westerbork. From there, he was later deported to #Auschwitz where he perished in September 1944.
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Black and white historical photo of remains of one of the crematorium in Auschwitz, showing debris and ruins with a partially destroyed building and trees in the background.
25 November 1944 | The Germans began dismantling of the technical equipment of crematorium II at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Air-pump engine from the gas chamber was planned for Mauthausen and pipes for Gross-Rosen camps. In the picture: ruins of crematorium II in 1946.
“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.”
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Same! It’s amazing to me!
Black and white close-up portrait of an elderly man with a serious expression, featuring prominent wrinkles and deep-set eyes.
22 November 1880 | A Dutch Jew, Edgar Alvares Correa, was born in Curaçao (constituent country of the Netherlands).
He arrived at Auschwitz on 25 March 1944 in a transport of 599 Jews deported from #Westerbork. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
22 November 1940 | The first execution by shooting took place at the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz.
SS men shot 40 Polish men from Katowice prison in retaliation for alleged acts of rape & assaults on German police officers. Photos: list of the members of the SS firing squad & names of 40 victims.
A photograph captures a court session inside a wood-paneled room with individuals in military & civil uniforms who are sitting & facing forward.
20 November 1945 | The 1st Nuremberg Trial started. 24 political and military leaders of the German Third Reich were tried. Twelve of the accused were sentenced to death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials
For the first time in months, rolling power outages and the growl of countless power generators emanating from Kyiv's streets are back, following Russia’s massive missile and drone attack against Ukraine on Sunday.
While I was in Aotearoa/NZ and observing the scenery, it was not lost on me how the crowd that co-ops Tolkien for white supremacy and praises the movies for adhering to that narrative, are obsessed with visuals that aren’t even in Europe. Not even the same hemisphere. And on colonized land at that.
The animated films of The Hobbit and LOTR were my first experience of Tolkien when I was quite young and terrified (age 9 or so, mid-80s). The next experience was several years later when I picked up my dad’s copy of The Hobbit and read it on my own. 🤩
There are so many of you joining right now that things may temporarily glitch! If you’re seeing “invalid handle”, this is probably one of those things — see this thread for more information.
Mentions of ‘Strider’ vs ‘Aragorn’ by book of Lord of the Rings Bar chart Strider is far more frequent in book 1. Aragorn is more frequent in books 2, 3, 5 and, to a lesser extent, 6. Little Delving #0004 digitaltolkien.com
Little Delving #0004
Mentions of ‘Strider’ vs ‘Aragorn’ by book of Lord of the Rings
#tolkien #jrrtolkien #lordoftherings #lotr #corpuslinguistics
For the new accounts on here, heres a list of Tolkien/Trop pages!💖
go.bsky.app/yDaEFJ
I was recently asked to talk about being a “content creator” and I had to flat out say I am not a content creator
To reframe what I do as an artist to being a content creator is something the internet has been pushing for a while and I just refuse to give into it or allow my life to become that
deactivating your twitter account doesn't delete your tweets.
and even if you manually go through and delete everything you see, twitter doesn't let you access anything past your first 3000 tweets through your browser
this program is the only thing that worked for me (with over 76k tweets lmao)
I’m so sorry. 😭
Reply from Bluesky’s Team: “Hi there, You recently wrote to us with questions regarding AI training on Twitter. Here are some details we would like to share: • A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we have heard their concerns with other platforms training on their data • We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so. • Bluesky does use AI internally to assist in content moderation, or in the discover algorithm to serve you posts. None of these are GenAI systems trained on users’ content. Bluesky Moderation Team”
And if you don’t know, now you know! 🚫GenAI on Bluesky 🦋☁️
👋 happy to see some familiar pfps