adon.pcc.eth

crypto fiend, flippin burgers by day dogelord by night. The Temple of Doge

[adon.pcc.eth @adon_eth]

@enahuk1 @Chickencreep1 We made it! Balls deep into the metaverse with @Oshi_Gallery exhibiting our project @TheTempleofDoge at their gallery along with a @niftygateway drop. We shall keep spreading the good word of the Doge lord!

[Arthr @arthr]

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𝟷/𝟷𝟶 ༶ Now minting on @TransientLabs

𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦..

[adon.pcc.eth @adon_eth]

The pepe that keeps on giving, thank you!

I just minted The Giving ETH PEPE from 0x0a30...300b via @manifoldxyz

https://t.co/e9QUpZ9fCa

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Tom Bombadil is the most mysterious character in The Lord of the Rings.

He's the oldest being in Middle-earth and completely immune to the Ring's power — but why?

Bombadil is the key to the underlying ethics of the entire story, and to resisting evil yourself...

Tom Bombadil is an enigmatic, merry hermit of the countryside, known as "oldest and fatherless" by the Elves. He is truly ancient, and claims he was "here before the river and the trees." He's so confounding that Peter Jackson left him out of the films entirely.

This is understandable, since he's unimportant to the development of the plot. Tolkien, however, saw fit to include him anyway, because Tom reveals a lot about the underlying ethics of Middle-earth, and how to shield yourself from evil.

The hobbits meet Bombadil early on in their quest, before they reach Bree and the Prancing Pony Inn. He rescues Merry and Pippin from Old Man Willow, and invites the hobbits to stay at his house in the Old Forest.

There, the hobbits realize something strange about him: the Ring has no power over Bombadil whatsoever.

When he wears it, he remains visible. He treats it as a plaything, making it disappear with a magic trick. Indeed, at the Council of Elrond, Gandalf rejects the idea of giving the Ring to Tom, for he would likely misplace it or forget about it entirely.

So just who is he, exactly?

When Frodo asks this very question to Tom's wife Goldberry, she simply responds "He is." It's a cryptic answer that echoes God's famous answer to Moses in the Book of Exodus: "I am who I am."

Thus, many theorize that Bombadil is God, some kind of angelic being, or even the spirit of the Music of the Ainur (due to the fact that he is constantly singing). But Tolkien's letters reveal something considerably more interesting…

In April 1954, Tolkien wrote:

"The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship… but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control.But if you have, as it were, taken a 'vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself… then the questions of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless…"

So, Bombadil is a representation of what it means to take pure delight in the world around you — to experience people and things simply as they are, without any thought for what they could be or how you could use them. And this is why the Ring has no power over him.

To Bombadil, the One Ring is simply a ring, and the possibilities of what can be achieved through its power are of no importance. He is able to resist its evil precisely because he is entirely content with the world around him.

At the end of the story, having accomplished what he set out to do in Middle-earth, Gandalf pays Tom a visit before returning to the Undying Lands:

"I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time."

If Bombadil is the epitome of simply enjoying life and being, Gandalf is the epitome of doing. He guides the hobbits, fights the Balrog, and runs up and down Middle-earth to help destroy the One Ring.

But now that he's finally liberated from doing, he immediately heads to Bombadil's. He does so with a sense of relief, as if he's at last able to access a purer and higher mode of being — a sort of innocence that cannot be fully experienced by those consumed by doing.

Of course, by this Tolkien doesn't disparage the value of action. The entirety of LOTR displays the importance of rising up against evil, even in the face of all odds. But with the inclusion of Bombadil, he does remind readers that fighting isn't all there is.

Bombadil reminds us that while it's important to strive and *do*, it is just as important to occasionally step back and *be*. Indeed, your ability to do so plays a crucial role in helping you resist the allure of evil…

Read the full piece here:

https://t.co/aqK2daehIL

The unsung hero of The Lord of the Rings...

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

Eventually blockchains will be judged not by how efficiently they move value - but by the irreplaceable value they preserve.

[adon.pcc.eth @adon_eth]

feels good man 🥲
@enahuk1 @Chickencreep1
grabbed yall one for the sweet memories

https://t.co/kEQMNy37PJ

[Hackatao ♛ @Hackatao]

FREUD THE ANALYST
Where silence becomes method and language reveals its fractures.
He listened carefully enough for hidden truths to emerge.
The mind rarely says what it means directly.

[NeonGlitch86 @neonglitch86]

For the past few years, @arthr , @Scamart , and I have been quietly working on something different.

Not a collection.
Not a meme.
Not another token.
A full storybook.

📖 THE GIVING ETH

A tale about Pepe, ETH, time, gains, loss, and the things that remain after the market moves on.

Minting 6.9.26 🐸💎

[adon.pcc.eth @adon_eth]

got my lil spot in the city! fun metaverse mint @WizardX_0x, cant wait to see what else is to come!

[beeple @beeple]

DAY #6969

[Kelly Boesch🏳️‍🌈 @kellyeld]

A bit of a strange circus today. I know it’s not for everyone but I love strange ❤️ Images: #Midjourney Animation: #VEO3 Lyrics: me Song ‘Man On The Trapeze’: #Suno #ai #aiart #music

[beeple @beeple]

MICAHEL SAYLOR BUYING THE LAST BITCOIN IN 2140

[muhju @MuhjuArt]

𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐃𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐄 (2026)

details & full artwork

[beeple @beeple]

mommy

[Nyan Cat Collection @NyanCatSales]

Foundation is the most disappointing platform I've ever used in Web3. I joined when they had about 300 followers, and minting my artwork there brought them massive press. From there I gave suggestions that improved the site, and personally onboarded about 20 classic meme creators there, generating $2.8m in sales, handing Foundation about $420,000 in platform fees (15% at the time).

Their thanks? The founder told me on a phone call that if you're not actively minting there then they aren't going to showcase you. They stopped talking about my artwork in December 2021, then later used my artwork (this specific artwork was *not* minted on their platforms) in an unauthorized commercial. I since then moved to using custom contracts, to stop being exploited by greedy platform gatekeeper behavior.

Now Foundation is dying, and they have the nerve to ask the artists they've milked for years to pay $20/month to pin their own artwork which stays on their contract. I refuse to keep my art on a platform that spent years squandering creator goodwill.

To my 1/1 collectors (the 6 or 7 of you, this does not apply to any of my main collections), if you ever have issues viewing your pieces please contact me directly (@PRguitarman ) and I can set up a free burn redeem so your artwork can live on a new custom contract where it belongs. It is a frustrating thing to realize, but on the bright side your owned artwork will be free, no longer muddled in a pile of 111,000 other artworks on a dead contract, controlled by a dead platform that gave up on every artist there.

[beeple @beeple]

HAPPY EASTER!

[Pascal Boyart 🎨 @pascalboyart]

🚨 Auction starts now 🚨

Last month, I painted #TheNakedMonaLisa under the Louvre.
Today, the 1/1 drops on @SuperRare 🔥

🗓️ Ends in 48h
Reserve: 5 ETH

👉🏼 https://t.co/5AvNvz5MUt

[beeple @beeple]

Chuck Norris will NOT be resting in peace. 😤

[beeple @beeple]

FUCK VANITY FAIR

[Pascal Boyart 🎨 @pascalboyart]

I just painted this mural in Paris.

Guess the location 👀

[beeple @beeple]

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE