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Achilles
@achilleslaststand.bsky.social
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Disabled dad in a constant state of questionable sanity. Default setting is sarcasm. I retweet a lot of mutual aid posts. Video Games/Wrestling/Law/General snark. 39, He/They Northern Michigan
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Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · Aug 29
going nonverbal at the party and just doing this in the corner until I can leave
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Achilles @achilleslaststand.bsky.social · 1h
Getting a degree in pomology so I can develop sexier and sexier apple cultivars
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 10d
If you buy enough apples, the farmer gives you access to the sexy ones
An apple with a perfect ass that will make you act up
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 2h
“There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, kind of like Christ’s crown of thorns.”

Hoo boy.
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h
thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about
He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war: The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work. Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure. In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation. Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.
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Trina's Technobabble @trinastechnobabble.bsky.social · 2h
It's National Motorcycle Ride Day 🏍️

Post a scene with a Motorcycle... 🖤
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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2h
luffy transforms, his eyes start bulging five miles out of his head, everything around him goes looney tunes, and he makes the roadrunner noise any time he moves

thiel “wow, just like jesus, my favorite character from my favorite book, the bible”
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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 3h
Sengir Vampire, 3BB ANSOM 92 Summon Vampre Flying Vampire gets a +1/+1 counter each time a creature dies during a turn in which Vampire damaged it, unless the dead creature is regenerated. Illus. © Anson Maddocks 4/4
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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 18h
There are a lot of confirmed Draculas and confirmed Not Draculas out there, but also there are a surprising amount of Might Be Draculas?
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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 18h
Top 5 Vampires:
-Dracula (Bram Stoker original novel)
-Alucard (Hellsing, who is also Dracula)
-Alucard (Castlevania, who is not Dracula)
-Dracula (Castlevania)
-The Count (Sesame Street, who they claim is not actually a vampire)
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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 3h
Appropriate
President Goku *Massive bong rip* What if Goku... was Jesus? liked your post • now
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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 4h
*Massive bong rip*

What if Goku… was Jesus?
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h
thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about
He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war: The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work. Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure. In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation. Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.
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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 3h
lol wtf

bsky.app/profile/1t2l...
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 4h
illustrations from his First Things article.
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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 3h
Image of the Biting Pear of Salamanca, artwork by Ursula Vernon (@tkingfisher.com on Bluesky). The image features an enormous green pear, with an open mouth, rather large teeth, and a correspondingly well-illustrated tongue. It is sitting on a grassy hillside with daisies visible in the foreground and a meandering stream in the background on the right. On the right, in the far background is a tower faintly resembling a lighthouse, as well as two creatures that vaguely look like giraffes in the midground. In white lettering overtop the image are the words "LOL WUT" You can learn more about Ursula, the creator of the Biting Pear of Salamanca, at https://redwombatstudio.com/
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Achilles @achilleslaststand.bsky.social · 3h
I need better hobbies
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Achilles @achilleslaststand.bsky.social · 1d
I have a weird hobby of looking up FEC data and it's always kind of shocking how many conservatives have a sizeable portion of their weekly take home pay go to Right wing PACs and orgs. Don't see the same from Democrats in my area except for retirees.
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Evelyn Waughluigi @mattressisland.bsky.social · 4h
Developing a counter philosophy based on the UN being an actual world government in Macross
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h
thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about
He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war: The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work. Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure. In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation. Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.
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Achilles @achilleslaststand.bsky.social · 4h
I'm mad at whatever the fuck is going on with his analysis of One Piece
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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 4h
This combination of words is striking me as mordantly funny this morning, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social.
An email from Kickstarter: “You just backed Our Long National Nightmare / Now you can follow its progress”.
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h
what the fuck man
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 4h
illustrations from his First Things article.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 4h
The morning Milton is getting adopted today
(trial adoption starts today)
Extremely excited white Corgi mix with a big, open mouthed smile
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Achilles @achilleslaststand.bsky.social · 4h
College kids taking bong rips off a 2 liter gravity bongs have come up with more coherent thoughts than this.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 4h
Should be bigger news that one of the world’s richest men, clothed in great power and influence, has gone floridly insane.
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h
thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about
He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war: The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work. Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure. In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation. Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.
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Achilles @achilleslaststand.bsky.social · 4h
Oh my god what a face
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Adoptable Dogs @adoptabledogs.bsky.social · 4h
Carl 🦮
Baby male Pug mix
Adoptable from Wags of Monroe County (Okolona, MS)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/carl-78729615/ri/north-kingstown/wags-of-monroe-county-ms257/
Carl is a Baby Pug mix described as: Affectionate, Curious, Friendly, Funny, Gentle, Loves, Loyal, Playful, Quiet, Smart and Couch Carl is a Baby Pug mix described as: Affectionate, Curious, Friendly, Funny, Gentle, Loves, Loyal, Playful, Quiet, Smart and Couch
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Adoptable Dogs @adoptabledogs.bsky.social · 4h
Carl 🦮
Baby male Pug mix
Adoptable from Wags of Monroe County (Okolona, MS)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/carl-78729615/ri/north-kingstown/wags-of-monroe-county-ms257/
Carl is a Baby Pug mix described as: Affectionate, Curious, Friendly, Funny, Gentle, Loves, Loyal, Playful, Quiet, Smart and Couch Carl is a Baby Pug mix described as: Affectionate, Curious, Friendly, Funny, Gentle, Loves, Loyal, Playful, Quiet, Smart and Couch
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Achilles @achilleslaststand.bsky.social · 4h
Medicine is out, scrimshaw is in
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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 4h
The conservative 'legal' project, to the extent that it is an anti-liberal project, necessarily must be to enshrine arbitrary rule, as the rule of law as we know it is a liberal project.
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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1d
Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d
“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 5h
Doubling down on the worst of the worst miscarriages of justice.
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 15h
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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