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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 4h

The genius of the inflatable costume protests is that they anonymize the individual while visually unifying the movement across the 3000 mile span.

The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 2d

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3h

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

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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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2h

happy belated caturday from this suspicious box of noodles

A black cat in a pink retainer box with the Bowl Noodles and NONGSHIM logos on the side

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 2h

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 5h

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 14h

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 4h

She’ll never tell.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 4h

Most people (especially the current admin) believe the propaganda that right wing culture is American culture.

The joy of being surrounded by thousands of people who also felt alone in their frustration is an incredibly powerful force.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 4h

That’s going to get a lot of first timers off their couches, where they will experience firsthand what organizers already know: Protests can be emotionally life changing.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 4h

Everyone is going to post pictures of themselves and their friends in costumes having a great time at the protest. It’s going to give people fomo.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 4h

The Inflatables Movement makes the experience of giant crowds easier because you have your personal bubble. It also makes those crowds look physically bigger because everyone takes up more space.
And it’s perfect for social media.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 4h

It also makes protesting *fun.* Do not underestimate how much people need something unifying and uplifting right now. Most protests look miserable. You walk for hours in the heat (or rain or cold) the news belittles you, and it feels like nothing gets accomplished.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 4h

The Inflatables Movement solves that problem because now even the tiny town protests can easily make a visual impact, and they are obviously of a piece with the larger whole. Fox can’t pretend a lack of coverage means they don’t exist.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 4h

Because the US is so huge, when protests occur, the ones with the greatest numbers and visual impact occur in major cities. That’s one (of the many) reasons Fox claims these cities don’t represent “Real America,” because do you see people protesting in your tiny town?

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SCAREon - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.social · 14h

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 4h

The genius of the inflatable costume protests is that they anonymize the individual while visually unifying the movement across the 3000 mile span.

The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 2d

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 7h

Amazon would literally put surge pricing on guillotines.

The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 2d

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 5h

Ask Silly Questions, Get Silly Answers

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 6h

No. Next question.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 12h

Watching surrealism change the course of history

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.