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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1h

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 5h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 3h

(listening to acorns violently slamming into the roof) my dearest abigail, as the gun fire increases around me my time on this earth grows ever shorter. write to my brother and tell him of my fate. should he offer he will be a fine husband to you and father to thomas

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 4h

When Kieron sent me the first issue I saw this cover and said “somewhere @erikaishii.bsky.social is going to SCREAM” and then read on, godsmacked.*

*a fitting typo

This is the DIE I’ve been waiting for — & am excited to see if Kieron can pull off.

Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 1d

October 20th is the order cut off for DIE: LOADED, sequel to the three-time Hugo-nominated DIE. I've pulled together a short primer it with all the info you need on it - what it is, previews, full cover details (check out our sketch variant!) and more. Go nose! Join our party. It's an experience.

DIE: Loaded

The sequel to the three-times Hugo-nominated, award winning dark fantasy comic, DIE.

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Arthur Wyatt with a twig tied onto him with rough twine @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 3h

I kind of like the La Coix cola which tastes like the meltwater from icecubes at the bottom of a restaurant coke.

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 3h

Flavored Seltzer: What If Bubbly Water Had Just Enough Of A Shadow Of Flavor To Annoy You?™️

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 3d

if you're at NYCC this weekend, i'll be doing a signing at the PRH booth on sunday!

In booth signing, PRH booth, 3021, October 12 4PM

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 3h

i think it’s noteworthy that a lot of centrist pundits have decided to just take it as a given that jd vance lies constantly and to treat this as almost part of his intellectual program so that only gauche rubes would bother to mention or care about it.

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david. @david.uncensored.zip · 4h

Which brave journalist will be the one who asked thiel his thoughts on Trigun.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 4h

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Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · Dec 18

I made up mr beast for a Post and then ended up rejecting because it was too on the nose. missed the trashcan when I tried to throw the paper away and it scuttled away like the thing

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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 4h

Bonhams is auctioning off original artwork by beloved artist Bob Ross to support public television stations after Trump funding cuts.

Bob Ross Paintings Auction Will Support Public TV Stations

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 5h

Niemoller was a Nazi—the poem is about how collaboration won’t save you, let alone neutrality

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 7h

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 5h

Best part of this is the subtle aside about how it took them so long to know to be mad about this because it’s not a movie for children

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

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Arthur Wyatt with a twig tied onto him with rough twine @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 4h

Wishing a happy “never having to talk to Peter Thiel” life to both of them.

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 4h

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 17h

Like, sorry to folks who believe you should never criticize a politician you think does some good sometimes, but if they're in charge of the guys wearing brown shirts clubbing people with giant wooden bats and they're not putting a stop to it, they're doing something wrong.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 18h

For decades lawmakers have funded and outfitted cops with military gear who are trained to unload on anyone for any reason they see fit, and now getting indiscriminately beaten and arrested by them is apparently the only defense from the actual military doing worse.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 19h

Telling the federal court that IL police can handle Broadview was part of the state's legal strategy against national guard being deployed here.

But it's hard to square that as for the good of protestors or Illinoisans as a whole, when IL police are perfectly willing to drag and beat them anyway.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 19h

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Pye Parr @pye.bsky.social · 5h

Cocktails don’t get fancier than a glass of water with a squirty-cream-topped grape garnish and a twisty straw. Served with playdoh food and some table grass.

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Arthur Wyatt with a twig tied onto him with rough twine @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 5h

New version of my “Musk has never actually read Banks” theory dropped.

Matt „Feind im Inneren" L @matt12l.bsky.social · 5h

Are we even sure Thiel read the manga? He’s relying heavily on a third rate interpretation of Revelations for his Christo-fascist apocalypse so I’m guessing he hasn’t read the original carefully if at all. When I listen to the TechBros I hear the patter of students that haven’t done the reading.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 5h

This is good and you should watch it.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 5h

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Comic Book Couples Counseling @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 5h

Another #NYCC Success was the Massive Comic Book Podcast Crossover Event (aka the MaCoBoPoCro!?!) between @oblivionbarpodcast.com, Comic Book Couples Counseling, @badrm.bsky.social, & @davidharper.bsky.social.

Thank You Pat Reilly for the photographic evidence.