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Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · Jun 2

Demyx @pupdemyx.bsky.social · Jun 1

Made this meme years ago and thought I'd share it here for Wrath Month. 🏳️‍🌈🗝

A meme with the text " Gay Pride is over. We're done with that. " over the top of a picture of Sora from Kingdom Hearts, followed by the text " Now we're doing GAY WRATH " over the top of a picture of Sora in his shadowy Anti Form from Kingdom Hearts 2.

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 15h

I don't think the authoritarianism is really creeping anymore, guys

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15h

The Senate Intelligence Authorization Act contains a major change that would allow the CIA’s top lawyer to avoid the Senate confirmation process. In an era of creeping authoritarianism this could hasten the Intelligence Community’s use as a tool of political espionage. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF and Other Organizations: Keep Key Intelligence Positions Senate

In a joint letter to the ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, EFF has joined with 20 other organizations, including the ACLU, Brennan Center, CDT, Asian Americans

www.eff.org

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 11h

an under discussed facet of it scamming poor people is how it is notorious for robbing people in much poorer regions like South Asia and East Africa. It hits a lot different when you realize that $20 of rugpull was someone’s household wages for a few weeks.

subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 11h

since crypto is in one of its periodic rugpulls, a quick reminder that ever since its rise to mainstream prominence, it has been about scamming poor people, especially poor POC. andreesen et al made out like bandits from it. & didn't have their towns destroyed by noisy & polluting mining facilities

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Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 4h

...lmao turns out that "Romashka" is a nuclear reactor

Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 4h

wait we actually called it "Biopreparat"? lame, I'd expect something like "Romashka"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 5h

Sending Peter Thiel copies of *Puella Magi Madoka Magica* and seeing if he can detect the Christian symbolism in an anime that *actually* has it.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 10h

Levitating

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 18h

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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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

lmao

In his last lecture, Thiel also responds during the Q&A portion to a question about potential 2028 presidential candidates and whether they are antichrist or katechon. When asked about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Thiel says that he worries about there being a “woke American pope”– Pope Leo XIV – and a “woke American president”, creating a “Caesar-Papist fusion”. He goes on to talk about Ocasio-Cortez in relation to Thunberg:

One of the ways these things always get reported is, I denounce Greta as an antichrist. And I want to be very clear: Greta is, I mean she’s maybe sort of a type or a shadow of an antichrist of a sort that would be tempting. But I don’t want to flatter her too much. So with Greta, you shouldn’t take her as the antichrist for sure. With AOC, you can choose whether or not you want to believe this disclaimer that I just gave.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

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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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

expect the essay tomorrow morning

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

we need to abolish this shit

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Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 1d

Happy I can help! And, glad to see you over here ^^

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Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 1d

so many people walking around with unchecked OCD apparently

www.youtube.com/watch?v=irlz...

WKUK God Says

YouTube video by The Whitest Kids U'Know

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Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a post summarizing the Framework situation recently, where I look into this

So far, I'd say the DHH part is the worst one - from the looks of it, Hyprland has cleaned up their act, at least partially. DHH, well, that's not happening.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 2d

The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation

crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

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Özgür @oetzi.bsky.social · 2d

I have seen this just an hour ago. I think this is pretty clear where he stands on. I also think that he is distancing himself from the people like DHH (disgusting person) and others.
I assume he is trying to focus on the tech, rather than the people - but keeps himself away from _those_ people.

Nirav Patel (Founder of FrameworkPuter)'s tweet: To avoid disappointing anyone later who wants to ascribe beliefs to me, I am pro-immigrant and pro-LGBTQ. I’m also pro open source and have committed myself to guiding people out of closed ecosystems into open ones. This is not posted under duress, but under a realization that at a certain scale of visibility, it becomes insufficient to hold beliefs without stating them, because others will attempt to state them for you.

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Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 2d

nothing indicates they've quit, but they sure are on hiatus. 100% makes sense, moderating a community space after someone higher-up decides it should now be associated with a far-right-led project, that gets real tough real fast.

Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 2d

yeah. I've been looking at it for the past however many hours... it's just such a dumb and avoidable situation, too.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 2d

The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation

crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 2d

The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation

crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

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Stupid Twink @stupidtwink.bsky.social · 3d

a man speaks to a woman: soo, you're one of them transgenders?

she replies “ya, but i'm mostly into mario kart speedruns” then begins a lengthy bombast about mario kart

later we see the man at a table with his wife. he says to her: martha, today i met someone whos...
different

but i'm learning that there's nothing wrong with that

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

Evil wojak. Inhuman beady black eyes, large spanning inhuman smile with hundreds of teeth

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 4d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 4d

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

ngl we can try to rationalize as much backsliding as we want but “game cancelled because black protagonist killing white terrorists during reconstruction deemed too political” is pretty bad as far as I consider things re: mainstream popular culture

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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