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Becky Hopkins

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Artist, nerd, animal welfare supporter, someone with a cult hyperfixation. 35, she/her, bi, ADHD. I am open for commissions! http://becky-hopkins.com http://beckyhop.carrd.co http://ko-fi.com/beckyhop

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Becky Hopkins @beckyhop13.bsky.social · Oct 22

Okay, new followers, I got a feed that my art goes into, so you can look at this if you want to filter out my non-art posts!

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 8h

very random that they funded Airbnb with $40 boxes of political breakfast cereal back when it was AirBed & Breakfast because you literally slept on air mattresses

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ShawnJPB 📼 @jetpackbraggin.bsky.social · 21h

Sad to hear Drew Struzan passed away. His posters were often better than the movies they were for, but The Thing is head and shoulders my favorite of his work.

www.slashfilm.com/1996528/drew...

Movie poster for The Thing painted by Drew Struzan

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 21h

RIP Drew Struzan
A master.

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Amy Mebberson @amymebberson.bsky.social · 12h

Aaaah sod. 😭💔
Thank you for everything, Drew.

Muppet Movie original poster art by Drew Struzan

Muppet Christmas Carol poster art by Drew Struzan

Muppet Treasure Island poster art by Drew Struzan

Hey Cinderella! Home video cover art by Drew Struzan.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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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Becky Hopkins @beckyhop13.bsky.social · 18h

(God, the "handmaiden and feudal lord" anti-Korrasami post should go in a Museum of Bad Takes)

Becky Hopkins @beckyhop13.bsky.social · 18h

WE POPPIN THE BIGGEST BOTTLES—

Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 18h

Joyrothy is more heteronormative than JoeJoyce because it *exhibits falsely* a very feminine girl (Joyce) being a handmaiden of Dorothy (who is treated as the male/masculine/feudal lord of the relationship)

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Adoptable Dogs @adoptabledogs.bsky.social · 1d

Cinnamon 🦮
Adult female Miniature Poodle mix
Adoptable from Precious Paws Rescue (Hawkestone, ON)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/cinnamon-78757870/on/hawkestone/precious-paws-rescue-on263/

Cinnamon is a Adult Miniature Poodle mix

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 1d

Still thinking about how, in a different timeline, Tim Burton would have directed a movie based on Mai the Psychic Girl, which would've potentially kickstarted some aspects of the anime boom far earlier than we saw in reality.

(Source: The Kansas City Star, 9/29/1991 edition)

■ "Mai, the Psychic Girl" is incredibly—popular—in—the Orient, but in the United States the character's following is limited to hard-core comics fans. Still, it will be directed by "Batman's" Tim Burton, who apparently can do no wrong. Rumor has it he wants his favorite leading lady, Winona Ryder, to star.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

"Hello, music industry? It's comics. We need to talk."

TresTiffany 🎃 @trestiffany.bsky.social · 1d

This is inherently unserious and completely shameless

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Adoptable Dogs @adoptabledogs.bsky.social · 1d

Zane 🐾
Young male Rottweiler
Adoptable from River Valley Animal Rescue (Momence, IL)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/zane-78752209/il/momence/river-valley-animal-rescue-il786/

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TheHeroOf-Halloween-Field @theherooftomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

Day 6: Still at $230/350.

I know we're close to the asked amount, but we're also close to the deadline...please help if you can.

TheHeroOf-Halloween-Field @theherooftomorrow.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hey, I hate to make this one of my first posts on here, but in case you didn’t know, I’m unemployed atm, and could use your help. Anything you can give would be great.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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The Bun Squad @thebunsquad.bsky.social · 1d

Look you never know!

ElizaGWR @elizagwr.bsky.social · 1d

Zen: have you seen a Trapinch
Me: Yes, but not here
Zen: where, in Missouri?
Me: Yes
Zen: of course Trapinch is in the misery state, you know what they say misery loves (Zen sees a combee) Combee!
Me: I don't think people say misery loves Combee, I could be wrong

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Becky Hopkins @beckyhop13.bsky.social · 1d

I am....antifa

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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The Advocate @advocate.com · 1d

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

This is fantastic. As for Weiss - I knew she was a billionaire-serving hack, but I'd never heard her speak and HOLY SHIT does she love sniffing her own farts. Just repulsively self-aggrandizing, as Oliver says.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 1d

Here’s last night’s story about Bari Weiss, CBS News, Paramount Skydance, and why the Upper West Side is a lot more than just “Seinfeld territory.” youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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Matias @matiashannecke.bsky.social · 2d

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2d

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”