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Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident

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https://www.lafoodbank.org/fire/ I add the wrestling references amid the political references to remind myself we all contain multitudes.

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Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · Dec 3

Cartoon clip art of a woman at a phone drawn in red and white asking “hello is this History? You ARE gonna judge these people, right?” From Get Your War On from October 2004 after the US Mil lost track of hundreds of tons of Iraqi munitions.

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Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 6h

Rubio whispers to Trump. Photo Francis Chang - Pool vía CNP/shutterstock

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 8h

It was right there!

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Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 8h

They say a handful still survive
To tell the world about
The way the lights went out
To keep the memory alive
- Billy Joel , Miami 2017

Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway) (Official Audio)

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Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 8h

… Launchpad is the Apostle Paul?

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 9h

He who has seen everything, I will make known to the lands. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 10d

why is sentence two in every story not "congress has not authorized the use of military force"

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 9h

Call me Ishmael. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 10d

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 10d

why is sentence two in every story not "congress has not authorized the use of military force"

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 11h

There must have been corruption in in the town’s police that day!
‘Cuz the clues led to the mayor’s son
But they looked the other way!

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 11h

Peter Thiel Accurately Interpret the Thematics of Sci-fi / Fantasy Challenge [Difficulty: Impossible]

(See the “Star Wars is about debt” interview, much less all the LOTR companies, my man wtf)

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Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 11h

Guy who has read no other texts except a bad cliff notes version of the Book of Revelations: getting a lot of antichrist vibes from these popular graphic novels

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 13h

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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Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 11h

Classic Sesame Street - Do Wop Hop (Kermit The Frog)

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Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 1d

On Private Practice, the button-down brother from Wings once said “I need to believe in God because I need to believe in Hell so I can believe that people like her will wind up there” and I was like wow I thought my wife was here for the medical mystery meets sexy times.

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 1d

YES!

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Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 1d

This is not the Catholic Church I knew in my youth. But dang it it’s the one I wish I knew.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 1d

Early 2025 me, a child, enjoying @mtsw.bsky.social ‘s posts: trump take egg.

Late 2025 me, erudite and learned, reading @propublica.org investigations: trump take 67 million egg.

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for this.

I’m going to go see my sister. She works across town and there’s no great way to get there but good grief it’s better than wallowing.

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 1d

Someone put my political science tab in Josh’s sports tab

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 2d

Frodo Baggins ‘28

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon squirrel wearing a hat is sitting on a couch next to a cat .

Alt: Slappy squirrel says that was pointless.

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Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 2d

E to the U DU DX!
E to the X DX!

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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 2d

Baker Street

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not mad. Do not make a press release to the AFP that I got mad.

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 3d

Ya know they say it takes two to tango but I guess it takes two times ten to the tenth heyo thank you very much you were beautiful !

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 3d

I once tried to draw it up as a chart but the result was mostly just Messi.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3d

I am formally admitting defeat at understanding the Argentinian economy

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 3d

The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa

Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 4d

The new Chrono Trigger gritty reboot sucks ass

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 6d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents