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Cam No Relation Newton

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Bluesky’s self-proclaimed Middest Poster of 2023 four years running.

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Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · Aug 13

I will die a thousand deaths before I “argue” with “someone” online.

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Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 10h

Isn’t it cool how birds exist?

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 16h

It’s that time of year. There’s a chill in the air, theres leaves on the ground. Folks, it’s Blood Bowl season

The original box art for Blood Bowl, featuring orcs, ogres, and humans playing American football against each other

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 17h

It goes unspoken here, but I’m pretty sure Thiel wishes he was the Anti-Christ.

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.

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 3d

“When are they gonna get to the Frankenstein factory?!”

A ★★★★★ review of Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

My favorite guy is the coach driver at the beginning who has an American accent and is like “Ahh, beat it ya daffy broad” when the old lady tells everyone the monster survived. Every time I return to ...

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Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 3d

RIP, I still have my Yellowstone Magic Blaseball cap.

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 3d

And if that diamond ring don’t shine
Then I’ll buuuuy you a porcupine

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Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 3d

Right? And even in hindsight the people are like “can you BELIEVE they wanted us to poop in a BAG?”

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Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 3d

*smugly* Bustin’ makes you feel good? Uh yeah buddy, you and everyone else.

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 3d

I’d like to see Mastodon top THIS *makes ten of the worst posts you’ve ever seen in the span of 15 minutes*

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 3d

“The Nazi’s genetically modified ubermensch was perfect in every way, except they couldn’t figure out why he sounded like that.”

Mackenzie @mackenzievogt.net · 3d

Yes, but Christopher Walken's Zorin could easily exist in 2025 with minimal updating

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Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 3d

I know it seems strange to us Americans that they would pick these three guys that would have been eaten by wolves if they lived here in the states, but that’s actually just what all British people look like.

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 4d

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 3d

Was describing “A View to a Kill” to my coworker and I never realized how made up that movie seems. “It was the one where Christopher Walken and Grace Jones were the bad guys. Duran Duran did the theme song.”

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Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 4d

So many layers here

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 4d

Listen, I know things are bad right now. Alright talk to you later.

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 4d

Full presidential pardon, make him Postmaster General

Beautiful 🪄 👻 🦴🩻 @90210steve.bsky.social · 4d

He would for sure be maga cabinet member. With top security clearance now

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 4d

I think we all owe an apology to a little guy named Ted Kaczynski

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Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 4d

If you need something, anything at all, please hesitate to ask.

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 4d

Living in the South is turning me into a semi-ironic Catholic convert. So fucking sick of these evangelical freaks

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 4d

Going back in time and killing Martin Luther so that all of these morons cease to exist.

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 4d

This place has been going downhill since I got here. That’s my bad, sorry everyone.

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 4d

What can I say other than “it me”?

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4d

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 5d

Why don’t you clean all the ham out of your ears, ham-ears?

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 5d

The right and the center-right

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 5d

Is it any coincidence that they announce this so quickly after the “NO GIRLS ALLOWED” bit from Space King? Really makes you think 🤔

Cam No Relation Newton @camc.bsky.social · 5d

Someone get David Cage on the phone, we’re about to hit critical levels of bad game design.

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 6d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming