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✍️ Writer (Oestrogeneration, Poetry Ireland) 🚸 @childrensbooksireland.ie Raising Voices Fellow 🏳️‍⚧️ editor of the trans zine CAMP CRASH FILTH 🖌️ pfp by @kimberleychiu.bsky.social (my gf whom I love), header by Milly Meredith 🌱 pronouns sídhe/her

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 2h

i always thought Lesbian Vampire Killers was about lesbians who kill vampires

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 6h

In fairness this is exactly what YouTube video essays were like for a while

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

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.

clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you – to be clear, I'm not on the TLC board anymore, they were rep'd by Nell Brosnan who is their amazing Press Officer and a good friend of mine

clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 11h

Limerick and Clare won the bid to host EuroPride 2028!

This is a HUGE coup. I'm very proud of Trans Limerick Community and everyone else involved in the push. You love to see it!!!

Clare and Limerick win bid to host EuroPride festival in 2028

Regional reports from the Irish Examiner team

www.irishexaminer.com

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tams @ MCM London @maezanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Griddlehark modern au shenanigans ✨

A full illustration of Modern AU of The Locked Tomb series. Harrow and Gideon are sitting on a bench in the street while Pal and Cam pass them by cycling. At the end of the street you can see the Tridentari and their cav. Ianthe looks furiously at Gideon and Harrow.

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 1d

I have destroyed
the cage
you were keeping
me in

and which
probably could not
frame my fearful
symmetry

Yes
YES
The tiger is so free
and so cold

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 1d

I had one that was like this years ago. give me a minute

Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 10d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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🌟Bee 🏳️‍⚧️ @rosemarbles.bsky.social · Mar 5

Butcher

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 1d

keep submitting to festivals, it rules. i showed it to a couple friends and they said it was class

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Children's Books Ireland @childrensbooksireland.ie · 1d

Eason X Children's Books Ireland Q4 📚

15 excellent titles in English and in Irish that highlight talented Irish and Irish-based authors and illustrators. Stop by your local Eason to browse the collection in person or check it out online! 🧑‍💻

childrensbooksireland.ie/news-events/...

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 3d

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
lithub.com/irish-noveli...

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

lithub.com

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 2d

if it's on the cards it's on the cards. i have a certain perspective on this though

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 3d

yeah like marketing is not the same as drawing obvi. but that's my job, and i enjoy it. and being able to make your own really good images would be a godsend in that job

clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 3d

design posters. etc

clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 3d

literally you can do art for their social media and other comms, yeah

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 5d

deep sea dream

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 11d

rolling into october...

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 7d

guy who pronounces placename like 'PLAH-keh-NAH-may'

clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 8d

they mixed up the labels for Intermediate and Advanced

Completed 'Intermediate' newspaper sudoku in red ink

clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 8d

fuck yeah

clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 12d

dudes rock

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 13d

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Cube Enthusiast @killhamster.bsky.social · 14d

Nature is healing

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 12d

Had a great time with the first episode of this. Trips along nicely, great casting. It's on the Player!

Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland @screenireland.bsky.social · 13d

🍸 A night out to remember… Director Ian Fitzgibbon and the cast of The Walsh Sisters in the making of last night’s episode.

Episode 2 airs this Sunday at 9.30pm on @rteone.rte.ie.

📸 Enda Bowe

#TheWalshSisters #IrishTV

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tams @ MCM London @maezanilla.bsky.social · 16d

Gideon doodle ✨

A colored sketch of Gideon Nav from The Locked Tomb series. She’s looking at the camera while unsheathing her two hander sword.

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jona @babynapa.bsky.social · 13d

baby

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