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slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 11d

*travelling the world*

people: Where are you from?

me: The People's Republic of Detroit. It's a small island nation in the US state of Michigan.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

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.

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 2h

awwwww 🤩 muitooooo adorável

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 4h

Indigenous American engineering innovations created crops like corn & the tomato & potato that have become global staples.

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 4h

The cultures of Indigenous people here were not less advanced than Europe & neither were the African cultures slaves were taken from even though someone's going on about that in my mentions. Indigenous Americans' intentional agricultural stewardship produced a paradise as Europeans admitted.

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Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 16h

Living Fresh Market is located in Ilinois, 7520 Roosevelt Rd, Forest Park, IL 60130

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 2h

tidal.com/browse/track...

John Legend - Good Morning

Listen to Good Morning on TIDAL

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 11h

keyshia cole looking *divine* in the half black half blonde hair

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 11h

was there a major impact on regular people? or not really

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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Las Vegas Aces @lvaces.bsky.social · 1d

𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐀 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐃 🏆🏆🏆

The Las Vegas Aces are the 2025 WNBA Champions!

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 1d

a’ja wilson face at the cathy engelbert being booed. 👩🏾‍🍳💋

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 1d

now get out MVP her racerback jersey style for next season!!

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 1d

for real

and also if you *know* the refs are sensitive, don’t get up in they face like that. not with what’s on the line.

JD @realdealjd.bsky.social · 1d

everybody has criticisms of wnba refs including Ryan & Rebecca but if I feel your spit on my face you are gone

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 1d

somebody explain the .com bubble to me (i was a kid)

cuz it feels like that’s what’s about to happen with the US economy & AI...except worse.

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 1d

thanks for making me listen 😂

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 1d

definitely enjoyed it. the song selection was A1. i grooved the whole way through. AND was reminded why we used to love jeezy music.

this was perfect cruising in the car music.

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 1d

i’m not gon go song by song, but this first one is jazzy and funky and i liiiike

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 1d

i completely forgot!! 😭 starting it now.

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 2d

matter fact...let me start some right-wing propaganda real quick.

Europe is the most superior continent. All the right-wingers should return to dear old father land. to supreme amongst their fellow supremiest superiors.

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 2d

Europeans always make these dumb American jokes and they're usually talking about European-Americans. Where they get these traits from...hmm?

Germany - No more Trump jokes until you come and pick him up. This is a son of YOUR land. Come. Get. Him.

Tryna block immigrants. TAKE YOURS BACK FIRST!!

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 2d

Europeans always make these dumb American jokes and they're usually talking about European-Americans. Where they get these traits from...hmm?

Germany - No more Trump jokes until you come and pick him up. This is a son of YOUR land. Come. Get. Him.

Tryna block immigrants. TAKE YOURS BACK FIRST!!

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 2d

You know what fascism looks like? Attorney General Letitia James getting criminally indicted on literal trumped-up charges by the criminal who she fought to hold accountable for the actual crimes he committed and is now using the full power of the US govt to seek vengeance.

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 2d

my interpretation: there is success (however you define that) waiting for you to take intentional, grounded action. you’ve probably done enough of the inner work you needed to do to get into motion. now the work continues but in a less isolated way

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 2d

i’ve watched every episode of the invasion on apple tv. and don’t know what’s going on for real because it is like nyquil to my body. great sleep every time.

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Robbie Bettelon @bobbybuckets313.bsky.social · 2d

Bucks announcers are hyping up the Cade MVP train - glad others are starting to join the club.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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