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@delsaber.bsky.social

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Typical anxious scatterbrain. Gets left on read a lot. One of these days I'll be on time. Unpromoted, don't know how you found me. Algol OG / Friend of DeSoto / Letterboxd cat scholar at boxd.it/5Jk7H

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del's exhausted masking @delsaber.bsky.social · Jul 12

average Letterboxd user

Screencap from Porco Rosso of Porco asleep on the beach with an issue of "cinema" magazine covering his face

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 4h

Just a reminder that I made the best Star Trek Generations painting.

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heather 🌮🔔 @crunchwrap.bsky.social · 3h

This is the best editor's note:

How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod?

People occasionally just flip [me] off or whatever, but nobody's come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. Personally, it's kind of dumb. It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is. [Editor’s note: Taylor was arrested and plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe a good day to unfollow Hard Drive if you had still been following them. It's no wonder they need AI to make jokes for them these days.

Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 3h

reminder that the people who made Hard Drive good were pushed out and some of us are doing our own thing here. give us a follow to support independent gaming satire and not whatever the fuck this is supposed to be

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Ash Parrish @adashtra.bsky.social · 49m

The male loneliness epidemic isn't real bc its just dudes being fuck ups

Ineffable Jeff @ineffablejeff.bsky.social · 7h

Shot + chaser

And are you married?

I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it?

Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.

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Mark Hill @mehill.bsky.social · 15h

Animated Banshees of Inisherin remake starring Frog and Toad

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 15h

“Maybe you are right,” said Toad. “Maybe Frog does not want to see me. Maybe he does not want me to be his friend anymore.”

Frog sits off on the distance, an island unto himself.

From "Alone"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online · 1d

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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Jan Ochoa @janochoa.bsky.social · 1d

JESUS CHRIST. GO OUTSIDE. TALK TO A REAL PERSON.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 2d

FYI for BC residents, if you want a COVID booster/flu shot, I was able to search in my emails for a previous "Book your next vaccine appointment" from a previous year and click on the link and it just let me schedule my covid vaccine.

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 2d

tired: Guy Fawkes

inspired: Frog

The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog

Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 2d

between this and the ICE ads on Spotify, YouTube randomly doing AI edits of creator's videos without their consent, and the U.S. government taking over TikTok, I think I'll just get really into collecting music on CDs and start bringing books with me everywhere again.

demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 5d

seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription

@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."

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cayce @cayce.zone · Sep 28

weirdly incongruous yet very rad music for this "sneak into backwater techprison to save Chirico" sequence from VOTOMS

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 7d

// A little bit of topical lunacy, courtesy of @auralnauts-craven.bsky.social

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Bartleby Gruntford @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 2d

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 3d

we all got that one sullen homie whose leitmotif shares a chord progression and instrumention with an enemy whose identity is yet revealed

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sympathetic to business owners who aren’t at fault for sure — but the “Canadians are nice” thing doesn’t extend to invasion threats and economic warfare, and US media blaming foreign nations for their fuck-ups is the state media machine hard at work

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 3d

America’s christofascist technofeudalist movement is hurting innocent bystanders

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

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niko oneshot but they’re duen @riolu.gay · 3d

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Mackey Shines @bobservo.bsky.social · 3d

saw One Battle After Another last night and nodded solemnly at the top review on Letterboxd

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 3d

sometimes when I’m getting dressed I flash back to the time a journalist described me thusly and wonder “now what did she mean by that”

Excerpt from a New York magazine piece about me that’s describing my appearance:

“…colors her hair silver-blonde with a blue streak that matches her silver-blue eye shadow, and dresses her anime curves dramatically: The first time we met, in New York, she was…”

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 3d

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del's exhausted masking @delsaber.bsky.social · 4d

please don't let this dork be the guy who ends us all, it'll be super embarrassing when alien explorers find our tomb world

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

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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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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