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Don Austin, Artist-Illustrator. Wishing to be a himbo for a sugar mama so I can draw dumb stuff all day. He/Him/Orb Ponderer. PFP: Selfie of Don Austin sitting in a chair wearing an Adidas tank top and Kangol Banner: ORB https://linktr.ee/Dtronaustin

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ORB DIMENSION SPIRITUAL WARRIOR TURN ∀ @dtronaustin.bsky.social · Nov 21

Well, getting a lot of new followers! Gotta shamelessly plug my book ;) Seriously if you don't have a copy yet you should get on it, the Kickstarter was only for getting 1000 softcovers printed and like 200 Hardcovers so I'm not sure how many are left. WAAAAAY less than 1000, that's for sure!!!

Cover to my cyberpunk comic anthology, BETAMAX. Features a Cyborg being worked on by a lady.

A comic page from the BETAMAX anthology, features a car chase with a demon lady saying "come and get it, boys!" and a cyborg thug sayin "close in on them!"

A comic page from my BETAMAX comic anthology featuring a dumb, racist thug trying to hit a woman with a baton but gets intercepted by Colfax Jones' bi-location blade, cutting off the dipshit's arm.

Backcover to the BETAMAX book that features a woman holding a large sci-fi rifle with text that show the story contents of the book: NEO DENVER STORIES, DEMON 303, COLFAX JONES, SPACE SEED X

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 2h

Dude I’m calling it, Thiel is cooked. He accidentally dropped a Tangible Detail. Most people didn’t know he existed and now he’s The Billionaire Who Thinks That One Piece Is Jesus.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

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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Denver Broncos @denver-broncos.bsky.social · 23m

Got the W in London!

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World's End Lifestyle Giant @magnumt.bsky.social · 1h

Sunday afternoon wisdom

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Mark Anthony Austin @bobafettanhse.bsky.social · 1d

1986 #bigtroubleinlittlechina #behindthescenes🎬 #filmmaking #johncarpenter #kurtrussell

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Sixo | Transformers @sixotf.bsky.social · 3h

Guys will look at this and think “hell yeah”

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1h

I read Peter Thiel’s essay on Alan Moore’s Watchmen and it unquestionably proves that piss poor media literacy is foundational to this recent rise of fascism.

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 2h

Blue moon, without a care in the world

October 12th 2025

#Photography

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Kort Duce @kortduce.bsky.social · 4h

A great blue heron drinks and scratches itself at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado.

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky
#bird #birds #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #wetland #wetlands #greatblueheron #greatblueherons #heron

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 6h

Cede your brain to Mecha-Hitler

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16h

I am straight-up going to have nightmares about this

In the video Smith posted online, he said Neuralink engineers had started using language models including ChatGPT and Grok to serve up a selection of relevant replies to questions, as well as options for things he could say in conversations going on around him. One example that he outlined: “My friend asked me for ideas for his girlfriend who loves horses. I chose the option that told him in my voice to get her a bouquet of carrots. What a creative and funny idea.”

These aren’t really his thoughts, but they will do—since brain-clicking once in a menu of choices is much faster than typing out a complete answer, which can take minutes.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 4h

Doug Chiang: The Cinematic Legacy (Volume I) & The Star Wars Legacy (Volume II) - December 2, 2025

Inside look at the upcoming two-volume set written by @alexandreponcet.bsky.social and Gilles Penso, a collection of Chiang’s work that has defined the visual language of Star Wars for decades.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 2h

That thing where I'm watching my Broncos play in London and then there's this commercial with the Karloff Frankenstein scored with a Yaz song and could anything be more targeted at me?

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Denver Broncos @denver-broncos.bsky.social · 2h

WIDE. OPEN.

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ORB DIMENSION SPIRITUAL WARRIOR TURN ∀ @dtronaustin.bsky.social · 3h

Like, he has to have some kinda kompromat/photos or something of someone important cause they keep lighting money on fire for someone that NO ONE wants to see in movies lol

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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ORB DIMENSION SPIRITUAL WARRIOR TURN ∀ @dtronaustin.bsky.social · 13h

Maybe people should start thinking he's dead

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

At some point Peter Thiel decided, “people think I’m weird so I’m going to get weirder.”

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

A little something to take the edge off as you head into the weekend @erinbiba.bsky.social

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 14h

Feeling less sick today and was tired of being stuck in bed. So with all the Tron talk, I did a couple quick and dirty sketches to see if I could come close to hitting the look of the original. Might try to do more with it?

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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 14h

@meriahkeyes.bsky.social :3

Quick drawing of Elster holding a seal foam plushy thing

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Pete “The Cabin in the” Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 9d

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 1d

Jupiter 30th June 1979 (Voyager 2) - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/975fV5

Voyager 2 narrow angle view, taken on 30th of June, 1979.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 1d

Stella Sacco
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It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 14h

Pretty much

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ʎǝupʎs 🌙 @sydneyjones.bsky.social · 6d

“It’s almost like you’re doing this just for me,”
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My piece for twit/loresflorae's fic in the @jayvikbigbang.bsky.social !! Please go read it it's VERY sweet. I love doing sunset lighting!!
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#jayvikbb2025

Jayce and Viktor relax, holding each other in their room during a Piltover sunset. The lighting is twilight, orange and blue. Viktor's mobility aides are off. Jayce looks very tender. It's romantic.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 17h

Every single thing the Salvation Army stands for is revolting

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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