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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 9h

It’s Matilda time!

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 16h

It’s essentially an emergency that you see One Battle After Another in the cinema immediately. Sean Penn will win an Oscar & it has the best car chase in many years. And those aren’t in the top 3 best things about the film. Jesus shitting Christ.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 16h

the daily wear and tear of worrying about yr neighbors, constantly vigilant with whistle in hand, etc

Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 16h

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 19h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Jes @jwolfe73.bsky.social · 19h

Northside ICRR update. 11:23am

ICIRR Eyes on ICE Update: This morning, Rapid Response Teams verified the presence of federal agents at multiple locations on the north side of Chicago including Rogers Park, West Ridge North Park, Edgewater, Uptown, Lakeview and in Evanston, IL. Multiple people have been detained. This is an ongoing operation.

Please be vigilant & aware of potential immigration enforcement in these areas. You have the right to film police activity, the right to remain silent, the right to speak to an attorney, and the right to refuse to sign anything.

ICIRR hotline: 855-435-7693
KYR card: bit.ly/ICIRRCards

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Ehren Ohkneel @ehrenohkneel.bsky.social · 19h

Pretty crazy that the guy voted Most Real Life Adrian Veidt is so far up his own asshole that he can't comprehend literally anything about Watchmen.

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 20h

good afternoon

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 7d

Yoda Latino

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 21h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 23h

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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GONZO the Ghoastly 👻 @gonzo.bsky.social · 1d

Yez

Orange and white cat stares in the foreground. Behind him, an orange cat blurrily naps in a window basket. Text reads, "our enemies are cowards and we are going to defeat them."

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Ehren Ohkneel @ehrenohkneel.bsky.social · 1d

Just got back from the movies and now I understand why you're all talking about having a couple small beers!

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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 3d

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.