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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃

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Before the law. He/him. King County, WA, 🇺🇸 Sarcasm junkie trying to kick the habit. Do not, my friends, become addicted to dopamine. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence. I know you've muted me.

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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃 @gbaji.bsky.social · Mar 11

2020: Any tragedy can be borne if we learn from it.

2025: Ah, well, nevertheless.

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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃 @gbaji.bsky.social · 12d

People talking about the Democrats' return to power like it's the tide coming back in smdh

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 38m

monday comin'

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 41m

Guess he got some bad news at Walter Reed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Son Thou @sonthou.bsky.social · 1h

In Yiddish, “shoen vergessen” means “I’ve forgotten,” so there are great Yiddish jokes about Sean Ferguson. Often, Sean Ferguson is the name of the guy the Yiddish speaker forgot.

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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃 @gbaji.bsky.social · 1h

I must once again insist that when we take GenAI output seriously, WE'RE the ones hallucinating.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃 @gbaji.bsky.social · 2h

QT this post with someone you wish was still alive.

Jeffrey Epstein, Witness for the Prosecution

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sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 1d

ChatGPT itself is a lazy nepo baby failson that constantly bullshits you about work it can't understand and blows off, but you somehow can't fire because it got this job as a favor to its parent company, as above so below etc

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely tf not!

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 8h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Fritzie Hall @fritzandtheoscars.bsky.social · 1d

I always go back to this scene. Not because Diane Keaton portrays her fear so vividly but because her understated reaction to seeing Warren Beatty is able to say more about love and closeness, about feeling relaxed and secure in somone's presence, than probably any other in movie history

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Spryte M. ♿🏳️‍🌈♀️🎮✍🏻🪆🧩🦅 @sprytemagnus.bsky.social · 1d

@theradr.bsky.social I believe this is your gem of wisdom

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 10h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃 @gbaji.bsky.social · 9h

Overboard is often necessary. 😄

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 9h

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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃 @gbaji.bsky.social · 9h

This was very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to explicate it.

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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃 @gbaji.bsky.social · 10h

To everyone gleefully anticipating Trump's death: Vance is 100% wholly-owned by this chud.

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.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.