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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 1m

Are you saying that criticizing Israel is the same as criticizing Jewish people as a whole?

Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 5m

Memes about how Israel, as a colonizing state, has a tendency to steal aspects of other cultures and claim them as their own (like falafel and hummus) is not antisemitism unless you think that any criticism of the country of Israel is a criticism of Jewish people as a whole.

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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 17m

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not someone who thinks any criticism of Israel is antisemitism and ask again for something showing that the images were made by someone who is explicitly a Nazi.

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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 28m

Can you provide any proof of that at all

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Remerai @remerai.bsky.social · 10h

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 13h

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Havarti Gremlin @havartigremlin.bsky.social · 3h

(Thanks to "The Death Generator" by Foone Turing for the template)

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

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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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 13h

VTM Bloodlines NPC lookin' guy

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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 15h

VTM has entered the chat

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 19h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

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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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 18h

EVERYONE SHUT UP I HAVE TO BE INSUFFERABLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS

Extended First Look at The Vampire Lestat ft. Sam Reid | Premieres 2026 | AMC+

YouTube video by amc+

youtu.be

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Cheez 🖤 comms closed! @ricecakehomie.bsky.social · 21h

HES ROCKING THE TRAVIS McELROY

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Sean @himeya.art · 19h

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Peach Saliva @peachsaliva.bsky.social · 21h

It’s an expression of pain. @patstaresat.bsky.social

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Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 1d

Masahiro Sakurai shared a photo of a Game Director dinner meeting he had for Tokyo Gameshow!

Participants:
- Hideki Kamiya
- Toby Fox
- Yoko Taro
- Jiro Ishii
- Kazutaka Kodaka
- Keiichiro Toyama

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 23h

Diane Keaton has sadly passed away at the age of 79.

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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my fucking god, the Gold Star stuff is so fucking gross. Especially the "Platinum Star" shit some gay guys do.

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🌸Gretch🌸 @whothepuck.bsky.social · 1d

Logging on and seeing trans folks trying to throw teenagers experimenting with identities and sexualities under the bus

SpongeBob meme "wait you guys actually are still having queer discourse/infighting, I thought we've already established were all maggots in the eyes of the state"

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Witkoff, flanked by Jared and Ivanka in Tel Aviv, says "may god bless Donald J Trump, the greatest president the world has ever seen"

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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of the Israeli poutine image

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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