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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 7h

“I’m finna get this program lit, fam” - Brian Kelly

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 7h

Lots of para sociality going on these days, wondering who's gonna be the first CFB head coach using being online as a recruiting tool?

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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 7h

Nothing drives me crazy as much as smol bean posting

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 7h

Also big accounts with an audience posting like their smol beans is bad! It drives A LOT of the discourse the big account people then complain about!

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 7h

The social media game of telephone where a very stupid thread about why Dems do not put Republicans in dungeons has become this does not help the big accounts escape the accusations here.

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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 8h

Oh yea

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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 9h

God I would hate for Cignetti to go there

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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 9h

Chicken andouille sausage, red beans, and rice incoming

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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 10h

the more you think about this firing the more insane it is. Dude had them on the cusp of the national championship game last year, has an insane winning percentage, can recruit better than most, and had an insane buyout.

This is just straight negligence

Chris Potter @cpotterpgh.bsky.social · 10h

Penn State: We're gonna let our public-radio broadcasters die rather than pay $17 million for someone else to operate them, because who would pay "a subsidy to run a business [when] there’s no guarantee they’ll stay in business"? (www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...).

Also Penn State:

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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 12h

The way Fiege is talking they’re basically gonna do that with the movies post Secret Wars

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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 13h

him hitching his cart to Allar killed him tbh. If they went with Pribeula they’re probably way better

👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 13h

MANIFESTING

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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 13h

A modest counter proposal

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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 13h

COME ON DOWN TO BLACKSBURG JAMES

a mascot dressed as a turkey is standing in a field .

ALT: a mascot dressed as a turkey is standing in a field .

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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 13h

Yea I’m gonna be honest, I just need someone to come in for 5 years and get us into the Big 10 or SEC once the ACC dies. Just get me a guy who can do that

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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 13h

LETS GO HOKIES

Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 14h

ESPN reports Penn State has fired James Franklin.

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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 16h

Ar-Pharazōn ass thinking

👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 16h

HOLY SHIT WHAT. WHAT TBE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. TOLKIEN WAS NOT SHY ABOUT WHAT HIS DECISIONS AND LORE WAS. READ THEORY

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 17h

I feel like we’re going through a crisis of credulity as a culture. You can see it with this, you can see it with woo, and you can see it with AI. Nobody’s willing to stand up and say “this is stupid, what are you talking about?”, so people keep spinning out of control.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

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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👻Spooky Sean🎃 @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 18h

I was talking to friends about this and “Being incredibly good on paper, winning 10+ games, but also losing a baffling head scratcher or two” is basically our heyday so we could probably do worse