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Hey, nobody *made* them vote for the host of Wrestlemania 4 @legalminimum.bsky.social · 1h

If for some reason you can’t get behind Indigenous Peoples Day today, feel free to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving. Americans stole a perfectly good holiday and turned it into a day for Columbus, in exactly the same way they coopted Remembrance Day and made it about their Veterans only.

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Jonathan Zaworski @jrzaworski.bsky.social · 1h

Elvis would never.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

your tactic of protesting in an inflatable frog suit which gets normal people on your side is far inferior to my tactic of posting about laser blinding helicopter pilots which is both wildly illegal and, were it to succeed, would put basically *everyone* against me

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Jonathan Zaworski @jrzaworski.bsky.social · 14h

I assume the ribbon is because you made him the Terriest.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 17h

I am very tired of this, but a quick review.

In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.

How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 18h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Jonathan Zaworski @jrzaworski.bsky.social · 15h

I'm very sad I can only reskeet this once.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 15h

Also, let’s all say this together, class.

“There is no such thing as a toy laser. No laser is a toy.”

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Jonathan Zaworski @jrzaworski.bsky.social · 16h

I have an eye safe laser at home right next to my cold fusion reactor and modest collection of perpetual motion machines.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 17h

Our elite class folks.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17h

“People have done a really insanely dangerous thing in the past in other countries years ago” is not a great argument

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17h

is it really fear-mongering to note that this is an extremely dangerous move in the current U.S. context (and in general), and that i would assume anyone actually suggesting protesters do this is in fact a fascist wrecker

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Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 18h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Jonathan Zaworski @jrzaworski.bsky.social · 17h

Even if they just sit out the election.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

GUESS WHO'S BACK

BACK AGAIN

DOC'S BACK

TELL A FRIEND

That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

docseuss.medium.com/building-a-b...

building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

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Brendan, Sorcerer of Illustration @hudnall56.bsky.social · 20h

Okay, I think I’m calling it done

Spore frog altered to be a frog suited hero scaring off a horde of military looking thugs in front of multicolored streams of light

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Jonathan Zaworski @jrzaworski.bsky.social · 20h

A picture of Merry and Pippin from the Lord of the Rings. The caption reads: "We've had one Nuremberg, yes, but what about second Nuremberg?"

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 21h

The internal politics at the NYT really seem to have turned towards being bitter about Democrats yelling at them.

Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 21h

His subscriber newsletter the other day all about blaming the Democrats for the shutdown really sealed it for me.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20h

And not just any reporter. Radley Balko's reporting has gotten an innocent man off death row. He's broken multiple major stories about huge scandals. He goes in-depth on the ground with tons of local sources. Dismissing his detailed debunking as Weiss did is something no serious journalist would do.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 23h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 1d

You can always tell these companies are full of BS because they lack the coherent details of any of this to make sense:

- what materials is the reflector made from? (because costs)
- What is the product lifetime? How will they be disposed?
- How are they maintained / kept in orbit?

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 3d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
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A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 20h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Leander **PRE-ORDER THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 23h

If you don't care about what you publish, why should your readers?

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 1d

As someone whose time freelancing for MLSsoccer was a vital step in my career progression, and someone who generally gleans insight from the observations of others:

This sucks so hard.

MLS is using generative AI to write match recaps. Writers used to get paid freelance rates to do that. Hssssss.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 5d

endlessly embarrassing that the powers that be here banned Link. just disqualifying.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 6d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

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Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Jonathan Zaworski @jrzaworski.bsky.social · 1d

The group I'm wondering about is the Catholic members of SCOTUS.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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