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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 31m

not to mention that criticising Israel is not antisemitic FFS.

Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 32m

this is fucking bullshit, there's no universe in which gumbo is Israeli food and claiming that post is antisemitism is dogbrained.

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 59m

the only onion people I follow are Mr Onion himself and June, I'm worried to check the TL

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 1h

all my apes....

gone.

onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 1h

awarded a bravery medal for protecting capital, no higher cop ideal exists.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1h

Former Victoria Police officer Michael Pratt has been remembered for his bravery when he confronted three armed bank robbers in Melbourne in 1978.

'Australia lost a true hero': George Cross recipient Michael Pratt dies

Former Victoria Police officer Michael Pratt has been remembered for his bravery when he confronted three armed bank robbers in Melbourne in 1978.

www.abc.net.au

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 1h

imagine the lesson he took from Robocop

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 1h

remember in the bible where christ was made of rubber and was obsessed with becoming the king of the pirates?

Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 1h

oh no, this sounds bad.

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 1h

he absolutely got a chatbot to summarise these for him. No one on earth could read these and take this meaning from either.

*I have not read One Piece but I've watched hundreds of eps while my kids watched it.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

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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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 1h

a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie with the words pathetic written on the bottom .

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie with the words pathetic written on the bottom .

media.tenor.com

Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 11h

also a handy skill

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 11h

the only time it's acceptable to boo at sport

Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · 13h

Maybe our PM should take note of the reaction to the singing of the US national anthem in Perth. Him and his government need to read the room and get Australia away from those fascist lunatics.

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 11h

that was definitely my backup choice

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 11h

touch grass, Claude.

Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 11h

count me in, I have years of experience in that

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 11h

tag yourself, I'm Fatuous Pauper

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 15h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 11h

because they are dullards

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 11h

no it isn't

ashli @swiftinspires.swifties.social · 19h

🏈 l Taylor Swift's attendance at The Chiefs games ignited a significant increase in female NFL viewership, pushing the league's US female fan base to nearly 50%. This surge in interest is prompting the NFL to create more roles for women in areas like coaching, broadcasting, advertising and fashion

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 11h

yesterday I was reading about turning the moon into a refuelling station by putting in heaps of solar panels and using the electricity to crack the water at the poles into hyrdogen fuel. Lmao. Cool idea, try getting a fucking rocket into orbit first dickheads.

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 12h

yes but asteroid mining and whatnot....

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 12h

one of the dumbest bits of bullshit that went on in Iraq and to a limited extent Afghanistan was 'cable detectors' - army spent millions on the stupid fucking things and no one used them. The guys worked out fast when they got home they had a skill almost no one else did and cashed in.

Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 12h

nah, no point now. Might as well ride this fucken civilisation into the crater and hope something better for the next one.

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 12h

🎵you're worried about the weather on Tuesday?
The ice caps melting apart
I'm building an Ark,
preppin' for doomsday🎵

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 12h

32yo dude with zero game. Take the kings shilling, my dude. It's over for you.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 14h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 12h

*pushes glasses up so far they dig a furrow into my skull*

actually, Semite is not a race.

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 19h

'University of Sydney academics Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane will be facing the Federal Court on Monday 13th October after university colleagues made a complaint of anti-Semitism against them under Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.'

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Anti-Zionism on trial - ABC listen

University of Sydney academics Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane will be facing the Federal Court on Monday 13th October after university colleagues made a complaint of anti-Semitism against the...

www.abc.net.au

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