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texas culture reporter for @chron.com native texan, aggie, astros fan, ⚧️ in love with all of these vampires 📍houston

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · Jul 30

I spoke to the trans woman who was assaulted at Barton Springs in Austin this weekend.

Despite everything, she said that the bystander who stepped in and the support she's gotten makes her believe Austin is "a safe space for people like me."
www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Austin police investigating assault of trans woman, bystander

One person was left with a broken jaw and a concussion.

www.chron.com

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 57m

as i said, freshman behavior

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 57m

i am on sunday content duty so i wrote about The Texas A&M Student's .337 blood alcohol content www.chron.com/sports/artic...

Texas A&M fan's 'hall of fame' public intoxication arrest goes viral

"Bro literally had traces of blood in his alcohol system."

www.chron.com

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1h

this is freshman behavior by the way. were you raised in a barn?

Capt. Silky @nowbacktome.bsky.social · 16h

If you still have Twitter the TAMUpolice account is gold during the games. Case in point dude had a water jug of whiskey and a BAC .337 how was he not dead?

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1h

mlb blowout ass score

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 2h

It’s so interesting watching @annamerlan.bsky.social’s Conspiracy Singularity in real time.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2h

i have all the respect in the world for the mariners, however i just think the blue jays look like the better team considering how they absolutely demolished the yankees

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2h

i'm terrible at predictions but i'm going to say Blue Jays in 7, Dodgers in 4, Dodgers win WS in 6.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2h

if i was as rich as thiel you'd never hear from me. i would live in a hyperbaric chamber like darth vader and siphon blood and other nutrients from my lackeys. i would certainly not be writing about how Monkey D. Luffy is a Christ figure like I'm trying to get a 2 on the AP English exam

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

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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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 2h

I'm in the Sunday blogging chair over at @defector.com today. First up, a quick summation of playoff baseball torturing its fans. defector.com/the-season-o...

The Season Of The Prayer Face Is Upon Us | Defector

October is the time when baseball becomes a test of fan endurance. It’s easy to spend a lazy July afternoon at your team’s ballpark with all of your worst drinking buddies. That’s entry-level baseball...

defector.com

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2h

round top was terrifying to me. all of the SMU alumni women clad in boho-chic core sipping $25 cocktails could tell i was poor while i was looking at mid century armoires. everything was $1,000.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2h

feel llike if i was the target demographic for a GLP - 1 drug i would go absolutely insane with the amount of commercials i get for it

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 13h

The SEC: Where reading a copy of Giovanni's Room at the stadium is illegal

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 2d

"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext"

www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Why I Withdrew From My Dream Job

At Texas A&M, politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in classrooms.

www.chronicle.com

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14h

This is a great postseason matchup, I can't even be mad

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14h

brings me no pleasure to report that we are good at football at the same time that wokeness is being purged from the university

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 14h

Thinking about the person driving home with that flag after a loss and thinking about how sad that would be lol

Cubs fan with a Wrigley Field North sign surrounded by brewers fans which kinda makes it seem silly too

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14h

kinda can't help but feel happy for andrew vaughn

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14h

Texas A&M is 6-0

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14h

go brewers

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 23h

"The man with the most power has expended enormous energy targeting those with the least."

Katelyn on this Zohran quote: "This is the line. It's the line that got me to tear up as I was watching it."

strikes me how this kind of powerful, simple message grows from belief, not focus groups!

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

A 15-year-old autistic, intellectually disabled, and often non-verbal boy in Houston has been held in ICE custody for the past week without his family knowing where he was.

I confirmed this video is real with local news reports:

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t really a classic both-sides treatment, it’s more the institutional rule that it’s rude and unsophisticated to summarize the facts of a situation in a headline if you can write an archly detached vague understatement instead

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I'm surprised Trump hasn't tried to do is have the Presidential Sash that Latin American leaders have. I feel like he'd love to have a big thing that conveys "I am in charge" on his body, maybe with some sort of medal involved

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

the 1975 aggie throwbacks are so good dude

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