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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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gretchen @boxofmillipedes.bsky.social · 3h

what is the charge, eating a meal? a succulent Cava meal?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 3h

Between the Chicago sports fandom and the Arendt references, I’m increasingly convinced the pope has a bsky burner

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 3h

[Retvrn guy voice] We used to make our idiot fantasists work for their tax breaks

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 5h

Guess it's harder to charge $200 bucks for a lecture in which you call Greta Thunberg and AOC Galactuses (Galacti?)

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 5h

Sorry, I know I'm an annoying enough presence on this site without reposting my own nonsense but I really do think much of the American elite have gone fully rabid and... well, yeah.

Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 7d

I like the “rabid” framing because it implies an awareness of what’s necessary without forcing the speaker to say it outright

Eanjay @eanjay.bsky.social · 7d

Stephen Miller has turned rabid. It’s reaching a point where the judiciary and police force really have to step up and protect the citizens from constitutional abuse and misuse of the military. Unregulated, politically motivated ICE is the tip of a very broad weapon once military are involved.

Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 6h

I‘m really not sure we were ready for the Revelation that God is canonically a Bears fan

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 6h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 6h

One battle after another really suffers I think from taking a Pynchon novel out of the 80s into something resembling present day. That 16 year time skip makes a lot more sense when the radicals are weather underground stand ins forced to live in Reagan's America.

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 7h

Broke: WWIII will be fought over rare earths and tariffs.

Bespoke: WWIII will be fought to decide who gets control of the IP rights to Jesus-Sun Wukong.

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 7h

*Massive bong rip*

What if Goku… was Jesus?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 7h

I didn't know you had a PhD in philosophy from Stanford

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 7h

"There's Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ's crown of thorns."

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h

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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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 11h

Man. It hadn't even occurred to me that they'd deny detainees communion.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 13h

Big Brother is sniffing you

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 23h

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Krasnovian Commando @krasnoviancommando.bsky.social · 14h

Who was president in 2020? Remains the defining question of our era.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 15h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 15h

This framing is calculated precisely to make me angry, and, well, it's fuckin working.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 16h

New funniest way for Bowser to take over the Mushroom Kingdom just dropped

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 16h

Many people are saying this

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 16h

Los Angeles vs Milwaukee NCLS: the Thomas Pynchon derby…

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 16h

Missed opportunity to be John Malkovich

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 22h

A modern speedcube is incidentally a pretty great showcase of Chinese manufacturing. Night and day vs an official cube—vastly quicker, quieter, smoother, more stable, and often cheaper too. It got there because even a very niche product can affordably go through masses of iterations and refinements.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 17h

We should ban all personal vehicles from the island of Manhattan

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17h

do i think the dodgers likely stomp the brewers? yes. do i also think baseball is incredibly stupid and makes no sense so anything could happen? yes. do i also find milwaukee uncomfortable as a concept because that many white people who look like me in one place is unnerving and dangerous? also yes

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 17h

I say this as someone who likes ASOIAF and thinks the backlash (especially to that quote) is probably overdone at this point, but the list of things GRRM doesn't understand would take longer to write than Winds

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