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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · Nov 14

Do not say to me on this website "Haha! So true!" or "That's a follow" or "erm did you mean...?" This is Twitter Level 2 bitch. Step up your reply game or be broken on the wheel

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6h

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

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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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2h

A bunch of grandmas standing and hooting for Nuremberg 2? Something for the opposition party to think about

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 5h

Step 1: disband ICE
Step 2: give ICE's entire bloated budget to the IRS
Step 3: record white collar crime task force kicking in penthouse doors and macing unresisting billionaires
Step 4: one hundred years of Dem reign

logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 5h

Porque_no_los_dos dot png

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shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 6h

SaltReminder™: hey Dave! it looks like you're preparing a recipe, would you like to add some salt?

ME: that's a good idea, thanks SaltReminder™!

SaltReminder™: no problem!

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 5h

I love living in the rotting corpse of neoliberal capitalism. It's so cool here

logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 5h

An entire society subjected to the whims of a sundowning bitchy TV host who insists that his fever dreams are reality with ironclad arguments like "If this is so, which it is,"

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 5h

Going to the pumbo patch. To get the bumbus

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Lauren J @thespinzone.com · 5h

Guys: things have gotten out of control in Chicago. People are terrified running for lives and onlookers are screaming in fear. We need federal help. Please. Come save us

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 5h

Seeing the different trajectories of him and Wareheim I think it's pretty clear who was the main mind behind their early collaborative work

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John Calvin’s Strongest Soldier @waveturtlejake.bsky.social · 1d

Tim Heidecker putting out an apology for performing at Riyahd (he did not) is such a good bit.

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 5h

Completely lost my shit at "King Salmon", Heidecker is an all-time comedy genius

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 5h

THEM: please... you have to stop saying every media property is about the Antichrist... please !

PETER: [pointing at a copy of Cyberpunk 2077] Antichrist

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 5h

He's screamin but we don't care. Lost in the sauce

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 5h

Idk get her a nice bottle of whiskey or something

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 5h

Cracking open The Thing like a crab to get at the delicious thingflesh within

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6h

the whole tron setting doesn't really make sense. why is the computer run by a fascist dictator? (sees my laptop updates weren't installed because some background software refused to quit) kill that program. kill it now. kill that program immediately

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

There was a moment, very recently, when the popular sentiment was firmly in favor of addressing police violence and unaccountability; the response from these same politicians was “fund the police.”

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

“But the politicians are scared of police violence,” hmm how do you think we feel about it?

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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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Steve Suckington @stevesuckington.bsky.social · 15h

“a dull blade is more dangerous than a sharp one”- guy that’s never been stabbed by a sharp blade

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 15h

This is the chef behind World Street Kitchen, if you ever get a chance to check them out

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 16h

This looks like a crime against green beans but I promise you it is a flavor bomb

logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 17h

A dish with an exceptionally high flavor:appearance ratio

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 17h

A pencil maybe

logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah it's just a fairly classic dark spice blend. You could get pretty close with like, pumpkin spice and a shitload of black pepper

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