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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 16h

Chat is it a good sign when the pope is quoting Arendt

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 4h

Did you just tell me to go fuck myself?

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 4h

Trick question.

Because I have no idea what a"you" is, for I did not simply fall out of a coconut tree.

I'm as much a product of my gut microbiome as I am my embedding in society.

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 6h

You just know that fucker is gonna slip into a coma for a couple months at the end to really draw it out.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 16h

Every JD Vance interview:

REPORTER: The president literally declared war on Democrats to military leaders. Do you agree?

JD VANCE: Umm haha what I DISAGREE with is Chuck Schumer telling the American people they have to give their cars over to immigrants. But you wont report it!

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

Old books don't include the recently discovered 6th and 7th phalanges.

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 16h

Great bit of Thiel lore was that as the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding, he sent out a company wide email (Thiel Capital) musing that this may be the start of the Biblical apocalypse, and that everyone receiving the email should spend time with their families and read the Bible

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 22h

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

How have I never seen the Ultramodelo. The Especial Marine.

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

Japanese street art with Hatsune Miku holding a sign saying "BAN ANIME"

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 16h

anime is a drug

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h

This is a good catch. The statutory authorization supposedly being used to transfer R&D funds to regular payroll is, in fact, expired, just like the regular appropriations are also expired.

Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 17h

Not that Trump/Vought/Hegseth gaf, but among other ways in which the law says this may NOT be done:
A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 16h

Winnie the Pooh is better than Frasier.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 16h

I think if you have a billion dollars, you should not be allowed to have public opinions about One Piece period for the same reason the Pope shouldn’t be seen eating at Taco Bell and the president shouldn’t jerk off in front of the cameras.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 22h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 20h

THE MOST MARAVILLOSO TIME OF THE YEAR For Maduro, it's become an annual tradition:

The economy’s in free-fall? Declare Christmas. Lost the vote but claiming reelection anyway? Declare Christmas. The U.S. is blowing up boats and threatening stronger action? Declare Christmas

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Bracing for war, Venezuela’s Maduro starts Christmas early — again

It’s an annual tradition: Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, feeling pressure from opponents or enemies, plays Santa. Venezuelans aren’t buying it.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 17h

[Picture of Peter Thiel]
"This is your brain on cocaine, twelve unregulated testosterone-like substances, and the methylated trans-isometer of a Soviet de-icing agent rejected for excessive toxicity in sled dogs".

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 22h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 16h

I think the Stencil hypothesis is that the 10% will decide based on the vibes the TV gave them.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 16h

Campaign as hard as you want, give as good of a debate performance as you want, run on the best record you possibly can, your fate is still always going to be in the hands of a guy who decided his vote based on the color of his belly button lint.

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 16h

tbf, if you said "the billionaires would be willing to bring in the army to shoot the homeless", that would've ring true even a decade ago

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 16h

going back in time ten years to let everyone know the Silicon Valley libertarians will be lining the streets to greet federal troops as liberators

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h

whole thing is even worse than the headline when you think about what 'play' means here

“I’m just as concerned for you! Don’t worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!”"

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17h

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 16h

TIL about KG.

Brits are so weird.

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 18h

Moore: "Don't delude yourself it's good to build the Torment Nexus"

Thiel: "got it. Make sure it's a Christian Torment Nexus"

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 19h

I finally read that Peter Thiel essay about Alan Moore's WATCHMEN, and it's incredible that his actual argument is: "Moore argues that Ozymandias will fail because history defeats all world conquerers, and no victory is permanent. But maybe I, Peter Thiel, am built different?"

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 19h

"peter thiel releases a bad Watchmen essay" feels like a cruel joke on every nerdy person who does serious analysis and knows who he is

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