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Nicky Flowers

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the only thing worst than posting is podcasting. i do both. but don't worry, i also produce bedroom pop :-) // (they/them) // RSS feed at nickyflowers.com // (607) CALL-POD

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 21d

it's the 11th Annual Nicky Flowers (let's-celebrate-the-end-of) Summer Single!!! every year since 2015, i've released a non-album single and here i am once again!

this time, i'm introducing my new Portastudio-based sound. let everyone know i've gone lo-fi nickyflowers.bandcamp.com/album/laugh-...

Laugh It Off / The Ballad of the Contemptible Loser, by Nicky Flowers

2 track album

nickyflowers.bandcamp.com

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 25m

i should read some Pynchon. i think im ready

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 3h

an abstract fake oil painting. lots of warm tones and playful scribbles

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 7h

i straight up unsubscribe from people who do this now lol

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lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one · 16h

every time you move your stupid hands around like a fucking pixar character trying to explain the epstein files at a second grade reading level there’s a low freq rumbling sound that could be avoided if you just got one of the MANY COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE HANDHELD MICROPHONES INSTEAD

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 17h

LRT i have some unexpected bills popping up soon so if you like my tunes,,, i could use the money!!

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 21d

Laugh It Off / The Ballad of the Contemptible Loser, by Nicky Flowers

2 track album

nickyflowers.bandcamp.com

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 7h

wondering why the democrats aren't doing anything to stop the republicans is like wondering why shohei ohtani never does anything to help defeat the dodgers

Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 17h

this sport rules

Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 17h

LRT i have some unexpected bills popping up soon so if you like my tunes,,, i could use the money!!

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 19h

it's fun to paint as quickly as possible

digital half-toned watercolor-y beach with ink outlines

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 20h

i enjoy the new procreate brushes. they are Rather Good. this ends my review. thank you for reading

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 20h

i forgot to text you the other day when i was in 7/11 lol, consider urself Texted

Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 21h

i've had too much caffeine today #coolcartoonsbynicky

4 panel comic of a weird little freak, full dick n balls out wearing a propeller beanie. the art gets more scribbly and manic as it goes

panel 1: OH SURE, WE ALL LOVE DIET COKE WITH LIME ... WE ALL RESPECT THE COCA-COLA CORP.
panel 2: YOU HAVE TO!!!
panel 3: IT'S A LIMITED-EDITION, NOSTALGIA THROWBACK. THEY'RE ON TOP OF THE SODA GAME. FUCK PEPSI. FUCK YOU!
panel 4: COKE OF COLA IS THE LIFEBLOOD. ONLY THE WORTHY MAY SIP!

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 1d

i can only make a game and have fun if i dont plan anything, i've determined. throwing my notes out. lets see....

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 1d

hi, i'm Grench Mentlop or something. i'm some fuckhead with rich parents who shielded me from experiencing anything challenging/interesting when i was growing up. as such, i have nothing important to say but i'm also very upset about various ethnicities. i love getting all the jobs in journalism :)

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 1d

oh PLEASE ratio me. PLEASE cancel me online, i'm 40 or 50 years old and i have nothing else. melting down over posts is all i have. i'm desperate for attention. please. please. please — My Latest Piece For The Atlantic

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 1d

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 1d

i think so! now that im back in the kitchen where its mounted, its like a pane of plexiglass or something with a white backing. really cool when the sun hits it just right

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 1d

yeah!! i dont think i ever saw a board with like, laminate layers that allow for that shadow before my roommate got us this one

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 1d

i enjoy dry erase boards

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 1d

the procreate Dreams app i think it's called? their animation app — VERY fun to play around with, highly recommend

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

It’s very funny to see him say this about Ozymandias, maybe the only character in Watchmen who can’t be correctly described as an antihero

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

tyranny of the midwits

Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 1d

I can't believe this is real

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 1d

i hate sleeping in jeans but i accidentally fell asleep in my denim jacket last night and had a cozy-as-hell time so idk. denim is a land of contrasts

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 1d

pilgrim guy finishes reading a big book, leans way back in his chair and loosens the belt on his hat

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