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🦔 Evie 🏳️‍⚧️ @notkimboslice.bsky.social · 1h

If I see an opposition party anywhere I'll let em know

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 2h

Are the Colts warming up by playing Red Rover or something

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🦔 Evie 🏳️‍⚧️ @notkimboslice.bsky.social · 2h

Jets Broncos looking like an Iowa mirror match out here
Riveting stuff

🦔 Evie 🏳️‍⚧️ @notkimboslice.bsky.social · 3h

That's so fair. I weirdly see them as the Lions of MLB, so I have a kindred to the Ms fans. Cursed franchise. 21 years between postseason wins. Never even made it to the big dance.

🦔 Evie 🏳️‍⚧️ @notkimboslice.bsky.social · 3h

Unfortunately im an old-head Tigers fan and fundamentally cannot bring myself to root for the Jays. Every pro sports team in MI's greatest rival is simply the nation of Canada I'm afraid

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ceej @ceej.online · 3h

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

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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🦔 Evie 🏳️‍⚧️ @notkimboslice.bsky.social · 3h

90yo white lady in a Tupac tshirt sitting behind Gunna at the Jets Broncos games is peak

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🦔 Evie 🏳️‍⚧️ @notkimboslice.bsky.social · 4h

The Bears really did break Justin Fields man it's sad to see

🦔 Evie 🏳️‍⚧️ @notkimboslice.bsky.social · 4h

I'm actually the one who designed every streaming service to forget you've connected your TV Provider randomly in the middle of you trying to watch something.

I did it because I hate you specifically

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🦔 Evie 🏳️‍⚧️ @notkimboslice.bsky.social · 4h

pretty sure that would make Alan Moore the antichrist, according to Thiel

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🦔 Evie 🏳️‍⚧️ @notkimboslice.bsky.social · 4h

I can hardly imagine admitting this to my therapist, let alone to a paper of record

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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🦔 Evie 🏳️‍⚧️ @notkimboslice.bsky.social · 5h

45 degree bulks

sexy ludovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · 8h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

"Pack of pup players"

KB @kbfoodphotos.bsky.social · 8h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

"Dog has the shits"

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Boo!-story (disturbingly absent) @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · 8h

(stolen from a friend)
Gender affirming train ticket

Screenshot from a train app with the date and the journey Nottingham to Manchester Piccadilly. The abbreviation reads NOT -> MAN

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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 6h

"Who was the president in 2020?" (and the first 20 days of 2021) remains one of the great unresolved mysteries in American political science. The media could never weigh in on such a complex question!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13h

“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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Chris McCosky @cmccosky.bsky.social · 6h

Buried beneath the rubble of the late-season swoon and the anguish of another Game 5 loss was an entertaining and captivating stretch of incredible baseball by a still young and climbing team...

Tigers' manic thrill ride in 2025 ends with broken hearts and elevated stakes for 2026

A lot of good things happened for the Tigers in 2025. It’s just gotten buried under the rubble of a late-season swoon and the heartbreak of Game 5.

www.detroitnews.com

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 15h

What now playboy

Cubs infielder Matt Shaw defends missing game to attend Charlie Kirk's memorial service

"Whatever backlash comes is OK," Shaw told reporters after he missed the Cubs' game Sunday against the Cincinnati Reds to attend Kirk's service in Arizona.

www.nbcnews.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15h

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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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 15h

The final four teams:

had a bye
had a bye
had a bye
(also the Dodgers)

and we never talked about the bye being a detriment ever again

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🦔 Evie 🏳️‍⚧️ @notkimboslice.bsky.social · 23h

Dan is an absolute legend and he better end up in Cooperstown one day

James 🧛 Dracin'on @jamackinn.bsky.social · 1d

Dan Dickerson "Fuck this game recap"

youtu.be/4NoKwsQMG3U?...

Detroit Tigers announcer - I'm sorry, was that out loud?

YouTube video by Geoff M

youtu.be

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Sara Hates Hockey @helmerroids.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so glad someone recorded it. I love Dan with all my heart. #Tigers

James 🧛 Dracin'on @jamackinn.bsky.social · 1d

Dan Dickerson "Fuck this game recap"

youtu.be/4NoKwsQMG3U?...

Detroit Tigers announcer - I'm sorry, was that out loud?

YouTube video by Geoff M

youtu.be

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Jon Heyman @jonheyman.bsky.social · 1d

Sources: Alltime great Albert Pujols is the first choice of Angels/Arte Moreno to manage following positive meeting. They still need to work out contract but Pujols is expected to be given choice of coaches if they can finalize the $.

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Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 1d

Brought out my old scorebook for stretch run and playoffs, never thinking I’d need to use the 13th and 14th innings. Used the whole grid and then some last night. What an insane game.

Tigers scorebook page from Oct. 10 at Mariners

Mariners scorebook page from Oct. 10 vs. Tigers

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 1d

No male-gendered player can ever imagine the glorious solitude of the women’s restroom at a Magic; the Gathering event.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 1d

Top of the 15th Inning

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