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Certified delightful. Charm quark. Typos are my love language. Also on: https://mastodon.social/@nypinta Forum: sunnyditch.com https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nypintau

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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · Nov 14

If you're new to Bluesky and hate the word "skeets"... don't worry. I do too. it's a silly word.

But there are bigger things to worry about. Just call them posts. It will be fine, I swear.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h

ICE spent $800K on vans with stingray tech that collects data from all nearby phones, even yours. These devices mimic cell towers to track locations and intercept communications. Oversight and transparency are needed now.

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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 8h

Quintumble - Oct 12, 2025

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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 8h

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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 8h

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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 8h

Wasn't there leaked audio of Peter Thiel telling other billionaires that they have to convince the world taking their money was somehow going against God?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

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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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 20h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 23h

My wife is collecting signatures for a sweet ballot measure in Michigan that would tax income over $1,000,000 to reduce class sizes while recruiting and retaining great teachers.

But they're way behind.

So she was tasked with bringing in someone who could help gather signatures.

Could it be you?

Invest in MI Kids

Putting kids first. Building a stronger Michigan for everyone.

investinmikids.org

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 20h

Thinking now I should have just gone with Goo Goo Fighters.

NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 21h

Mash up bands:

Toolbox Twenty

Fleetwood Clash

The Goo Goo Foo Fighters

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 21h

Mash up bands:

Deep Purple Floyd

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 1d

Mash up bands:

Van Fighters

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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 23h

I don't know if these still work: Netflix Codes

www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/the-net...

Netflix Codes 2025: All The Secret Movie & Series Category Codes on Netflix

Explore Netflix's vast library with our 2024 guide to over 4,000 hidden genre and category codes, personalized lists, and seasonal collections

www.whats-on-netflix.com

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 23h

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 1d

Same.

NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 1d

holy shit.

NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 1d

Today's adventure: West Mountain Fall festival. We took a ride on the ski lift and did a short hike at the top.

A view south from the top of West Mountain, just south of Lake George. Pale blue mountains fade into the distance under a clear blue sky.

A row of yellow leafed trees with the sun coming through the halfway bare branches.

A view to the South East of West Mountain, showing the Hudson River curving around one bend in the valley below.

A view from the bottom of West Mountain with the ski lifts to the right and a kids ride to the left.

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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 1d

If you mean a floating head, yeah. Is that the artist?

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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 1d

I think I found them all. I actually lost one, found a different one, and was going nuts thinking I had miscounted previously.

NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 1d

I'm missing one ...

NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 1d

Quintumble - Oct 11, 2025

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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 1d

Connections
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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 1d

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 1d

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Make the Revolution Irresistible

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NYPinTA🌻 @nypinta.bsky.social · 1d

Still gets me.