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Otis B. Driftwood

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This is not the pencil of Lewis Jefferson. Proclamo. El influencer que no conoce nadie. Él/he/him/Er Esta cuenta es un espacio seguro para personas trans. 🏳️‍⚧️ A veces escribo cosas aquí: medium.com/@obdriftwood

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Otis B. Driftwood @obdriftwood.bsky.social · Nov 7

Alpaca de Carmona.
Montaje con cuerpo de alpaca y cara de Millán Salcedo, de Martes y Trece.

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Toni Delong @tonidelong.bsky.social · 17m

Toda raba, Netanyahu:

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Diario Público @publico.es · 5m

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Hamás entrega al resto de rehenes vivos en Gaza y ya no tiene ninguno en su poder

Liberación de rehenes entre Israel y Hamas, en directo

El brazo armado de Hamás, las Brigadas de Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, anunció este lunes la liberación de 20 rehenes en manos del grupo, como parte del acuerdo de alto el fuego en la Franja de Gaza....

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Capitán Swing @capitanswing.bsky.social · 50m

¿Cuándo está previsto que libere Israel a los cientos de niños que mantiene secuestrados en sus mazmorras?

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Randy Meeks @randymeeks.bsky.social · 39m

Ahora se estrena una serie en Disney+ de un chaval de izquierdas que se hace colega de un torero y que se vende como "un canto a la tolerancia".

No quiero tolerancia, quiero quemar contenedores y que todos los nazis se mueran de repente.

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Randy Meeks @randymeeks.bsky.social · 40m

Un poquito hasta la polla de que ahora las series y películas españolas sean de "Bueno eeeeh tenemos que entendernos y dejar a un lado las ideologias hombreee ni fascistas ni antifascistaaaaas".

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Pablo @pablorockatansky.com · 23m

Cada día a peor www.eldiario.es/madrid/somos...

El Gobierno de Almeida apuesta por turistificar Usera con el sello "Chinatown de Madrid" y empieza a levantar sus arcos

Aprueba un programa de formación en los comercios para "mejorar la calidad de la oferta turística" y "atraer nuevos públicos locales, nacionales y extranjeros", en el que gastará 200.000 euros, acompa...

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Otis B. Driftwood @obdriftwood.bsky.social · 29m

Era una coña que teníamos en el antiguo tuiter cuando alguien mencionaba #tetas
Era el #tetarradar

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Otis B. Driftwood @obdriftwood.bsky.social · 32m

Hola, buenas

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David Llort @dondepre.bsky.social · 2h

De hecho, la única mención a "meat" en el texto modificado es esto. Y aquí no se evita que te cuelen como "meat product" cualquier cosa, tenga los aditivos que tenga, mientras tenga algo de carne.

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David Llort @dondepre.bsky.social · 2h

Pues yo no he visto nada de eso en la ley del parlamento, eh? No hay nada en el texto de la ley que te impida venderte como burger cosas con el 80% de carne y el 20% de agua o fécula de patata.
Este "no, es para evitar aditivos" me parece damage control.
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

Texts adopted - Wednesday, 8 October 2025

www.europarl.europa.eu

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Otis B. Driftwood @obdriftwood.bsky.social · 33m

Redondo.

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Ｊｕｄｉｔ 🔻 @juditsinhache.bsky.social · 11h

Desconocen cuántas mujeres hay afectadas, pero oye… ya las han llamado a todas

Mentiras y más mentiras

Mentir, robar y poner en peligro la vida de las personas, la especialidad del PP

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Isabel Mellén @isamellen.bsky.social · 11h

Y esto, queridas y queridos, es exactamente lo que ha pasado en Vitoria hoy.

Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 2d

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 20h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · 14h

Amazingly, universal health care coverage seems to be popular, something that American reporters find baffling and hard to understand.

The outright ignorance of American elites is always a wonder to behold.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h

As the partial government shutdown continues, the White House and some congressional Republicans are worried that Democrats’ demand to boost Obamacare as part of any bill to reopen the government is proving salient with voters — including their own.

Why Republicans’ attempts to kill Obamacare keep backfiring

The White House and some Republicans are growing nervous that Democrats’ demand to boost Obamacare as part of a government funding bill has salience with voters.

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lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one · 1d

lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one • 8mo

it's so crazy how the real Al widespread use case seems to be "skimming an email and missing the important stuff" which is one of the things i'm best at

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 18h

Papa Smurf wears a Phrygian cap, most often associated with the French Revolution, indicating Smurf Village had a monarchy it has since overthrown. This makes Papa Smurf, de facto head of state post-revolution, akin to Robespierre. In this essay I will —

An image of Papa Smurf, a small blue man with a white beard. He’s wearing red trousers that lead into shoes and a red cap that slouches forward.

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Otis B. Driftwood @obdriftwood.bsky.social · 2h

Buenos días.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2h

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver this week is a complete takedown of Bari Weiss... and it's thorough and devastating.

And a bit of interesting timing, given that Weiss's new boss, David Ellison (who is talked about in the episode) is trying to buy HBO, where Oliver's show is...

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Otis B. Driftwood @obdriftwood.bsky.social · 2h

Grmbf

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 14h

Hemos reunido a los actores de doblaje de Bart, Lisa, Homer y Marge para hablar del pasado y futuro de ‘Los Simpson’: “No cobramos ni una milésima de lo que produce nuestro trabajo” social.elpais.com/b5mne11

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Julio Lleonart @juliolleonart.com · 17h

En ambos casos hablamos de personas privadas de libertad sin juicios legales a quienes se retiene como medida de presión contra un tercero… por tanto el uso de rehenes o de prisioneros en este caso tiene una intencionalidad y no refleja la realidad. El intercambio es de rehenes por ambos lados.

EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 20h

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Israel y Gaza se preparan para el intercambio de rehenes por prisioneros
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7h

Palestinians returning to northern Gaza say they have no means to rebuild amid what they describe as indescribable destruction by Israeli forces, as limited aid trickles in but remains scarce, according to officials.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/n5k3lj

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Idoia @ptraci.bsky.social · 10h

This is so embarrassing. And worrying. But mostly embarrassing. This guy sways governments. All the while having no media literacy to speak of.

No wonder his pal Divorcymandias misunderstood Dune so much.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

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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