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PodKATT @podkatt.bsky.social · 8h

James Franklin was fired before James Danklin was harvested. This is our “Lettuce outlasts Prime Minister” moment

Eric Dean @dirtydills.bsky.social · 3d

Attn @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social

Done and done

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Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 5h

I would like Penn State to consider that I'm much cheaper to fire since they're looking for replacements.

Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 6h

Sorry, Labour, you can tell I'm a dumb American trying to comment on UK politics with that one. Ah well. Still not as dumb as Kier Starmer.

Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 6h

Sure seems notable that Kier "I'mma appeal to the Tories directly" Starmer is currently the LOWEST-RATED PRIME MINISTER IN THE PAST 40+ YEARS.

Sure seems like Labor should replace him as their leader immediately by any means necessary cuz what the actual fuck. Worse than May, Johnson, AND Sunak?!

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 11h

The biggest takeaway from this graph is that six of the seven most unpopular prime ministers since records began are *the last six prime ministers we've had*

Does this look like the politics of a functional democracy?

Six of the seven most unpopular prime ministers since records began are *the last six prime ministers we have had*

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Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 6h

Also, lol, cuz Caitlin Flanagan was the weirdo praising Bari Weiss and Woody Allen in this fuckin' weird thing. bsky.app/profile/park...

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 6h

To avoid giving her the attention she craves through a direct QT, I'll just say some people think they're the Dr. Stockmann archetype of "An Enemy of the People" ("The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone") when, in fact, they're the mayor from Jaws keeping the beach open.

Sally Jenkins
‪@sallyjenx.bsky.social‬
Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read.

Link to an article about how girlboss noted tool being paid millions to grift and be bad at news Bari Weiss is.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 9h

So instead we write nothing, and then yell at lower courts for failing to read our minds — ACB

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 9h

Just read the latest chapter of Peter Thiel's The Bible (One Piece) and boy is it getting wild!

Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 9h

And notably, that's a lot of old-ass white folks standing, clapping, cheering!

For a simple ask of "Drag ICE in front of the Senate, unmask them, and ask questions"!

Which is a VERY mild position (depending on subsequent consequences)!

It should be the bare minimum for federal Dem leadership!

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 9h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 10h

More of this from media when faced with liars, less of giving them room to lie unchallenged and uninterrupted.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 10h

horror lovers, is this anything

Levar Burton as Star Trek: The Next Generation's Geordi Laforge (black man, short-cropped hair and thin but full beard and mustache with silver visor over eyes and a yellow uniform) doing the hand up to reject the first panel and finger pointing to approve the second. First panel says "Body Horror" (b-o-d-y). Second panel says "Bawdy Horror" (b-a-w-d-y).

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Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 11h

I think a thoughtful, good script exploring some of the weird and worrisome aspects of "future technology" that is a clear allegory to things now could've gotten worse of mouth success similar to how Barbie did, without the fucked up actor and ads. Not nearly Barbie's success, obvs, but maybe some.

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 14h

If democrats weren’t also so married to nakedly corrupt insider trading like the stuff done by Pelosi they could run on anti-corruption and win in landslides.

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 1d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 11h

Someone I know said their current partner asked ChatGPT for ideas to troubleshoot their current relationship issues (such as a recent decrease in sex) and ChatGPT said to suggest a sex schedule and lemme tell you that suggestion did not improve their current relationship issues.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 18h

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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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 12h

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 · 14h

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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Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 11h

...I need a combination of Alan Moore, Eiichiro Oda, and Jesus Christ to mercy kill Peter Thiel, a man clearly driven to a weird level of schizophrenic religious illiteracy.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 20h

This is the kinda stuff that the Anti-Trump, pro-humanity folks with money should be running in ads nationally. Trump's admin runs join ICE ads during football, follow them with video of priests getting shot and calling ICE evil and rebuking them in the name of Christ.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

United States Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, flanked by Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, get loudly booed in Tel Aviv, Israel as they praise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Pretty much

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Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 22h

The gay one.

The, like, really REALLY gay lady one.

You know the one.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 23h

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

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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