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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 1h

Apt complex heating decided to work this year 🎉🥳

Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 1h

Sickos yes jpg

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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe they really are drinking their own kool aid, after all it's just literally true that black bloc was only used at a relatively tiny minority of protests

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 13h

Bro it says all terrain, trees is terrain

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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 13h

Context
www.wkyc.com/article/synd...

New York Times, AP, Newsmax among news outlets who say they won't sign new Pentagon rules

The New York Times, The AP and the conservative television network Newsmax are among the outlets who say they won't sign a new DOD document about press rules.

www.wkyc.com

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16h

PHILOMENA CUNK: It was actually illegal in England for The Obese to be employed in the film business until 1983. Why do you think that was?
JIMINY GLICK: [ignoring question, high pitched voice] Have you ever noticed how lesbians and British women dress the same? [sudden low pitch] Why is that?

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17h

this is because they were pushed to r/frenworld by reddit mods. reddit moderation policy gave them all permanent babytalk brain

big neutrals @boymoder.meangirls.online · 22h

why do modern nazis speak like they're on r/rarepuppers it's so fucking soy. how do you type this out without killing yourself

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unpaid shirtz dot cool brand ambassador @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 17h

telling that the reaction to this has been overwhelmingly positive, and that his detractors aren't really pushing this as an attack vector. maybe it's because trans rights are overwhelmingly popular in polling! could be!

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 17h

i don't want to get too bleak but katrina was the warning shot. we are going to live to see perennially internally displaced populations and it will be, like many other things, largely a public policy choice.

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This user is 13 apples tall @wubw3846.bsky.social · 16h

this is my favourite video game to play

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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 13d

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."

All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13d

‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’

The birth of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers

www.theguardian.com

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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 16h

If she never tells you how will you receive commissions and check in on her maintenance requirements

Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 17h

When she's a 10/10 but she's in your downline

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

I think it’s good for your personality to not make proselytizing technology fads a part of your identity and especially so when you jacket it in things like queerness or being brown. I’m going to be bold and draw that line in the sand.

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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 2d

We needed the mcluhan you know nothing of my work moment but never got it bc zizek also loves to half-ass plagiarize zizek

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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 2d

Zizek must pay for his crimes of creating ten million of this type of guy

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

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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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about Big Fat Baby

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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 2d

Tbh didnt understand this post, got distracted by the tits

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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 2d

This guy just said "fair enough" at the REI

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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 2d

Had to turn my phone away from me to avoid choking to death upon reading this, youll get me next time tho in sure

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 2d

running the government like you just did a leveraged buyout but the private equity holders are breathing down your neck and you're not very good at this

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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 2d

Getting ahead of this means asking the same questions to your local and state leaders in blue states and cities in phone calls and at city council meetings.

Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 2d

Are they under his control though? Is he afraid to test that?

Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 2d

American lib xtianity rapidly closing in on the secular position of "those maga guys are demonic" but there's a lot of ground to cover

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

Amen

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

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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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone is welcome to come into my comments and be wholesome and get along, I aim to provide a joybaiting and smilemaxxing environment

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