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chelsea cruz @chelccruzy.bsky.social · 1h

You’re god damn right I bought the last one.

Guess we’re all drinking piss at my house.

Attack Peter’s Godzilla x Pabst Blue Ribbon collab

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The AbominaSean @sean8urson.bsky.social · 12h

How does anyone pull this from one piece

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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M.A.R.S.F.🇵🇹 COMM SLOTS- CLOSED @ppdppl.com · 1d

surge in outfits taken from the concept art gallery in streets of rage 4 with a bit of adaptation

coloured sketch of surge the tenrec in three fight positions. leftmost, she's wearing a long jacket with white fur, black tight pants, odd white and yellow shoes. middle, she's wearing yellow baggy pants, a yellow long jacket, baggy black shirt, white shoes. rightmost she's wearing a baggy black leather jacket, a very loose white shirt, tight yellow pants, black leather boots

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · Dec 10

POV: you've committed the perfect crime, disposed of the weapon and and hidden the body, but now you arrive back at your pasture to find you are well and truly fucked.

Detective Columbo stands behind a wooden table with two irregular cow tools in it. He holds a 3rd cow tool and looks at it with his other hand scratching his head. He says, "Gee these tools are really something, aren't they? Y'know, my wife, she says they lack sophistication. But I just think that adds to the charm... Say... Don't they usually come in a set of four?"

Caption below the panel reads, "Cowlumbo tools."

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 4d

The New York Times, seeing increasing numbers of youth-led national revolutions happening: Not very orderly stuff going on here, quite distasteful if you ask me

The New York Damn Times, 2 hours ago: how Nepal's Gen z revolution spiraled out of control

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 13h

As Plague Inc players know, once it hits Madagascar, revolution cannot be contained or cured and the whole world will soon follow

The New York Coward Times, 16 hours ago: Fear of a coup rise in Madagascar as Army unit joins protesters

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The AbominaSean @sean8urson.bsky.social · 13h

Oh for sure

They never had to mentally progress so when their body starts aging visibly (especially cuz even with super rich health care they rarely take care of themselves because, as stated. they are mentally 13) they start throwing their money at the approaching reaper hoping to slow him down

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 27

You gotta wonder how much the weird immortality shit all these sex pest fash billionaires are into, is because absolutely none of them have actually needed to ever mature past 13 years old.

These guys have never experienced a need to grow or improve or learn anything.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 27

You gotta wonder how much the weird immortality shit all these sex pest fash billionaires are into, is because absolutely none of them have actually needed to ever mature past 13 years old.

These guys have never experienced a need to grow or improve or learn anything.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 27

These guys can be in their 50's and still fighting for their lives to simultaneously become immortal robot gods, make a bad dick joke that doesn't work, *and* goon to ai slop that has a suspiciously child-like face.

People who never progressed past the failures they were as 13 year olds

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h

Which they are doing their best to accelerate.

Numerous Billionaires Preparing for End of Society

Billionaires are (still) doomsday prepping. AI — the tech many of them are building — has them more paranoid than ever.

futurism.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 1d

The Uncanny Valet

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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Anarchist Memes @anarchistmemes.org · 15h

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jam @socialistboat.dad · Oct 26

When he's not in character Conner O'Malley looks like a divorced Middlebury literature professor from 1987. Just like a guy with a midcentury modern house and two hunting dogs who's spent sixteen years poring over Milton or w/e

Actor/comedian Conner O'Malley, a late thirties white guy with wavy brown hair and round glasses, wears a black t-shirt and blue jeans in a TV appearance on Seth Meyers' show

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Apr 29

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

Two people riding bikes in Amsterdam. One says “if anyone proposed this in my town I’d kill them”

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 22h

The only reason this isn’t considered trafficking via fraud is because crime is something poor people do

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 18d

Worked up a poster for Sinners - that cross section of horror movies, period pieces, and roots music checks an awful lot of my boxes, and heavens but it was beautifully made.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 20h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem