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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 48m

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Syz @syzygial.bsky.social · 7m

The final humiliation: our oppressors are also complete idiots.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

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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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 51m

I hate Peter Thiel man. Luffy is nothing close to a Christ figure and you have to be really fucking stupid and pretentious to actually believe that. Thiel also completely misinterprets René Girard all the time. It’s insane how bad he is at this and yet people still think he’s intelligent.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 51m

what the fuck man

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 59m

illustrations from his First Things article.

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Syz @syzygial.bsky.social · 13h

If you're going to be tacky, at least commit to the bit!

A Mr. Global USA contender, looking like an atrocious hybrid between an eagle, an American flag, and the statue of liberty. His outfit is revealing, like he's a patriotic He-Man character.

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😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 16h

my favorite part of spooky season are the nonsensical animal skeleton displays:

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 16h

The reason why I get so furious at the people who use "Soviet" and "Russian" interchangeably is because there were a lot of non-Russian Soviets who fought in the Red Army and the Russian Federation wants you to think they're all Russians

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 23h

they didn’t fail at their job, they just don’t agree with you on what their job is

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

The lion further recognizes his paltriness

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 1d

ELRIC AT THE FORGE OF FOREVER (2019)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 14 ½” x 6 ½”

When I tossed out the old container of paints used to do the cover painting for WORDS OF RADIANCE, it landed upside down in my wastebasket on a piece of paperboard I had been using as a palette for something else. 1/2

Elric stands on an outcrop of rock with skulls at his feet. He wears a black hooded cloak trimmed in gold and jeweled bracers. He cradles Stormbringer as the length of the runesword, glowing purple, extends well above his head. Below him water spills frothy onto the shore but as it stretches back, placid and glassy, it gives way to erupting vents of lava.

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 1d

Sobek 🐊

#paleoart #berensart2025

a black and white drawing of a spinosaurus perching on a stone plinth shrine. He wears atef crown and the markings on his sailed spine resemble ankh.

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 1d

Baseball fans: oh god more baseball I want to die

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 1d

Also check out these reconstructions of medieval Norse clothing made by the National Museum of Denmark, and this blog post that discusses it in detail:

alexandramakin.com/2021/06/30/e...

Reconstruction of two examples of early medieval Norse male and female outfits.
Photo: Roberto Fortuna, The National Museum of Denmark.

Finished male outfit of an early medieval norse.
Photo: Roberto Fortuna, The National Museum of Denmark

Finished female outfit of an early medieval norse.
Photo: Roberto Fortuna, The National Museum of Denmark

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 1d

This is how "vikings" actually dressed like (a prince in this case). Not that black and brown biker jacket nonsense they are depicted like these days. Colour! People always liked colour!!

North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 1d

No medieval filter here! A modern recreation of a Viking ruler for Denmark’s National Museum, based on the depiction of Cnut in the New Minster Liber Vitae and on clothes found at a grave in Mammen, Denmark. #medievalsky

A man wearing a thigh-length red tunic beneath a cloak of a darker red, both richly embroidered, blue leggings and soft, tan-coloured shoes.

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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 3d

Slay

#WerewolfWednesday #art

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i don't think there's any way to productively use them. "win a majority and appoint judges who will mulch those powers immediately" is, i think, the ideal outcome.

depose schumer @glosson.bsky.social · 1d

"how will you leverage the extreme powers that the Roberts court has given to the president in order to ruthlessly address the supreme court's illegitimacy crisis?"

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d

watching a modern cdrama to improve my language fluency and I'm about 10% better in business and social situations and 1000% better at devastating put downs towards my future daughter-in-law who is not the same social class and station as me

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Zephyzu @zpehz.bsky.social · Jul 11

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hyphen @in.terl.ink · 2d

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 1d

I WENT TO SEMINARY WITH HER (laudatory)

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · Oct 28

Art by • OEVRLORD

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

it's important to always remember that every single humiliation and atrocity since January has happened because they either actively or passively enable it

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outsidewolves @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 22d

Seethe Mate

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Syz @syzygial.bsky.social · 1d

Those of you with strong opinions on the X-Men should probably be reading this...

Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 5d

It's the Power Fantasy #12 week!

The cover of Power Fantasy 12, with child Etienne Lux, playing with toys.

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