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Markayla W. @mkwhess.bsky.social · 9m

I am moving into my place this week and my car payment is on Friday. Any purchase would help me deeply during this time 💕
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💀spoOOoookika💀 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 18m

oh that motherfucker!! I was following him up until the point he said Łink deserved being permabanned for "making death threats"

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💀spoOOoookika💀 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 25m

I'm so happy for Kenny 🥺

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 18h

Outside of Portland's ICE facility last night, Kenny from South Park got married to a unicorn.

The betrothed Portland couple said they decided to get hitched on site to bring some joy and fun to a dark time.

"People can be fun loving people and still protest."

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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ceej @ceej.online · 40m

he died for our sins

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💀spoOOoookika💀 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 32m

Which, also, Evangelicals entirely miss.

"Praise" music is just zealotry

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 39m

To model mercy not in the abstract but in the tactile and tangible… what Peter Thiel and western evangelicalism miss … if you worship Christ but don’t follow Christ … you are not a Christian

You are a zealot

Worship is not the point … love is

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1h

This is a man that missed the entire plot of one piece

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

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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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 2h

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 1d

DUTCH AUCTION in support of salivaryglandcancer.uk

In my shop, this piece is priced at £165. At noon every day (BST) the price drops by £10, until it sells.

First DM gets it. UK shipping only.

Half of what you pay will go to SGC UK.

Please repost for widest coverage. Thank you :)

Hand carved #lettering on Hopton Wood limestone. I AM WHAT I AM.

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💀spoOOoookika💀 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 4h

jfc :(

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 4h

OK seeing this guy with his Vader helmet off is like knowing Pedro Pascal is being hidden inside the Mandalorian

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 14h

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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💀spoOOoookika💀 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 4h

Sasha is entirely made of sentient rubber and awesomeness

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 7h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 7h

I am the pickiest Christian on earth and I will defend Samaritan’s Purse before I defend the Salvation Army. They are doing the opposite of the Gospel.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 6h

I can only assume the summoning circle was breached, yet again...

www.filthyluker.org/art-attacks/...

large inflatable octopus tentacles emerging from a multi story building, coming out of windows

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💀spoOOoookika💀 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 7h

The monsters of the Id!!

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💀spoOOoookika💀 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 7h

ACAB, including the Salvation Army

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 16h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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💀spoOOoookika💀 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 8h

But I was surprised when I rewatched it years later that it’s actually GOOD. Same with The Blob.

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💀spoOOoookika💀 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 8h

I love the bleak b&w landscapes of the Mojave & the L.A. River, and I watched it for the first time when I was maybe 8 or 9. A quiet afternoon w my Nana on a little b&w tv at a friend’s house, a luxury she would never allow herself at home, where she was always “busy”. So many memories in one movie!

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💀spoOOoookika💀 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 10h

I love THEM on so many levels

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 11d

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

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Ser T-error, Guarding the Veil and Rogue-ing Traders @imasithduh.bsky.social · 11h

Would it also be a comfort to the Catholic folks who are trapped in the ICE facility? Sort of a "We brought Jesus with us and even though He was turned away, He is here for you"?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12h

this is more than just marching in full regalia to Broadview and praying outside of it

this is very deftly trapping ICE into the position of having to literally - LITERALLY, to them - turn Christ away from the door

any Catholic ICE officer was probably shook, I’m really not exaggerating

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12h

if you’re not Catholic, let me real quick tell you about the breathtaking audacity of bringing the monstrance with him

a monstrance is a big bedazzled gold ornament with a round glass window in the middle where you put a consecrated wafer, usually the bigger ceremonial one and not the bite-size

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 18h

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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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 16h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15h

Listen sometimes the situation simply requires a Catholic

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i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i'd call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

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