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THE Joe Chaney

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I play a lot of Magic the Gathering, I play a good amount of Pokémon Unite, I want to play/run more TTRPGs Free Palestine, Reproductive Rights, Trans Rights, and Women's Wrongs (they deserve a freebie) MTGA - THEjoechaney#09742 He/Him - 🔞

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THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 3d

feeling a strong desire to disassociate and play New Vegas for a dozen hours kalsarikännit

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Gnome @gnomedic.bsky.social · 3h

Harry Potter sucks. Go read Animorphs.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5h

signing a bunch of LGBTQ+ protections into law but then vetoing two other ones bc they would cost health insurance companies 0.00001% in yearly profits is just so Newsom

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 17h

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 3h

I finally saw it! it was soooo good!!

Sean Penn could win an Oscar. I was genuinely disgusted by his character. I forgot he was acting

Benicio Del Toro was the perfect calming energy.

the score! the car chases!!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 15h

One Battle After Another (2025)

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THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 19h

I wish my rent was only $700 😭

THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 19h

$700 for an Xbox or $550 for a PS5 is kind of a no brainer

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THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 19h

I just saw a Tiktok saying that retailers are dropping Xbox cuz the price point is too high compared to PS5 and Switch 2

THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 22h

the current version of "Obamacare" is the Republican compromise. if it's "designed to implode" that's entirely because of the GOP. to demand to repeal and replace a public healthcare option without a comprehensive plan is reprehensibly callous and evil

fuck Mike Johnson to death (tbh he'd enjoy it)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 1d

America really needs to wise up to the fact that wealth is not a basis of merit/intelligence

some of the dumbest people alive are billionaires

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.

THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 1d

we were very much not each other's person

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🎃 Sid Oozeley 🎃 @oozeley.bsky.social · 1d

this is what happens when Luffy meets Peter Thiel:

Luffy Punches a Celestial Dragon | One Piece

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THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 1d

IRA on a Saturday

THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 1d

on a Magic date. let's see how this joes

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THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 2d

so the implosion begins over the holidays, and Q1 2026 is a bloodbath

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 2d

ladies and theydies, y'all know the drill :3

if you can, help a fuckin lovely person land on its feet

Spice8Rack (Marxist) @spice8rack.bsky.social · 2d

Hey all 👋 my living situation has dramatically changed. I should be fine for a few months, but if you'd like to help me make - significantly increased - rent, then any change would be greatly appreciated.

Patreon: www.patreon.com/spice8rack
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THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 2d

I just removed my AC unit from the window, so we're guaranteed one more day above 90 im Chicago

THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 2d

this *was* my Naya Commander until I splintered it into separate decks

Magic the Gathering card Ghired, Conclave Exile

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THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 3d

feeling a strong desire to disassociate and play New Vegas for a dozen hours kalsarikännit

THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 3d

they called it the set Spider-Man and forgot the "Amazing" or "Spectacular" or any superlative really!

that said, I'd love to see more of a narrative focus on these sets. do something fun with the IP! give us some kind of justification for the set besides Mr Krabs' "I like money"

THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 3d

the reason AI is not profitable is that very reason. how can anyone assign value to a thing if it cheats on the labor costs? Marx posits that the labor cost is the entire driving force of manufactured goods. when you remove that cost, you have nothing.

AI's "failure" lays bare the lies of capital

THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 3d

I been hitting people with "aren't you ashamed of your ignorance?" and that seems to be pretty devastating as a wake up call

THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 3d

what is "can't be blocked" if not another way of saying "can't be stopped!" ???

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!! THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE! IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN!!

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Spice8Rack (Marxist) @spice8rack.bsky.social · 3d

In the precursor to this video (Magic: The Gathering & the Death of the Future) I complain how Kamigawa's lore was changed for no other reason than to include a TMNT reference in its return.
I really should have considered that the entire game system was being remade to sell collectable simulacra.

A MTG card:

Shell of the Last Kappa
{3}
Legendary Artifact

{3}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery spell that targets you. (The spell has no effect.)

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Shell of the Last Kappa: You may cast a spell from among cards exiled with Shell of the Last Kappa without paying its mana cost.

An MTG Card:

Kappa Tech-Wrecker
{1}{G}
Creature — Turtle Ninja

Ninjutsu {1}{G}

This creature enters with a deathtouch counter on it.

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a deathtouch counter from it. When you do, exile target artifact or enchantment that player controls.

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A MTG card:

Leonardo, Sewer Samurai
{3}{W}
Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle Samurai

Sneak {2}{W}{W}

Double strike

During your turn, you may cast creature spells with power or toughness 1 or less from your graveyard. If you cast a spell this way, that creature enters with a finality counter on it. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

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THE Joe Chaney @thejoechaney.bsky.social · 3d

*Goben firing up the cloning pods*

"accidents happen"

Magic the Gathering card Goben, Gene-Splice Savant

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