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matthew @pahuski.com · 4h

It constantly amazes me how many people took “criticism of Zionism isn’t inherently antisemitic” to mean “it’s ok as long as you say ‘Zionist’ instead of ‘Jew’ ”

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 3h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

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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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 15h

To this day no one has been able to convince me that the phrase ANTIFA wasn’t coined by a right wing think tank to make liberal activists sound like a terror group and that liberals walked right into the trap and gave the right the villains it needed for their narrative.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 18h

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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TheSecondBatgirl @thesecondbatgirl.bsky.social · 15h

Cat using actual cat bed??? How did you manage this miracle??

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TheSecondBatgirl @thesecondbatgirl.bsky.social · 15h

I’m perfectly happy with my oled screen, actually! And glasses over glasses don’t work for me

TheSecondBatgirl @thesecondbatgirl.bsky.social · 15h

I have successfully romanced 2 of the 4 options in Hades 2. (Third option is at max bond but I haven’t triggered the actual romance scene yet, stuck at locked heart on the fourth)

The nicest thing about my steamdeck is the ability to play in bed when I’m too sick to sit at my actual computer

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South Dakota Department of Propaganda @southdakota.bsky.social · 1d

A simple four panel comic with a round character. Top caption reads Before you leave the house, check you have. Panel 1 shows keys with a banana keychain, labeled Keys. Panel 2 shows a green wallet, labeled Wallet. Panel 3 shows a blue phone, labeled Phone. Panel 4 shows the character holding a colorful tangled scribble, labeled The vague sense that you have forgotten something. A playful take on the keys wallet phone routine.

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SidhCreature - Comms Open @sidhcreature.com · 29d

Screenshot of the mute account and block account options on bluesky

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Incorrect Final Fantasy Quotes @incorrectffqts.bsky.social · 20h

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Birmit @birmit.bsky.social · 3d

Well come and well met, my brave little spark
How long you've wandered, burned bright as a star
Oh, I have awaited you patiently all this time 💫

#ffxiv (Illustration wip)

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TheSecondBatgirl @thesecondbatgirl.bsky.social · 1d

I am so tired of being sick

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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TheSecondBatgirl @thesecondbatgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Sesame bagel, butter, and so much lox (I will never win because I hate cream cheese. Texture issue)

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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TheSecondBatgirl @thesecondbatgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Excuse me WHAT #uspolitics

Qatar is getting an Air Force facility in Idaho: What to know

The U.S. and Qatar have increasingly cooperated on a number of issues in recent years, including the Gaza peace deal.

www.newsweek.com

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Frog Redemption Arc Enthusiast @mxlabradorite.bsky.social · 2d

We finally have an answer to the age-old question: innumerable small frogs, or one kaiju frog?

A secret, third thing!

Many (but not innumerable!) human-sized frogs!

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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TheSecondBatgirl @thesecondbatgirl.bsky.social · 2d

I'm still holding a grudge for my mother doing that when I was in high school

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 2d

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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TheSecondBatgirl @thesecondbatgirl.bsky.social · 2d

Literally that is part of why grad students teach those classes/TA them

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TheSecondBatgirl @thesecondbatgirl.bsky.social · 2d

Also like, the easier way to do that would be to have you BE THE TA and not to take the class

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