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Sarah Tolcser

@tolcser.bsky.social

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Author of MAJESTICA, SONG OF THE CURRENT series. New Orleans based writer, Bethesda games girlie, & crafter of tiny historical fashion. Pay real artists!! TOLL-sir | she/her

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · Nov 16

This is my most recent book! If you know a kid (or adult!) looking for a middle grade fantasy adventure set at a magical creature park, check it out!

www.amazon.com/Majestica-Sa...

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 1h

no seriously WHAAAT

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1h

i'm sorry WHAT

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Brassica oleracea, also known as wild cabbage in its uncultivated form, is a plant of the family Brassicaceae. The species originated from feral populations of related plants in the Eastern Mediterranean, where it was most likely first cultivated. It has many common cultivars used as vegetables, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, kale, Brussels sprout, collard, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan.

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 15h

🤣🤣🤣

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 15h

As a philosophy major, this is the paper the dudes who were on drugs and thought it made them profound turned in

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

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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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

this is your fucking job that you're being paid to do. Imagine asking your plumber to stop your dishwasher from flooding your apartment and he's like "well what exactly do you want me to do?" The specifics are your part dog idk!

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know, just start trying shit! lock him in the dungeon! the answer can't be "nothing, and also you're not allowed to criticize them"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 2d

It does ONE THING and does it well

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 2d

When I started getting them in 2007 the base model non WiFi one was like 40 bucks. Sometimes I’d literally just buy another one bc it was cheaper than the toner.

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever I see this I have to read it again and LOL… spent 9 years as IT in a small school & I must’ve bought 50 of this printer

Matthew Johnson @seasouthern.bsky.social · 2d

An excuse to post one of my favorite tech reviews of all time:

Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine

Do you really want to think any more about printers than this?

www.theverge.com

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 2d

Went to MedVet and am only $18 poorer, a minor miracle and possibly a world record.

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 2d

I mean I’m not going to anyway, but especially not when the result is so comically bad

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 2d

the only thing I was ever even SLIGHTLY tempted to do is to make inspo imagery of stuff from my book... but when I saw other authors doing it, theirs all looked shitty and cringe. I'm not gonna cross the fucking picket line for something that looks like shit!

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 2d

if you happen to live next door to the woods, we can only hope so

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 2d

fun tip: if you come to New Orleans and go on one of those alligator tours, and the alligators don't feel like coming out that day, your tour guide will show you 30-50 feral hogs in the swamp instead. Just like rooting around in the cypress knees and chilling

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jan 9

here is the current tactical map of where feral swine populations have consolidated

the major worry is if the Canadian superhogs end up making their way down south and breeding with the American hogs

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 2d

if you pick up this call it's just going to be the bottom of my chin and my ceiling as I yell, "WHAT THE FUCK! WHAT THE FUCK! STOP!"

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 2d

I swear apps have got to stop putting an option to CALL PEOPLE right where your finger usually hits to scroll (YES YOU INSTAGRAM). I never know how to make it stop so I just yell and panic and throw the phone in a closet. Sorry if you're a stranger I've done this to

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 2d

I miss Brueggers so much, the south is dire

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 2d

Salt bagel with veggie cream cheese, untoasted

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 2d

NOT IN THE CURRENT NEWS CLIMATE PLEASE

NPR @npr.org · 2d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 2d

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 3d

That’s why I said the first two of Harper Hall. 3rd one starts to get dubious

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 3d

Aaaa .. dragonsong and dragonsinger are literally the only ones that are ok. Imagine if kids wanted to read more (she said, as if she was not reading them in 6th grade)

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 3d

If they do send those assholes here, I bet New Orleans will have some good takes on this

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 3d

ME TOO, other Sara, and we’re never going to get it

Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 3d

Watching Peacemaker s2e8. I want closure on the unsociable alien.