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troyliss
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Troy Lissoway. Graphic Designer. Ape seeking understanding. Albertan. He/Him. Product of Canada* (*At least 98 per cent of the total direct costs of producing the item were incurred in Canada)
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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 1h
And then he punches him 🙃
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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 4h
The Beast from the X-Men throws a backhanded punch in mid air against some armored guy, knocking him backwards with a giant THUNK sound effect as he says, “A FEAT with my FEET could lead to your DEFEAT!“
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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 1h
This is horrible. I admire the courage of Senator Gerba to speak out on this. Too many Canadians want to believe racism isn’t a problem here, when it absolutely is.
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Dylan Robertson @withfilesfrom.bsky.social · 4h
Senator Amina Gerba was sterilized without her consent at a Montreal hospital. @amy61.bsky.social hopes her story can advance a broader reckoning on systemic racism.

"I didn't want to talk about it at all. But it was too hard to keep quiet," she says. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/senat...
Senator says she was never told her 2005 surgery would leave her sterile
OTTAWA - A Quebec senator says she was never told by her doctor that a surgical procedure she went through in 2005 would render her unable to have children, and
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Dylan Robertson @withfilesfrom.bsky.social · 4h
Senator Amina Gerba was sterilized without her consent at a Montreal hospital. @amy61.bsky.social hopes her story can advance a broader reckoning on systemic racism.

"I didn't want to talk about it at all. But it was too hard to keep quiet," she says. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/senat...
Senator says she was never told her 2005 surgery would leave her sterile
OTTAWA - A Quebec senator says she was never told by her doctor that a surgical procedure she went through in 2005 would render her unable to have children, and
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 5h
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
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h
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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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 1h
That being said, the fact that Eiichiro Oda doesn’t appear to be Christian and grew up in a non-Christian culture that doesn’t have a history of Biblical allusion probably counts as evidence that Luffy wasn’t intended to be a Christ allegory. Of course, you are always free to note parallels 🙂
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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 1h
You can read Luffy through a Christian lens, but that doesn’t mean that the similarities are intended, or that the creator is even aware of them. Evidence doesn’t enter into it unless you are looking for the intent of the artist, in which case you need to reference artist’s statements and interviews
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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 4h
Reading Kurt Vonnegut was one of the better decisions I made when I was seventeen
Photo of a page in Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. My thumb is visible on the left. It says: The founders were aristocrats, and they wished to show off their useless education, which consisted of the study of hocus-pocus from ancient times. They were bum poets as well. But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492 The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4h
Even tho this is about L&O, it hits so many of my issues with many new shows (and big budget movies) lately. So many of them feel like they exist entirely on a sound stage. The scripts are bland, the costuming is flat, the lighting is static. Derivative is de riguer.
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 4h
The reboot of “Law & Order” is a Temu version of the show

The original (the first 20 seasons!) stands the test of time, whereas the reboot plays like a cheap knockoff relying on empty tension to fill in the gaps. A tremendous bummer!

My newsletter this week is an in-depth compare & contrast
Why is the reboot of “Law & Order” so bad?
It’s as if everyone forgot how to make the show.
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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 2h
I caught an episode of Dr. Odyssey, and I was struck by how the cruise ship deck and pool was so fake and studio-looking compared even to The Love Boat. Then I learned Odyssey actually built an outdoor set to be more “realistic” while Love Boat was, of course, entirely on a sound stage. Skill issue?
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21h
You could in theory have a Court that was very conservative, even way too Trump-friendly, but that wasn't like this. As it stands, there's no hiding that these just aren't very bright people and they don't really know what they're doing.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21h
When the output of the highest court in the land wouldn't pass muster coming from first-year law students, it discredits the institutional legitimacy of the entire legal system. Nobody can pretend they are at the apex of the profession, intellectually credible even when you disagree with them.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 7h
This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10h
This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.
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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 5h
All we can say is "this shouldn't be happening!!!" - but we can't really say WHY, because almost no-one is brave enough to say "the status quo for undocumented immigrants was exploitative. our immigration system is unjust and non-functional, and these people should have legal protection"
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 5h
I once contemplated writing a TV drama series about Crowley's battle with WB Yeats over the ownership of the O.T.O. and despite my dislike of Crowley my research made me find him more likeable (up to a point) than Yeats, which is saying something.
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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 2h
I can’t get over him getting the Dr. Manhattan quote exactly backwards and then using it as the basis of his argument
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h
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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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h
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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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h
Let people block. Let people be. We aren't entitled to each other's time and emotional energy. And we can still be in community in other ways.
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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h
Blocking doesn't mean we hate each other or we're mortal enemies irl or we can't ever form community elsewhere. It just means someone doesn't want me in their space On Here. And that's okay! They're allowed! Their space isn't about my feelings, it's about them.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 18h
Negative

For starters as a logical matter there is no universe in which this meets the intended purpose of reprogramming language

But as a legal matter you've got to have a valid appropriation to transfer the monies into

Congress appropriates some things on a multi-year basis and others annual
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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 21h
The DoD is allowed to transfer this money per statute apparently (though this is outside of my area). The CR in March upped it to 8 billion.
Of course it has. It always does. Sec 8005 of DOD Appropriations, for starters… That one provision now allows for $8b in transfers, per March’s full year CR:
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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 3h
You literally said you didn’t want to know 🙃
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 4h
Dude I’m calling it, Thiel is cooked. He accidentally dropped a Tangible Detail. Most people didn’t know he existed and now he’s The Billionaire Who Thinks That One Piece Is Jesus.
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h
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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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h
“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 8h
That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 6h
Not only is this explanation great, I also know 5,271,009 people whose lives would be changed for the better by taking it on board.
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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 10d
This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.
User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now." Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.
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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 4h
I was going to point out the misquote, too. It actually changes the meaning of the scene.
Plus, it’s pretty bizarre to base your apocalyptic future vision on comic books and manga.
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 5h
"And now, Alberta is becoming cruel...It tells us that the rich are “job creators” instead of modern-day feudal lords. It convinces us that we should slash the social safety net so that those who need it most are punished for being born poor, disabled or unlucky."

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Canada, beware: Alberta is the canary in the coal mine
Canada is not America. Not yet. But if we do not defend our values, compassion, fairness, equality, and truth, we will lose them
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