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Awarded author, journalist: cybersecurity, privacy, digital human rights, Covid. WIRED, PopSci, Spinoff, Engadget, FT, IFJ. Visiting Scholar at Stout Research Centre, NZ. Bio: about.me/violetblue Pod: linktr.ee/raisedbyhorror News: patreon.com/violetblue

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 4h

I… uh… I don’t think Peter Thiel should be allowed to read

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

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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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I see the UK has now made the plot of Some Like It Hot illegal.

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 13h

I'm still new here so my limited understanding is that his relationship with building bridges is pendulous at best

Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you for this!

Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you! I wish I'd known there would be fireworks, I would've gone down to the waterfront. Now I know! My neighbors all ran to their windows, confused

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Lin Nah @linnah.bsky.social · 14h

Wellington Diwali at TSB arena wellington.govt.nz/news-and-eve... or www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/diwali-...

Fireworks start 8:50pm

Diwali Festival of Lights 2025 - Wellington

Diwali Festival of Lights 2025, Step into the vibrant world of India and South-East Asia at ..., TSB Arena, Wellington, Wellington Region, 12 October 2025,

www.eventfinda.co.nz

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 14h

Lots of confusion in my neighborhood about the fireworks, anyone in Wellington know what's up?

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 18h

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 2d

C is for CROSSING -- paywall lifted for Chapter Two of The Ghost Hunter's Guide to the Alphabet, featuring character art by @asphodelles.bsky.social

Ghosts. History. Horror. Boomers on molly. A missing cat. Wellington like you've never known.

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Chapter Two | The Ghost Hunter's Guide to the Alphabet | Threat Model

Get more from Threat Model on Patreon

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 19h

Exploding with envy rn

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 1d

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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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 23h

Unreasonably excited for this #TrekSky geektyrant.com/news/the-new...

New STARFLEET ACADEMY Trailer Teases Mystery, Adventure, and the Future of the Federation — GeekTyrant

The Star Trek universe is getting a whole new class of recruits, and the latest trailer for Starfleet Academy , revealed during the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con, promises a mix...

geektyrant.com

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 23h

Sometimes we have to put ourselves through the shit to get the story, my friend

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 1d

Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

www.reddit.com

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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 1d

Just look at this goofball

My cat Basil staring up at the camera from where he lies belly up on the bed, slightly starting to fall off. His eyes are huge like anime character and he wants to play

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 1d

So jealous rn

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1d

20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE #maxheadroom

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Paul Campbell @moonbaseotago.bsky.social · 1d

I will note that in today's Ōtepoti mayoral election the antivaxxer was outvoted by the vampire by almost 2 to 1

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 1d

Got some really great stickers in the mail today from @theinfophile.bsky.social and @notthatcaltrans.bsky.social, thank you!!! I miss you ❤️

A group of colorful stickers on a white background. They say:
Unclench your jaw
Now that's what I call a trauma response
Eat the rich (pork flavored pink Churu tube)
Relax your shoulders
I was brave today (blue prize ribbon)
The catnip dispensary (black and white stoned tabby cat)

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.

This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 1d

THIS

Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 2d

Right!? He imagines them as competent. He said the plan, that all should've been the obvious plan. Can't believe I woke up this morning still mad that T was even allowed to run.

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