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Homeschool Runner @adamfpetty.bsky.social · 2h

God help us if Thiel watches Attack on Titan

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

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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Homeschool Runner @adamfpetty.bsky.social · 4h

Peter Thiel who has only read One Piece, reading his second manga: Getting a lot of 'One Piece' vibes from this...

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Homeschool Runner @adamfpetty.bsky.social · 4h

@jamellebouie.net coming thru with the Chrono Trigger reference, truly the heroic frog we need right now youtube.com/shorts/k9wOu...

frogs against ICE

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Homeschool Runner @adamfpetty.bsky.social · 5h

It’s almost frightening how talented he is?

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Homeschool Runner @adamfpetty.bsky.social · 5h

Grant us eternal rest in your arms, Monkey D Luffy

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Homeschool Runner @adamfpetty.bsky.social · 6h

Grateful to Disney for blowing a mountain of cash on Tron Ares since it inadvertently gave us a new Nine Inch Nails album

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merritt @merrittk.com · 21h

if you're not where you want to be as an artist or entertainer and didn't come from money or an industry family try to remember that it was never an even playing field to begin with and you're probably doing great considering

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Homeschool Runner @adamfpetty.bsky.social · 22h

Diane Keaton, because she was Diane Keaton, even directed an episode of Twin Peaks. Masterful before and behind the camera.

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnFj...

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Homeschool Runner @adamfpetty.bsky.social · 1d

Been seeing so many Portland pics recently yet somehow this is the most Portland one? A tapestry

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Homeschool Runner @adamfpetty.bsky.social · 1d

The funny show with the BLEAKEST ENDING OF ALL TIME. The family huddled up as the Ice Age rolls in, dooming them to extinction. Samuel Beckett could never.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

That sitcom with the family dinosaurs.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 3d

2. What is an obscure thing from your childhood that no one else seems to remember?

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

“this art doesn’t share my moral values” had you considered that art is not about moral values

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

‘Task’ Teams Up With Wawa For New Fentanyl Brick Hoagie

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ILFU Boeken etc. @ilfu.com · 3d

“That’s right—for the first time in history, a man has won the Nobel Prize. That sound you hear? It’s a graduate student sobbing with joy. Big, manly sobs.”

Best thing about the Nobel Prize: Alex & Mark approaching, lurking, striking. @alexshephard.bsky.social @markkrotov.bsky.social

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 2d

"in the age of ChatGPT, there is almost something heroic about never shutting the fuck up about The Melancholy of Resistance." newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

newrepublic.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

the abundance boys haven’t exactly been covering themselves in glory lately.

derek thompson (co-author of Abundance): this is the hardest i've burst out laughing in the middle of a nyt story in i dont even know how long

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded
Nobel Prize in Literature
The prize committee said the Hungarian writer's work "reaffirms
the power of art."

His latest novel to appear in English is "Herscht 07769," published last year in the United States. The book, which unfolds in a single sentence, evokes fears about the rise of fascism in Europe, and imagines a graffiti cleaner in Germany who writes letters to Chancellor Angela Merkel to alert her to the world's impending destruction. It features only one period in its 400 pages.

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Homeschool Runner @adamfpetty.bsky.social · 2d

I have also enjoyed seeing Lim’s fits!

And highly recommend his book about David Lynch, The Man from Another Place.

The Best-Dressed Man at the New York Film Festival Is the Guy in Charge

Sincere apologies to Timothée Chalamet and Alexander Skarsgård. The festival’s unassuming artistic director, Dennis Lim, is the fit-god-in-residence at Alice Tully Hall.

www.gq.com

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 2d

Trump forming an anti Christian crime investigation task force to distract from the fact that he is a pedophile

The guys in true detective season one who did exactly that

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Homeschool Runner @adamfpetty.bsky.social · 3d

For years, Douthat has said that the religious right, for all its faults, pales in comparison to the awfulness of the coming irreligious right. So it’s valuable, in a way, to demonstrate that the religious right can still suck shit all on its own.

‘preciate it, Boss Ross.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Listening and learning

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3d

I mean this with zero condescension and with a whole lot of big-picture concern, but I think something that Facebook and Twitter unintentionally did was put essential social services in places where low-literacy people ran into a lot of high-literacy people and shenanigans.

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 4d

is this anything: The Prime Day of Miss Jean Brodie

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taber @kvetch.gay · 4d

39⁰F morning

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 5d

God this is gnarly, I'm on top of spaghetti, all covered in cheese. I'm fucking covered in it. This can't get any more disgusting [some asshole starts sneezing]

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Homeschool Runner @adamfpetty.bsky.social · 5d

Is that Dennis Lim on the left?

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Homeschool Runner @adamfpetty.bsky.social · 5d

Ok I am gonna need an epic 4 volume series of novels about exactly this

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 7d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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