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palsy 🧉 @hey-its-qalsy.bsky.social · 1d

“i need a bad bitch” wrong, my friend. you need a good bitch. a bitch most morally righteous. an esteemed member of the hoes templar. basically you need a really cunty paladin is what i’m saying

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ESO @eso.org · 1d

50 million light-years away, galaxy NGC 1097 & its tiny companion NGC 1097A are locked in a galactic embrace.

The bright knots around NGC 1097’s centre are thought to be large bubbles of glowing hydrogen gas about 750–2500 light-years across.

www.eso.org/public/image... 🔭

#Flashback

A barred spiral galaxy with a bright yellow core, sweeping outer arms against a dark background. A smaller galaxy is visible on the top right.

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Astro🪐 @astrobride.bsky.social · 23h

nah I'm just kidding I know you bitches are broke lmao

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Astro🪐 @astrobride.bsky.social · 23h

would any guilty whites like to send me -- an indigenous people -- money for Indigenous Peoples' Day

we'll call it reparations

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Snacko Racko @snackoracko.bsky.social · 1d

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight! 11:30pm EST!

You know what we haven't done in a while?? I bet our Palico misses us to bits!

Let's go hang out with the fuzzball and maybe see if we can't find the new monster everyone's talking about!

JOIN ME AT BASE CAMP!

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Astro🪐 @astrobride.bsky.social · 1d

good point, Ezra/Leah have both said "you don't have to RSVP if you're not comfortable, but it does help our efforts"

be that as it may, the security of personal information depends entirely on who owns it. databases can always change hands, and Trump has a *lot* of Big Tech capital on his side

Astro🪐 @astrobride.bsky.social · 1d

that's totally fair -- overzealous threat modeling can drain energy and attention that would be better spent elsewhere. considering this Administration's ultimate goals, sometimes it's hard not to feel like anything short of microwaving your device isn't cautious enough lol

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 6d

If you think a game about going after the KKK would be controversial due to the current political climate, it's a good sign you should make a game about going after the KKK.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 6d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Astro🪐 @astrobride.bsky.social · 1d

so a question i don't know the answer to yet (and maybe hes already answered this somewhere like in an AMA or town hall for instance) is if he understands the role American military contractors and companies are playing in Israel's genocide right now just like they played a role in the War on Terror

Astro🪐 @astrobride.bsky.social · 1d

suggests that he did indeed grow disillusioned with our endless for-profit wars

⬇️ from his Reddit AMA where someone asked him about going from protesting the war to being part of it. just reads like a painfully honest Dude who has yet to reflect deeply enough on his part in the War on Terror

Thank you so much for asking this -- it truly is a great question. It's the kind of thing that does make sense to me but can completely understand why it might not to other people. Look, I was against the war in Iraq and did everything I could to try to stop it before it started. That's why I protested George W. Bush. But when the war started, a sense of service drew me to enlist. I also just felt that I would be able to get through it -- and I felt in my bones that I should go and not make someone else go in my stead. I also felt that there was value in trying to be a voice of reason and decency in a deeply unreasonable and indecent place. And finally, if I'm being honest, I wanted to be a soldier since I was two years old. I was drawn to military history. I personally had that urge. At 19, I was also a young man drawn to an adventure -- and serving overseas was the ultimate adventure. I have different feelings on that now than I did then, but at the time, that was one of my reasons.

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Astro🪐 @astrobride.bsky.social · 1d

not from Maine but I found out that he worked with Constellis (Blackwater) while he was deployed in Afghanistan. kinda stands in stark contrast to his progressive platform, but he's condemning the military industrial complex these days and has called Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide which +

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Astro🪐 @astrobride.bsky.social · 1d

the Trump Regime matters. whether or not he wins and delivers on his promises, getting these radical ideas out there *right now* into the mainstream and drumming up support for them helps. look at all those people clapping! they support this! and they're not crustpunks either -- they're normies!

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Astro🪐 @astrobride.bsky.social · 1d

textbook left-populist stuff.

left populism is good actually. it's exactly what we need right now. if the Dems had run left populist platforms they might've won more elections

the fact that an American politician is running on a platform that includes Nuremberg Trials for ICE and +

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Astro🪐 @astrobride.bsky.social · 1d

however left-wing populists assign blame on people like billionaires. Bernie Sanders is a good example bc he's worked on antitrust legislation, making healthcare cheaper, and increasing taxes on billionaires. his rhetoric explicitly condemns the ultra-wealthy for harming the Common People +

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Astro🪐 @astrobride.bsky.social · 1d

populism just means assigning blame for The Current State Of Things on ""the elites"" and ""the establishment"". if you're a right-wing populist, the "elites" in question are usually leftists and Democrats. or "elites" might be a dog-whistle for Jews if you're a right-wing conspiracy theorist +

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Astro🪐 @astrobride.bsky.social · 1d

i memorize phone numbers...

...okay i've memorized a *few* numbers. just the ones i call the most. i'm weirdly good at quickly committing to memory a number sequence i'm going to use often. which is wild bc i'm absolutely shit at math

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 1d

Bonnicula, female vampire vtuber adventurer with long white hair wearing a leather jacket and wielding a pistol
Overlay is a post from user A$ap jordan that reads: "mama ain't raise no bitch & even if she did it's my brother"

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 1d

Bsky PSA:

Post with intention, post with energy dynamics in mind

diagram of five elements with lines showing the interplay between them
the elements are Horseshit (nonsense), Bullshit (not true), Batshit (insane), Apeshit (rambunctious), Dogshit (very poor quality)
Below is a key indicating Generating Interaction and Overcoming Interaction

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel is a phil major

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

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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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 2d

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At the center of the frame is Cha 1107-7626 (not visible here), a rogue planet that is "devouring" gas and dust from its surroundings at a record rate of 6 billion tonnes per second.

➡️ eso.org/public/unite...

🔭 🧪 #science #planetsci #galactic

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This visible-light image, part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2, shows the position in the sky of the rogue planet Cha 1107-7626. The planet (not visible here) is located exactly at the centre of the frame. It is located in the Chamaeleon constellation, within the Milky Way galaxy.

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Astro🪐 @astrobride.bsky.social · 2d

god i fucking love cataphiles

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 2d

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