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Marxist Lynchist 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 @dklmarxist.bsky.social · 2d

Boost me so I can find ppl on here pls

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 12h

Oh cool we're doing sawdust bread again

Forbes @forbes.com · 15h

Tests from Consumer Reports found more than two-thirds of 23 popular protein products contained unsafe levels of lead.

Lead Is Becoming More Common Among Protein Powders And Shakes, Report Says

Tests from Consumer Reports found more than two-thirds of 23 popular protein products contained unsafe levels of lead.

www.forbes.com

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 17h

I’m on the latest Second Thought video talking about Palantir and the pressure to roll out AI in the military.

The AI Manhattan Project

YouTube video by Second Thought

www.youtube.com

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 20h

"KNOWN" is so funny like yeah man that was kinda his whole thing

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 20h

"Scientific" American

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STABITHA🔪🔪🔪 @crabitha.slutmo.de · 21h

Every designer and photoshopper you know has spent hours or days trying to mimic this look in photoshop without just literally hand-painting everything and, it simply cannot be done

There are thousands of tutorials out there that are like “This is sorta pretty close! I think!”

James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 21h

Fuck. A generational loss.

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

gizmodo.com

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 21h

No takers on this, I see. Perhaps the world isn't ready.

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 1d

They're calling me prosciutto the way that smoke cured me

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 1d

Movies are a kind of book.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely never understood the hype surrounding this seemingly sincere attempt at gravitas from the "Down With The Sickness" guy but evidently the people love it

8-ʙɪᴛ™ @the8bitidiot.bsky.social · 1d

God damn, I could have gone my whole life without hearing Disturbed's horrible cover of The Sound of Silence, and died happy.

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another indictment of the Grammy as a quality metric

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 1d

"Dirty delete" is easily one of the dumber modern neologisms

𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry to flex like this but I still can’t believe I snagged this pair for $30

Two older (but pretty nice!) high back chairs sitting in a garage

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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 3d

i would love a future where all people being allowed to simply exist as they are in public is not considered a political issue

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, for sure. They’re not engaging with the text in any way, just seeing what they want to see.

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 2d

Really thought Peterson was the bottom of the barrel for this kind of stuff, guess he really is an innovator. This is what reading too much Jung does to a mf.

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 2d

Far be it from me to criticize the rich and powerful but in my defense my brain hasn’t been melted by infinite access to money and never being told no so I think I can be objective about this is a way a billionaire can’t

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 2d

Very funny how all of these guys adopted a sort of late protestant millenarian Christianity for cultural reasons but anytime someone asks them about it they start talking about Invader Zim or whatever, they're trying to reverse engineer a cosmology out of a worldview they already hold

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 3d

Mary Magdalene can be seen in the character of Princess Peach. Bluey is a sort of John The Baptist figure. The monster from the Honeycomb commercial has an antichrist spirit, in a way.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

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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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 3d

Saturday night

An illustration of a wizard sitting in a modern apartment with a can of beer in his hands and a spilled bag of chips on the floor

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 3d

Do I even want to know what this guy's whole deal is or is it not worth the psychic damage?

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe this is petty but it does feel kinda good when multiple sources confirm suspicions about someone you already don't like very much

𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 4d

Is she good at her job? No. Does anyone respect her? Not really, but by god she always gives 110% out there and we're here for it.

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 4d

Running Mega Man Legends again and they're about to introduce one of the great divas in gaming history

Tron Bonne's intro scene from Mega Man Legends

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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖞𝖗𝖓𝖊 @dami3nbyrn3.bsky.social · 4d

Just one more intractable overcorrection dude trust me

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