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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃

@gbaji.bsky.social

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Before the law. He/him. King County, WA, 🇺🇸 Sarcasm junkie trying to kick the habit. Do not, my friends, become addicted to dopamine. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence. I know you've muted me.

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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃 @gbaji.bsky.social · Mar 11

2020: Any tragedy can be borne if we learn from it.

2025: Ah, well, nevertheless.

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sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 1d

ChatGPT itself is a lazy nepo baby failson that constantly bullshits you about work it can't understand and blows off, but you somehow can't fire because it got this job as a favor to its parent company, as above so below etc

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 51m

Absolutely tf not!

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 5h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Fritzie Hall @fritzandtheoscars.bsky.social · 1d

I always go back to this scene. Not because Diane Keaton portrays her fear so vividly but because her understated reaction to seeing Warren Beatty is able to say more about love and closeness, about feeling relaxed and secure in somone's presence, than probably any other in movie history

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Spryte M. ♿🏳️‍🌈♀️🎮✍🏻🪆🧩🦅 @sprytemagnus.bsky.social · 1d

@theradr.bsky.social I believe this is your gem of wisdom

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃 @gbaji.bsky.social · 6h

Overboard is often necessary. 😄

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 6h

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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃 @gbaji.bsky.social · 6h

This was very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to explicate it.

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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃 @gbaji.bsky.social · 7h

To everyone gleefully anticipating Trump's death: Vance is 100% wholly-owned by this chud.

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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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11h

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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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Oct 31

all time best version of this meme

girls pointing at cat eating spaghetti meme, only they're all zombies
girl says 'I buried you in a Cemetary' and the cat replies 'Sematary'.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

We do not have to pretend that there's anything particularly profound about this guy experiencing adolescence at the age of 58

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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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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h

"...Alito delivered the opinion..."

badly-drawn boo! 👻 @soapachu.bsky.social · 9h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I've added some notes"

Squiddy (eldritch horror beyond comprehension) @dr-squiddy.bsky.social · 9h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Mini cheddars and yoghurt.

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃 @gbaji.bsky.social · 7h

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 16h

I know I shouldn't be surprised by the bad taste of my fellow Americans, but here we are. Only three states understand that Snickers is the superior candy bar! www.allrecipes.com/most-popular...

Graph from Door Dash displaying the top candy purchases in America for the month of October.

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Gbaji, the Haunted One 🎃 @gbaji.bsky.social · 16h

I knew I had seen that somewhere before.

Jeremy Irons as Fr. Gabriel in THE MISSION (1986)

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 17h

Gritty is the general that the inflatables in Portland are waiting for to begin their triumphant sweep into Washington DC.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 18h

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 17h

This movie is inspiring me to wear more and better hats

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 17h

Only 5'5", couldn't have been more than 130 pounds, and she's still around!

Series of Valentina Tereschkova (first woman in space in 1963) pictures, in military jacket, spacesuit, on Vostov-5, etc.

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