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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 48m

What in the Kamen Rider is this?

Tokullector @toku.store · 1h

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 14h

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 17h

Yes! And if you object to this sermon of a thread:

30-40 years ago, the entire nation was on Black communities' necks about "crime rates" and "teen motherhood." Yesterday's "welfare queen" is today's "DEI hire."

Having zero sense of collective responsibility is a luxury in these United States.

Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 18h

White people need to talk to other white people. It is entirely up to the whites to move the needle on their end.

Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.

Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 20h

a man wearing glasses says good lort man on the bottom

ALT: a man wearing glasses says good lort man on the bottom

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 20h

OH GOD IT'S MARZGURL! SHE'S FOUGHT THE YAKUZA AND WON! I SURRENDER!-Stephen King.

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 20h

I know the context for the scene and it makes that statement even funnier.

Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 20h

Just gonna go out on a limb here but I think people like this harasser don't understand how social media works. Stephen King doesn't run his own social media, an intern he hired does. Only person who really keeps an eye on things is well, @gailsimone.bsky.social . Cause she's looking for trolls.

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 20h

But yeah sure, we should totally be supporting Israel in everything it does.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 22h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 1d

Let me make something clear. I hope Charlie Kirk suffered agonizing pain before dying and I hope he's enjoying burning for all eternity

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 1d

Before Alaska flooding, Trump & Vance’s EPA had cancelled a $20 million flood protection grant.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

FINALLY a path to financial viability for OpenAI.

Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · 1d

The real money is in blackmailing all the creeps who provided a photo ID to generate illegal porn

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 1d

The minimum wage should be a wage that keeps one comfortably alive

Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 7d

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah it makes me feel good

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beverlyangel.bsky.social @beverlyangel.bsky.social · 2d

2/ If everyone backs away from agent-provacteurs and leaves them standing alone and exposed, it'll be very hard for them to get any violence started.
We need millions to peacefully protest. Any acts of violence undercut OUR MESSAGE.

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beverlyangel.bsky.social @beverlyangel.bsky.social · 2d

1/ Assume any "protestor" advocating for violent action or doing ANYTHING violent is a MAGA AGENT there to give Trump an excuse for claiming "insurrection."

If you see someone doing anything violent, back away from them, point at them and scream MAGA or GOP AGENT repeatedly.

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 2d

Might wanna check again champ

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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day 👇🏼

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Toshi the Fat Stoner @pandatoshi.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day and fuck Christopher Columbus :3

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 3d

The Jets need to be turned into scrap at this point. This franchise offers nothing but ruining of good players

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 3d

THIS IS NOT WHAT I INTENDED!

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 3d

God he really thinks he's the smartest person in the room

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you didn't have the image handy

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 3d

Is this self-care?

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Ironbite the Explosive Raptor @ironbite4.bsky.social · 3d

Oh im for this. Seriously. But back in my day we called them moderators and the kicked people off of message boards when they were too obnoxious

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 3d

Politico is recommending a column by a guy who literally blogged for Richard Spencer's original alt-right site--but who has since been rehabilitated as a very serious political commentator--on why we need to bring back "internet gatekeepers."