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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · Jun 2

This week in @newyorker.com: All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check.

I walked around the Museum of the Moving Image's new Mission: Impossible exhibit with the top minds behind @blankcheck.bsky.social to talk Tom, "Sinners," and Videology trivia.

Is the “Mission: Impossible” Series Tom Cruise’s “Blank Check”?

The movie podcast, which examines the crazy passion projects that directors pursue after their first big hit (“Aloha” or “Speed Racer,” anyone?) celebrates its tenth birthday with a trip to a “Mission...

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 1d

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 19h

Luffy’s hat isn’t even red, this man is dumb as hell

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

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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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 1d

woke up from a nap in a frenzy

a few good men but make it a few small beers

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Good time to take four hours and watch this if you never have before youtu.be/TIgK56cAjfY?...

The History of the Seattle Mariners: Supercut Edition

YouTube video by Secret Base

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 2d

Fifteen innings

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The Mighty Rio Grande by This Will Destroy You on Apple Music

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 2d

I think I now understand why test cricket takes five days, this shit rocks

luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 2d

love when the Fox Sports robot demands I download the app with the same posture as the Uber Eats delivery guy at the McDonald’s counter

luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 2d

can a perpetual stew also be a baseball game

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 2d

i find it so soothing when everybody starts doing this. go baseball

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 2d

people are making vage incredulous posts all at once. my sports senses are tingling

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 2d

That press conference shows the tragedy of Eric Adams. He had some real successes: City of Yes, trash containerization, crime reductions, etc. but couldn't stop tripping over all the bags of money he and his aides kept taking from people and now thinks it's the media's fault for reporting on it.

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 3d

his mind

Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 3d

this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin

luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 3d

Eric back with another banger, this time a long-form profile of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power

The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 4d

fyi the comments on this post on the FP website are fundamentally indistinguishable from those that appear below NY Post links on Facebook, if you wanted a reminder of how "enlightened" and "centrist" the audience these dipshits cultivated is

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

The essence of Bari Weiss: not reporting, but crude partisan propaganda presented in the form of reporting—and usually pronounced from the mouths of anonymous sources which likely don't exist. Expect this sort of prolefeed at CBS News soon.

luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 4d

BREAKING: Wennan Wee Wulligan has endorsed Andrew Cuomo

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 4d

in the Bible it says to help people only if they have papers and a Cigna plan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 5d

apparently the secret to Postseason Baseball™️ is for me to give up hope entirely and for Hunter to call in a favor with his close personal friend Aaron Judge

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 5d

Aaron Judge, who, as you can see, is my close personal friend, is now batting .524 this postseason.

He has been involved in ten of the Yankees' 23 runs, which is like 43 percent of their offense.

He has also made great catches. He does it all.

Judge is the best hitter of his generation, by far.

Aaron Judge and I hanging out as we so often do.

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 5d

this team is approaching Ferrari levels of “yeah, I know, but next year though!”

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot believe they sent Vladdy here but he made it, the leap into the slide is 🤌🏼

luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 5d

this isn’t even supposed to be the hard part of baseball! and they all make so much money!

luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 5d

i am actually going to go insane. how are you this bad at doing baseball

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 5d

That could have gone better for the Yankees

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 5d

extremely common Liz Lopatto w

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 5d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 5d

perhaps this was too rude—Sorkin is a bit of a hack, but a structurally competent one, and the Emily Mortimer in The Newsroom monologue where this idiotic quote would appear would be the button on some episode-long tête-à-tête between her and Jeff Daniels in re: what they're even doing here

luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 5d

Emily Mortimer in The Newsroom ass quote

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

five years ago bari weiss was trying, unsuccessfully, to get herself fired. now she’s running CBS News. that’s some michael jordan shit.

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