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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 40m

Ya, I should note more just how shitty this dude is at basic philosophy. Like his evoking of the antichrist gives off “guy who only saw boss baby watching boss baby 2” vibes.

The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1h

Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.

A picture of two identical Mortar and Pestles one priced at $191 dollars, and the other priced at $1430 dollars.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 3h

Seriously, how do we keep getting mollywhooped by midwits with philosophy majors?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

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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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 3h

My running theory for this is that Green and Fetterman both entered into the magic-shop-that-appears-when-you-need-it while in the middle of the argument, and the old ethnically ambiguous man behind the counter promised he had a way in which they could see each others perspective better.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 18h

Rage comics… now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time…

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

Close second is Gojira.

a black and white photo of a monster with lightning coming out of it 's mouth .

Alt: A scene from Gojira featuring the titular monster powering his iconic radioactive breath.

media.tenor.com

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

It’s cliche, but Seven Samurai. I just love Samurai movies, and it’s probably the best Samurai movie.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

The only real usecase I can think of is making household robots capable of plain language communication... technology that does not meaningfully exist yet.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, can somebody who is good at money tell me if this is bad?

Barchart @barchart.com · 1d

Gold posts highest weekly close in history 📈📈

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

It's a side point, but it's literally impossible to cover up violence on the scale of a city in 2025. Everyone has a phone in their pocket and you would have to convince a city of over a million to not post great content.

The revolution might not be televised, but it will be on Twitter.

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

Man in charge of the surveillance state: "I think the great evil is some Swedish kid"

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

This is stolen Bayou valor.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

Vance is hearing the call of Sedevacantism like the Green Goblin Mask.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 2d

Go woke, go Pope

Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected

In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.

www.npr.org

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

This guy is obviously an expert in looking ridiculous.

Kid Rock looking like a White Pimp who calls himself “the Detroit Texan” in a white baseball jacket and a white cowboy hat and red sunglasses.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my god, it’s an all in one vice caddy.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

“What happened to the woman they called the onryo?”
“Oh her? She found her corpse at the bottom of the mountain. She fell hunting for trinkets.”

The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

Bro, my city got the Great Value! Walmart

My local Walmart with its sign torn down and a banner sign of Walmart replacing it

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 2d

Stonewall:

A picture from the Doctor Seuss book Fox in Socks saying “Chicks with bricks come.”

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 2d

You ready for this? Presenting: Money 2.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no, they’re Marveling it…

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 2d

O my god. DC respecting artists!? Quick what’s the temperature in hell?

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 3d

The comic book juggernaut is playing the hero to artists because "human creativity matters," its president said.

DC Comics declares it will never use generative AI

www.avclub.com

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 2d

The Giving D.

He never married, and according to the 2007 biography A Boy Named Shel, had sex with "hundreds, perhaps thousands of women" (2]
He was also a frequent presence at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion and Playboy Clubs.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 2d

To think if his son just laced on monitoring his porn consumption he might not be this uptight.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, Ghost of Yotei is unbelievably good, which is incredible because Ghost of Tsushima was also unbelievably good.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 2d

Sib needs help, and what looks like the worst toothache on the planet. Send them what you can even if it’s just good wishes.

Hope you’re doing well.

♿🏳️‍⚧️ Wylder needs HELP @wylder.bsky.social · 8d

Health took a dive yesterday afternoon (probably night before tbh).

Send healing energy, good wishes and, if m able, funds?

I need to continue the abscess treatment plan ASAP. Still only had the 1 root canal.
PayPal.me/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/MousePounders
Cash.app/$WishMage
linktr.ee/wylder

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