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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 15h

Watched the first episode the other night after hearing your recommendation. It’s got a proper warm beating heart to it so it has.

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 18h

Thiel missing the point that Ozymandias is an arrogant sociopath willing to let millions die is… very expected of him tbh.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 22h

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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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 18h

The worlds most powerful tech billionaires being gigantic anime nerds would be on the nose if it were in a book/film/tv show and yet…

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

One of the many things I wish I had been wrong about is saying that back in the nineties, our leaders looked at climate change and said: We can’t do shit about this without measures we find unacceptable, so future generations will just have to deal with it via machine guns, fences and attack dogs.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsk... • 2d
"I don't think we can mitigate for climate change."
- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

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GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Just fancied using this gif of Professor Farnsworth for no reason at all. Definitely not of the governor of HMP Wakefield oh no no no.

a cartoon character says to shreds you say while talking on a cell phone

Alt: Professor Farnsworth receiving some news on the phone and saying "to shreds, you say"

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

Zarah Sultana after she posts yet another attack on her colleagues.

Ja’mie the bitchy high school girl saying “I am so random. I can’t believe I just did that.”

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for your service 🫡

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

…maybe Zarah was the problem all along 😐

Zarah Sultana MP
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Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens - to keep Farage out of Downing Street.
But unity isn't uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.
Join us: yourparty.uk

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Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie.bsky.social · 1d

Shinobi Vs Grim Reaper

Sky News @news.sky.com · 1d

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after attack in prison

Paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in prison.

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

The profile is pure Bluescold, like it was grown in a lab for this purpose.

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Rachel @rachelprevails.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nlJ...

Kunt and the Gang - The Wrong Ian Watkins (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by KuntGangVEVO

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny because it’s true.

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

We have a “winner”

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social • 33m
Just remember folks, sometimes it isn't just okay to speak ill of the dead, it's pretty much mandatory, and funny as hell. Somewhere Watkins will now be becoming well acquainted with.

Sky Bloo
@sky-bloo.bsky.social • 24m
The Prison Service owes a duty of care to ALL those that the justice system convicts and sentences, however heinous their crime(s).
Once we start to discriminate between "good" and "evil" inmates, we're on a dangerous road.
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Sky Bloo
@sky-bloo.bsky.social • 24m
The prison governor ought to be ashamed that this was allowed to happen on his/her watch and should be nade to account for how/why it did.

Sky Bloo
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I'm not suggesting for a moment that what he did wasn't disgusting and barbarous.
But we can't allow prisoners to go around murdering other inmates.
Where will that lead?

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Ian Watkins’ ex girlfriend reports him multiple times to the police for what he was doing and they treated her as if she was hysterical in every sense of the word. Misogyny is dangerously and deadly, it played a huge role in those poor children’s torment. Hope he went roaring

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

A mutual saw someone with a lostprophets patch at a festival a year or so ago. There’s bound to be one out there.

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

H from Steps breathes a huge sigh of relief.

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

@pikapies.bsky.social *patch even, gah!

Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

@pikapies.bsky.social was it you who spotted someone with a Lostprophets latch at a festival a year or two ago?

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

Wonder who’s going to be the first person to scold others for celebrating Watkins’ amateur neck surgery going wrong.

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

Better late than never.

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 1d

Crikey it’s been a bad few weeks for absolute dangers keeping all their blood inside their neck hasn’t it

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

Well, guess that Lostprophets reunion gig ain’t happening now.

Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

Many years ago I worked in forbidden planet. Guy comes up with a bunch of movie magazines, I’m scanning them in when he asks “have you heard of this film Cabin Fever? I directed it”. Says all you need to know about him.

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Jake L @jaykayell.bsky.social · 1d

Appropriately enough for his surname, he sucks huge ass.

registered hyperclam 2 🏳️‍🌈 @mootzilla.bsky.social · 1d

oops! he's a racist

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registered hyperclam 2 🏳️‍🌈 @mootzilla.bsky.social · 1d

oops! he's a racist

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