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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 7h

This is what happens when people decide to kermit to the bit

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 8h

Here’s what happens when a smart guy has not had anyone say “Dude what the fuck are you talking about?” directly to his face since, like, the PayPal IPO.

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 12h

Here at the airport we’re all enjoying an additional forty five minutes in the security line courtesy of whoever controls the Presidency and both houses of Congress; I forget who that is again. Hunter Biden? Greta Thunberg? Antifa Girlfriend? Impossible to know, really.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 19h

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

Then it will once again be time for another round of “I can’t believe the Pope is Catholic”.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

Yeah let’s return to that simpler, better time when the Church wasn’t political [puts two fingers to earpiece] Sorry I’m just getting an update

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

where is Bobson Dugnutt

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

In the causal inference literature this inferential error is known as conditioning on a kleyner.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

Such a disappointment, after he specifically introduced himself to the Pope and everything.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

Which heretical fragment of Byzantine Orthodoxy, whose last remains are twenty monks tending goats on a hillside in the Carpathian Mountains, will be lauded as keepers of the flame by this writer who nevertheless would like to keep their condo in DC or their position at Harvard. Stay tuned!

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

Time for another round of “I can’t believe the Pope is Catholic”! Which American pundit—who converted to Catholicism as an adult, but in their bones remains an intellectually-embarrassed evangelical Protestant with a Yale BA—will gift us an outraged First Things or (dv) Atlantic essay this time?

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

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Klaproth @klaproth.bsky.social · 5d

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

Having my annual routine medical checkup. (When I say annual I of course mean in Mercury years measured in Earth days.)

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

Because you should GO OUTSIDE to take a REGULAR WALK.

Why Kant's 250-Year-Old Ideas Are Exactly What We Need Right Now

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

“Oh so having a ‘Slavery Controversy’ section on your Wikipedia page is some sort of woke litmus test now is that it”

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

Very promising Wikipedia overview I must say.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

Ross’s thoughtful interviews and discussions consistently cover an impressive range all the way from indulging the domination fantasies of theocrats to desperately pursuing quack Lyme disease cures.

INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT
He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

Getting a little sick of these endless László Krasznahorkai hot takes

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

“Habeas corpus” is what Sam Altman joyfully shouts when he thinks he has finally secured all the training-data legal rights to other people’s copyrighted work.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

Also, over the years several people (ok two) have told me that they read that thing and for quite a while assumed the guy in the stock photo illustration was a picture of me.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

One of these years you’re going to win one and then where will we be.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

Turns out “Portland Insurrection” is the b-side of a rare 200g vinyl pressing of a weebcore folk-punk prepared piano trio from just outside Beaverton

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 2d

Given that it’s Portland, I feel like we need to take seriously the idea that there’s this really amazing insurrection, but we’ve never heard of it.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

Maybe beginning to feel news coverage that either ignores this sort of blather or balances it with a polite “Some experts disagree with the assessment that Portland is a burned-out hellscape under the rule of Antifa warlords” doesn’t really cut it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

You know, for taking all those weird black and white photos. She should definitely be suspended. Or in jail. Those twins were creepy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

Girlfriend in a comantifa, I know it’s serious

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

Noem: “One of the individuals we arrested recently was the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Lullz

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 2d

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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