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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 11h

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 3h

HERMAN

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3h

In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

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MollyByGolly @mollymoo.bsky.social · 3h

Auckland is a region of tickets. But also: people who put in the work get re-elected - Josephine Bartley, Richard Hills etc.

ActLocal was spectacularly unsuccessful, winning only 1 seat on the Ōrākei local board.
That’s
0/5 councillors and
1/14 local board members

#nzpol #lgnz

Ditto.one

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 14h

Importantly, no differences in symptoms associatyed with LongCovid were found between the infected and non-infected groups. This does not mean nobody had symptoms after infection, they were rare that in a cohort of over 5k people, it was not above the background.
3/6

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 3h

Castlepoint, for the record

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 4h

The only two communities who have elected a trans mayor are the progressive strongholds of Carterton and Hokitika

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Rodders from NZ @roddersclassics.bsky.social · 4h

Jami-Lee Ross, gone and (nearly) forgotten…

Jami-Lee Ross has again been rejected by voters.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 4h

Este estudio estara iniciando con talento Mexicano y Latinoamericano para vincular animadores de varios paises y ifrecera estudios a un animador Mexicano por cda ciclo escolar durante una decada entera.

Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 10h

Guillermo del Toro and Netflix have announced plans to form a new stop motion studio that will be both a studio and a school to push the medium forward and will develop plans to make Del Toro's next stop motion project after Pinocchio. I'm very hyped to see what this leads to!

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SeroRPG @serorpg.com · 5h

We have 491 titles on the #SoloRPG List and it's only been one week, baby! Go and check them out!

SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 5h

It's our 2nd week in existence! Big thanks if you submitted Solo and Duet #TTRPGs, joined the mailing list or spread the word.
Did you notice the themed showcase on the front page of our site? It changes weekly and is Halloween flavoured! Check it out solorpglist.com

#soloTTRPG #TTRPGsky #GMless

Solo RPG List - Find Solo and Duet TTRPGs

Discover amazing solo and duet tabletop role-playing games that can be played with—or without—dice, tarot cards, playing cards, pen and paper, etc.

solorpglist.com

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12h

I continue to think this is one of the most important and underappreciated media dynamics.

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 5h

Passively learning about other cultures such as how a baseball game is going, via this app

Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 5h

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 5h

Good fish n chips.

Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 8h

Lighthouse!

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 9h

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Mike Schnier @mikeschnier.bsky.social · 6h

There's nothing more loathsome than generating viral video hoaxes when there are real people in the same situation who depend on the public knowing what's happening to them.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 7h

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 6h

It got stronger

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 7h

Men will literally call everything that irritates them the antichrist rather than go to therapy

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 8h

People paid $200 a ticket to listen to Peter Thiel do bog issue antisemitism for four lectures about his belief in the antichrist.

Lots of fools wishing to be relieved of their money, I guess.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, AI and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”

It’s because the antichrist talks about Armageddon nonstop. We’re all scared to death that we’re sleepwalking into Armageddon. And then because we know world war three will be an unjust war, that pushes us. We’re going hard towards peace at any price.

What I worry about in that sort of situation is you don’t think too hard about the details of the peace and it becomes much more likely that you get an unjust peace. This is, by the way, the slogan of the antichrist: 1 Thessalonians 5:3. It’s peace and safety, sort of the unjust peace.

Let me conclude on this choice of antichrist or Armageddon. And again, in some ways the stagnation and the existential risks are complementary, not contradictory. The existential risk pushes us towards stagnation and distracts us from it.

How does Thiel think Armageddon will happen?
Thiel rarely gives a definitive answer about who exactly the antichrist might be or how Armageddon might come about – a central point across his lectures is that nothing is written in stone or inevitable – but he does give the contours of what a global conflict that could lead to Armageddon might look like.

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 7h

Central issues were a reasonable council having to create a new water entity (as required by central govt's "Local Water Done Well" policy) + costs of infrastructure development driving up rates. Let's see how the nutty right manages to deal with these issues over the next 3 years ... .

Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 8h

Well fuck - Selwyn has elected a majority of Council with links to VFF, Act, and Trump fans. Maybe put that on the no fly list for the next three years

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 13h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 8h

Well fuck - Selwyn has elected a majority of Council with links to VFF, Act, and Trump fans. Maybe put that on the no fly list for the next three years

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 10h

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

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Indie Game Reading Club @indiegamereadingclub.com · 15h

This is a gorgeous production and one of my games of the year for 2024.

If you haven't played yet or want to know more about how it all works, check out our deep dive: www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-r...

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Joel MacManus @joelmacmanus.bsky.social · 8h

Andrew Little has been elected as the new mayor of Wellington.

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