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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · Sep 6

If I could bring any of the founding fathers back to life, it would be Benjamin Franklin. He's the only one who could appreciate Internet porn the way it deserves to be appreciated

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Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · 4h

DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SMURF

Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 4h

Papa Smurf wears a Phrygian cap, most often associated with the French Revolution, indicating Smurf Village had a monarchy it has since overthrown. This makes Papa Smurf, de facto head of state post-revolution, akin to Robespierre. In this essay I will —

An image of Papa Smurf, a small blue man with a white beard. He’s wearing red trousers that lead into shoes and a red cap that slouches forward.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 2h

Nothing is more important to establishing true freedom in the United States than reducing Peter Thiel’s influence down to his vote

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

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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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 4h

Rosie the Ribbiter

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 4h

Seems Gamergate will never die.

I can't believe we've become a fascist country because so many men are too lazy to take a break from video games to jerk off to real porn.

x.com/mrphillipcha...

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Nora Bombay @norabombay.bsky.social · 2h

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 19h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 18h

yeah so now they extremely literally produced a scene in which ICE refuses to let literal jesus' literal holy presence into their facility. i cannot emphasize enough how non-metaphoric the RCC is about this.

powerful messages being sent here

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19h

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 21h

Current Republicans' great-grandchildren will deny they were "really" Republicans. They just joined the party to get a job, or because their parents were Republicans, etc.

Guess how I know this now.

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22h

Let’s not forget that every single Republican who stands by and enables Donald Trump could stop this recklessness today, tomorrow or any damn day of the week. Their failure—their refusal—to do so makes them complicit in his crimes and the crimes of his corrupt, lawless regime.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Nora Bombay @norabombay.bsky.social · 23h

Yup.

Or you know, just dying. That happens.

Plus a permanent underclass of kids who aren't gonna die without special education but also aren't going to graduate high school

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Nora Bombay @norabombay.bsky.social · 23h

Unfunded special education would leave them homebound and just.

Jesus fucking christ people.

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Nora Bombay @norabombay.bsky.social · 23h

No church, no school, no private organization can replace special education funding.

For every "mild" learning disability or ADHD who would have been left to flounder in the 70s, there is a profoundly disabled child who needs supports and care to be given a chance to succeed.

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Nora Bombay @norabombay.bsky.social · 23h

I worked for a special education organization for a number of years. This is a goal to eliminate IDEA and I cannot underestimate the human carnage.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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Nora Bombay @norabombay.bsky.social · 23h

Kids with disabilities are distributed among every cultural group, income level and ethnicity. 99% of them are US citizens.

Insert "pro life bullshit" rant here.

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Nora Bombay @norabombay.bsky.social · 23h

Asa field? This employees a huge amount of conservative white women. Especially in rural areas. And those reliable government jobs cannot be replaced.

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Nora Bombay @norabombay.bsky.social · 23h

They just bankrupted every school district in America. Special ed was largely paid by the feds and medicare.

This pays for the most severely disabled kids in the country. Private schools won't take them. States don't have the $. And it is 100% impossible for parents to private pay for this.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Hence, the spare boats, spare spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but a spare Captain and duplicate ship.

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Nora Bombay @norabombay.bsky.social · 1d

Again and again, the discovery of why things like banking regulations exist. So close to getting it.

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

I love how the big news on Trump’s tariff announcement is how moments before he made it a bunch of people made insanely profitable shorts on crypto, a thing that Bitcoin Bros are all astounded to see happening in a completely unregulated market of a fake currency primarily used by criminals.

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

JUST IN: An anonymous trader opened massive crypto short positions just 30 minutes before Trump’s tariff announcements yesterday.

They made an estimated $192M in profits.

Donald Trump needs to go to jail. He is thief, he is literally robbing people internationally.

He announced 100% Tarrifs on China and sends the US stock market into a death spiral.

At the same time someone put over 1 Billion dollars into crypto with orders for 100 million being placed on Ethereum and Bitcoin and other crypto currencies across the board whilst markets got wiped after what he said. Billions, and I mean fucking billions got wiped out, whilst Bitcoin had it a biggest dip ever in a single candle losing 20k per Bitcoin, Whilst alt coins lost over 60-70% of value, everyone with leverage on the market with even 2 x leverage got murdered and robbed.

This was co ordinated, this was market manipulation with one anonymous wallet making over 200 million dollars in one day with trades showing that they knew Trump was going to announce this and crash the market.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

www.theguardian.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

nobel peace prize is not awarded posthumously

just a little fun fact to file away for next year for absolutely no particular reason

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 1d

Stella Sacco
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It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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