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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 1m

I’m sure the only “rule” within this administration is “Make sure your crimes don’t interfere with the big guys.”

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 5m

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 3m

lol she just ran a piece from a guy who’s excited for AI actresses because they’re docile and virginal. You like bad things.

Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 13m

He’s doing the crimes he wants to do and everyone else around him are scrambling around doing all the crimes they can get away with while the shields are down.

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1h

i continue to believe that there is massive insider trading going on inside the administration with this market manipulation -- whether trump is behaving with intentionality or not is a separate question

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1h

My “don’t worry about China, it will all be fine” shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

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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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 44m

You can’t get helicopters like that anymore, because of woke.

bree goose 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 52m

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 52m

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 1h

Oh wow. A woman entrepreneur who took her love of Islamophobia and succeeded in the most Islamophobic country on earth. So cool!

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 12h

“This is your new mommy and yes she killed a nun.”

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 15h

people in Portland are taking down ICE with what looks like a party from Chrono Trigger

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 16h

Pretty much

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 16h

I grew up in Montreal and then moved to Calgary. After conferences realigned they never really fought it out that much.

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 21h

And a truckload of cocaine.

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 1d

DJ Bryan about to play a bunch of Korn?

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 1d

Give Ms Rachel a Gundam.

kerry ✨ @kschwenky.bsky.social · 2d

Get his ass ms Rachel

msrachelforlittles #
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Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 1d

As a Habs/Flames guy I was cheering for an asteroid.

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 1d

We don’t deserve Teenjus.

Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 1d

Hear me out…

Walton Goggins from the Righteous Gemstones playing Teen Jesus or Teenjus.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 1d

Socialist Cuba keeps training young Palestinians as doctors, while the capitalist and white supremacist West keeps backing the genocide and occupation of the Palestinian people.

Cuba continues to show the world what true solidarity looks like. 🇨🇺❤️🇵🇸

A large group of more than 100 Palestinian medical students pose for a photo with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel inside a bright hall at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana. The students—many of them wearing white medical coats and black-and-white keffiyehs—surround Díaz-Canel, who is also wearing a keffiyeh around his shoulders. Everyone smiles warmly, with several students making peace signs and leaning in close together. The background shows lush indoor greenery, wooden paneling, and reflective black marble floors. The atmosphere feels proud and joyful, representing Cuba’s ongoing solidarity with Palestine and its revolutionary commitment to educating and training Palestinian youth as doctors.

A screenshot of a post from @PresidenciaCuba on twitter. The post reads:

> “🇨🇺 | More than 100 young Palestinians studying Medicine in #Cuba were this afternoon at the Palace of the Revolution, where they were received by President @DiazCanelB, in an afternoon filled with emotions and solidarity toward #Palestina.”

Below the text is a photo of the students posing with President Miguel Díaz-Canel in the Palace of the Revolution. The group fills the hall, smiling and standing close together under bright lighting and surrounded by tall indoor plants. The image celebrates Cuba’s internationalist solidarity and its tradition of offering free education to students from oppressed nations, especially Palestinians.

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 1d

The good kind, right?

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 1d

If I post an ASCII Goatse to you in reply to some, asinine comment or truly offensive response, there are only two acceptable paths forward. Block me and move on. Respectable. Second, is to track me down and fight me in a duel. Don’t reply. Have some self respect. I just showed you a gaping asshole.

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 1d

She’s pro genocide and pro Trump. What kind of democracy does she want to bring to the people of Venezuela?

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 1d

Very considerate for the industry to destroy itself. Saves me the time and money of buying hammers and smashing these things myself. Wish it hadn’t wrapped itself around the brainstem of the entire economy tho. C’est la vie.

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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