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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 6h

Peter Thiel, even more than Elon Musk, personifies the modern billionaire class

He is totally fatuous, no more insightful than a 17-year-old who is too into Nietzsche, but gets carried aloft entirely due to his vast wealth

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

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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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 13h

I love when someone cites a report of some org called like “World Humanity Freedom Foundation” in order to make a point about a country and you go to the Wikipedia for the org and it’s like founded by the US State Department and everyone on its board worked for BP or Raytheon

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Steve Hugh Westenra @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 5h

This is just so good

VeroOoOnica Wraith @veronicarothbooks.com · 7h

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR

And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this:

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 18h

With alt text, so everyone can get it

Two posts from account called covie that reads in succession: "Notice how Trump took the COVID booster, not ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. Trump is vaccinated. All six of RFK Jr's children are vaccinated. These are the people telling you to not get vaccinated and to not vaccinate your child"

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · 17h

Adopted pidgey two years ago!!! Everybody say happy birthday to pidgey!!!

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Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 18h

gotta burn this motherfucker down folks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 19h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 22h

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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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22h

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 20h

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 20h

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 23h

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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petrisaurus.bsky.social @petrisaurus.bsky.social · 22h

I understand what you're trying to do, but in practice "not all..." just allows people to absolve themselves & not do internal work. Like, you and I will have privileges and internalized bigotries we have to work through too! We'll never do that work if we just go "oh we're not like THOSE guys".

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 23h

A concerning number of people are interpreting this as 'oh so identity politics IS a distraction!' and, to be quite blunt, each and every one of you need remedial chess lessons; something can be intended to draw attention away from something else, and also a real problem which needs to be addressed.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 15d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16d

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Duchess Van Hoof @duchess-van-hoof.bsky.social · 1d

This is the same Netflix that Musk wants to cancel over it being too woke, with too many trans positive depictions.

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 1d

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 22h

Guys why have I been nauseous for 2 days
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Wait til u find out what a disreputable abusive pos fraud the founding father of communism was, comrade. Try logging

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petrisaurus.bsky.social @petrisaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone knows this! But as atheists we gotta acknowledge the negative sides of the community. "Not all atheists" doesn't result in any changes to the bigoted parts of the community as a whole.

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☣️ THE DISASTYR ZONE ☣️ @disastyrzone.bsky.social · 1d

250+ independent American artists, all on one site (and in store!)
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No blind box drops here, but we do have a gachapon machine in-store if you're feeling lucky

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Alfred Hitchcock's Kevin Newburn @kevinnewburn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Every Funko Pop sold at a convention should include a $5 tax that goes to an artist worried about making their table back.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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petrisaurus.bsky.social @petrisaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Apologizing for your part isn't the same thing as saying the other person did nothing wrong - in fact, it's not about the other person at all. It's about you owning up to *your part* and recognizing your own mistakes in the situation. It's part of being a decent person.

petrisaurus.bsky.social @petrisaurus.bsky.social · 1d

(That should have said "I'm sure he wishes..." - I'm not claiming to be in Talib's head 😂)

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petrisaurus.bsky.social @petrisaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, and he wishes you'd have addressed it my way instead of how you did! We all react quickly online sometimes. And like... he DOES get racist harassers making claims about him all the time. Just try to remember that sometimes things come out badly online, apologize for your part, & move on. :)

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petrisaurus.bsky.social @petrisaurus.bsky.social · 1d

See that would have been news to me too! I totally get finding the pic upsetting when you know, but like... it's easy to assume everybody else knows the same things you do, you know?

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