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Demyx @pupdemyx.bsky.social · 4h

Why we ganging up on my girl Peridot? 😟

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14h

this platform is silencing me instead of exchanging ideas, by which I meant exchanging their good ideas for my bad ideas and not criticizing me for them in any way

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Tony @shintonty.bsky.social · 13h

many of you

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 8h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

watching donald trumps administration be the most terminally online presidency in history has made me realize that we can never have this again. it’s way too soy, and so so annoying in a completely inescapable way that will hopefully backfire on them

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

genuinely trumps funniest bit ever for him to admit that he knows he’s a grifting piece of shit who’s going to hell lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 12h

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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ceej @ceej.online · 6h

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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Demyx @pupdemyx.bsky.social · 4h

I now have definitive proof that people who go to murder mystery dinner theaters are the most baby-brained dumbasses alive. Y'all can "solve" a murder but you can't solve how to pay your damn parking ticket?! They couldn't even solve how to get back into the parking garage! 🤬

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13h

the brain rot that people on this website have about follower count is unreal. "your responsibility" to what???

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 11h

The meme is a picture of Brian in a vehicle and says

The lion doesn't concern himself with his urgent care bill from 2 years ago stop leaving the lion voicemails

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 9h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Demyx @pupdemyx.bsky.social · 8h

Also, why is people's FIRST instinct to lie? I thought people got rid of that trait after they grew up. I mean, I guess they really aren't grown up if they try to lie to me and say "the machine took my ticket when I paid for it" which is a physically impossible thing! Did it eat your receipt too? 🖕🏽🙄

Demyx @pupdemyx.bsky.social · 8h

Working at a parking garage really is just a huge social experiment. Why can no one read? Hell, why can't people follow giant arrows?! What do you mean you thought your oversized truck with a canoe ON TOP would still fit AFTER you literally hit the height limit sign?! People are so damn stupid!!! 🤬😤

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Demyx @pupdemyx.bsky.social · 8h

Working at a parking garage really is just a huge social experiment. Why can no one read? Hell, why can't people follow giant arrows?! What do you mean you thought your oversized truck with a canoe ON TOP would still fit AFTER you literally hit the height limit sign?! People are so damn stupid!!! 🤬😤

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

I really don’t get these mouthy kids who talk shit online and then get SO UPSET and perseverate over it for days If you talk back at them. Who told them they’re special?

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Demyx @pupdemyx.bsky.social · 12h

I'm genuinely surprised that Mid never tried to build anything for the Hideaway that would have utilized her father's lightning powers for energy purposes.

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Incorrect Final Fantasy Quotes @incorrectffqts.bsky.social · 1d

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

we need to abolish this shit

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Demyx @pupdemyx.bsky.social · 13h

Even if he just doesn't understand what he's doing, at this point, just block him. Some people are just destined to cause us annoyance and pain in our lives and we don't have to accept that.

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ceej @ceej.online · 19h

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

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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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 1d

The image is a picture of Brian saying "I hope I don't have a day" and in the background is the long day factory

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Old videogames are funny because it’ll be an ad like this where it’s like PREPARE YOUR ASSHOLE BECAUSE ITS ABOUT TO GET WRECKED and then the game will be this

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Incorrect Final Fantasy Quotes @incorrectffqts.bsky.social · 1d

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