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S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton

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Columnist at large, former Cracked staff from its golden age. Now at speterdavis.substack.com and https://plato-was-a-dick.ghost.io/. Too weird to live, too rare to die.

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S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · Sep 8

I'm writing a book about the rise of reactionary movements in Western geek culture, particularly since the beginning of the internet until now, and how we got stuck in this shitty alt-white meme-fash tech-dystopia within a mere 25 years: Article thread! 1/🧵

How Geeks Ate the World - Plato Was a Dick

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S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 3h

Say what you will about Jared Leto, but you've gotta admit, yeah you're pretty much right and he sucks!

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 15h

this headline would be fine without that last s

Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 16h

"Firm views"

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S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 13h

I had no idea it was @pixelatedboat.bsky.social who started that

S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 1d

So much ketchup on the white house walls today

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, for her work promoting democracy.

María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Live Updates and Video

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”

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S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 1d

bumhat

S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 1d

Just under an hour before Trump declares war on Norway

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S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 1d

brother do i like to p r o b e

S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 1d

In this country, you gotta make the honey first

S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 1d

This strongly implies Thiel thinks Bill Gates might be the Antichrist, which is hilarious

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

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S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 2d

NOEM: Habeas corpus is the God-given constitutional right for me to deadass shoot a puppy in the face with a gun and bury it in a rubble pit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 2d

The only possible outcome for this is Dr Oz becomes president for life

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Column: We haven’t had a single president with more than seven characters in their surname since President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Since Bush succeeded Clinton, we haven’t had a president with more than five.

Column | Presidents’ names are getting shorter. Why?

We’ve gone from Roosevelts and Eisenhowers to Bushes, Obamas and Trumps. What gives?

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S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 2d

*dumping a whole turkey dinner on my own lap* GIVE ME CNN

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S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 2d

I'm alarmed but maybe not surprised that he speaks exactly the same way casually in private 1 on 1 conversation as he does to a rally audience

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 2d

Oh my god she wasn't able to measure up to Meghan McCain. I would die variety.com/2025/biz/new...

In the summer of 2021, the producers of "The View" cast a wide net to find their token
conservative co-host after Meghan McCain's exit. Bari Weiss - who had guest-hosted a few episodes of the panel show and was making waves with her just-launched news outlet The Free Press - wanted the job, and her then-CAA agents lobbied hard. But Weiss didn't test well with audiences, who didn't understand her centrist-right contrarian politics. In fact, her focus group scores were so low that she wasn't invited back to guest host, according to insiders. Instead, Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House director of strategic communications, landed the gig.

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 2d

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S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 3d

Is "it is Wednesday, my dudes" still a thing?

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 4d

10/07/2025

a crude drawing of a trash bin with a large human face sticking out of the top of it, surrounded by trash, with the caption "early testing for the public trash bins with human faces that beg to be fed garbage indicated that most found them too unsettling to use. However, the small number of participants, including some investors, who said they found the bins deeply erotic, and attempted to form romantic relationships with the bins was considered promising enough to continue funding the project."

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S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 3d

Lourve

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 4d

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

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S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 5d

I for one feel encouraged by this solidarity between the right-wing left and the right-wing right

S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 5d

The Clippy pfp makes this read like the post was written by the AI trying to gaslight the blame away from itself

Dr. Caelan Conrad PhD CPI @caelan.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, helping someone plan a crime and urging them to do it is also a crime, you stupid smart-ass.

YouTube comment that says:
If someone told me to commit a crime or something else, is it that person's fault if I do it? Are we really trying to say that we have no free will when talking to Al? I'm sorry but blaming Al for people acting on its 'advice' is removing the blame from the people doing the actions. The blame still lies with the person taking the action.

S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 5d

Really crushing, the way he way he left the world. Nobody deserved that less.

S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 5d

Complete and total shutdown of Noah Smith fans until we can figure out what's going on

S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 5d

I've discovered Noah Smith fans are the most thin-skinned, annoying people on the planet

S Peter Davis the S stands for Skeleton @speterdavis.com · 5d

I've discovered Noah Smith fans are the most thin-skinned, annoying people on the planet