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Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era)

@spooloflies.bsky.social

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Amy, queer cis Jew, she/her. Kidlit, reality TV, lady superheroes, lit theory, collage. All the #BlackWidow feelings. Watched 1400+ Law & Order episodes in a year. I'm sorry for who I am during Big Brother season. Newly asthmatic. #ActuallyOCD. So tired.

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Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 4h

Mazel tov!

Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 6h

#TAR38 is a great reminder that some people just have freakish amounts of luck and it's impressive to watch them the way you look at, like, a comet.

Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 7h

In the interests of full disclosure I have to admit that approximately three times a season I re-realize that Amazing Race is a pun on Amazing Grace

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Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 7h

As far as I know Hugh Dancy is not a shithead like his character.

Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 7h

me realizing in real time why I'm constantly like "but A/B/O would be so much more interesting without the breeding kink"

Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 8h

I should note that the only thing in the way of your argument is that i would HOPE horny ace people would have come up with something that didn't involve gestating whole litters of babies

Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 9h

THAT'S WHY I'M YELLING AT YOU.

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Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 9h

...god DAMN it.

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Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 9h

Claire Danes's husband badgering her TV father into revealing his dementia is not something I was expecting but I'm fucking mad about it.

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Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 9h

If you download the Cinnabon app you can choose pickup or delivery! THIS IS LIFE CHANGING INFORMATION.

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Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 9h

Law & Order I do not appreciate you hiring Tom Irwin to play the character with dementia. Angela Chase's dad should be okay for always :(

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matthew @pahuski.com · 23h

It constantly amazes me how many people took “criticism of Zionism isn’t inherently antisemitic” to mean “it’s ok as long as you say ‘Zionist’ instead of ‘Jew’ ”

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 22h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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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leah👻 @leahjustyaps.bsky.social · 1d

annnnd he was ended lmfaoooosksks #bb27

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Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 20h

they're leaning so hard in to camp and i respect that

Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 20h

The Netflix miniseries that's basically the Edgar Allan Poe Universe.

Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 20h

We're watching Fall of the House of Usher and this is so fucking campy I'm delighted

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Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 21h

WHY DID THEY NOT WANT MY MONEY

Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 21h

They wouldn't accept a credit card so I had to use my credit card to buy a gift card for the exact amount of the cost. BUT we got Cinnabon. So.

Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 22h

The cinnabon delivery app is designed to make it hard to get cinnabon delivered and I think that's a human rights violation.

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Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 1d

*eyes*

Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 1d

I'm home and de-sharked and de-shoed and watching KPop Demon Hunters for the first time.

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Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about Jared Leto is that he actually IS Jordan Catalano IRL and it turns out that's actually terrible

Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 1d

THEIR JEFF IS BLUE, HE IS A LIE

Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 1d

"Book purist mad about changes in the movie" but it's comics about a landshark turned into a video game

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