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Stairwell Jam @stairwelljam.bsky.social · 31m

The 2015 Di Maria one was particularly egregious

Stairwell Jam @stairwelljam.bsky.social · 38m

Dreadful decision. United playing against 12 men again then.

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Stairwell Jam @stairwelljam.bsky.social · 10h

That hit was magnificent.

Stairwell Jam @stairwelljam.bsky.social · 12h

I was expecting to see that on the highlight for sure

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Stairwell Jam @stairwelljam.bsky.social · 22h

Looks like he modelled himself on Roger Dorn.

I don't know exactly what it means, but as fictional Infielders go, I'm a fan of Dorn

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meg 🦋 @studentofsound.bsky.social · 22h

hiroshi tanahashi hair game remains undefeated #njpw #njkopw 🤼

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

We need to stop using Scholar yesterday.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d

I weep.

Google Scholar Homepage with an AI assistant

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Stairwell Jam @stairwelljam.bsky.social · 1d

He was so good in Psych

Stairwell Jam @stairwelljam.bsky.social · 1d

bert and ernie from sesame street reading a book together

ALT: bert and ernie from sesame street reading a book together

media.tenor.com

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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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Stairwell Jam @stairwelljam.bsky.social · 1d

You know he got one of the AIs to summarise it for him

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

As I note in the article, Thiel literally named his company Palantir after the all-seeing stone used by Sauron in LoTR.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1d

This, plus the fact that the site no longer passed a simple test for me. if I weren’t already there, would I have joined a social media site run by a man who tried to use his platform to incite race riots in the UK? No, I would not. So leaving was not difficult.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Stairwell Jam @stairwelljam.bsky.social · 2d

I use the £5 YouTube Supercars channel

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Day 53 of trying to be hired by Andrew Cuomo

The cereal spittake meme but it’s about Andrew Cuomo saying “Free the Horses”

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CMRob82 @cmrob82.bsky.social · 2d

🧵A treble to end season five of #CM0102RasI2025 with only my dear Swansea getting in our way...
One more season on these contracts, turned down offers from Division Two Southampton and Div Three Reading.

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Stairwell Jam @stairwelljam.bsky.social · 2d

Except the ones he keeps getting into relationships with

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Stairwell Jam @stairwelljam.bsky.social · 3d

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RealTaz @realtaz.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks brother!
Btw…I’m on here now.
BlueSky Jones.

Excalibur @shutupexcalibur.bsky.social · 3d

If you told me 10 years ago that I would be having a play-by-play conversation about the ALDS Game 5 in the 15th inning with my good friend Taz I would have said you are completely out of your mind. But here we are.

Get well soon, Taz.

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AEW On TV @aewontv.bsky.social · 3d

HOLY SHIT!

DARBY ALLIN AND JON MOXLEY JUST BRAWLED AT NEW YORK COMIC CON!!!!

The road to #AEWWrestleDream IS WILD

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 3d

Why is everyone so stupid she loves Trump and Netanyahu you all have the political knowledge of a goldfish

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3d

Mina and Pablo tried smelling salts on PTFO and I'm a little concerned about the gas station product with the ripoff monster energy logo they tried but this is must see TV (since @pablo.show hasn't posted it yet)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Stairwell Jam @stairwelljam.bsky.social · 3d

They gonna do owt to fix this issue and right the wrongs or just point fingers, shrug and continue Tory policies and austerity?

They should absolutely put as much blame on Farage, Johnson and Gove of course as possible.

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