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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hello BlueSky friends! Glad to be here.

Some examples of my all-practical toy photography-hit me up if you’re into action figures, boutique Blu-ray labels, comic books, and cute dogs.

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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 2h

I’m gonna need someone to get Alan Moore on the record about this instead of asking him about superhero movies for the 1,000th time

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

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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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

Da Pope

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 19h

I also read the Book Review daily. It’s the sort of thing I’d miss as soon as I couldn’t read articles folks were linking to. It just feels like the headline writers are actively trying to muddy the waters some days

Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 20h

This is the type of shit that’s gonna get me to save $35 a month and cancel my @nytimes.com

NYTimes both sides whether or not Portland is a hellscape, presumably something their vast reporting resources could help illuminate the truth of

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, this seems like the Katie Porter who responded to losing a primary by calling it rigged.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Lucy Rohden @lucyrohden.bsky.social · 3d

What’s everyone’s favorite bill belichick memory at Carolina

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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 3d

I just picked this up myself after finishing the trade paperback. Terrific series that sort of blends the best of stuff like The Purge, You’re Next, and Running Man. As a PA resident, I was just bummed we didn’t get a Commonwealth maniac to represent us

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

you cannot lose elections to people that suggest lee greenwood for the super bowl halftime show over bad bunny

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 3d

This story about how a Trump-supporting federal employee’s life has been destroyed by this administration makes me think we are doomed to be led around by a bunch of Dr. Pangloss’ who can’t believe Republicans would ever intentionally do somethjng bad to them www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

His wife was dying, his federal job crumbling. It tested his faith — in God and Trump.

One federal worker was rejected three times from the administration’s early resignation offer. Would he blame the president he voted for?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 4d

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 5d

"The Man from UNCLE" ? You mean my cousin? 😂

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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 4d

Just because something is “IP” doesn’t mean there is anyone who cares

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 4d

#Photographer Bernd Nowack Shares the Story Behind Viral #Photo of the #Moon Perfectly Centered Behind a #Tree

Link for more info: mymodernmet.com/full-moon-tr...

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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 5d

Event Horizon holds up WAY better than I thought it would. Just a gorgeous and outstandingly original and creepy movie.

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Ryan Dunlavey > NYCC L-24 @ryandunlavey.com · 5d

My favorite version of the Punisher is the one who beats up cyborgs, ninja ladies, karate dudes and Italian-american stereotypes with a battle axe he found on a school bus.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

One trademark of the second Trump administration is the open and seething contempt that his Cabinet officials have for Congress. They don't see elected officials or their oversight function as legitimate.
(see also RFK Jr, Kash Patel).

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Bondi is alternating between attacking Democratic senator when they ask her tough questions and punting them to Kash Patel (even though she's his boss)

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 5d

don’t want that hilarious game-winning drive to overshadow that harrison butker booting the ball out of bounds set the whole thing up

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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 5d

He literally ran for President a couple years ago and was easily among the most belligerent and strident candidates nibbling at the Trump crumbs. I have no doubt he’ll be Ohio’s next Governor but no one should have any doubts about who and what he is