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Wag the Fox @wagthefox.bsky.social · 17m

"The absolute dread I feel is palpable. " - some asshole

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Wag the Fox @wagthefox.bsky.social · 6h

I mean ...

... stop him when he's telling lies.

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 8h

Literally THE OPPOSITE of what Dr Manhattan said.

Also, Moore didn't see this as an ideal solution. Moore literally negates the plan in the last panel.

This fucking guy....

Why the hell does he get oxygen to spout word salad?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

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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Fie ♡ @fiabolic.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing more artists with “ai assisted” in their bios and like, I guess thanks for saying it directly so I can block?? but also… yeah, it was obvious. Everything has the exact same generic AI-looking face

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Wag the Fox @wagthefox.bsky.social · 1d

WWE is in Australia for an event and had a singer start the show with the American national anthem. What the ever lovin' fuck is that about. At least the aussies in attendance booed the shit out of it. 🤣

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Wag the Fox @wagthefox.bsky.social · 1d

Bad Bunny or Lee fuckin' Greenwood. Holy shit, is that the right-wing alternative you want to offer the general public for the goddamn Super Bowl? Jayzuz. The state of your music, mate.

Wag the Fox @wagthefox.bsky.social · 2d

Frogs might be my new favorite animal.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

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Wag the Fox @wagthefox.bsky.social · 2d

One of my absolute faves.

Tom. @notthattomgreen.is.tired.fyi · 2d

Why ORANGE CASSIDY rules!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

This is outstanding.

Never forget that these weak fascist lying losers are WEAK FASCIST LYING LOSERS.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Count Otter Poppula 🧛🏼 Sr., III @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · 3d

Okay I was wrong there are Two problems with Mastodon

Count Otter Poppula
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The problem with Mastodon is that it makes you feel stupid for not knowing how it works.
That was the real hurdle Facebook and everything that came after cleared, you could just join, it didn't take any debugging or jargon. It just, worked. For a while.
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Trevor Goodchild
@trevorgoodchild.bsky.social
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Yeah you gotta at least try. Put a tiny amount of effort into your experience.
I you cant be bothered to think for yourself just a tiny bit then I guess just stay on this fascist friendly site with the CEO who hates you.

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Wag the Fox @wagthefox.bsky.social · 3d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 3d

David Simon has worked incredibly hard and dreamed big dreams to get where he is to write shows like The Wire. WHY IN GOD'S NAME would he work and fight for that only to give it up to a machine that doesn't even do it well?

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Wag the Fox @wagthefox.bsky.social · 3d

Does Chris Pratt have gambling debts he needs to pay off, or just a shitty agent?

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Wag the Fox @wagthefox.bsky.social · 3d

Some people out here in the sticks getting mad at Canada Post workers for going on strike again, grumbling it should be privatized, like privatizing anything ever helped out rural communities. Fuck's sake, how's NSP treating you these days, bud.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 3d

Well didn’t take long for the most predictable thing that people have been saying Would happen if we all started uploading identity verifying documents to servers to happen to happen.

404 Media @404media.co · 3d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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🍂 zurera ⋆˙⟡ comms closed! ✷ @errezurera.bsky.social · 3d

The “””””rat”””””

Doodle of a goat with horns and fairy wings, holding a knife with its mouth. You can read “cabre-hada”

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 3d

LMAO

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 3d

Alex Jones has asked the Supreme Court to immediately put his almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment on hold, citing the imminent threat of InfoWars being handed over to The Onion.

If there isn't a stay, "InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed," the filing says.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 3d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Wag the Fox @wagthefox.bsky.social · 3d

If I was dumb enough to join ICE, I like to think I'd at least have the few braincells necessary to know how fucking pathetic I was firing pepper balls at an inflatable frog ... and losing. Jayzuz, the state of your gestapo, lads.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 6d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 3d

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 3d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 3d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Wag the Fox @wagthefox.bsky.social · 3d

I get a day off tomorrow. If things go according to plan, I will spend the day doing sweet fuck all.

Wag the Fox @wagthefox.bsky.social · 5d

If these mental blocks causing me to procrastinate and give up creative projects could be used as masonry. I'd have myself an S-tier fallout shelter.

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