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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 2h

not to mention the fucking professional atheist scientists who provide the entire foundation for anti-trans bigotry by saying "science PROVES there are only two sexes!"

May their underpants never be dry again.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h

I guess some other time we can talk about the reactionary professional atheists who literally built the secular foundation for today’s anti-DEI arguments

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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 12m

Anyway it's time for church. Lots of wild stuff happening

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Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social · 1d

Bravo Neko Case.

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 1d

Neko Case ends Tennessee show early after venue refuses to remove armed security guard

Neko Case Ends Tennessee Show Early After Venue Refuses To Remove Armed Guard

Neko Case played a show Thursday night at the Caverns in the tiny Tennessee town of Pelham — or at least she started to, before walking off stage after her first few songs. The reason for her departur...

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1h

this is - and I say this with as much derision as possible - exactly the sort of shit I wrote in essays in high school

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

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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tru @thetrudz.photo · 14h

The purpose of TRON films are the film scores. Idk about anything else.

Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 1d

oh wow, the early reports are that the new Tron movie isn’t doing very well at the box office. this is wild, because the last Tron movie didn’t do very well at the box office, and also the very first Tron movie didn’t do very well at the box office and also neither of those first two were very good.

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Rachel @sugarmaple.bsky.social · 13h

Dear #art community #foodie community #homecooking and #gardening community - If any of you use Pinterest and have been upset about the AI slop, there is a way to turn it off now! Settings-> Refine your recommendations-> Gen AI and toggle them all off! 🍽️ 🌱

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

I saw someone say that 79 years old is young and no it is not. Living until you are almost 80 means that you have been blessed to live a long life.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13h

I would throw money at a t-shirt that says in all caps “TAKE A LOOK, IT’S IN A BOOK” over a rainbow.

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 17h

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 13h

Board games should last 3 hours max!

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1d

Yeah no I'm leaving the moment I get a real job again (I suspect I'm a little too feral to be hired at something real, but that's the plan) (surely I can be redomesticated!)

The profit/loss document for my life isn't really working out, oh well

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 1d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 16h

frogcon.frogcult.org/pages/panels...
Frogcon??

Panels and Events (2025)

Check out all the froggy panels we have for Frog Con 2025!

frogcon.frogcult.org

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 18h

This isn't rocket science, Hollywood. When you make movies for Gen Z & Alpha, they pay to see them. FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S opened to $80M WITH a day & date streaming release on Peacock. When you make movies for their dads, those dads have a choice between the theater or their bitchin' home theater.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 19h

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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merritt @merrittk.com · Feb 20

one day soon AI will be able to enjoy jacking off and playing video games for you, freeing up your valuable time to toil in the blood mines for shelter-creds

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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 18h

Yea, we're all responsible for our own nervous systems and if people with big accounts are evoking big feelings in us, we need to put down the phone ourselves

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18h

people really think like this huh

Ed
@ed3d.net
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accounts with tens of thousands of followers do not get to "vent" or make shit up to panic their followers. there is no "but" after this sentence.
I do not have tens of thousands of followers but explicitly refuse to sow panic; these people can do likewise
October 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 21h

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 1d

The ad was disguised as an article but still

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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 1d

Man, anyone remember XOJane? They had professors living in dumpsters, people who cried because a Black woman was in their yoga class, lots of weird tampon mishaps...

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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 1d

Heh. Actually that ' magazine ' also ran an ad for breaking your ribs to look better

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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. I was expecting the piece to go " I went from having 15 clashing strong scents to using just a simple unscented body wash " not " we all smell like goats on the subway "

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I love it..the world building the characters...

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 1d

From the Larchives: Someday I'll hopefully write a story to go with these characters :

cartoon: A Hallowe'en illustration. A witch and her grandchildren are whipping up a brew in a cauldron with their pumpkin headed friend and owl familiar

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

He might want to talk to his head of HHS

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

Trump just got his Covid and flu shots, so should you!

PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
MEMORANDUM
October 10, 2025
TO: KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
PROSIC TO ME PREE, D.O. J
PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESIDENT
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CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY
SUBJECT: President Donald J. Trump Completes Comprehensive Follow-Up Evaluation at
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
President Donald J. Trump successfully completed a scheduled follow-up evaluation today at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The visit was part of his ongoing health maintenance plan and included advanced imaging, laboratory testing, and preventive health assessments conducted by a multidisciplinary team of specialists. These evaluations were performed in coordination with leading academic and medical consultants to ensure optimal cardiovascular health and continued wellness.
Comprehensive laboratory studies performed in conjunction with the visit were exceptional, including stable metabolic, hematologic, and cardiac parameters.
In preparation for upcoming international travel, President Trump also received preventive health screenings and immunizations, including annual influenza and updated COVID-19 booster vaccinations.
President Trump continues to demonstrate excellent overall health. His cardiac age-a validated measure of cardiovascular vitality via ECG-was found to be approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age. He continues to maintain a demanding daily schedule without restriction.
SUMMARY: President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and physical performance.

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Tron: SCARY @asterionhex.monster · 1d

This is how I started reading Stephen King and Anne McCaffrey also

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jul 11

In the 90's, there was one random Anne Rice or Dean Koontz within 3 meters of you, no matter where you were. They were what you had nearby to read, so you read em.

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