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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1h

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 1h

No Kings protest kicking off in Washington, D.C. Here’s the view down Pennsylvania Avenue from near the front. Street is totally packed for blocks.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2h

let's goooooooo

Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 2h

Bluesky is real life.
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
Poster

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 14h

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

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arkhamtexan.bsky.social @arkhamtexan.bsky.social · 1d

Hell, Zagreus himself has major problems with god-dad. After hundreds of hours of playing after the main story was complete in 1, I actually forgot Hades is pretty abusive. Then I started a new game and—even tho I know his motivations now—went “wait minute… I forgot I HATE Hades!”

Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 1d

Most Hades dialogue is with the gods’ victims (Sisyphus. Arcachne. Cyclops. Icarus ) or family members they have serious problems with (chaos )

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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 3d

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Ironlily @ironlily.bsky.social · 4d

Ordo Mediare Sisters's oath.

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arkhamtexan.bsky.social @arkhamtexan.bsky.social · 4d

a close up of a person 's face with flames coming out of it 's mouth .

ALT: a close up of a person 's face with flames coming out of it 's mouth .

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arkhamtexan.bsky.social @arkhamtexan.bsky.social · 5d

That sucks. We finally got hit with it back in August. :(

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arkhamtexan.bsky.social @arkhamtexan.bsky.social · 5d

That’s a good episode. >_>

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6d

alan moore hated people like thiel misinterpreting his work so profoundly that he dropped out of public life to become a shaman and worship a snake deity

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6d

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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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 6d

Anatoly Dyatlov: What does the breathalyzer say?
Alexandr Akimov: 0.337 BAC. But that's as high as the meter...
Anatoly Dyatlov: 0.337 - not great, not terrible.

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 6d

Hey @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social I think you should know about this.

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Texas A&M Police @TAMUPolice
Public Intoxication. Aggie Park. Contacted subject eating a sandwich with a water jug of whiskey. BAC was.337. Released to EMS. #BTHOflorida
7:14 PM • 10/11/25 • 22K Views

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 7d

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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生田目和剛(Nabatame Kazutaka) @nabatamekazutaka.bsky.social · 7d

Japanese pub,Yamagata
(2024)

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arkhamtexan.bsky.social @arkhamtexan.bsky.social · 7d

You should get them toys.

a cartoon character in a red devil costume is holding a trident and says rocks .

ALT: a cartoon character in a red devil costume is holding a trident and says rocks .

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arkhamtexan.bsky.social @arkhamtexan.bsky.social · 8d

I’ll prolly be forced to hand in half of my screen name in for this but… yes. The plentiful clean bathrooms are nothing to sneeze at, but that’s really about it.

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arkhamtexan.bsky.social @arkhamtexan.bsky.social · 8d

Brisket burrito. Just had one last night. Ditto cinnamon bun.

Also need to warn you of what to stay away from. Their key lime pie cup is a super fake, bright green color that is nuclear sweet with little flavor. Go for the more famous stuff instead, like beaver nuggets. Tried and true.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8d

this goes double for croissants. why would i want to bake croissants? at least half the point is to get out and grab one with a cup of coffee

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8d

a big thing i learned about myself during covid is that i just want to buy a goddamned baguette from the store or the bakery, i literally never want to make the damned thing myself

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 8d

That got dark quickly.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 9d

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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arkhamtexan.bsky.social @arkhamtexan.bsky.social · 8d

Come on out!

Denton Co Dems @dentondems.bsky.social · 8d

Join the Carrollton Democrats Club for their 1st Annual Community Potluck Picnic 🎉

🗓 Sat, Oct 11 | 11–3
📍 Mary Heads Carter Pavilion

Arts, games, prizes & poster-making for “NO KINGS”!
RSVP so they can plan the food!
🍗 signup.com/go/bAhSdTh
📝 mobilize.us/s/o06OLl

#CarrolltonDems #TXDems #NoKings

Carrollton Dems Community Potluck Picnic

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arkhamtexan.bsky.social @arkhamtexan.bsky.social · 10d

… if they can exclude most of San Antonio from being included with Austin, they can exclude DFW too. And that San Antonio split means most of it is YET AGAIN LUMPED IN WITH THE RGV?!?!??

The Bernie map is more accurate even if it was notes the damn RGV/San Antonio THING.

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arkhamtexan.bsky.social @arkhamtexan.bsky.social · 10d

A most photogenic and spoiled Ms. Momo.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 12d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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arkhamtexan.bsky.social @arkhamtexan.bsky.social · 12d

I hadn’t seen it yet when you reviewed it but stayed optimistic since, hey, we ain’t gonna see eye to eye on everything.

I was utterly floored by how little I cared for the film when I did see it. I think it def showed that every story teller has limitations no matter how good they are otherwise.

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