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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 2h

i signal virtue and you complain, but when i signal vice, STILL you complain!

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 5h

[autistic new yorker] hey! i'm stimmin' here!

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REDMIDIBAZAAR @redmidibazaar.bsky.social · 18h

you can stay with me and nobody would care

a cigarette-smoking coyote in a cowboy hat leads you along a desert highway heading straight into a swirling sunset. a nearby road sign simply says "end". he looks trustworthy.

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 1d

the crime vs. the criminal

a paperback copy of the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque sitting on a counter top. the book is bent and is covered with teeth marks, punctures, and drool stains. The back cover of the book has been torn off.

a goofy malamute sitting on a bed with a calm and satisfied expression on his face.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

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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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 2d

foot fetish dracula walking around saying shit like "i vant to suck your toes" and getting repelled by Gold Bond Medicated Powder

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WereMystic 🎃 @phoenixwerewolf.bsky.social · 2d

Another werewolf dad I made

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JAN 👻 @atwistedfool.bsky.social · 3d

he's lying

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Bro Kow Ski @brokowski.bsky.social · 3d

slut

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AVIAN @avianvevo.bsky.social · 3d

digital painting of an anthropomorphic character, standing on a sidewalk in front of a two-story, light blue suburban house. the scene is at night, though much of the character and environment are heavily overexposed, as though illuminated by a bright light off-screen. the character is wearing a sweater and jeans, looking off in the direction of the light. their face is completely obscured apart from shadows. several trees surround the house, casting harsh shadows across it. two ac units are visible in the upstair's and downstair's windows of the house, with a wooden porch in behind.

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Trowzer Browzer @trowzer.bsky.social · 10d

Peter meets a playful pup

(comm i did earlier this year for my friend @irradiatedotter.bsky.social, thank you again Kuras :3)

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 4d

putting in 70 hours a week and i'm still at the bottom of the escaping samsara leaderboards, what the fuck

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4d

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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REDMIDIBAZAAR @redmidibazaar.bsky.social · 4d

tricked by yet another metaphor-laden self-help book, much to his chagrin

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Gaz @nyazsche.bsky.social · 5d

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 5d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
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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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 5d

[fostering queer joy] haha yes! fuck yeah, this rules

[seeing queer joy uplift my queer enemies] no! no!!

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 5d

if you know specific lines from a song, share them! someone on here may know it.

beyond that, use quotes ("like this") in search engines when looking. genius and the old standbys azlyrics and plyrics may have it up. if you use reddit, r/namethatsong may be able to help you out as well.

big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 5d

2003 - purchasing a storage binder to hold my burned CDs

2014 - wow, streaming! entire musical libraries at my fingertips! the digital revolution is here!!

2025 - purchasing a storage binder to hold my burned CDs

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 5d

yelling "Quickcheck!" during the great Wawa vs. Sheetz debate so that both parties can put aside their differences and kick my ass

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Byron @byronthemuffinman.bsky.social · 5d

Baron gets to be a nice cushion for Baldur for the day~

Amazing commission by @booneyard.bsky.social

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 6d

Upton Sinclair seeing RFK jr meatbag build: haha holy shit

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 7d

while there has been great diversification since their heyday in the 1980s, the jock's primary functions are to be captain of the football team, kiss the prom queen, and put nerds into trash cans.

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 7d

some guy making minimum wage: i don't like it when the police hassle me

a published millionaire Harvard professor who befriended a billionaire pedophile supervillain: this elitist, ivory tower madness... is destroying, the beautiful West...

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 7d

sad but true!

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 7d

a lot of you didn't grow up listening to 1990s third-wave ska and it fucking shows

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