luis, the king of crops
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Degenerate ‘Modernistic’ Works ~ senior editorial producer at @newyorker.com ~ opinions are mine, give them back >:/ ~ in “my long and storied Corny Era.” ~ he/they read my stuff at https://more-tk.com/
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apparently the 'de' is lc and there's a space in between it and 'Blasio' my apologies to a fellow half-Italianx king
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one of Bill DeBlasio's most confounding achievements was being a proud Red Sox fan for all eight years he was in office
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great time to be in media lmao. thanks David!
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I'm gonna be so real rn, I was planning on running down my subscription—I love this website but times are hard and that makes one take a harder look at where their money is going—but this is the kind of good-hearted, pro-consumer move that convinces people to stay subscribed. It worked for me!
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kyleor.land
What happened next?
fintwitter.bsky.social
BESSENT: THERE IS A VERY GOOD CHANCE HERE THAT CURRENT ERA FOR U.S. GROWTH IS LIKE THE LATE 1800S OR THE 1990S
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perhaps a sign of my declining mental state and expectations for society that my immediate reaction was "ah well, you can't expect Chan trolls to act differently" rather than anything constructive about how gross and evil these fucks behave
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“armchair Infrastructure Guy” is actually one of the top kind of guys you can be, this piece rules.
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man just walked out to “Legend Has It” by Run The Jewels, we have never been so back
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sadvil.bsky.social
A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke
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Luffy’s hat isn’t even red, this man is dumb as hell
sharonk.bsky.social
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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jacoboller.bsky.social
woke up from a nap in a frenzy
a few good men but make it a few small beers
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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I think I now understand why test cricket takes five days, this shit rocks
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love when the Fox Sports robot demands I download the app with the same posture as the Uber Eats delivery guy at the McDonald’s counter
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can a perpetual stew also be a baseball game
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saraiya.bsky.social
i find it so soothing when everybody starts doing this. go baseball
jtp.bsky.social
people are making vage incredulous posts all at once. my sports senses are tingling
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brooklynspoke.bsky.social
That press conference shows the tragedy of Eric Adams. He had some real successes: City of Yes, trash containerization, crime reductions, etc. but couldn't stop tripping over all the bags of money he and his aides kept taking from people and now thinks it's the media's fault for reporting on it.
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his mind
foldablehuman.bsky.social
this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin
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fyi the comments on this post on the FP website are fundamentally indistinguishable from those that appear below NY Post links on Facebook, if you wanted a reminder of how "enlightened" and "centrist" the audience these dipshits cultivated is
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The essence of Bari Weiss: not reporting, but crude partisan propaganda presented in the form of reporting—and usually pronounced from the mouths of anonymous sources which likely don't exist. Expect this sort of prolefeed at CBS News soon.