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I make art with action figures and other stuff. https://www.instagram.com/tachyontransmitter/profilecard/?igsh=ZmM1eHI0enY5NGds

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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hello BlueSky friends! Glad to be here.

Some examples of my all-practical toy photography-hit me up if you’re into action figures, boutique Blu-ray labels, comic books, and cute dogs.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

I have been to two No Kings protests and they are filled with normies and people with funny signs and families and they are just the most wholesome protests imaginable

that's all people are going to see, man - their friends and neighbors out there saying we don't want this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 11h

Uh, @sleepernfl.bsky.social I think maybe something happened to Puka

Puka Nacua’s photo replaced with LeBron James in Sleeper

Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 14h

How does this still not have a good physical release in print?!?

Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 16h

It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.

www.polygon.com/strange-days...

30 years ago, Katherine Bigelow made a sci-fi flop that changed her career for the better

Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 1d

My boy-he’s all grown up now.

Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 1d

If you see this, post the 4 mutants who have always been your favorite since you first got into X-Men.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 1d

"We have a rising new Dem star who really engages with people, and is sure to win their next election."

DEM LEADERSHIP: That's fantastic.

"What are the next steps?"

DEM LEADERSHIP: Simple. Force them to step aside and throw their support behind this 80-year-old lifetime politician.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

The final shot from THE IRISHMAN of Frank Sheeran alone in the retirement home

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 1d

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 1d

Scott should’ve stayed with Emma

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 2d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Retro Blast 🎃 @retroblast.bsky.social · 2d

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter for N64 (1997)

Goldeneye 007 may be the FPS that people think of first on N64, but Turok WAS the first FPS on N64

With an insanely creative arsenal of weapons, and buckets of blood—it screams late 90s edginess in the best way

Turok definitely deserves a home on your shelf 🦖

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2d

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 2d

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe in my ten favorite movies of all time

🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 3d

“THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM” (1961) dir. Roger Corman

Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders

🎬 American International Pictures
#Halloween2025 #31DaysOfSpooky #halloweencountdown #31DaysofHorror
🎃🔪🦇⚰️🍂🏚🕯💀🕷

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Jamie @vanjpes.bsky.social · 3d

The Wolf Man (1941, dir. Georges Waggner) stars Lon Chaney Jr as Larry Talbot, returned to his family estate after nearly two decades away. It doesn't take Larry long to fall in love or get bitten by a werewolf. Chaney really goes for it, matching the film as it gets increasingly daft, wild and fun.

Larry Talbot's new cane, with a silver wolf's head and a pentagram on its handle

Talbot's eyes, as he imagines the death of the woman he loves, Gwen. Her face is centre to the image, with a pentagram in a circle imposed over it.

Talbot's feet, newly wolf-like and hairy, with his trousers seen just above, his shoes to the right of frame

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3d

Tua gets picked trying to start the hook & ladder 😭

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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 3d

Should’ve specified I was talking about Black Cat! Raven is fine, lol

Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe my favorite 30’s horror movie and it’s one of my favorite decades of horror. So depraved and bizarre, with an incredible performance by Lugosi

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Pbjam (#1 HB Godzilla Fan) @pbjam01.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning!

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Rob L. White (find me on insta!) @therlwrites.bsky.social · 3d

morning horror fam 🖤😈🫶

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3d

well damn, Baker

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social · 3d

I’m gonna need someone to get Alan Moore on the record about this instead of asking him about superhero movies for the 1,000th time

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

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.