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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · Jul 23

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s newsletter day. If you don’t subscribed to my newsletter, I will astrally project myself to your place of business to yell random Tyler The Creator lyrics at you.

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 5m

Lolol in the cafeteria singing at the top of our lungs

Scrollamite @blackcellz716.bsky.social · 10h

Karyn White had no business having 7th grade girls singing Superwoman like they had a cheating man working down at the plant🤦🏾‍♂️

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Tiny (Spooky) Terror™️ @thetinyterror.blacksky.app · 11h

Yes and no.

A lot of Americans have main character syndrome real bad and it displays itself as egotism. I think it’s easier to internalize rejection when you approach the world that way.

We also need to deprioritize romantic connection as a culture.

Folks place too much stock in partnership -

Mike Honcho Himself 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @trailian.bsky.social · 22h

Is it possible to decouple ego from romantic rejection?

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 12h

I mean, he did have all them lil blue niggas walking around shirtless. 🤔

Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 13h

Now we’re arguing about whether or not Papa Smurf was a cult leader or a pimp

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 13h

Lolol that’s what she said!

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 13h

Cult leader who used pimping to recruit and to control.

Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 13h

Now we’re arguing about whether or not Papa Smurf was a cult leader or a pimp

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 13h

She said the same thing!

Spooky 🎃 Cerebral Strumpet @mia-sade.bsky.social · 13h

Definitely a cult leader but with a lil sex trafficking on the side

Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 13h

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 13h

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 13h

Now we’re arguing about whether or not Papa Smurf was a cult leader or a pimp

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 13h

They fell off when TNC left, it seems

Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 13h

Anyway the bestie and I are back at our favorite resort bar drinking booze out of cute drinkware

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 13h

Did her goofass post this TWICE

Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 14h

Lolol the children and parents of the corn have taken over the resort shuttle pls help

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15d

Area man, who decided George W. Bush being President was more important than counting everyone’s votes, has concerns about the survival of democracy in 🇺🇸

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 23h

Charging this much to eat meat wrapped in yoga mats is wild as hell.

Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1d

The $5 footlong has become the $6 six inch. I don't even eat Subway and I still think it's time to knock all this shit over

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 18h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 17h

They hired a hack youtuber to write a piece calling me a liar for saying the trump administration ended the LGBTQ national suicide hotline.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 18h

Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence

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It’s a business story. [Highlighting begins] Everyone in journalism has known for years that there’s been a huge opportunity for a publication that employs the traditional methods of U.S. journalism—reporting, deep sourcing, fact-checking, fearlessness—to subjects that either don’t get covered enough or get covered only from a certain perspective. [Highlighting ends] If creating such an enterprise seems simple

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t need to because Bari is the “contemptible, unethical weirdo” I mentioned above. And anyone who believes otherwise is not worth engaging.

Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 18h

If you hang with contemptible, unethical weirdos? You are the company you keep.

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 18h

“Raisins in potato salad” level of intellect over at the Atlantic

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 18h

At least she’s aware

Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 18h

MOOOOOOOM THE FIFTY THREE PERCENT ARE AT IT AGAIN

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 19h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 18h

My other former neighborhood. Sigh.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 1d

Rogers Park

Northernmost lakefront n’hood in Chicago

Home of Loyola U (RIP Sister Jean)

One of few n’hoods w no racial majority. One of the most densely populated places in America, & one of the most racially/ethnicly/religiously/linguistically diverse

An amazing community

And under attack

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 20h

Palestinians themselves pleaded for us to choose Kamala but their voices were irrelevant.

In the same way this person says Kamala was accountable, surely they are holding themselves accountable for the continued bombing of Gaza under the current administration since that’s what they chose.

JikissGamer @jikissgamer.bsky.social · 2d

She deserved to lose and I don't regret withholding my vote in that election in the slightest. I could not in good conscience reward her for what the Biden Admin did in Gaza with her as VP.

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 19h

Lolol this was the Big Brain who took down Gawker. I’d be so ashamed.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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