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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1h

did sports networks stop doing "helmets of the two teams crash into each other at high speed and explode" animations because of CTE

static klinger @jessespector.com · 7h

here’s a clip from monday night football the last time the cowboys were defending champions

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 4h

i don't mean to alarm anyone but there is a dang cheeto in the white house

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 22h

He really put a "but I'm different" in his eulogy. What a mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

slow spooky movie trailer version of "the boys are back in town"

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

help me help me i'm a character in a mike flanagan thing and these ghosts are saying stuff to me like "you don't care about anyone but yourself!" aaaagh so scary

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

*game two, whatever

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

million dollar idea: super bowl kicks off at 11:03 on a thursday morning

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

major league baseball rocks, they're always like "hm how do we get more people to watch baseball" and then they schedule game one of the american league championship series on a monday afternoon

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

seein the beta band live on wednesday (please DO NOT say "the beta band? sounds like you should be onstage for that one, david!")

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 3d

more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bs... 3h well ialways said this was gonna happen eventually but Sti/f very sad to learn that hell burned down

particle dogs @particledogs.bsky.so... 3h Is everyone okay?

more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social
you're thinking of purgatory
October 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

"here's what pokémon tells us about the biblical antichrist" is something we should be seeing from a teenage youtuber with 108 followers not a billionaire amphibian who owns most of the people in the white house

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

i like comics too but it's disturbing to me that none of these guys seem to read books that don't have pictures in them

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.

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

i love fan photos with cal raleigh where the fan looks more like a pro athlete than cal raleigh does

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

(russian accent) "mister baseball"

david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 3d

um excuse me but in the past decade they have made two THE ACCOUNTANT movies

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3d

Entire way of experiencing movies that zoomers will never remember, that people my age barely remember, where you watched something because it was on. Feels like there is an entire genre of movie that was meant to be seen in that format. You couldn’t make Swordfish (2001) today.

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 4d

if a blair witch ever tried to do blair witch shit to me i would knock its ass out

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 4d

i shudder to imagine the twisted doctor who sends a depressed man to see the joker

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 4d

the joker may laugh a lot but i don't think he's really that happy of a guy

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 4d

it's so funny that now there's just a nonstop flaming lips concert outside the portland ice building

kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 5d

I found the agitators! They are 2 unicorns, giraffe, canary, panda, mouse, dinosaur, mouse, Stitch, and the frog! And they are right outside of Portland's ICE facility! 🤣🤣🤣

#ProudBlue

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 4d

the freaking Portland protest frog is warming up in the pen

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 4d

baseball is designed to make its fans feel like shit and that is what's good about it

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 5d

you're making stone cold the ref? at a pay per view, no less? this is the stone cold who hasn't been trained as a referee, who drinks on the job, and who has significant conflicts of interest regarding both competitors? yeah i bet that'll go GREAT. 🙄

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 5d

anytime they announce a special guest referee for a pro wrestling match i'm like "oh great there goes professionalism right out the dang window"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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david frighty @tveite.bsky.social · 5d

i am not even a phillies fan and this made me want to die, how do you think this pitcher feels

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely brutal way for the Phillies to lose, Dodgers win the series

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