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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 1h

quote's from here btw it's so good www.reddit.com/r/paulthomas...

BC Release Date Aug 8th 2025

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 1h

"You don't produce a PTA movie because it will make money. You do it because it's your turn."

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‘One Battle After Another’ Projected to Lose $100 Million Theatrically as ‘Smashing Machine’ and Others Also Struggle Due to Oversized Budgets

Why "The Smashing Machine," "One Battle After Another" and other buzzy films are failing to make a profit at the box office.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2h

Not even reading this. The proper response is “Thank you, madam. Your gift is meaningful to us.” This is like Stilgar spitting on the floor.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 3h

"I helped!" meowed Wendy.

Security camera catches cat dropping mouse into human family's dinner

Animal rescuers in California shared security camera stills showing the moment a foster kitten spiced up her human family's dinner with a dead mouse.

www.upi.com

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 8h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

Finding out that the people in charge are often petulant hypocrites is one of the most valuable things you can learn in college and will undoubtedly make these student journalists even better at their jobs.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

And here's a link to a letter from the IDS editors about the firing of the student newspaper director.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

The one good thing about them taking the horny restraints off ChatGPT is that we will never hear from some people again

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 1d

idk I just got a new phone and got the new ios so it could just be that?

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John Jackson Miller 🔜 BATMAN: REVOLUTION On Sale Oct 21! @farawaypress.com · 1d

BATMAN: REVOLUTION releases one week from today in hardcover, audiobook, and ebook from Del Rey Books — and the official DC site has an excerpt from the prologue, where the future Riddler starts a very momentous day. Get the book Oct. 21! www.dc.com/blog/2025-10...

Read a Thrilling Excerpt From the Upcoming “Batman: Revolution” | DC

In Batman: Revolution, the Dark Knight matches wits with none other than The Riddler, a brilliant—but unknown—copy boy and puzzle creator at the Gotham Globe who’s tired of constantly living in the Ba...

www.dc.com

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 1d

Apple drives me insane because it's a $3.6 trillion company that thinks the best solution to a new yorker riding the subway is Would You Like To Talk To Space Today?

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 2d

In news that might only interest me and three other people, the FOIA Fairy confirms that

a) William & Mary paid $50K to join Patriot League FB
b) current Patriot League dues are $30K a year

also, FB affiliate status is only through the 2029 season. Could be renewed after:

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 2d

"If you want access to it, you better get comfortable making lowest-common-denominator bullshit in front of a camera.

And, of course, it’s a lot easier to feel good about doing that if you’re an idiot."

www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-... @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social

The Great Dumbening

Read to the end for it’s Tronin’ time

www.garbageday.email

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, truthfully I think that mic discipline was a larger issue in this particular panel lol than the folks next door.

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 3d

frankly it's way funnier this way.

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 3d

NYCC is a miracle. Was just at a panel where martin scorsese was occasionally drowned out by the rapturous cheers from a packed panel on demon smut next door.

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 3d

RESEARCH ASSISTANT
The Thiel Foundation
$48,000-$56,000

The primary duties of this role will be to watch the entirety of One Piece, and write occasional memos on plot developments to head of comms. Position is in-office, duties INCLUDE filler arcs.

This is, to our surprise, a full-time position.

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 3d

the One Piece stuff is not like entirely wrong but no speech paragraph has ever been more obviously delegated to the intern than that one

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 3d

guys don't make me tap the "just because a villain is conventionally attractive doesn't make them an anti-hero" sign

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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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 4d

I like that Barnes & Noble is the last place you can just go buy a disc with a movie on it but I do think their strategy of pricing something at $50 and then pleasantly surprising you at the cash register with the information that they only want half that is probably not the best way to move product

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History of Westeros @historyofwesteros.com · 4d

George is looking great in his vest and hat and clearly enjoying yapping about comics and other influences. #asoiaf #grrm #nycc

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

Guys and ladies and everyone else: I revived the newsletter. I hope you’ll take a look. It is free.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 4d

The first edition of the new newsletter is out! Check it out IF YOU DARE (halloween)
www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-glorious...

The glorious return of How To Read This Chart

Chapter 1 So, uh, what have you been up to? The last time anyone received an issue of "How To Read This Chart," President Trump hadn't yet deployed the military to D.C., the Mets were only a game-and...

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 5d

Pigs That Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph Of

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jan 9

here is the current tactical map of where feral swine populations have consolidated

the major worry is if the Canadian superhogs end up making their way down south and breeding with the American hogs

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Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · 6d

Last night it said 100+ bought in the past month. Tonight, 200+. The legion grows.

screenshot of amazon page that says Inflatable Frog Costume for Adults - Blow up Halloween Costume. 200 plus bought in past month

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 6d

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 6d

not loving the ratio of eagles fans to giants fans at metlife rn

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