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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 23m

Sup my #DIYDads? We’re helping my buddy make a shed.

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 6h

The thing in the movie might not be 100% true to real life?? No way!!! Thanks ruined of fun man!

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 6h

This is all Neil deGrasse Tyson’s fault.

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 6h

Oh it’s terrible! Future dystopian schlock and the dumbest time machine ever. It’s a rocket sled on a track and if it doesn’t work you smash into a concrete wall and die.

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 18h

Doctors orders

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 18h

Cracked knee cap?

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 18h

Ouch

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe throw strikes?

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 21h

My mom rented this movie for us when I was like 11 years old. When the full frontal nudity scene came on she rushed to turn off the VCR. Good times.

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 1d

Good.

Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 1d

Matthews is having trouble playing with the left handed Cowen on the right wing. He’s putting the puck to the wrong side a lot.

Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 3d

Is this a prompt from “Make Some Noise”?

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 4d

Bbbbbbubble team

Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 4d

Close

Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t do drugs kids

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6d

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.

Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 6d

a man with glasses is sitting in a car next to a police officer and the word meow is on the screen .

ALT: a man with glasses is sitting in a car next to a police officer and the word meow is on the screen .

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Andrew @phokingawesome.bsky.social · 6d

You’d think they’d be embarrassed to keep saying it at this point

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 6d

Right?

Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 6d

Leafs have been learning this lesson for the past decade

TheLeafsNation @tlndc.bsky.social · 6d

Anthony Stolarz believes Leafs learned lesson vs. Red Wings: ‘We have to come to play every night’

After a strong start on Saturday night for the Toronto Maple Leafs, things took a turn for the worse. In the end, the Leafs fell 6-3 to the Detroit Red Wings, taking their first loss of the season. Maple Leafs goaltender Anthony Stolarz made 33 saves, allowing four goals against. Speaking after the game, the…

theleafsnation.com

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 6d

And why scratch a guy you picked up off waivers? Horrible asset management

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Cory Lavalette @corylav.bsky.social · 7d

Me: It’s nice to have hockey games back.
NHL:

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 8d

Yes but understand that people stupid

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Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 8d

No man that was entirely self inflicted

Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 8d

I was in the building at that end

Weirdneal @weirdneal.bsky.social · 8d

Double goalie oopsie doodle

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