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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1h

Cormac McCarthy characters when they get a little hangry

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2h

We need to get past all the witness threats and tampering before we get to kindly hot dog salesman

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 4h

Here in St Louis, the guy in charge of jails is in jail

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 8h

This sounds like a DnD skin on Mothership which I am excited to try to write now

Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 8h

He did a season of hosting Wipeout with Nichole Bryer and the whole show is worth it just for them. Never seen John Cena in something where he wasn't delightful

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 8h

Juxtaposing watching Fight Club this weekend, on Patreon I just released the KPOP Demon Hunters episode with @uwebollocks.bsky.social of the Soundtracker Podcast. God help us if there's ever a skibbidy toilet musical

www.patreon.com/posts/141202...

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 9h

It's beautifully shot, the soundtrack is incredible, and visually it holds up. But at the age of 42 I just keep telling every character to shut up and stop whining

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 9h

Project Mayham only existed because we hadn't invented podcasting yet

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 9h

I make and sell fanfic on AO3

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 9h

The Narrator wakes up on a plane. Single serving Friend me is sitting next to him. My name is Tyler Durton and I paint Warhammer 40K figurines. I have saved yet another man from becoming GenX al Qaeda

Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 10h

After last week's discussion, @whatahellofawaytodad.com and I reevaluated Fight Club, a film we loved as teenagers (we were the target audience in 1999). I present to you my honest reaction c. 2025 as shared with my beloved partner

my god
12:33 /l
fight club
12:33 /l
i had to finally watch it 12:33 /l
i actually can't get through it. it's just too repulsive to me now, even if it's beautifully shot
12:33 Jl
as i said on the recording: in the
'90s people felt soul-crushing ennui because their apartment was too big

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Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 10h

After last week's discussion, @whatahellofawaytodad.com and I reevaluated Fight Club, a film we loved as teenagers (we were the target audience in 1999). I present to you my honest reaction c. 2025 as shared with my beloved partner

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

One of my favorite comic book movies. We need more weird shit like this

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

watching the warren beatty DICK TRACEY movie and it is insane? legitimately wild to me that it was a hit?

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2d

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2d

I have iron sights on my rifle because someone else wanted to get rid of theirs and I got them free

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2d

Me at 20 on a 300m range: Irons are life. If you can't shoot with irons, you can't shoot

Me at 40 on a 25m range:

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2d

Wait until this guy learns about the Ferengis

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2d

I'm glad none of these freaks watched Attack on Titan

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

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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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2d

No one goes broke playing to rich people's egos

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...