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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 2h

With record levels of selfishness.

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 9h

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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 2h

BUT, he won the argument.

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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 3h

When did Magic Grandpa ever listen to members? He always knows better.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 5h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 6h

Tortoise can’t afford subs.

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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 7h

Shame Rylan shat the bed over immigration.

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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 7h

Are they all brown eyes?

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 21h

"Wait, I can explain..."

Wyoming Man Found With 30 Eyeballs In His Anal Cavity

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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 17h

I love Watchmen, but the fact that a would be Alexander thinks that referencing a graphic novel backs his intellectual argument shows what a lightweight he is.

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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

🤡

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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 18h

He reappears with this article every six months.

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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 18h

Face eating leopards etc.

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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 18h

The Tory Centipede.

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Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 1d

"Do you still get paid in Roubles Ted?"
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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 18h

They are just nutters. David Icke beat them all to it and he was laughed out of the UK.

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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 18h

No biscuits?

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 23h

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 21h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23h

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 18h

Good call!

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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 18h

Why would a social media company hire a fascist to advise them?
Fuck you Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp and Zuckerberg
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 19h

Hey Richard, could you create an account of this collection? I know there’s not a lot in it for you, but they are amazing and I would love to see more!

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Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 20h

You sound like a terrible person.

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