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onion person @junlper.beer · 22h

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 1d

You (Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme) are much stronger than you think you are

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

Rest in peace, Miss Major.

We will carry the bricks forward.

ACLU @aclu.org · 4d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing could be scarier than his interpretation of Firestorm

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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 5d

Apart from everything else what the fuck kind of understanding of early modernity is, absolutely insane goddamn bullshit

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.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 8d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 7d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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J. Effingham Booweather @jeffinghambellw.bsky.social · 9d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Young and smoking hot Jack and Roz Kirby

#comics

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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah my time at Reed College was really defined by Mad Max-style car stunts and settlement raiding

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 10d

Trans people, I am once again asking you—nay, begging you—to share something good that is going on in your lives right now!

I’ll start: I’m working on a new graphic novel and having a blast with the creative team we’ve assembled!

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13d

I mean, Jack Kamen is far from my favorite EC guy, you know I’m more a Severin partisan … but sure, I’ll “ride” for Kamen, though I don’t know how you actually build a whole media franchise out of that.

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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 17d

Favorite Silver Age DC title?

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 17d

A comic book panel featuring the Spectre. The narration box says "The Spectre's stratagem is successful! As he turns the switch, Zor is imprisoned within the paralysis-ray." In the panel, the Spectre looks at Zor and say's "Who's stupid now?"

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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 17d

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 23d

Sometimes I go to Heritage Auctions and just look at old Jaime Hernandez pages. This one is from "100 Rooms." Jaime drew the top tier for the original comic book. He added the bottom two tiers added a couple of years later when he expanded the story. That body language!

Nine panel page by Xaime featuring Maggie, Hopey, and Penny.

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Sophie Campbell 🏳️‍⚧️ @mooncalfe1.bsky.social · 23d

I did it

A ragged Linda Lee robot comes out of a secret hollow tree and menaces Supergirl. The robot is saying "Mistress, why did you abandon me?" and Supergirl is saying "Oh no, how did I forget about her?!"

A panel from Action Comics #279 from 1961 by John Forte and Robert Bernstein. It shows Linda Lee waving goodbye to her Linda Robot inside a secret hollow tree. Linda says: "Goodbye, Linda Robot! I'm afraid I won't have any more use for you!" The Linda Robot replies: "Should you ever need, Mistress, I'll be here in this hollow tree... waiting!"

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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 23d

One of the loveliest, warmest, most human comics I've ever had the privilege to read – a perfect companion to Rachel Pollack, Ann Nocenti, Krakoa... I'll miss it very much and I have most assuredly written to Marvel to tell them I feel that way. You're a true gem Anthony.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 25d

we all know why judith butler is a target. it’s bcos they’re a trans intellectual.

it’s the *exact* same reason the guardian censored them when they wrote a column calling out terfs.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25d

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson

What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous

www.theguardian.com

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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 25d

Beto and Atari Force... I need to consider some things...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 25d

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday

Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday

variety.com

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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.com · 27d

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 28d

It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28d

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 29d

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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milo edwards @miloedwards.bsky.social · Sep 15

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

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