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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1h

One of the best things you can do for yourself is embrace the fact that some things you like aren't very good and may even be trash

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Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · 1h

What's happening to the aid convoys Tom

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 13h

Cease-fire, aid convoys, prisoner exchanges…
Weirdest genocide ever.

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Civil Discourse Blob. Not Creeps, or Leaps or Slides. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · 1h

Tom Nichols is a nazi.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1h

Biden ran on being able to reach across the aisle and reason with his decades-long friends in the senate and as soon as he got there all the other old men were like we’ll fuckin’ kill you old man

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 3h

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 2h

It's unfair to make demands of Democrats bc they're just powerless rich congressmen. Instead, we must hold the truly powerful people accountable: social media accounts with more followers than me.

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Jamie Merchant @jamiemerchant.bsky.social · 2h

really can’t be stressed enough how much these cowardly losers hate being publicly ridiculed

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 8h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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Civil Discourse Blob. Not Creeps, or Leaps or Slides. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · 3h

Tonight's movie watch. youtu.be/s5PWGIb6vhc

To Sleep With Anger - Trailer

YouTube video by POVCineclub

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

The Landman

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 7h

You are a living joke if you are more concerned about “the thought-police” than the secret police

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 9h

Girl same

Hinge bio:

Monogamy
Monogamy only. I can't do math.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 8h

Red Rooms is a tense, evocative, subtle, and complex film that pairs well w movies like Anatomy of a Fall. Billed as horror due to events that happen offscreen, but more of a hybrid. Disturbing, dislocating, with stunning choreography and acting. (Def understand aversion to watching it, tjo.)

Red Rooms poster with red title text and black and white photo of Juliette Gariépy, the lead.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 8h

Halloween costume idea: go out as a wildly unqualified zombie head of the CBS News Division named “Bury Weiss”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8h

Who cares? God you act like you’re proclaiming how we turn water into wine. So you’re rooting for Bari Weiss. How daring! How bold! Such raw bravery! I bet you wear a hat that says “the NASDAQ” on it

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 9h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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josh 🐦 @josh.uno · 9h

we should take all of peter thiels money and distribute it equally amongst ourselves

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 10h

Bari Weiss retweets the NBC Olympics account, which says "holy cow! You just witnessed a historic triple axel from Mirai nagasu"
Bari says "immigrants. They get the job done"

James hirsh:"she was born in California"

Bari: "yes, yes. I realize. Felt the poetic license was kosher"

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14h

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

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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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 13h

I’m sure they will love this repeated association of you with their brand

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 11h

I wish I was getting satans money from Hollywood

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 11h

Putting out a call: if you were part of WOTC’s late-2010s live events (Stream of Many Eyes, D&D Live, The Descent), I would love to talk to you as part of the Actual Play book.

[email protected] will reach me, either to schedule a chat or to share your memories.

Please feel free to share.

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 11h

Narrator: "That was a lie."

Current monopolies held by China -
- Gallium: >95%
- Geranium: ~80%
- Natural Graphite: ~70% (Mining) / ~90% (Refining)
- Antimony ~80%
- Tungsten ~80%
- Bismuth ~80%
- Magnesium ~85%
- REE Refining ~85%

Vance Says US Holds More Cards in Escalating China Trade Spat

Vice President JD Vance called on Beijing to “choose the path of reason” in the latest spiraling trade fight between the US and China, claiming that President Donald Trump has more leverage.

www.bloomberg.com

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dolittlemd.bsky.social @dolittlemd.bsky.social · 12h

GAZA ‘TRUCE’ = LIE! Three days, NO medicine allowed in! No food! Children without milk! No basic supplies! This is DELIBERATE STARVATION! Blocking aid during ceasefire is WAR CRIME! Kids dying while aid sits at borders! This is UNCONSCIONABLE!

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 13h

Three days into the truce no medicine has come in, no meat or any other kind of food for the people, no milk for the children, no basic supplies.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 12h

Bluesky deletes the accounts of the very real Gaza civilians here. But their plight isn't over and they rely on our donations to survive.

Please give to my friend Tasneem so she can feed her family. And find and help others. We’re their only voice and means of survival. ❤️ 🙏

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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Civil Discourse Blob. Not Creeps, or Leaps or Slides. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · 11h

Alright fine. Let's get sprout pilled. youtu.be/VAVER-QBEyI

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