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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 17h

I'm pretty sure this is just the plot of "God-Emperor of Dune" and the antichrist is Leto II Atreides

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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 1d

trump would read stolen emails onstage but apparently this was a hoax

brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 1d

as Billy Joel said, everybody has a dream

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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 1d

look obviously I'm not a huge Hillary Clinton fan but I still think this was extremely bad

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Dan Hopper @danhopp.bsky.social · 1d

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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 1d

I remember watching Game 7 of the 1997 World Series in England. It went into extras and lasted, I believe, until February 1998

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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so tired of agreeing with Bill Kristol

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

“‘It breaks your heart,’ Bart Giamatti said. ‘It is designed to break your heart.’ I love that quote, but I’ve never really believed it. Yes, baseball will break your heart — but baseball is designed to give you hope. Spring training will come again.”

www.joeposnanski.com/p/baseball-w...

Baseball Will Break Your Heart

But, even though it doesn't always feel that way, its real design is to make you believe again.

www.joeposnanski.com

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Matt Kirchner @mkirchner12.bsky.social · 2d

will honestly never get over how this election basically swung on the series of yard signs that were TRUMP GOOD THING
KAMALA BAD THING

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d

The “swing” voter in Pennsylvania who googled “Trump Kamala economy” the day before the election did not know Russ Vought and Stephen Miller would function as the president. I think about that every day.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 2d

did peter thiel genuinely manage to hybridise roko's basilisk and the evangelical christian god in his own brain? is that what happened to him? that would genuinely explain a lot, honestly

George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

(Washington Post) -- Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are "legionnaires of the Antichrist" in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future, according to recordings reviewed by The Washington Post.
In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents "off-the-record," according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings.
"In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science," Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. "In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It's someone like Greta or Eliezer," he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry's approach to AI.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 2d

Why does this imply that Tarik Skubal has three ears. You gotta erase the human one if you're going to give him the cat ear.

Detroit Tigers (Unoffical) @nottigers.bsky.social · 2d

Hear him roar. #BuiltForOctober

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

too many of you are focused on bari weiss throwing around memos at third place CBS when you should be focused on fundamentals like throwing out the runner at first base with two outs

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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 2d

All the children by the million sing for Alex Chilton

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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 2d

"Eats of Jamaica" is my new beef patty restaurant, stop in sometime

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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 2d

The problem is, "Seasons In The Sun" takes place in spring. "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" has a lot of good lines about "the witch of November" though

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 2d

THANK YOU. THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY EVERY BILLIONAIRE IS A POLICY FAILURE. IT'S THE INSTABILITY LARGE CONCENTRATIONS OF POWER CREATE. NOT THE LOST REVENUE.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 2d

and that's the way you do it

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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 2d

It's not about Andy Pages, literally anyone can hit a comebacker

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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 2d

they're beginning to realize there is no future for a movement in which the President can order states to invade each other. Nobody wants it and nothing good can possibly come of it

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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 2d

Also not the point but Orlando has a Ritz-Carlton?

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 2d

the best song of the 21st century is, of course, “Orinoco Flow”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

"It's very funny when the government gets to decide who is a Real Jew and who is not! We are all laughing. It is funny, yes."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3d

Perhaps in the Melania movie we'll finally get to see he speak in all of those languages and visit her old university.

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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 3d

Mr. Peanut is very tiny

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brian b. levinson @brianblevinson.bsky.social · 3d

"Do Mr. Peanut and the Pringles man interact? They probably ride a penny-farthing together." -overheard at the bodega in a rapidly gentrifying area of Brooklyn

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