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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 1d

Finished the new Pynchon and it was just okay

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 1d

It’s fine for great books to be a bit boring

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 2d

It’s so funny that whenever the billionaire class opens its mouth all you get is absolute dogshit

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

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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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 4d

He does strike me as the kind of person who’d vibe with the original purpose for which corn flakes were invented

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been given the coolest cup to drink my beer from

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 4d

Might have felt a bit crummy leaving but damn if the new Pynchon didn’t take the edge off the trip

Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 4d

Love to be middle aged and have anxiety, I need to put my shoes on and go catch a tram to go play board games and drink beers with my friends but my body and brain think I’m gonna be chased by wild animals if I move off the couch or something

Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 4d

Love to be middle aged and have anxiety, I need to put my shoes on and go catch a tram to go play board games and drink beers with my friends but my body and brain think I’m gonna be chased by wild animals if I move off the couch or something

Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 5d

One of my all time favs!

Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 5d

It’s just because I’m really quick with books

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 6d

Perfectly normal human interaction on the dating apps

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 6d

Kinda telling that the guy with brain damage is a fascist innit

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 6d

Republican Senators, with an assist from Sen. John Fetterman, voted down an attempt to block the Trump administration’s missile strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats. interc.pt/4o9CBur

A photo of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., sits on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 1, 2025, in Washington, overlaid with the headline, "Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks," and the DEK, "It was the first time members of Congress were put on record about whether they supported or opposed the president’s war in the Caribbean."

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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats!

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 6d

Haha I moved not too long ago so the shelves are still well organised

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 6d

Love when something like this happens to a fave

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 6d

Yessss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 6d

I think Alexis Wright is getting the Nobel prize but I also bought the new Pynchon and a Can Xue today just in case

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 6d

I’m on tidal and it’s good but honestly increasingly I just buy music on bandcamp and records from record stores also

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 6d

Tough decision, either way you’ll inflict psychic damage - either on yourself or others

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 6d

This is Engels’s girlfriend that died and then Marx was sad about that but not as sad about his kids not having shoes for the winter so please can Engels send some money

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 6d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 6d

It was a collection of David Graeber’s essays titled the Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World and it was very good

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 6d

Finished my public transport book halfway on my way to work. Oh no I’m going to the bookstore at lunch

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 7d

I think last year was too soon after Praiseworthy came out for her to really make that kind of impact on the readers - but this year I think she’s got a real chance.

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 7d

Nobel prize in Lit is getting announced tomorrow night (Australian time) - who are we feeling folks?

Maybe Alexis Wright I reckon

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 9d

I think the reason they don’t is because everyone knows he doesn’t

Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 9d

If any other president was 57 minutes late to an event addressing service members, there would be wall-to-wall coverage on all 3 major cable news networks addressing whether or not the president cares about the military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Trump is now 57 minutes late for his speech but at least we're getting an emo version of Hulk Hogan's theme song