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Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · Aug 1

2. My latest joint as Open Casket Soundsystem, "personal eschatologies" is ALSO out, and deeply unpleasant! For fans of....uhh

opencasketsoundsystem.bandcamp.com/album/person...

personal eschatologies, by Open Casket Soundsystem

2 track album

opencasketsoundsystem.bandcamp.com

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Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks June, I cannot do this yet. Not till Friday at the earliest, alas.

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Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so fucking tired all the time right now. Pretty sure this is burnout. I hate it, I miss the energy that I had in the summer, I don't know what to do. Everything seems like too much.

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

any culture, at any point in history, could have invented darude’s sandstorm. the fact that they didn’t is just further proof that old times were busted generally

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 2d

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Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 2d

‼️ IMPORTANT INNOVATION‼️

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Paul Southworth ☢️ 🐟 @southworth.bsky.social · 2d

Real missed opportunity to claim George Soros opened up his own costume store in Portland. Do better.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

oh this guy is delusional delusional

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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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 4d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 4d

Core competency: losing sunglasses

Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 4d

DUDE

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Celestial Fang 🩸 Illustrator @celestialfang.bsky.social · Sep 4

Illustrations I did for Cassandra Khaw’s “The Library at Hellebore”

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mary worth is lit @wilburwurthless.bsky.social · Sep 7

she’s so real for this

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Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 6d

One thing about these anxiety meds is that they turn my guts to water all day

Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 7d

Cw dad bod

Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 7d

Courtesy of Dustin Charles Cleveland at Ritual Electric right here in beautiful Tvlse OK

Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 7d

Oh i meant to tell you all about my new friend

A fresh (in all senses) tattoo of a cicada shell with fungus growing out of the breach hole. It's symbolic or something

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Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 7d

bell witch day

bellwitch.bandcamp.com/album/stygia...

Stygian Bough: Volume II, by BELL WITCH & AERIAL RUIN

4 track album

bellwitch.bandcamp.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 8d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 8d

One Aux nr 29: PUMPKIN TIME BISH

A flyer for One Aux nr 29 at heirloom rustic ales. It's a closeup of a pumpkin with the following text superimposed: 8 October, 7-9pm, no cover, no terfs, no jerks. 20 minute sets from hanna glenn, specimen, darkhorsezombie, thunderwof. enjoy fine local brews and fine local music. 2113 e admiral blvd, tvlse. Very large but not super legible text is also imposed over the pumpkin image: "pumpkin time bish"

Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 10d

Who up waxing they gibbous

Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 10d

Probably gonna get a bunch of beers too, come hang

Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 10d

Spending my whole paycheck on roman candles in an attempt to knock the earth out of orbit *just enough* to send us spiralling into the sun

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Assigned Carl At Birth @cantocomics.bsky.social · 10d

G O S P E L

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 11d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 11d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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