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Cap'n Smite @capnsmite.bsky.social · Mar 11

Farted so loud, my dog thought someone was knocking so she started barking at the front door.

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 21h

cop, lying: Me and my friends, who are troops, will delete Candy Crush if Zohrani 'Hussein' Mamdani is mayor of New York City. We are the most active users on the platform and this could affect the stock market

Bari Weiss: Chilling. And not the cool weed kind of chilling. This week on 60 Minutes

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 24m

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 44m

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 50m

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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Cap'n Smite @capnsmite.bsky.social · 1h

Nothing makes me feel my age quite as much as remembering that when The Simpsons started, I was younger than Lisa and now I'm older than Homer.

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Jimmy Palmiotti @jimmypalmiotti.bsky.social · 6h

Funny how that works.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12h

the boys who landed at Normandy or fought in Stalingrad couldn't have imagined the horrors of 21st century war

A picture and headline from an article: Unicorn bride marries Kenny from south park at Portland ICE protest

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 9h

“Rectum? I couldn’t even see ‘em!”

Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 23h

"Wait, I can explain..."

Wyoming Man Found With 30 Eyeballs In His Anal Cavity

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Cap'n Smite @capnsmite.bsky.social · 14h

Watching #TheChairCompany might be what finally gets my middle-aged ass to learn how to make GIFs from video

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 16h

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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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 19h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 21h

With a SLAM sound effect, Captain America bangs his fist against the wall, leaning forward, wincing with his head, looking like it’s about to lean against the wall as he says, “… I’ll never…g-grovel…before the likes of…you!”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21h

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20h

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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Spider-Man @spider-man.bsky.social · 20h

Spidey #10 (Nov 2016). Pencils and inks: Nathan Stockman (@stockmannate.bsky.social), colors: Jim Campbell (@jimcampbellart.bsky.social) #Spider-Man #CaptainAmerica #NYT

Captain America tells J. Jonah Jameson "Mr. Jameson, I'd like to talk to you about this headline."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 20h

A good cause and a GREAT piece of art!

Gabriel Hardman @gabrielhardman.bsky.social · 20h

The Ed Asner Family Center auction is live. Here’s my contribution for this year. I’m always happy to help. Please bid! comics.ha.com/itm/original...

Drawing of Spider-Man by Gabriel Hardman

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 22h

very funny to pull these numbers and then be like "wow everyone else in this place sure is uncool"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

tired: the One Piece is real

wired: the One Piece is the blood of Christ

inspired: Luffy would kick the absolute shit out of someone like Thiel

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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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Geoffrey David B. @geothetrickster.bsky.social · 1d

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Cap'n Smite @capnsmite.bsky.social · 1d

A collapsible bo staff? He really is just Gambit!

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