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Longhorn Republic Podcast @longhornpod.bsky.social · 21h

Texas dominated Oklahoma and you better believe we had some fun podcasting about it. #HookEm

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October 14, 2025 - Texas dominates Oklahoma

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 23h

Don’t. Date. Robots.

A green lizard in pope testaments holding his left claw up. He’s inside a purple circle that says “crocodylus pontifex” and another fake language. It’s all on a red background

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 1d

This is the funniest part about the whole “it’s not that deep” conversation about politics in anime.

Luffy declared war on the entire world government. And when they said he wouldn’t survive, he just said

“Bring it on.”

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Gen Z protesters — from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco — are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.

Why Gen Z protesters worldwide are flying an anime pirate flag

Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Vader

Specifically Episode 3.

Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 1d

Senator Jim Jordan during a 10.12.25 interview when asked about ICE controversial activities, "But I think the ICE agents are doing the Lord’s work."

I wonder which Lord he was talking about: Lord Voldemort, Lord Farquaad, or Lord of the Flies.

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 2d

Hey kids, you should read Hell is a World Without You

CC: @jasonkirk.fyi

Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 2d

A Christian pastor in Pennsylvania wanted to teach his congregation to "overwhelm your enemy" when spreading the Gospel.

So he aimed an AR-15 directly in their faces.

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-christia...

A Christian pastor aimed an AR-15 at the congregation to "run out the unbelief"

Philip Thornton's stunt at Legacy Faith Church turned the teachings of Christ into a twisted sermon on violence and power

www.friendlyatheist.com

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve got such a long backlog, but now I’m going to have to do a rewatch.

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Problematic Otter @problematicotter.bsky.social · 2d

The new blog site is up

problematicotter.beehiiv.com/p/the-case-f...

The Case for A More Transactional Fandom

Times change, you change

problematicotter.beehiiv.com

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 2d

NEW EXTRA POINTS:

for the math behind a private capital investment to work, the B1G needs B1G Enterprises to generate big money.

But most of the valuable rights are held by schools, not the conference office (outside of TV, which is already sold)

so...?
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/are-we-sur...

Are we SURE Big Ten Enterprises is going to be able to pay for all this?

On Private Capital, $50+ buyouts, and where the banana stand money comes from

www.extrapointsmb.com

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Eagles Nation @phleaglesnation.bsky.social · 2d

The #Eagles and Recovery Centers of America are hosting a FULLY SOBER tailgate for the NY Giants game at the Linc 10/26.

The tailgate will have food, non-alcoholic drinks, tailgate games, and raffles to win prizes including tickets to the game 🦅

More info 🔗 www.facebook.com/share/1BM7d4...

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 2d

The moment that changed me forever was sitting in a pharmacy and watching an old man and the pharmacist talk about how to ration out his medicine because there was an issue with his insurance and it was going to be several hundred dollars to refill.

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 2d

You’re not wrong there.

Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 2d

A black and white box of Great Value Assorted Entertainment Crackers

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 2d

The Season 2 opening of Mashle is on my Mt. Rushmore of anime intros.

Bling Bang Bang Born is elite.

a group of anime characters are standing next to each other

Alt: a group of anime characters are standing next to each other

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 2d

When you’re a Celestial Dragon, you don’t realize Luffy would punch you until you died and then sleep for 3-5 episodes only to be awakened by a comically-large chicken leg.

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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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 2d

*Benoit Blanc voice*

The end of an error.

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 3d

The anti-Ted Cruz being a lesbian with a Black girlfriend (not to reduce Azzi Fudd to just that) is wonderful.

A screenshot of a twitter post featuring two pictures of WNBA star Paige Bueckers at a TCU and Texas football game.

It displays the scores of a 35-21 TCU win over Colorado and a 23-6 win over Oklahoma.

The caption of the tweet is: College teams in Texas are undefeated with Paige Bueckers in attendance 🤠 @paigebueckers1

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 3d

Related: After picking up our first win on the same day Texas crapped the bed against Florida, the Ravens picked up a 12-0 win and confirmed we’re not a jinx.

Our QB was out of town, but our focus on attitude, effort, and remembering which way is right or left carried the day.

Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 3d

Part of the season why I need LSU to get it together.

That’s a protected rivalry.

The jokes write themselves.

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 3d

Mike Elko redder than hot link

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 3d

My guy just used “imperious.”

You’ve gotta know your audience.

Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 3d

They used “intransigent” in the opening of the A&M game.

They don’t know that word.

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 3d

They used “intransigent” in the opening of the A&M game.

They don’t know that word.

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 3d

I will never forgive the universe for putting me in a position to have to cheer against Marcel Reed.

Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 4d

I love having a wife that would rather strip the color from the duvet she loves and dye it the color she wants to, rather than go out and buy a whole new bedroom set.

That being said, I forgot she did that and just spent 5 minutes trying to figure out why the dryer was green before I remembered.

Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 4d

I would argue, that based on many of the stories about Jesus in the Christian texts, this is “evangelical” in a truer sense than what gets branded as Evangelical today.

A screenshot of the dictionary app definition of evangelical, with pronunciations and the definition:

1 : of, relating to, or being in agreement with the Christian gospel especially as it is presented in the four Gospel

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 5d

As a nerd, I’m mad I will never come up with a joke this good.

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