Theodore W. Ornament
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grundlegung.bsky.social
it time for a thread of books I have read this year

...starting with Joyce's Ulysses. Outstanding, difficult, disorienting, impossible, inventive, too clever for its own good and funny as hell. This is an absolute must read for anyone who loves great literature.
James Joyce's Ulysses
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magdarine.bsky.social
Ihr macht euch gar keine Vorstellung davon, wie wenig sich die allermeisten Bücher so verkaufen.
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unddieregel.bsky.social
Linsensuppe, meine Freunde, LINSENSUPPE
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docgaby.bsky.social
Der Oberste Gerichtshof wird Argumente in einem Fall anhören, der einen wesentlichen Teil des Wahlrechtsgesetzes aufheben und der Republikanischen Partei möglicherweise mindestens 19 weitere Sitze im US-Repräsentantenhaus verschaffen könnte
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TODAY at 10AM ET: The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could strike down a key part of the Voting Rights Act, and potentially give the GOP at least 19 more U.S. House seats that were directly created by the provision. https://bit.ly/4q7aQ7D
GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
I visited the magnificent Porta Nigra in Trier yesterday! It’s the best preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps! 🤩

I’m here for a few days with my museum buddy @drnwillburger.bsky.social Today we’re going to the State Exhibition ‘Marcus Aurelius’.

#Archaeology
A photo of me standing in front of the huge Roman city gate known as the ‘Porta Nigra’ in Trier yesterday. The afternoon sun is shining through an upper window.
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voidmoder.bsky.social
[zizek voice] izt this not the primordial truth from ‘jaws’ the ever-present horror of devouring maternal super-ego
cmonmaque.bsky.social
Quint from jaws in any situation regardless of whether it involves sharks or not: “this shark… swallow ya whole!”
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voidmoder.bsky.social
Listening to an old Interpol record and the difference a bass player with great touch makes is absurd
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alexcallinicos.bsky.social
Where have we seen these before? ‘A common structure used to finance data centres involves the creation of special purpose vehicles backed by large amounts of private credit. Arrangements like these have the advantage of staying off the balance sheets of the tech companies.’
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alexcallinicos.bsky.social
The financial infrastructure of the next bust?
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haarbizarre.bsky.social
Wir haben auch ein Gebäude in H das Toblerone-Haus genannt wird:
Sogenanntes "Toblerone-Haus" in der Limmerstraße in Hannover. Es ist ein weißer ca 8-stöckiger Bau mit mehreren Reihen übereinander liegender dreieckiger orangener Balkonen
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agitpopblog.bsky.social
Macht euch mal klar, wie sehr Smartphones und Airbuds diesen Film ruiniert hätten.
Bub der Zombie mit einem Kopfhörer auf. Bub der Zombie mit einem Bakelittelefon in der Hand.
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voidmoder.bsky.social
This is a machine for altering consciousness
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
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roterbaer.bsky.social
So, weil das jetzt seit Tagen in mir wurlt. Leute, die behaupten, Charlie Kirk sei immerhin an Unis gegangen um die Diskussion mit der anderen Seite zu suchen, sagen damit nur eins:

"Ich habe keine Ahnung, wie Politaktivismus in den USA funktioniert."

Ein Thread.

1/X
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georgsauerwein.bsky.social
Zu Zusammenhängen von New Atheism, Gamergate und Charlie Kirk...ich kann diesen Thread einfach nur immer wieder empfehlen, fand ihn extrem interessant. Hat auch für mich meine Wurzeln im Science&Religion Dialog und meinen jetzigen Klimagerechtigkeitsaktivismus verbunden.
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roterbaer.bsky.social
So, weil das jetzt seit Tagen in mir wurlt. Leute, die behaupten, Charlie Kirk sei immerhin an Unis gegangen um die Diskussion mit der anderen Seite zu suchen, sagen damit nur eins:

"Ich habe keine Ahnung, wie Politaktivismus in den USA funktioniert."

Ein Thread.

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grundlegung.bsky.social
give me library or give me death
grundlegung.bsky.social
komm, ich erklär dir das jetzt mal richtig mit der wahren Wahrheit 1/802
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sharonk.bsky.social
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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grundlegung.bsky.social
1. fall a bit further down in the valley of death