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Hari Kunzru

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Writer. Immigrant. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men +3. www.falloffreedom.com

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · Dec 31

A short thread on what I've done this year. In May my novel Blue Ruin was published. A kind of Covid pastoral, populated by art monsters ...

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Cover of Blue Ruin, black sans serif font, reflected in a kind of silvery mirror. A novel by Hari Kunzru, designed by John Gall, with a face emerging from clouds by Chad Wys.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 41m

God help us if he watches Serial Experiments Lain

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

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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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 3h

Nice shout out to White Tears. The least black metal cover art of the 12 …

Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social · 4h

Historically, the average number of songs per album when vinyl was the main format was 12. So here are a dozen music #horror recs for your TBR

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 17h

They’re just fucking idiots. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 22h

If you live in Brooklyn it’s unusual *not* to see Ethan Hawke

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 22h

I have yet to get into a taxi driven by Robert De Niro but that day it really didn't feel impossible

Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 22h

My first day living in NY - with my own key to my own apartment - was strange. I went out to get pizza. On the sidewalk outside Woody Allen was talking to Larry David. No cameras in sight. Then at the pizza place there was Diane Keaton wearing a big black hat. RIP Diane. I thought I was tripping.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Now we need a list of good Watkinses. Counterwatkinses if you will

Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Another terrible Watkins

Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

After seeing so many Dem politicians equivocating or just preparing to throw trans people under the bus, this is great. Another reason to elect this man as our mayor m.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Please say that’s not the Qanon guy back again

Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

As the public health infrastructure is decimated, certain people are protecting themselves

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

Among other RIF notices at CDC:
—Center for Forecasting and Analytics;
—all of CDC Washington
—Office of Human Resources
—National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 3/4

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

This has the right amount of gold and the inscription is perfect

Gold triumphal arch, probably AI generated. Inscription reads “Lorem Ipsum”

Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

I guess it would fit right in with the fashy Neoclassicism of the rest of DC's federal zone

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

The 'Arc de Trump' news has a kind of nauseating inevitability. It really was only a matter of time before some kind of Albert Speer style Germania plan bubbled up in MAGA brains.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 1d

Project 2029:

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2d

My 4 part private lecture series has a lot of people asking questions already answered in my 4 part private lecture series

Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously this is exactly what the actual Antichrist would say

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2d

“ Do you think Trump is the Antichrist?" Thiel mused at one point. "I will give you a hearing. And we should consider that." www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2d

Style tip: if you are a writer or editor describing a law or constitutional clause as a ‘longstanding norm’ you are helping end the republic.

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 3d

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

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