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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · Nov 15

TL cleanse. My dogs have been to the groomers.

A large Yorkshire terrier and a teacup Yorkshire Terrier stand in front of a winter cathedral scene on a soft blanket.

They both haver groomer's harnesses on. The bigger one looks a little tight to me but he really doesn't seem arsed so it must be fine.

A teacup Yorkshire Terrier beside an actual teacup. She looks like butter wouldn't melt to the untrained eye.

A large Yorkshire Terrier looking quire pleased with himself. His shiny teeth are not representative of his stinky beath.

A large Yorkshire terrier looks pleased, no doubt having recieved a treat for being well behaved. The teacup Yorkshire terrier poses and tilts her head. Her thoughts stray once again to world domination.

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 6h

The one redeeming thing about this atrocious timeline

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 6h

Stonks lives for the moments he can act big and important and he just can't stop getting humiliated in them.

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 6h

Oh my god the fucking jaw clench from Starmer when Trump forgot his name!

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dead horse @hooved-mammal.bsky.social · 7h

OH MY GOD HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 6h

No, no, you misunderstand. 'Don't let perfect be the enemy of good' is just something I say when I want you to vote for right-wing ghouls. It doesn't work the other way around.

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 8h

Nice to see New Money and New New (old) Money hate eachother too, though. Always good to see the old traditions maintained.

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 8h

'Or to be seen sympathising with or indeed seen alongside leftists.'

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 8h

Another classic

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 8h

Theres two parts of it.

1) they do assume they're untouchable like you say
2) it makes them feel safe enough to keep exploiting

The number of grifters who'd reconsider their gig if the 'risks' they claim to take became tangible would be massive.

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 8h

'I'm as left as they come, but we can't be infighting over Iraq'

'I'm as left as they come, but Corbyn is unelectable'

'I'm as left as they come, but we can't be infighting over Palestine.'

'I'm as left as they come, but Polanski is unelectable'

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 9h

If you are still telling people yo vote Labour please remove the 'left-leaning' or 'Woke AF' lines from your bio x

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 9h

I'm just saying - CEOs got really fucking scared when *one* of their own died. And that propagandists got really fucking scared when *one* of their own died.

Can't help but think they'd fold easier than we've been assuming.

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 12h

*watches Luffy crack the jaw of a wealthy, 'untouchable', elite who believes his class entitles him to ownership of anyone and anything*

"Hmm yes, this is about the antichrist."

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 12h

You're mistaking this as a dialogue. I'm just saying to my followers 'check out this obvious spam account replying to my post about spam accounts.'

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 12h

The fucking shapes Theil needs to contort himself into to pretend he isn't always the villain in pop culture.

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.

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 12h

Love the bit. All of the individual expressions of the townspeople during the set up and pay off kills me.

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 12h

Can't believe I, personally, forced Netanyahu to be a genocidal tyrant. My bad, guys.

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 13h

A right-wing Labour party, taking on a far-right tory party and the already far-right Reform party, while the far-right EDL and UKIP look on (2026, colourised)

Still from the Simpsons

A doctor demonstrated 'Three Stooges Syndrome' in which a series of diseases can't make it through a door due to the presence of eachother.

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 13h

I'm sure this is all fine

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 14h

Job market feels so cooked. Just saw a job with another employer, 10% lower pay, (I'm not on great money as it is), lower jobtitle, they want an experienced hire, degree, experience in their sector, "knowledge of neuromuscular disease research", preferably multilingual 💀

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 15h

This is day 1 of Israel and it's supporter's attempt to rewrite history and launder their bloody image. They are still an occupying force. They are still an apartheid regime. They still attempted a genocide.

No number of tired attack lines will change that.

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 15h

"I wonder why we're seeing so many zionist accounts crop up all of a sudden?" He asked, incredulously.

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 1d

I thought i was being really orogi al with this as well

A hastily made pyramid head edir with pads and a bat

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah he's definitely sketchy don't get me wrong and his own interests should have been disclosed. I just wonder how much is him saying something and how much is a media manager.