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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · 23h

for those asking why people are suddenly leaving twitter and moving over here, here's the tl;dr

will smith slapped chris rock at the oscars

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jános @janos.bsky.social · 1d

i read on a lenovo m10, it's nothing fancy but it was affordable and i *only* use it to read comics. does its job

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jános @janos.bsky.social · 2d

the problem with "what's your most unhinged X-Men take" is that no take is gonna be more unhinged than "sending death threats to a variant cover artist for depicting a different ship than your comfort married couple"

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jános @janos.bsky.social · 2d

lol what are we doing here

jános @janos.bsky.social · 3d

altman was one of the all time actor discoverers

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jános @janos.bsky.social · 4d

recording soon, send in questions in the next two hours

A Song of Babies and Puppys @asobap.bsky.social · 6d

Back from summer break, reading Jaime I and Jon X. Send in your questions!

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine trying to claim Luffy is a Christ figure in a red straw hat. His hat is yellow. You're thinking of Paddington

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

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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HOW MANY CIGARETTES?????????? @howmanycigarettes.com · 5d

The Red Shoes (1948) - 1:34:53
Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Runtime 133 minutes
🚬 x 71, or one cigarette every 1.87 minutes
⚠️ REAL SMOKER MOVIE ⚠️
https://howmanycigarettes.com/the-red-shoes/

A cigarette from The Red Shoes (1948) - 1:34:53

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jános @janos.bsky.social · 6d

i haven't checked them out yet but there's some good recommendations here
sktchd.com/longform/sho...

Happy ShortBox Comics Fair Day! Let's talk with SBCF's Zainab Akhtar and Make Some Picks from the Fair - SKTCHD

Folks, it’s officially the most wonderful month of the year for comics. Why is October is the best month in comics? Well, there are a few reasons, but easily the biggest is ShortBox Comics Fair. This ...

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · Mar 15

cop in The Wicker Man (leaving unharmed because he slept with that hot blonde): what a strange, sexy island

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jános @janos.bsky.social · 8d

@thelouvreof.bsky.social

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 10d

I run a YouTube account which posts a lot of videos titled like "Bill Hader Being An Absolute Unhinged Taurus for 43 Minutes." All of the ad revenue goes towards supporting the brave mujahedin of the Islamic State

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Nartarsha Lemon @fuckwarlock.bsky.social · 10d

guess what the fuck

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Episode 35 – NORMAL PORN FOR NORMAL PEOPLE: African Stuck Magic

It's that time of the year...Nonna Roy and Janos are back with an old "classic": NORMAL PORN FOR NORMAL PEOPLE! Placed in the middle of a shortstory1 sandwich and fed to a dog, of course. Featuring: 1...

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jános @janos.bsky.social · 11d

ah, another day logging into my favorite decentralized protocol. i'm going crazy for protocols and i hate central things so you can imagine how this is basically heaven for me. not looking at any posts i'm just here for the protocol!

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Branson Reese @bransonreese.bsky.social · 11d

Can't believe she actually said this shit

[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
Out on tour with The Smashing Pumpkins Nature kids, I, they don't have no function I don't understand what they mean
And I could really give a fuck
The Stone Temple Pilots, they're elegant bachelors They're foxy to me, are they foxy to you?
I will agree they deserve absolutely nothing
Nothing more than me

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 11d

That disturbed cover is music for cops to cry to

Justin K Comer (fake name) @justinkcomer.rockhardcauc.us · 11d

@johncullen.bsky.social @murderxbryan.bsky.social

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13d

One thing everyone on this site can agree on is that instead of listening to the new Taylor Swift album people should listen to real music like Steely Dan

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JF @jessefarrar.com · 13d

Well there's only one way to find out.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 13d

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14d

Old Man's Son Also Old Man

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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 14d

When I put this in my stream on Sunday I did not know she was going to die 2 days later. Sorry. But she did say this

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 17d

okay let's not go crazy

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17d

Exactly, the Dems' "condescension problem" is almost entirely a creation of right-wing media.

Ronnie Hot Dogs @nostradamnus.bsky.social · 17d

Honestly think the only way to solve the condescension problem is to stop insisting that we have one. It's very obvious why your opponent would call you condescending for being smart and right; stand up for yourself!

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jános @janos.bsky.social · 17d

i mean come on, i'm basically printing money here

court of the crimson king album art with the judge dredd mask

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jános @janos.bsky.social · 17d

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jános @janos.bsky.social · 17d

my newest insanely cooked podcast idea is "Prog Jury Duty" where me and ??? review a prog rock album and a selection of judge dredd comics each episode. the joke of it is that judge dredd appears in a magazine known as "the prog". let me know if this is anything

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jános @janos.bsky.social · 19d

let's do it I'm around

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