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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1h

Ice-T: "the kids call it getting Rowlinged"

Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 3h

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Oct 31

all time best version of this meme

girls pointing at cat eating spaghetti meme, only they're all zombies
girl says 'I buried you in a Cemetary' and the cat replies 'Sematary'.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1h

This is a good piece that touches on the fact that Twitter got awful in a variety of ways, and staying isn't just an ideological statement, it's also an admission you'll accept objectively worse service in exchange for more porn spam

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2h

"Starscream is, in many ways, the template for modern manhood"

You cannot create a political philosophy out of being too stupid to understand cartoons, man

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

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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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 10h

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 3h

Although I appreciate this, I'm not sure how much credibility this has coming from socialist think tank the Cato Institute

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 11h

DK no
Diddy Kong yes
Cranky Kong yes
Funky Kong no
Rambi yes

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 13h

katy perry? the astronaut?

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 15h

lock Jared Leto in a room and convince him he's making sequels the rest of life

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 15h

It's also a subscription model

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 15h

remember when a professor said Trump couldn't make Barron a Baron, and the right dedicated itself to destroying her for attacking a child?

anyway, Barron is going to run one of the largest social media companies on earth

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 19h

ROGUE: guys, we have to improvise

MAGE: I'll cast Fog of Illusion

ROGUE: different choice

MAGE: Fireball

ROGUE: different choice

MAGE: Haunting Ward

ROGUE: on who?

MAGE: the guard

ROGUE: different choice

MAGE: the king

ROGUE: different choice

MAGE: a horse

ROGUE: let's go

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 20h

And there hasn't been a Dallas Buyers Club 2!

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 21h

I think we should start giving Jared Leto roles solely as a form of franchise euthanasia

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 21h

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 21h

Peabo Bryson

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 22h

What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 22h

Amazing that the WaPo editorial board writes so many pieces a week that they've been reduced to resurrecting old phonics rants

Opinion | The reading wars are ending. Phonics won.

California belatedly follows Southern states in abandoning a failed teaching method.

www.washingtonpost.com

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 22h

hi, I'm not white, you fucking idiot

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 1d

pls read @davidjroth.bsky.social's review it is SO good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

flaminghydra.com/issue-416/

Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

flaminghydra.com

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 22h

Kind of amazing that cheap inflatable costumes have turned the fascist police force into Peter Griffin

Alicia Victoria Lozano @aliciavlozano.bsky.social · 2d

Someone showed up with a cart of inflatables. The protest is now a dance party outside the PDX ICE facility. Federal police have mostly stood back but did unleash a toxin into the air @nbcnews.com

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

what if they made baseball entirely of playoffs?

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

One Battle After Another did not inspire me to do left-wing terrorism, but it did inspire me to laugh at racists

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

I can't wait not to see this

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 1d

Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan will all return for ‘JUMANJI 3’

Brittany O’Grady and Burn Gorman are joining the cast.

(Source: bit.ly/4h2d8ki)

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

baby, are you a bunt in the alds, because I'm seeing you way too much and I need a break

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

tune in to Fox to see a man driven insane by bunting

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