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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 6h

@grayathena.bsky.social said it better

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 17h

American financial institutions

George from Seinfeld saying I gotta focus, I'm shifting into recession mode

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 18h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 19h

The original didn't even make that much money either

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 22h

Glendenning, JJB and George elek discussing Scotland on FW

Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 22h

If only we could do some centralised funding for councils

Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 22h

Don't think council tax is good but yeah we should raise taxes in this area be higher based on arbitrary values is a bit loopy. All your doing is making souther councils better funded

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 23h

Not promising that MPs don't know that bands are set council by council and afaik the prices are from like 1990

Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhhh (endless screaming). Where do they think *council* tax revenues go? Seems like an argument for raising council tax in the south east so they can enjoy much better local public services www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour MPs call on Rachel Reeves to scrap council tax

Exclusive: 13 mainly northern MPs say a new system should better account for higher house prices in south-east

www.theguardian.com

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 23h

Thankfully been able to avoid it's use mostly. But if It fails so comprehensively at the stuff it 'should' be good at what hope do we have for anything else

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 1d

Work having us do AI training and there's one part of it that goes. Well it makes stuff up, has biases baked into data and people start treating it human in a way that burns energy but crack on. Like how are we supposed to take this seriously

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · 2d

one thing i will never forget and forever be sickened by was that the leader of the SNP's, the First Minister's, in-laws were literally being bombed in an active genocide and the press and most of the political establishment just didn't care

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

Husam Zomlot thanked the people of Scotland in a rousing speech to SNP conference

🗣️ 'The Palestinian people will never forget the support of the people of Scotland when we needed it most'

Husam Zomlot thanks people of Scotland in rousing speech to SNP conference

www.thenational.scot

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 2d

God it's so gross hearing reporters talk about Israeli "hostages" but then refer to Palestinian "prisoners held without charge" like what's the material difference between these two categories?

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2d

The new Afroman track is a fair bit darker than his classic stuff.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 2d

“OBAA glamorises leftist politics and political violence”—Does it? Is that what it does? Because I’m on the left and a lot of that stuff didn’t seem very glamorous to me. Is it glamorous to you? That’s interesting. Maybe you should examine that. But no, why bother. After all, you’re already right.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

Guy who is obsessed with the Antichrist, encountering any form of culture: Getting a lot of 'antichrist' vibes from this...

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

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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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 3d

I am so sick of living in a world where certain groups insist art & culture be re-oriented to serve their tastes and whims when their own pitiful inability or unwillingness to critically engage with and contemplate creativity clearly demonstrate that art & culture are too good for them.