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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 2h

Workers from other factories rallying in Solidarity for GM autoworkers during the Flint Sit-down Strike. 1936/37. The Great Sit-Down Strike pamphlet, from the @uaw.org archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Workers with clubs cheering around a sound car. Caption reads, "Militant support pours in from Dodge, Kelsey-Wheel, Midland, Chrysler an from other cities."

Cover for The Great Sit-Down Strike pamphlet, by William Weinstone.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 14h

Sign in a bookstore window:
FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA.
MARRY BOOKS.
KILL AI.

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 1d

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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 21h

Wait. Holdup. I feel like there have been 5 SpongeBob movies, and all of them are just called “The SpongeBob Movie.” Did I have a stroke?

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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 1d

Repost with your favorite Halloween costume

I love all my cloth children equally, but for today let's go with any of the three times I was Batman.

Me, age 9, as a Michael Keaton-style Batman

Me, age 22, as...Jesus, I don't even know what kind of Batman this qualifies as

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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 1d

Daydreaming about an Amelia Bedelia book where she has multiple mishaps stemming from the phrase “crashing out.”

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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 1d

Repost with your favorite Halloween costume

I love all my cloth children equally, but for today let's go with any of the three times I was Batman.

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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 1d

This podcast is constantly being advertised when I'm watching Star Trek reruns on Pluto TV, and I kind of find their existence fascinating but not enough to actually ever listen to their show, tbh.

Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 1d

Plenty of people rightly pointing out how this is unethical in both modern and historical contexts, but fewer people are saying how even if it got done (doubtful!) it’d look like robot shit and be soulless and vapid dramatically. No human will ever spend hours watching this stuff.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 2d

RIP D'Angelo🕊💙

He wrote this amazing song for the "Jason's Lyric" soundtrack #UWillKnow #BMU

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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 2d

When we talk about models of positive masculinity, this is what we mean.

Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 2d

Probably the greatest to ever do it. What a loss. God.

“𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐳…” @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 2d

RIP D'Angelo (1974-2025) 🕊️😔

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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 2d

Having the damnedest time convincing my 10-year-old that every song in this movie is “made up.” They insist they’ve heard “Mr. Downtown” somewhere else! #TCMParty #ThatThingYouDo

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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 4d

This is also how that “Rational Harry Potter” garbage works too.

It is, if you were unaware, a profoundly incurious and anti-critical thinking methodology.

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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 4d

I will say: Thiel’s whole bullshit “modernity” shtick here feels of a piece with most Silicon Valley “NuPhilosophy” which always involves cooking up Theory of Everything terminology with no roots in a intellectual history or tradition and then bending pop culture backwards to justify its argument.

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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not my thing to dunk on insane political actors UNLESS they step into my areas of expertise.

So as a Comics Guy: Thiel is a fucking idiot.

Alan Moore is a principled Anarchist. It’s not hard to figure out his intent in Watchmen or other logical meanings embedded within in the text.

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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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry, but I just can’t keep the two J Blum guys apart, and I’m starting to feel a little offended that I might be expected to.

Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 5d

Tho after an intense investigation (long ass group text with my high school friends), it’s been conclusively proven that the nu chili cheese burrito has suffered from shrinkflation and is at least 30% smaller than the classic, so don’t be too hard on yourself.

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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 5d

Good thing my kid’s morning activity got cancelled tomorrow, because I’m apparently going to be watching this Tigers game until 5:00 AM.

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Harley Ramsey @harleyramseywriter.bsky.social · 5d

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 6d

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 5d

Just another night in America patiently explaining to my 10-year-old what FailBlog was.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 7d

"Yes, we've never used AI," Marvel EIC CB Cebulski said when asked by a fan whether Marvel will speak out similar to Jim Lee. "They've really gone to great lengths to detect AI... We never used it, we will not be using it, and we don't condone it in the Marvel Comics division."

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Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 7d

Oh, is there a con this weekend?

Kiel Phegley @kielphegley.bsky.social · 8d

Good for Jim for stating this so directly and succinctly. More execs in comics should be following suit.

Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 8d

"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it."

@jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 8d

"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it."

@jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc

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