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Clotworthy Spookington

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AuDHD. 99% reskeeting others to make myself look clever. Reading recently about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer. Her father wanted her to marry a guy named Clotworthy Skeffington. Possibly the greatest name ever.

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Clotworthy Spookington @lizbenbrooks.bsky.social · May 9

Reposting to save this awesome thread from Rah, once again giving us the real shit. Love it 😍.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · May 9

Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!

www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...

Read Pope Leo XIV's first homily as pope

During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.

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Clotworthy Spookington @lizbenbrooks.bsky.social · 5h

In case you thought “erotica” wasn’t rote enough already.

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Why you should have a cat @shouldhavecat.bsky.social · 1d

Angry 😡

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 1d

A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6

"But if you refuse to let them go, I will
plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on
your people and on all your officials."

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1d

“We spend too much on legacy systems that are obsolete”

“We need to spend billions on AI warfighter goggles”

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Clotworthy Spookington @lizbenbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

Because I am a terrible pendant, I can’t resist adding a few things: ARPANET got under way in 1967. The Xerox Alto was introduced in 1973. Isaac Asimov wrote the I, Robot stories in the 1940’s.

Clotworthy Spookington @lizbenbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t forget to offer a potato as a choice!

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Clotworthy Spookington @lizbenbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

Rubber monster fingers have always been very popular at our house. I always have a bowl of little toys for anyone who can’t have candy for one reason or another.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

do you guys ever think about how in a better world José Andres could just like. have some restaurants. and instead he’s consistently doing the work we’re supposed to have governments for

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Government workers 👇🏾

Lunch is on the house:

Being in the heart of downtown DC, we love that so many of our Federal employees stop by during lunch for a Donburi at China Chilcano or a Fútbol Club at Jaleo. And just because the government is shut down doesn't mean you have to miss out on your favorite lunch spot- because this time, its on us!
Join us for lunch from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM at any of our participating restaurants and enjoy a free lunch item when you present your government ID-you heard that right! Dine in with us Monday through Friday and choose your favorite: a sandwich at Jaleo, a donburi at China Chilcano, a wrap or pita at Zaytinya, or a torta at Oyamel.
We've always believed in serving our community with open arms and good food-no shutdown can stop that.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Clotworthy Spookington @lizbenbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

How did the Praetorian Guard usually react to not getting paid?

Clotworthy Spookington @lizbenbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

“Cheung invoked his favorite thought experiment of considering how a farmer half a century ago might view our current reality.”

50 years ago was 1975.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 2d

I think I want to go to Portland. I can show up to a cafe and order a lavender vanilla matcha latte while dressed in a brown bear costume.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 2d

There is a massive irony in Christians (or people of any religious faith) failing to accept the plausibility of a grass roots movement upending the established power structure when that is literally how *every* major religion pops onto the scene.

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder how many of these folks cut their teeth on grand-strategy computer games — such as CIVILIZATION — where just deciding "we're no longer a democracy... we're now operating under despotism because that'll be advantageous" is just a mouse-click choice.

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 2d

I'm loving this Pope.

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Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 4d

Peter Thiel is quite, quite mad.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Clotworthy Spookington @lizbenbrooks.bsky.social · 2d

I wish he’d hurry up.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 2d

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Clotworthy Spookington @lizbenbrooks.bsky.social · 2d

An anti-Christ-like government that represses science, you say? 🤔

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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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4d

Say no to drugs, kids

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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