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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 7d

Working on getting my account back but follow me here for now. Proof of identity

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Jane🔪Slain🔪Lane @nyjanelane.bsky.social · 4h

more sunday purrs while i apologize for vacuuming

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 5h

God what a pretty swing

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

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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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 10h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 5h

Hell yeah man this rocks

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 5h

It's important to have an ethos

A photo of me at the Baseball Hall of Fame giving Bud Selig's plaque a thumbs down

Me at the Baseball Hall of Fame giving Marvin Miller's plaque a thumbs up

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 6h

We need UN observers dog

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 7h

8pm is too late to start a baseball game. the east coast stinks

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 7h

I asked my spinach about you and it said you were

Spinach package that says thoroughly washed

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 7h

Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 9h

Thru the first two issues very cool so far!

Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 9h

Have not read a Turtle comic since I was 7. Let’s see how this goes

TMNT the Last Ronin by Eastman and Laird

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 10h

The deployment of tear gas throughout the Chicago area is a growing health concern. ICE is deploying tear gas in residential neighborhoods, near children, playgrounds, stores, etc. What are the health implications on our communities?

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 11h

Support the resistance.

Boycott Israel.

Liberate Palestine.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Jun 3

Loving the t4t couple on the left

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 10h

Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend.

Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.

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Jes @jwolfe73.bsky.social · 14h

Northside ICRR update. 11:23am

ICIRR Eyes on ICE Update: This morning, Rapid Response Teams verified the presence of federal agents at multiple locations on the north side of Chicago including Rogers Park, West Ridge North Park, Edgewater, Uptown, Lakeview and in Evanston, IL. Multiple people have been detained. This is an ongoing operation.

Please be vigilant & aware of potential immigration enforcement in these areas. You have the right to film police activity, the right to remain silent, the right to speak to an attorney, and the right to refuse to sign anything.

ICIRR hotline: 855-435-7693
KYR card: bit.ly/ICIRRCards

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Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 12h

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 13h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 13h

Luxury pick to take a TE and not even the correct one lmao

Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 13h

Tyler Warren TD

Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 7d

I’m sorry to be reactionary sports crank but I’m gonna get annoyed every time Tyler Warren does something because the Bears should have taken him

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 16h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

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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maximum robespierre @seeemilyplay.bsky.social · 15h

LOTRO is the most beautiful game ever, and now I’m going to thread some of my favourite screenshots from the last couple years

My char flexing during some aurora outside Dol Goldur

The Brandywine at Hobbiton on a beautiful sunny day

A path through the Yondershire woods at sunset

Éowyn vs the Witch King: But no living man am I. You look upon a woman.”

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