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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21d

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 4h

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 15h

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Shade 5 @shade5.bsky.social · 9h

Now that Rush has a female drummer, there will be at least one woman in the building during their concerts.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 8h

Why didn't the gov't shutdown stop the Gronk USAA commercials

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 8h

Every cop threatened this with the more centrist palatable Brandon Johnson in Chicago, and no one did, and crime has dropped precipitously any way prior to the federal occupation.

They're all so full of fucking shit.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 9h

I know Woodman's when I see it.

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 13h

a man with glasses is holding a microphone and says always and forever .

ALT: a man with glasses is holding a microphone and says always and forever .

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 15h

This is how you know Thiel is a dumb asshole, he's a "Rorsharch is cool" guy

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

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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cam @lumetfancam.bsky.social · 5d

jerry seinfeld got to see his girlfriend turn 21

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 1d

Flap meat

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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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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 1d

Pantera Fans In Love

YouTube video by Nerf Herder - Topic

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 1d

Conversely, @felsgate.bsky.social and I witnessed an early 50s couple making out HARD right in front of us at a Mudhoney show at the Empty Bottle.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 1d

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

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

the illinois state police are helping ice because they support them and @govpritzker.illinois.gov is sending the isp to help ice because he supports them. if that wasn't true they wouldn't do it and it's fuckin stupid to write fanfiction trying to wishcast otherwise

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

In Broadview, IL this morning outside the Chicago area ICE detention center—

Just rolled up, immediately saw ISP/CCSO arresting a protester w/ a guitar (he appears to be in good spirits over it).

ICE vehicles have been coming and going, including a large bus driven by a masked agent seen earlier.