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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 7h

I read it to see if my question was answered in the text: Did this person set up all her friends with their partners and wants that reciprocated?

No lol. She saw the trope in movies a lot at a young age and is mad at her real people friends for not treating her like the protagonist of a rom com

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 7h

Like, I specifically wouldn’t want to make money or focus on quantity. Someone sponsor me Renaissance style to do this 😤

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 7h

If there was UBI I would spend the rest of my life’s “work hours” making custom Polly Pocket style dioramas for all the things I love

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 19h

There are a few on teepublic this post inspired me to get one as a tank top :3

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 1d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 2d

you might've worried that our baseball podcast wouldn't address Peter Thiel talking about One Piece in the context of the Anti-Christ but don't worry we did right at the top of the episode

Batting Around Podcast @battingaround.bsky.social · 2d

New episode is up and we only take a short diversion before we get into recapping the DS series and preview the upcoming CS.

He Did It For Humpy

It's the DS series recap episode. We'll be doing a watchalong for patreon subscribers on Wednesday the 15th for the game three of Mariners/Jays. Sign up at patreon.com/battingaround at the slapdick p

soundcloud.com

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall with framed pictures on it

Alt: Michael Scott saying NOOOOO

media.tenor.com

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Thiel take One Piece out of your dirty mouth!

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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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 2d

I literally groaned out loud when he started talking about One Piece. Like no dude you are the bad guy you don’t get to like One Piece D:<

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 3d

The trampolines are so good, when the sloths use them it’s slower 🥹

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 3d

They fetishize The Art of War so hard and yet this is literally the thesis: always pay the military

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 3d

Those attack ads are only “effective” when the Dems don’t fight back and act embarrassed of us. The pro-trans governor of Kentucky is one of many examples.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 3d

every single dem should be taking notes. this is how you message around trans issues

(of note: i believe he is the only cis candidate for office to have trans people consult on his lgtbq+ policy platform)

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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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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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 3d

heard the game just ended, it’s because I spent thirty seconds making this & the universe decided I wasn’t allowed to be funny yet today

so I’m pretty sure this makes me an honorary Etsy witch, you’re welcome Seattle

Grecian urn-style image of Sisyphus rolling his boulder up the hill. The boulder has been crudely replaced with a clip art baseball, and Sisyphus has a Seattle Mariners baseball cap on his head.

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry everyone lol

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 3d

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 3d

I’m gonna be as mad as when the boat got unstuck if/when the game ends

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discover tab replies from lyndsay 👻 @magpie.tips · 3d

Yeah I'm still FUCKING watching

"are you still watching?" screen in the sportsnet app

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

Bad sign when baseball bluesky is overlapping with early morning UK bluesky

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3d

NEWS: I wish for death’s sweet release

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 3d

thinking about getting into baseball

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3d

THE DUMPER SACRIFICED FOR THE GREATER GOOD. ALL HAIL THE DUMPY.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 3d

I'm not even watching the game but we are all Watching The Game.

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 3d

BASEBALL FANS UPSET AT RECEIVING EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS OF BASEBALL

"I came here hoping to see the normal amount of nothing happening. But this is more nothing than I prepared for," said one attendee.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 3d

the first version of bluesky was released in the third inning of this mariners/tigers game. not many people know this

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