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Xenosoma @metalwolfchaos.bsky.social · 21h

Okay, I have not watched supernatural since like season 2, but props to them on this one.

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Xenosoma @metalwolfchaos.bsky.social · 2d

Let's go, I'm doing this.

DOG of BLUD @dogblud.bsky.social · Sep 8

I was already thinking of rebooting the #music thread since it's been a while, so let's make it more Themed.

1. a song you like with a color in the title
2. a song you like with a number in the title
3. a song that reminds you of summertime
4. a song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about
5. a song that needs to be played LOUD
6. a song that makes you want to dance
7. a song to drive to
8. a song about drugs or alcohol
10. a song that makes you sad
11. a song that you never get tired of
12. a song from your preteen years
13. one of your favorite 80s songs
14. a song that you would love played at your wedding
15. a song that is a cover by another artist
16. one of your favorite classical songs
17. a duet you would sing on karaoke
18. a song from the year you were born
19. a song that makes you think about life
20. a song that has many meanings to you
21. a favorite song with a person's name in the title
22. a song that moves you forward
23. a song that you think everybody should listen to
24. a song by a band you wish were still together
25. a song by an artist no longer living
26. a song that makes you want to fall in love
27. a song that breaks your heart
28. a song by an artist with a voice that you love
29. a song that you remember from your childhood
30. a song that reminds you of yourself

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

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.
"
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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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 3d

Aspergillus, Cladosporium: welcome to the resistance

Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 4d

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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Xenosoma @metalwolfchaos.bsky.social · 3d

I like that there's this huge ad board on the highway that reads "DO YOU HAVE YOUR PISS?"

Xenosoma @metalwolfchaos.bsky.social · 3d

Me, whenever working with skydrol.

Sin @sintrybest.bsky.social · 4d

Mechanic tomboy commission😋

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 3d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Xenosoma @metalwolfchaos.bsky.social · 4d

The ravings of an insane person.

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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Xenosoma @metalwolfchaos.bsky.social · 4d

What in the saint ciboire de tabarnak?!

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 4d

Israeli food: poutine. Israelis have developed and continue to enjoy a delicious cuisine rooted in the uniqueness of Israeli society itself

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Xenosoma @metalwolfchaos.bsky.social · 4d

Asti d'crisse de tabarnak de criminel de guerre. Pour moi? En prison ces osti d'gibier d'potence là!

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Xenosoma @metalwolfchaos.bsky.social · 5d

I'm on day shift and I still live *like* I'm on third shift lmao. Like, I'll get to sleep as soon as my shift end so I can be up at night.

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Xenosoma @metalwolfchaos.bsky.social · 5d

At this point I would spill blood if that had a chance of getting me a dark sky again.

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DOG of BLUD @dogblud.bsky.social · 5d

you know I'm honestly all for people being made to experience third shift at least a little so they're not raging assholes to people in their lives who keep that schedule but this is a bit much

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 6d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 5d

My big conspiracy is that due to our overall systemic decline in both cultural literacy and actual literacy we have spawned a generation of people who don’t even know how to get horny anymore

TheGamersician 🎮🎶 @thegamersician.com · 6d

🤦🏾‍♂️

Speak for yourself lol

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 5d

Entering the Anne Frank stage of the administration I see

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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404 Media @404media.co · 7d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Xenosoma @metalwolfchaos.bsky.social · 6d

Consider: Direwolf with 4 UAC20s

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

Autism antibodies are stored in the foreskin.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Xenosoma @metalwolfchaos.bsky.social · 6d

Saw a crow feeding off roadkill and my first thought was hell yeah, get it buddy

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Xenosoma @metalwolfchaos.bsky.social · 6d

I'm 6'2" and it happenned exactly once that I saw a woman taller than me and oh boy you bet I blushed when I crossed path with this perfect 7' tall amazonian greek goddess working airport security.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d

Not sure why there's suddenly a complete freakout on the far right about bloodlust from liberals for revenge come 2029. Could be mirror propaganda to stir up preemptive crackdowns or just a realization of how hated these people are.

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