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Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 22h

Hurrah! Time to set up my institute of twinology where we can research making even bigger balls from twines both natural and unnatural.

Also, we’ll sell T-shirts that say ‘Slough’s got Balls’.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 22h

I would take a road trip across America where I would visit and document each of the ‘largest ball of twine’ roadside attractions. I’d then have copies made but 10% bigger and put them all on an industrial estate in Slough so you could see them in an afternoon.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 2d

Oh probably! I just like opium.

And a gorilla might have difficulty using a syringe.

To be honest he’ll probably have to upgrade to a cello instead of the violin too.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 2d

I would watch Silverback Holmes!

*smokes opium*

*roars and languidly beats chest*

Now to fight Gorilla Moriarty at the top of this waterfall

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 2d

Will any of those other sources give you a reality check? Or will they just confirm everything that the Internet fascists have been saying?

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s say you go down an Internet rabbit hole that tells you London is awash with knife wielding foreigners, global warming is a hoax and the dirty transes are lurking in bathrooms to assault your women. Then you pick up a copy of the Daily Mail or the Sun or the Telegraph or watch BBC news.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 2d

The short answer is money. I think the long answer, particularly for Pegg and Frost, is an awareness of the precarious nature of acting and a history of not having much money before being famous. Got to keep on working because it all might go away tomorrow.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 3d

The rambling nonsense is bad but also, like, he’s such a basic bitch in his tastes.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 11d

Explosion of Transgender is my favourite synthwave album.

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 11d

Tim Burchett Rants Against ‘Demonic’ Netflix Shows for Causing ‘Explosion of Transgender’ In Fox News Hit

Tim Burchett Rants Against ‘Demonic’ Netflix Shows for Causing ‘Explosion of Transgender’ In Fox News Hit

Burchett railed against “demonic” Netflix shows aimed at kids with LGBTQ storylines as a plot from the “pits of hell” by “left-wing propaganda outlets.” The post Tim Burchett Rants Against ‘Demonic’ Netflix Shows for Causing ‘Explosion of Transgender’ In Fox News Hit first appeared on Mediaite.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 12d

No, TikTok. That is not a cool gift.

A screenshot from TikTok with the caption ‘cool gift’ showing a lady with long red hair holding up a blanket with the photoshopped image of shrek with a toothbrush moustache, the hitler haircut and the words ‘Mein Swampf’ at the bottom in the lolcats font. I mean, Jesus, who is that for?! Only £6.47 though. Bargain.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 16d

I hate this place.

A screenshot from the daily mirror Instagram with the headline: breaking - child dies in English Channel after falling from a small boat. There are comments underneath with laugh react emojis from the worst people on earth.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 17d

That’s next on my list of dramatisations that will make me rationally angry.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 17d

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 17d

It was nice to watch The Hack recently and see Starmer's name pop up when he was at the CPS and decided we didn't need to worry our silly little heads about the scale of the hacking scandal.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 19d

It's things like this that make me want to put together a crazy board of The Establishment in the UK but they're all so tightly woven together I don't even know where to start. And I'll end up looking like this:

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 22d

Floating up to heaven looking like a goldfish with a streamer waving behind.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 28d

I’ve tampered with all the traffic lights within a mile of his house. Nobody cheats death on my watch.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · Sep 11

Dan, you're thirty two years old, shouldn't you be out trying to find a girl who isn't utterly repulsed by you instead of staying in and wanking over cartoon horses?

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · Sep 11

So does Kirk have postnouns now?

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · Sep 10

Time to leave the internet alone until speculation resolves itself into coherence.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · Sep 9

Why does he draw 2003 Epstein like he's the pedochad?!

DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · Sep 9

This entire book is a nightmare

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · Sep 9

Exactly, they love stuff like that where they can tweak the formulation and keep it under patent.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · Sep 9

The thing that drives me mad is that Big Pharma doesn't give a shit, there's no money to be made for them in churning out hormones. They leave that to the generics who make tiny profits on huge quantities. Big Pharma only care about blockbuster drugs they can sell with huge markups.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oh neat! I got The Excavation of Hob's Barrow on your recommendation and loved it. I'll have to stick this one in the basket.

Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · Sep 5

He's completely obsessed. It's a compulsion for him now. I genuinely think he needs an intervention.