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20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · Jan 9

Look, it's simple.

Be kind.
Be curious.
Tell the truth.
Ask for help.
Help others if you can.
Don't hurt people.
If you do, say you're sorry, mean it, and prove it.
Think before you speak.
Say less.
Say please.
Say thank you.

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20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 1h

In a lot of movies about creative people you're supposed to just ASSUME or IMAGINE that the thing they make is as amazing as the movie insists it is.

In ONCE, the songs really ARE that good, and they leave you exactly as floored as they do the characters.

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 2h

I have to look askance at any quotations I see on here supposedly from Thiel's antichrist talks, because they're so breathtakingly dumb that they read like bad, faked parodies.

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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 3h

Last chance - Get ready for #NoKings, join us this Wednesday (October 15), 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville to make bold, high-impact signs (for you to use and/or to share with others).

A photo of a hand lettered sign reading "Rise Up for immigrants, free speech, women, LGBTQ, VA Benefits, Social Security, History, Education..."

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20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 9h

Really excited for one of these to hatch in the middle of the night and stealthily crawl onto my face.

A scattering of weird alien-looking gourds labeled “gizmos”

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20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 10h

This is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.

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Geoffrey David B. @geothetrickster.bsky.social · 15h

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20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 13h

Come for the mischaracterization of Ozymandias, the ruthless god-complex billionaire who murders tens of thousands in a needless bid for world peace because he can’t abide the existence of someone more powerful than him, as an “antihero,” stay for a ONE PIECE analogy straight out of the Onion

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

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.

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 13h

Me when I see Democratic yard signs in an otherwise rural area

a man with a beard is smiling with his mouth open

Alt: Jack Nicholson nodding with sordid satisfaction in THE DEPARTED

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20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 1d

Stare at it from every angle long enough, and I'm sure you'll see something in it.

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 2d

I feel like if you're wearing a white cowboy hat and oversized sunglasses indoors, along with a Detroit Lions jacket, an undershirt, and a series of silver chains, all on national television, you should stop and think before criticizing others' appearance.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 2d

Protip: When someone tells you they want to align on a shared vision, it usually means they want you to do what they tell you to without question, concern, or complaint.

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 2d

With all respect to the proud history of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather et. al, the only way to reach a place where CBS News is once again the most trusted, most consumed news source in the nation again involves a time machine.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the full memo.

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 2d

Unless you’re cooking meth or actively working for fascists, no dad has a right to say that to their kid. I can only imagine how cruelly that must hurt, how much weight that must carry, but he was wrong to say it and wrong about what he said.

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 2d

If you want to personally experience time dilation, do planks while staring at a timer and watch seconds pass with increasing slowness.

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 2d

"We want 5x more profits from those chatbots we made that talk sexy to children in the licensed voices of celebrities!"

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 2d

Sounds like someone doesn't know what actual journalists do all day.

"So you're saying you ... call sources? Obtain FACTS? Then you VERIFY those facts? You don't just make stuff up? Huh. Weird."

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 2d

Again, where are these Soros checks I'm supposed to be receiving for going to protests, knocking on doors, etc.? Melonfarmer, I am doing this for FREE. I'm getting paid in DEMOCRACY.

Sorry that you can't conceive of public service without personal financial gain. Seems like a "you" problem.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 2d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLYi...

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 2d

Also people with obstructed windpipes.

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 3d

The animated TRON UPRISING series is probably the best the franchise has ever gotten. Great cast, fun premise, really stylish visuals.

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 3d

Seriously, if you told me she was Eric Adams doing an incredibly effective and sophisticated Mrs. Doubtfire, I'd like 50% believe you at this point.

Team Spanberger @teamspanberger.bsky.social · 3d

@abigailspanberger.com: "I support the Roe standard"

Winsome Earle-Sears: "Don't do that, Abigail”

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 3d

“That’s not discrimination!” Oh my dear sweet Lord, just make this entire exchange a tv ad right now.

American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: Winsome Earle-Sears says her opposition to marriage equality or her support for LGTBQ+ Americans being fired for being gay is "not discrimination." #VAGov

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20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 3d

Maybe he and Steve Harvey can start a club.

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20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 3d

Sending her death threats for just speaking her mind — not condemnation, not criticism, threats — is vile and pathetic.

TPUSA came to school to tell everyone her kid wasn’t real. Was existing wrong, and should be forced by the government to live differently.

I’d have been livid, too. Kinda am.

20 Nate Days Later @nathanalderman.com · 3d

Excellent coverage of tonight’s Albemarle school board meeting from @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social. People have a right to disagree with Allison Spillman’s objection to TPUSA. (I don’t.) But she expressed an opinion. She didn’t use her power or position to try to block the speaker.

Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 3d

school board meeting kicking off. not going to fully live skeet, but will do my best to hit the important points.

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