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Bookseller of uncommon 18-19th c. British literature, street literature, and Gothic Revival. Dirtbag medievalist. Wears Crocs with tweed. It’s all sarcasm. Never legal advice. Life coach for bad ideas. Member ABAA/ILAB/PBFA.

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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 12h

Given my distaste for American literature, with the exception of brockden brown, I must choose Joyce.

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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 12h

Tell the mayor your thoughts!

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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 12h

Yikes @anyuse.bsky.social

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Miscelena 🌳🧬 @miscelena.bsky.social · 13h

I would be losing my bloody mind if that were my son. At this point it seems safe to say that all police everywhere should be assumed to be collaborators. They're not reliable help in any situation, and I can no longer fully trust people who don't understand this.

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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 16h

And definitely pick the Dvorak keyboard layout!

Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 16h

I ripped the Gatsby dustwrapper.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 16h

Travel hack: the British Museum lets you skip the line with strollers. So put your teenager in a stroller and push them right in!

Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 16h

Ohh how much is it?

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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 17h

Fellow bald dudes, do you use face wash and/or shampoo up top?!

Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 17h

How long until Turning Point USA rebrands as Trump Youth?

Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 17h

I told my daughter she doesn’t need to go to school anymore since she’s going to grow up to be an influencer.

Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 17h

Once all my Kalshi bets hit, my new favorite hobbies will be yachting and squash.

Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 17h

I got a wonderful wife, but if anyone can get me a Canadian or EU passport…

Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 17h

The shootout scene is pretty cool. And the Slayer soundtrack makes her way more badass.

Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 17h

The good thing about quiche is that you can also call it breakfast pie or sliced omelette and then the 6yo will eat the quiche my mom makes.

Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 17h

Where can o get a fresh stroopwaffel around here??

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 21h

I like The Lord of the Rings a lot but we need more bite sized swords and sorcery fantasy TV/movies. Willow is the platonic ideal of lightweight high fantasy, and Dungeons and Dragons (2023) is its spiritual successor. But overall the field seems very thin 🫤

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 21h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 23h

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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Nelson Rare Books @nelsonrarebooks.com · 21h

Nelson Rare Books is providing a $1,000 grant to any researcher who is doing research into the insular, self-supportive society in Sunnyvale Trailer Park as portrayed in Trailer Park Boys.