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Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · 30m

Wandering around London during the day and going to the longest-running goth night in existence.

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 5h

What are you guys doing for Halloween? 🎃

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Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · 13h

When the only tool you have is the Book of Revelation, every piece of literature looks like a nail in a crucifix, I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 16h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1h

When he feels he has nothing good to look forward to? Knowing he will not be going to heaven?

That could go bad…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 2h

Remember,Trump reneged on an agreement to pay medical expenses for his disabled relative and told his nephew in 2020,

“Those people,” Fred Trump said his uncle told him, “the shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.”

www.disabilityscoop.com/2024/07/25/t....

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1h

Senior senator from Texas? Did THAT?!? TEXAS?!

You’d get your ass run out of many Texas towns for that.

Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 3h

everything rightwingers eat somehow looks like poop

Brisket that's simultaneously overcooked and undercooked, slathered in a sauce that can only be described as, "What if we fed an infant a baby bottle full of ketchup, and then used the resulting bowel movement as a sauce?"

This image of "food" was originally posted by US Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 12h

Damn! Also those goals against… 😍#LetsGoKraken

Davy Jones’ Locker Room @davyjoneslr.bsky.social · 12h

Good morning

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 14h

Really just giving the game away. There is no legal logic to what they are doing and they never want it to apply to any future Dem president but they need to give Trump whatever he wants.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · 14h

Not me sobbing my eyes out at the final few scenes of FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING.

Even the smallest person can change the world. We decide what to do with the time that is given to us. We hold together.

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 17h

“Next up: CatDog.”

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

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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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1d

If you see this, quote your favorite Pokemon!

(Wrong answers only)

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Rob from Chicago (Sleeper Service) @robfromchicago.com · 3d

Portland right now.

Kermit the Frog sitting in his swamp and paying his banjo, singing:

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me Fuck you I won't do what you tell me Fuck you I won't do what you tell me

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1d

He is mentally unsound and needs to be removed.

1. He was president, not Biden.

2. “If this is so, which it is.”? You’re telling on yourself.

3. “A lot of good people will be owed big apologies.” Umm, he pardoned them all?

4. “DO SOMETHING!” Who? What exactly?

Seriously. He is not running shit.

The president claiming Biden’s FBI agents were in the crowd at J6.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the second half of #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential #TCMParty

Oban 14

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Mash up bands:

Concrete 4-Non Blonde(s)

Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · 1d

Mash up bands:

The [any band that is a noun]

😝

(Because The The exists)

batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 1d

Mash up bands:

Captain Beefheart & Tennille

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Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · 1d

WHOOOOOO Kraken win in OT! For the first time in team history they have won their first two games of the season. And Jared McCann gets his 400th career point. A great game.

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1d

KRAKEN WIN IT IN OT!!!

#ThatsKrakenHockeyBaby

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1d

We’re missing #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential to watch the last period of Seattle Kraken hockey.

No cocktail right now. Instead it is:

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1d

I am very happy to see the progress from the last Kraken game. This is against Vegas, who are really strong.

Let’s go Kraken!

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 1d

Happy #nationalcomingoutday! 🍵✨🦄

#tea #earlgrey #earlgay #queerownedbusiness

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1d

This is wonderful. Not just platitudes, but specific ideas and projects to ACT.

This is how it’s done.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

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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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Huh. Sounds good. I have cardamom bitters and never thought of infusing vodka with cardamom.

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