The VVelsh
@pbewelsh.bsky.social
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prork.bsky.social
Margaret Thatcher would have been 100 years old this week, except she isn't
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mbhare.bsky.social
I pledge to spend 300 quadrillion bothrillion morbillion dollars on Criterion Collection Blu-Rays over the next three months.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social
OpenAI has pledged to spend $1 trillion in the next five years.
pbewelsh.bsky.social
Like the Eldar don’t have sixteen pronouns for each tense and conjugation and possibly for each day of the week
pbewelsh.bsky.social
b̶͕͊ĭ̴̧̥̳s̴̠̈́̊į̶͍͕̟̑̓̉ć̸̨ ̷̠͙͓͇̍̄̓̎ḯ̴̪̰̳͝l̶͇̔c̷̦̞̳̑̈́́ó̴̜̃m̶̡̢̉͝͝a̵͔̦͕͆ͅt̶͓̲̭̬͂̈́̈́͝i̸͈̼̣̘͛o̵̳̱͚̾̎̽͒n̵̤̙̞̊̓̌̋s̴̢͍̊̔̋̊
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cerberusxt.bsky.social
Love that instead of a bar, they just put a dude silhouette for "lolecs toilets" in the "Water Conservation Methoos" chart.
pbewelsh.bsky.social
Batman and Robin is a good movie that had the misfortune of coming out in 1997-- three years after The Crow and one year before Blade-- when it's particular brand of lightweight camp was seen as unserious and made it fodder for cheap internet punchlines for two decades. It deserves to be reassessed
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Batman & Robin is considered the worst Batman movie ever released, but Alicia Silverstone and Chris O'Donnell, who played Batgirl and Robin respectively, are philosophical about it now, nearly 30 years later.
'You Want to Do Your Job and Promote the Movie' — Alicia Silverstone and Chris O'Donnell Remember Having to Do Press for Batman & Robin Amid 'So Much Hatred'
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pbewelsh.bsky.social
"I cannot believe that this unfathomably ancient culture of gender-ambiguous space-twinks whose excess literally birthed a hermaphroditic sex god/dess and whose whole culture centres around changing one's identity in order to save their souls would turn out to be a tad fruity"
pbewelsh.bsky.social
"Goes deep into full gay" sounds pretty gay
pbewelsh.bsky.social
You guys literally revolted against the crown over the price of hot drinks
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Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight
Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.
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realguldukat.bsky.social
Temporal Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They “disappeared” my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! #StarTrek #Sisko197
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism
Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.
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"There's so many elements of the tone and the comedy that are so suited for animation," said KPop Demon Hunters creator Maggie Kang. "It's really hard to imagine these characters in a live action world. It would feel too grounded. So totally it wouldn't work for me."
KPop Demon Hunters Is One of the Biggest Animated Films Ever — But Don't Expect a Live-Action Movie
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aerographos.bsky.social
The "Saint George was Turkish" line as a gotcha response to flagshaggers' bigotry is silly because:
a) it is factually incorrect, obviously,
b) it aligns with Turkey's historical revisionism - not cool
c) there are so many better ways to attack the racism and
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Madeline Horwath on St George returning to England – cartoon
The St George’s flag is more popular than ever. It’s more complicated for England’s patron saint
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I’ll tell you what’s a treat, whenever you watch a movie and you get Odo when he’s not Odo
René Auberjonois in The Patriot René Auberjonois in McCabe and Mrs Miller René Auberjonois in MASH René Auberjonois in Batman Forever, this is probably the best hair
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The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
pbewelsh.bsky.social
On top of everything else "the protagonist of this story is a Christ-analogue" is such a most basic media criticism trope that it's become a joke in itself. Bring up this Hero-With-A-Thousand-Faces take in literary circles and watch everyone roll their eyes
sharonk.bsky.social
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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pbewelsh.bsky.social
Slightly ahead of Granny Clark’s Wynd
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theradr.bsky.social
ברוך הטוב והמטיב

May this truly be beginning of a real ceasefire, and the beginning of permanent peace and *true justice* for everyone in the land.

May the memories of all those annihilated in the genocide, all those slaughtered, be for a revolution.
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nywolforg.bsky.social
Peaceful moments with Red Wolf Oak’s pups😴

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