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Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 4h

Glad we all understand that The Internet Is For Making Up Types Of Guys

post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 11h

The US should be a constitutional monarchy, and the royal family should be the Kardashians

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 11h

Guy whose concern about the No Kings rally is that there’s a lot of evidence constitutional monarchies do a better job than republics of avoiding personalistic politics.

Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 4h

Me, reckoning with my villain-attraction to Pam Bondi

no earthquake (cultural tutor) @noearthquake.bsky.social · 6h

i want the abyss to stare back is that too much to ask

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Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

Jane Coaston's Wierd Reply Guys -ass skeet

alboo @captainacab.airbud.website · 1d

hey don’t touch that that’s my emotional support parasocial relationship with a few thousand people

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Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy anniversary of the George Santos "Is that your baby?" "Not yet." thing to all who celebrate

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Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

Example you have in mind?

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Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yes bluesky has the juice tonight

Dutch Pendergrass @dutchpendergrass.bsky.social · 1d

Wilford Brimley in the firm says devastating

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Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky has the juice tonight

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

tom buchanan should have said this to jay gatsby

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Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

Haha my *nascent* culinary library, let's be real.

Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

After 20+ years of collecting a decent personal philosophy library, those books are boxed up to make room for my culinary library

Four books: Ratio, Big Book of Bread, The Flavor Thesaurus, and Institute Bocuse; vertically set on a bookshelf.

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Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

Nuclear storage site warnings on non-nuclear things gotta be one of my favorite genres of things.

This is a microblogging website.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

I think if you have a billion dollars, you should not be allowed to have public opinions about One Piece period for the same reason the Pope shouldn’t be seen eating at Taco Bell and the president shouldn’t jerk off in front of the cameras.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

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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Academician Prokhor Zakharov @shake1n1bake.bsky.social · 2d

Women are biologically unsuited to be laz-gun wielding cannon fodder. That's just science.

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defending nat’l champion 6-0 #1 ohio state buckeyes enthusiast @tacoenthusiast.swifties.social · 3d

Every network’s gotta have their own Slop Extended Universe

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky first and foremost is a bunch of history dads (nongendered) who WILL take the bait of the lowest effort ww2 taeks

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Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 3d

Sisyphean

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · Oct 12

sometimes i delete a post because i've grown as a person in those 45 seconds

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Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 4d

This is the best typo I've ever made

Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 5d

It may have taken me until 3am tonight, but the first cold northern wind into the US south (where I find myself living) of the season is beyond erotic and is therefore worth staying awake for.

This is a microblogfing website

a woman with long hair is making a funny face in front of a window in a room .

ALT: a woman with long hair is making a funny face in front of a window in a room .

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d

Curse God and post.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 5d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 5d

It may have taken me until 3am tonight, but the first cold northern wind into the US south (where I find myself living) of the season is beyond erotic and is therefore worth staying awake for.

This is a microblogfing website

a woman with long hair is making a funny face in front of a window in a room .

ALT: a woman with long hair is making a funny face in front of a window in a room .

media.tenor.com

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