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Phineasferatu

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · Mar 27

I have been making my dumb life from drawing my little guys and stuff for more than 15 years now and I would like to continue to and you can help...

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A screen print featuring head shots of 8 soviet dogs which were sent to orbit from 1957 to 1966, all surrounding the original canine cosmonaut Laika. A red star and banner at the top reads 'Soviet Space Dogs' next to illustrations of two different orbital capsules used in the program. All text is in Russian.

An oil painting of a red human skull with a bright orange outline against a collage of '80s Japanese wrestling magazine pages. Picture of wrestlers, wrestling, and a lot of Japanese text, presumably about wrestling.

A digital illustration of a spectral owl, with cephalopod arms where its legs would have been. The owl has two arrows embedded in its ghostly body. There is a stylized human skull tied to the top of its head which also has an arrow in it. Night sky, a bare tree, clouds, and a full moon are the background.

A black t-shirt with an image of a Black Crowned Night Heron: a medium-sized bird with a whitish chest/belly, dark blue-black wing tops and crown, a black spearlike bill, red eyes, and proportionally long yellow legs with long toes, slightly webbed standing on a stylized rock, with a green rushing river and blue sky behind. An actual bejeweled black crown is suspended over the bird's head and a golden beam of light is coming from within it down onto the regal heron. All this is within an elaborate frame rendered to look like patinated wrought iron. As part of the frame, arcing over the bird's head on either side of the crown it reads BLACK CROWNED, and below the birds feet are the words NIGHT HERON.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 1m

I’m going to do it

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 10h

Hey it’s Floyd

A fluffy white long haired cat with great patches that extend from the outsides of his eyes over his ears. He has a little black nose and green eyes. He’s looking up and away to the left as he ignores me.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 14h

Love this for you

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · May 26

Digital illustration (inked figures in a looser more watercolor-y background) of a frame from the movie The Neverending Story. Young, shaggy-haired Atreyu, hip-deep in swamp muck, is desperately pulling on the reins of his white horse, Artax, who is neck-deep in the same swamp. In a speech bubble Atreyu is saying, ‘Maybe it will happen today!’ If you recognize the reference you are already triggered and my work here is done.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 15h

The fact that the MacArthur Foundation keeps not giving me their award is just proof they have no sense of humor

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 15h

What’s the purpose of running an eating establishment in a coastal village if you aren’t up with the sun being quaint?

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 16h

One of the most uncomfortable viewings of my whole life

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 16h

“We all have to figure out how to live together” is only extended to eliminationists and never to the ones they are trying to eliminate

feral streep @seanpaulmahoney.bsky.social · 18h

lol how would you be unaware of what a transphobic pice of shit JK Rowling has been for the last 10 years?

"I was not aware of that, no," Knightley said when asked about the boycott.
"I'm very sorry. I
think we're all living in a period of time right now where we're all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren't we? And we've all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect."

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 16h

The Elizabeth Holmes of News

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 18h

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 17h

“Just some small changes”

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 18h

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

"New Manhattan Institute article"

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 18h

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

New LMS platform adopted

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 21h

It is very ‘The Wind Rises’

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 22h

Later I realized wanting pop lyrics to make sense is a good way to never stop being annoyed

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 22h

My unbroken streak of skipping the Chicago marathon continues streaking

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 22h

Which I understood but it still bothered me. ‘These’ doesn’t really rhyme with ‘dreams’ either and it’s weirdly ungrammatical and I was a child with nothing else pressing to think about.

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 23h

The Astor Cup Races (Flags) by Albert Gleizes, 1915
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137453

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 22h

Reading anything when all you do all day is think about the version of Antichrist you made up to scare yourself: “I’m getting some real Antichrist vibes from this guy…”

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 23h

I was just confused why she pronounced ‘this’ as ‘these’

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 23h

And we don’t need a machine encouraging people like that

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

Ice. Vampires? Too early to rule it out.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

Well the brewers sure aren’t going to fix it

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

I guess you all don’t want the Cubs to fix the timeline seems weird but whatever

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

There are two innings left and the cubs are fighting to close the hellmouth

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

Weird how the commentators keep not mentioning that Matt Shaw loves fascism more than his team

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t think I was allowed to before now

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

I am watching the baseballs

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