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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · Oct 17

Hello new people! My latest project was a 10+ year labor of love and it would mean the world to me if you checked it out. www.tested-podcast.com

It’s a narrative, deep, complex and suspenseful story of gender, sports, science, and “fairness.”

TESTED – A surprising history of women’s sports

www.tested-podcast.com

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 2h

Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games.

Get in touch with me!

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 2h

It’s not that I ever had any faith in institutions holding the powerful accountable. And yet it still feels wild to see and endless parade of stories where man after man writes the most incriminating shit possible to a literal sex trafficker of children and it’s like “ah well, what can you do!?”

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 2h

They* (you know a human wrote this because they noticed a typo too late to fix it)

Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 6h

The believe in general, genius level AI because this is the kind of shit they think is smart. Absolutely indistinguishable from AI slop.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

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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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10h

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 6h

I hate how accurate this is

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 7h

What makes it even more pathetic is them being proud to write that none of it is reviewed by the editorial staff. Lazy and anti-labor on all levels.

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 8h

As someone whose time freelancing for MLSsoccer was a vital step in my career progression, and someone who generally gleans insight from the observations of others:

This sucks so hard.

MLS is using generative AI to write match recaps. Writers used to get paid freelance rates to do that. Hssssss.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 7h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 8h

Trump claimed that immigrants were “taking Black jobs,” but even after he deported 350,000 immigrants this year, 300,000 Black women lost their jobs. Black unemployment, overall, has soared to 7.5% under Trump, while white unemployment has dropped to 3.7%.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Every ICE agent is a monstrous goon familiar to all of history and every neighbor protecting neighbors from ICE is braver than the troops chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 22h

He is very clearly a great coach and also I find his constant whinging at the refs pretty annoying, tbh.

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 22h

Catching up on the Pitt/Miami volley and what a fun game but also what the hell was Fisher so mad about in the fifth set about the music or something??? @santelli.bsky.social do you know what that was about?

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Jasmin🌸 @theboobtaster.bsky.social · 2d

if overthinking was an olympic sport i’d be banned because i’m transgender

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 1d

I too hear this from people I meet after knowing them online. A lot of “oh wow I thought you would be taller.”

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 1d

I just finished The Need by Helen Phillips and I need someone to scream about the ending with for a minute.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 2d

The clear story in Immigration this week is the escalation of—and pushback against—the Trump administration’s militarized raids and warrantless stops in Democrat-run major cities. We’ve updated our timeline with a lot of events in this zone:

unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

Immigration — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Sarah Hotchkiss @sahotchkiss.bsky.social · 5d

Here's my commentary piece on the Big Art Loop, and what it means to hand our public space over to a billionaire and his choice of 100 pieces of existing, large-scale art.

And for god's sake: Send your opinions to the agencies/nonprofit/org involved, not to me!

www.kqed.org/arts/1398217...

Who Has a Say In the Flood of Public Art Coming to San Francisco?

The Sijbrandij Foundation’s plan to install 100 pieces of large-scale art around the city needs public oversight.

www.kqed.org

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 4d

I think Emma did a great job of trying to navigate that debate in the piece (I'm also, obviously, very biased)

Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 4d

I agree with you that we need venues and we should celebrate preety much anybody who's trying to make shit happen right now -- but there are some very loud purists out there

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 4d

you'd be amazed at how many people vocally disagree! there are folks who really think that if it can't be the same crusty punk thing it used to be that it should not exist at all, and that's what the piece is about

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 4d

The world is on fire all I want is for Yankees fans to suffer IS THIS SO MUCH TO ASK

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 4d

The rainbow grocery story was so interesting

Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 4d

Some recently @coyotemedia.org bangers:
〰️ How do you re-open a legendary punk venue without everybody getting mad?
〰️ What does THEALLSEEINGEYE see? www.coyotemedia.org/a-journey-in...
〰️ How has Rainbow Grocery made it 50 years as a worker owned coop? www.coyotemedia.org/bay-area-co-...

Mabuhay Gardens to Reopen, Attempt to Remain Upright Under Weight of Expectations

The birthplace of San Francisco punk can’t be what it once was. Is it time to let it be something else instead?

www.coyotemedia.org

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 4d

Sorry was that Harry Enten they just showed in the stands at the Yankees game or am I hallucinating?