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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · Oct 29

Every time "Otisburg" comes up in a conversation, I should reply to this message.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 31m

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 45m

Checking off some more legendary bands. Alice Cooper @ Shoreline, Judas Priest up next.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 6h

why did I get tickets for a concert on a tuesday night

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 13h

Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 23h

Oh yeah, no question. It was better than I even expected.

Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 23h

The Chair Company is about a very rational and sane person, I would have done the exact same thing, what are you talking about.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Apply all this to the "why can't comic books be $1" arguments.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

it's so dumb I love it

Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

just your casual catcher jogging to 3rd for the force out, see it all the time

MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most remarkable double plays you will EVER see 🤯

#NLCS

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

It's just unreal how shitty Amazon has become. I don't order a *lot* of stuff from there, probably compared to some people, but we do order a decent amount amount of random stuff we can't get locally. Easily 50% of what I've ordered this year was broken, defective, or not the right product.

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gundampixel @gundampixel.bsky.social · 1d

To celebrate (or commiserate) today’s last showing of the 1:1 life-size RX-78F00/E Gundam at the Osaka Expo 2025, here’s a tidy collection of Gundam Next Future Pavilion videos. Grab a drink, and enjoy a snapshot of this notable moment in Gundam history. ☕️

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Goodbye, RX-78F00/E Gundam — gundampixel

EXPO 2025 ends today, and with it, we wish a fond farewell to the life-size Gundam.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 2d

We can go back, we have the power.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Watching this in 2025, and it's unreal how he got the internet in one try.

Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Time for the current hit theatrical movie in cinemas, of course I'm talking about Satoshi Kon's 1997 classic Perfect Blue.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 2d

It just doesn't make sense, 2005 was just a few years ago!

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Time for the current hit theatrical movie in cinemas, of course I'm talking about Satoshi Kon's 1997 classic Perfect Blue.

Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Card Show Challenge, go 30 seconds without hearing "market value" or "80% comp".

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 2d

I mean,

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me you've never read Watchmen or One Piece without saying you've never read Watchmen or One Piece.

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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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 3d

RUMOR: Geoff Keighley Signed on to Host Riyadh Game Awards Show

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Oh yeah, it's bad. The original? Fantastic. New one sucked.

Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 3d

also Tron: Legacy fucking sucked

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 3d

This isn't rocket science, Hollywood. When you make movies for Gen Z & Alpha, they pay to see them. FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S opened to $80M WITH a day & date streaming release on Peacock. When you make movies for their dads, those dads have a choice between the theater or their bitchin' home theater.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 3d

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Ok, if he's a mole sent in to take down Marvel from the inside and set up DC winning Secret Crisis, I'm ok with it.

Cocomelanin @nickthehobo.bsky.social · 3d

Secret Crisis inches ever closer

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 3d

WILLIAMSON AT MARVEL???

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