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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 34m

Whoa! I didn’t even notice. And now that your work is on my radar I am definitely going to check out your boxing book. The boxing in the show was great!

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1h

I've been married for 13 years, so I don't know what dating is like these days, but what the fuck? Lads, what is wrong with you? Just have interests and be sincerely interested in people who share those interests.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 8h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2h

Don't get this guy started on The Matrix

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2h

Thiel may have surpassed JK Rowling in the running for "billionaire most likely to go full Howard Hughes and end up wandering around their mansion with tissue boxes on their feet"

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

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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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2h

The vice president is a walking X account, allowed to freely spread misinformation due to his position of power.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 16h

Just a Friday-oopsie doodle that traumatizes hundreds of important scientists who now have to wonder every minute of every day if they will be fired.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 18h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 17h

This 10-second clip answers the question: Why did "Tron: Ares" flop?

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 20h

because the replies are all mentioning it, here’s the rest of the roundtable not getting the joke

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 18h

I feel like this show flew under the radar a bit with two of the actors also in “Adolescence” and that getting so much more attention. It is damn good. Only six episodes but a season 2 is on the way. Highly recommend if you like “Peaky Blinders” and similar shows.

A promo image of the Hulu series “A Thousand Blows” with actors Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty and Malachi Kirby.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 18h

Who does this dummy think the “machine” is?

Tom Morello & @tmorello • 3h
Fascinating that all those "don't tread on me" posers and their AR-15's are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 22h

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Je2us: Passion Harder

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 1d

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 23h

Ah, more meritocracy from the meritocracy administration
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Barron Trump tipped for top job at TikTok as dad says users ‘owe’ him

The president has previously claimed that users ‘owe’ Barron Trump for saving the social media platform in a video from the Oval Office

www.independent.co.uk

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Erin DeLullo @blueridgeerin.bsky.social · 1d

Addiction isn’t a moral failing — it’s a human struggle.

NPR journalist @brianmannadk.bsky.social opens up about losing his dad and stepbrother, and how covering drug policy changed how he sees addiction and stigma.

NPR's Brian Mann on Addiction Stigma

YouTube video by The Poisoning

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer’s death. She described the online mob that got her fired as “state-sponsored censorship."

She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired

Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."

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Long Lead @longlead.com · 1d

For this week's DEPTH PERCEPTION, @brinjonathanbutler.bsky.social spoke with Lewis about why the lives and work of so many uncelebrated and unrecognized government workers matter.

Read it now: depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/michael-le...

"I can join this battle." Defending federal workers, Michael Lewis explains why their work matters

The author of 'The Big Short' goes long — with the help of some friends — on the unsung heroes of the U.S. federal government

depthperceptionbyll.substack.com

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah this is bonkers. Portland has problems. It's also a safe creative prosperous thriving community where elected officials are trying creative solutions. Giving equal credence to people calling it a hellscape is not factual or accurate.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

I do not think it is hyperbole to say that if another COVID-like disease broke out right now, it would decimate the country far beyond what we experienced in 2019-2021

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

RIF notices also sent to the CDC’s 2023 and 2024 class of civilian EIS officers known as its main disease detectives, per sources. These are the people who are typically the first responders in an outbreak. 4/4

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 1d

"Depends on who you ask" framing is one of the most grating tics in modern political journalism. Objective reality exists and your job is to describe it.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

You can't rebuild this. What scientists or researchers are ever going to trust the government again? This is paving the way for mass death.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

Among other RIF notices at CDC:
—Center for Forecasting and Analytics;
—all of CDC Washington
—Office of Human Resources
—National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 3/4

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

the guy getting in there and filming this terrorized woman for propaganda content makes this extra nauseating

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

Once again, Fishlock keeps things alive.

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Seattle Reign FC @reignfc.com · 1d

84' GOOOOOOAL JESS FISHLOCK!! WE'RE LEVEL!

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

My former NPR colleague @sonari.bsky.social is raising funds for a reporting project. Take a look and give if you can.

gofund.me/1d6846c4d

Donate to Fuel Reporting on Race, Culture & Economy, organized by Sonari Batubo Glinton

Support the Vanilla is Black Podcast I’m Sonari Glinton. I’ve … Sonari Batubo Glinton needs your support for Fuel Reporting on Race, Culture & Economy

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