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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 57m

Who had “self-swatting” on their dystopia bingo card.

Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank

The AI #homelessmanprank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement.

www.theverge.com

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 53m

Imagine being Peter Thiel, reading The Watchmen, and not looking at Ozymandias and feeling personally attacked.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

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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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 54m

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · Feb 4

These guys grasp of The Watchmen gives a whole new meaning to “Rorschach Test”.

Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · Feb 4

The 1st rule of Fight Club is to misunderstand Fight Club.

Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 59m

LLOL

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 1h

If you see this quote with a game that released the year you were born.

The box lid of the board game "The Battle of Britain", with a painting of fighters and bombers in the sky over the English Channel

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2h

The video is really good, I bailed when they cornered into SWERF ofc, and I heard about the TERF shit but wowzers

My only real question....how does he make money at this point.

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 3h

Sinfest.

Also shout out to @bitterkarella.bsky.social for a mention (positive) in the video of one of her posts from the bad place.

When a Cartoonist Loses Their Mind

YouTube video by TheGamerFromMars

www.youtube.com

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, man...

I lost track sometime around 2012 or so and... yikes. The signs were already there, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the cheese slid completely off dude's cracker.

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Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 3h

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 2h

I genuinely enjoy air travel, except for going through TSA and the actual boarding process. Love flying itself and even just hanging out in the bad, overpriced malls that are airports.

I’m actually avoiding it right now.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 6h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 4d

I like Bsky more than any social platform I’ve used, but my goodness it has big “I knew them before they were cool” energy.

You mention something bad: “are you surprised?” You mention something good: “I knew about that WAY before you.” This is an exhausting, anti-social way to interact, you guys.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 3h

the hardest question in contemporary politics, for republicans

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you for your culinary and cultural input, uhh...

<checks notes> ...Mr. "Raw Egg Nationalist," handle: "babygravy9."
We'll certainly take you perspective into due consideration.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 21h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 8h

Five bucks says a dweeb like Matt Walsh.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 8h

What the fuck is wrong with these weirdos?

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 8h

I'm reminded of those comments about how manosphere shit is basically just men subjecting themselves to the same body image problems that women have dealt with for generations and getting one-shotted by it

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 8h

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 8h

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 8h

Every year now since 2021 I’ve gone down to Dallas, TX from Indy for an event. I’ve flown once, drove myself in the Z3 once, and rode with friends the other three times.

They all drove it in one single whack, and I don’t have that in me anymore. I overnighted in Joplin.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 23h

"We expected it would have the integrity of the president of the United States..."

IT ABSOLUTELY DOES, YOU DROOLING SIMPLETON!

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 8h

It’s such a common thing for people on vacation tours to totally misjudge time/distance because they want to check as many experiences off the list as possible. Mark Twain was making fun of that way back in 1869.

Like, Apple Maps says that the National Museum of the USAF is just a…

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 8h

…two hour drive from my front door, but I’ll be damned if I try and zip over there, hurry through one of the world’s largest aviation museums, and zip back home in one day.

I’m heading there sometime in the next couple months, but it’s gonna be a two-night trip.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 8h

It’s such a common thing for people on vacation tours to totally misjudge time/distance because they want to check as many experiences off the list as possible. Mark Twain was making fun of that way back in 1869.

Like, Apple Maps says that the National Museum of the USAF is just a…

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Kath Troyan @kath808.bsky.social · 9h

My ancestors were poor farmer immigrants from Slovakia and Germany in the 1800s. They never owned slaves, but I still benefit from being a white descendent of white immigrants, and a white person. It's undeniable.

Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 19h

It's hilarious that the same people who claim that their families never owned slaves and their family came here as immigrants get upset when someone posts the truth about America's racist & violent past.

Why do they agree to erase history they had nothing to do with? 🤔

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 9h

“She later checked a ferry travel website but found no such route exists.”

I asked AI to plan my dream summer holiday. Here's how it turned out — BBC News

Holiday-makers say AI-powered chatbots really help organise where to go - but some things need double-checking.

apple.news

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