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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 15h

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 3h

Don't be smug about this.

The Canadian arms of the social media giants have been run by Harper ex-staffers almost exclusively, for years.

Headline: Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job, with photo of Trump's son, Barron

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 2h

They’re going to have to quarantine travellers from the US and Canada

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15h

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
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Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 2h

Debbie basically wins over the family in her final scene. I always thought the ending should have been her becoming an Addams. There wasn’t even anything for them to forgive! 😉

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 2h

I think Derek treats it as sport hunting. He’s there for the same reason the fascists wanted to be: that’s where his targets are.

a man in a dark room with the words none of you seem to understand behind him

Alt: Scene from the Watchmen movie with Rorschach speaking to his hostile fellow maximum-security prisoners: NONE OF YOU SEEM TO UNDERSTAND; I’M NOT LOCKED IN HERE WITH YOU, YOU’RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5h

American politics becomes what it becomes because when people were saying “ Americans don’t protest like the French, Koreans, etc”

Everyone leaves out the context of

How they stopped covering Black protests and no longer mention them

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Also, using “thought police” to describe the *critics* of someone who literally launched her career by trying to police the thoughts of her pro-Palestinian professors at Columbia is AMAZING

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 10h

I know it's basically just bait so whatever but if you use "thought police" unironically you should be forced to sit in a corner without your phone for a full hour

Sally Jenkins post with a link to whatever awful Atlantic piece about Bari Weiss reading "Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of
@theatlantic.com
is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. "

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3h

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 3h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 12h

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 3h

I suppose the use case is keeping your humanoid robot from getting trapped in a room when the door swings closed…

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Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au · 5h

This is sickening, I knew generative AI was a fascist tool, I've been researching that extensively, but I don't think enough people know that. This is heart breaking. Trying to destroy the legacy of good people for the cheap lulz

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

I have been working on and writing about civilian drone regulations for a long time, and I have learned many people genuinely have *no clue* that stuff like “shining lasers at aircraft” is incredibly illegal and dangerous.

Which is why I think it’s very important to repeatedly explain this stuff.

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Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 7h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 7h

The people willing to go out over their skis on this despite the fact that Weiss has zero experience running a broadcast newsroom and the reporting she has done herself has been littered with holes are just telling you they agree with her ideologically

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 11h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7h

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 7h

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 7h

Plus he misremembers the Watchmen quote, gets it backwards, and then makes it the crux of his argument.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 7h

Yes! That’s what I was trying to get at—Thiel is making his own associations and then declaring them to be universal insights. Instead of saying “I find it interesting to look at it from this perspective,” he’s saying that by reading Watchmen as an allegory we can learn about the antichrist. 🫤

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 8h

Reported and blocked. He’s posting phone numbers along with unsolicited sexual comments.

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 8h

If you have white hair you might want to block this guy.

And dear god I am not 80.

And right. Not within 100 feet.

A screenshot of a bluesky post:

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@calrobert.bsky.s...

Based on your silver-gray hair, I presume you're almost as old as I am. I'm 80. You're reasonably good looking. I want to run my tongue across and between your lips.
But my face is so ugly that you would never let my face get within 6 feet of yours, right?

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 8h

What Thiel is doing is common: acting like these interpretations are unlocking hidden meanings. The actual value of reading these works through a Christian (or any) lens is to refine your own thinking and allow you to find new insights. It’s uncovering things in yourself, not in Christianity.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

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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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 8h

He’s messianic, but even that’s not a Christ analogue. Jesus did not lead a rebellion against an earthly regime. His story is self-sacrifice and allowing himself to be killed to erase a spiritual debt. The muscular Jesus of American prophetic Christianity is basically fanfic.</hottake>

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 10h

And then he punches him 🙃

Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 13h

The Beast from the X-Men throws a backhanded punch in mid air against some armored guy, knocking him backwards with a giant THUNK sound effect as he says, “A FEAT with my FEET could lead to your DEFEAT!“

troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 10h

This is horrible. I admire the courage of Senator Gerba to speak out on this. Too many Canadians want to believe racism isn’t a problem here, when it absolutely is.

Dylan Robertson @withfilesfrom.bsky.social · 13h

Senator Amina Gerba was sterilized without her consent at a Montreal hospital. @amy61.bsky.social hopes her story can advance a broader reckoning on systemic racism.

"I didn't want to talk about it at all. But it was too hard to keep quiet," she says. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/senat...

Senator says she was never told her 2005 surgery would leave her sterile

OTTAWA - A Quebec senator says she was never told by her doctor that a surgical procedure she went through in 2005 would render her unable to have children, and

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Dylan Robertson @withfilesfrom.bsky.social · 13h

Senator Amina Gerba was sterilized without her consent at a Montreal hospital. @amy61.bsky.social hopes her story can advance a broader reckoning on systemic racism.

"I didn't want to talk about it at all. But it was too hard to keep quiet," she says. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/senat...

Senator says she was never told her 2005 surgery would leave her sterile

OTTAWA - A Quebec senator says she was never told by her doctor that a surgical procedure she went through in 2005 would render her unable to have children, and

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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