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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3h

a few weeks ago i lightly pushed back on a fashion thing he said and he responded by disagreeing politely instead of getting me fired and/or forcing me into witness protection. felt walking away from a brush with death. thrilling.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4h

when portland starts dipping into the strategic nudity reserves.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 8h

i’m not saying i’d put money on it but i do think it’s possible that CBS’ bet on bari weiss plays out in a way that ends up being financially very good for CBS and in all other ways very bad for the institution of journalism.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 9h

just a nauseating amount of entitlement. “we didn’t sufficiently convince you to give us a more enthusiastic endorsement, and that is your fault.”

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 10h

who do we think bears more responsibility: the 27-year-old pop star (who did vote for Harris) or the senior administration official dunking on her

Neera Tanden: There was something to do to avoid this 11 months ago. Would have been good to tell people to do it.

"F**k ICE forever."
— Chappell Roan at her show in Pasadena

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ceej @ceej.online · 14h

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

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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Nice to meet you. @ahuihou.org · 14h

Patrick Alk, a photographer who has told RTL radio the cavern's discovery was "a shame, but not the end of the world". There were "a dozen more where that one came from," he said.

"You guys have no idea what's down there."

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15h

In a secret Paris cavern, the real underground cinema

Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement.

www.theguardian.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15h

or the time doctor strange finally got through to thanos with the most powerful force of all

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15h

i only know as much as anyone else! it was in the works, DC got spooked and pulled the plug, and everyone walked out in protest. glad it’s finally seeing the light of day and can’t wait to check it out.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15h

this is all rhyming with a very, very dark part of history.

"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, 'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 23h

AI could never invent the Bruce Springsteen ska version of the Monster Mash. This requires human creativity to sing.

timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 23h

I'm hyperventilating www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOoz...

Monster Mash - Bruce Springsteen - Rochester, Oct. 31, 2012

YouTube video by BlackLabProductions

www.youtube.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

can’t really wrap my head around this

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

get in losers we're repenting

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 1d

Liberation theology in the USA. More please.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

Amen

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

i’m not a gamer but my understanding is that there are more porn games out there than anyone could hope to play in one lifetime. no need to bring the waifuification of your whole sexual appetite into this.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

same guys who whine about “historical accuracy” when they see, like, a Black jedi.

AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 2d

P_rn brain rot.

When everything isn't design to make his peepee feel funny.

mrphillipchan @mrphillipchan

X.com

If Ghost of Yotei made Atsu look like this, the game woulda sold a million copies by now

Designed With Gamers In Mind

Designed With Activists In Mind

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

sure did. great stuff. definitely loses its way for a while in some of the later seasons, but i thought it all wrapped up beautifully.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

some beautiful moments in here

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

the theory i’ve heard is that something shifted when trump passed on endorsing her senate run. not sure whether that means her older stuff was just cynical maga-baiting or this new stuff is cynical anti-trump posturing. not revising my opinion of her either way.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

this utter maniac flanking establishment dems from the morally righteous side of history is just embarrassing.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

stick figure meme where a guy in a group of people minding their own business gives a big thumbs up to a separate, lone, stick figure person who is intruding on the group

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

was about to call mom and tell her i loved her until i hit the fifteenth word lol

NPR @npr.org · 2d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

n.pr

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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 2d

"Peter Thiel Gave Me $200 At The Antichrist Lecture" sounds like a Mountain Goats song.

screenshot of tweet from Talha Khan reading "Peter Thiel gave me $200 at the Antichrist Lecture LOOL" with a photo of Khan next to Thiel. Khan is holding 1 one hundred dolar bill.

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