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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy

@venomlance.bsky.social

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Don’t talk to me about the news Former Lance Tedford, current car writer for SlashGear, Baltimore-adjacent

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · Jan 22

I think this is my favorite review I've written www.slashgear.com/1649201/2024...

2024 Cadillac Escalade V-Series Review: Can A 682 Horsepower SUV Ever Make Sense? - SlashGear

Cadillac's Escalade is hardly shy, but in V-Series form it's a supercharged beast. With sports car power on tap, has any hope of practicality been left behind?

www.slashgear.com

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 6h

Sprite was disbarred

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 9h

Gary’s Anatomy

Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 10h

The Brisk Evening Weather Enjoyer

Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 13h

I’m late to the conversation, but the new Superman movie is good. I might be in the minority as I liked the Henry Cavill-era Superman, but the new guy is much better. He’s a lot dorkier which fits Clark Kent very well.

Mr. Terrific and Krypto were excellent as well.

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 18h

Outside of scholarly or strict non-fiction works, grammar is merely a guideline and made-up words are good.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me some good news

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 19h

turns out, not having everything terrible about the internet beamed directly into you brain before bed helps you sleep better. Who knew?!?

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Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social · 20h

he did it

Screenshot of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire showing a pink hall of fame screen at the end of the game with a single Wooper and text saying “Welcome to the HALL OF FAME!”

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 1d

Hogwars Legacy

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 16d

a few small beers

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 1d

Crist of Fur Column-buss

Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 1d

Just because I proclaimed my love for the Plymouth Prowler in the SlashGear Slack, that doesn't mean I'm not still a good person.

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 1d

Davis is 12 years old. Sometimes he looks much younger and other times he looks like he’s 150 years old. I think it depends on lighting and his mood.

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 2d

I’m a journalist by trade. I am awful on camera and I will never be good on camera. That is a promise.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

It's a sign of how many people (and journalists) live inside a media-created alternate reality that skill in the style of televised public performance associated with Hollywood actors is considered equivalent to 'authenticity'

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

This is an obsession of mine - a huge pathology of the press is coverage suggesting that politicians who are less skilled performers are somehow less "authentic"

Me on Romney coverage in CJR: www.cjr.org/united_state...

Me on Hillary Clinton coverage in The Upshot:
www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/u...

Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 2d

Eading Luntch After Churtch

Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 2d

Mysterious Giant Creature Caught On Camera

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 2d

3D printer filament and Warhammer 40K models. Strangely enough, for unrelated reasons

Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 2d

Right. It’s not personal. It’s a usable framework for them.

Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 2d

Jordan Peterson is too Joe Rogan PseudoAcademia-brained to be able to relate anything that Christianity teaches to anything outside of his Perpetual Culture Warfare Everyone is My Ontological Enemy Brain.

Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 2d

Like Thiel can’t think of anything greater than himself, so he turns apocalyptic literature about the Antichrist into a personal vendetta/mission instead of a larger message to the global Church about false teaching.

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Thiel and Jordan Peterson are thoroughly bizarre to me. They clearly found something that’s calling to them in Christianity, but they both have such a warped (mis)understanding of what Christianity actually is, that they turn “it’s not about you” into “it’s all about you”

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 2d

My man is trying to find Theological meaning in edgelord comics and a manga about a goofy pirate boy with stretchy arms.

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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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 3d

I would rather slam my hand in a car door for 40 seconds than listen to this!

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

I think this is the most cursed social media post I have ever seen.

Tweet from Dinesh D'Souza: "I asked Bibi Netanyahu—the Jewish head of a Jewish state—to comment on the most famous Jew of all time, Jesus Christ."

Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 3d

I'm a Millennial and I only just recognize the names