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Ian Potter

@ianzpotter.bsky.social

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore.
It happens a lot 'round here.

November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM

Pete Martin

@petemartin.net

If you need a doctor immediately, call the nearest golf course.

(This might only be funny if everyone gets it.)

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 28d

Cease the means of prescription

October 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM

Pete Martin

@petemartin.net

Bluesky should really be banning all those government accounts that turned up and gleefully posted the video of the murder of fishermen.

October 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM

Pete Martin

@petemartin.net

Whoever it was who first decided that stovetop controls should be a touch sensitive control panel, I wish upon them a lifetime of hearing low battery smoke detectors no matter where they are.

October 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM

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Katharine Kit Kerr

@kitkerr.bsky.social

October 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM

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Jesse

@requiemarm.bsky.social

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 · Oct 12

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.

October 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM

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Andrew Blum

@ablum.bsky.social

I was in a meeting in DC once where NGOs were getting lectured by a colonel on how they could be doing better in Afghanistan. One of the NGO leaders said yes we could be doing many things better if we had a budget of $300 million per day.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · Oct 10

is the secret "have millions of dollars in soft money from gullible far right billionaires" because the secret to his organizing might have been a Scrooge McDuck pile of $

flux.community @flux.community · Oct 10

Charlie Kirk was a religious extremist and an advocate for mass censorship of academics he hated.

But as a political organizer and creator of opportunities for his comrades, there's much that can be learned from what he did. @matthewboedy.bsky.social discusses on the latest Theory of Change

October 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM

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Civil Society

@civilsociety.bsky.social

The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) has stopped funding US projects because it is no longer confident in its understanding of the policy environment