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Ben Can't

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🟪 MBMBaM Wizard Emeritus 🟦 they/he 🟩 ace trans Jew 🟨 Long COVIDer 🟧 wear ur fucking mask 🟥 benkantt.com

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · Nov 16

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Hi I'm Ben. Once upon a time I was a niche internet microcelebrity for sending Yahoos into MBMBaM and earning the nickname "The Wizard"

I'm an ace trans Jew with a wonderful spouse and two precious cats

I post a lot about Baltimore and maybe one day I'll make art again and post it

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🎃 Harm City Slasher 🔪 @sprawlhater.bsky.social · 6h

There is a Dawn soap commercial now that uses two little ducklings making punny commentary about how well Dawn cleans grease off of cookware and I am just wondering if the Procter & Gamble marketing department gave even one second of thought to the association between ducks, grease, and dish soap is

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 3d

I'm raising for my friend who lived down the street from us at our old place. She's been in a shitty living situation for a while now and I'm hoping this will finally be able to help her have a fresh start!

Our neighbor needs your help! Miss Debra is a disabled Black elder who is hoping to move to North $ Carolina to be with her extended family. But first, she needs our help!
We need to raise $4,200 to help her pay her remaining bills before she can leave. Any extra will go towards her moving expenses. V3nmo: @BeKa211. Include "Miss Debra" in the memo

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 17h

The only reason this isn’t considered trafficking via fraud is because crime is something poor people do

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 19h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 1d

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 7h

Do not be easily wooed by the prospect of easily weeding the people doing this from our society and a quick recovery.

In many quarters, undoing this and making it harder for it to happen again will be the rest of our lives.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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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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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 19d

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2d

Just flown in from Riyadh, and boy are my excuses tired

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 2d

Every time Judaism becomes a national topic -- which seems to be every day -- it's like a free-for-all of gentiles confidently being publicly wrong about us.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 2d

Realizing why the vibes of the frog man pictures have felt familiar — its this old meme with stakes

Bane and Filthy frank (in pink spandex) facing off, arms spread

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 2d

The girls were actually touching yesterday!

A dilute tortie cat and a grey cat with a white nose, both asleep in loaf form. The grey cat is behind the tortie and her head is nearly touching the tortie's butt

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 2d

is this same @alsobrooks.senate.gov who was a grand marshall at this year's 50th anniversary Baltimore pride parade for some reason?

Dave Cooper @davecooperphoto.bsky.social · 2d

I will remember that @alsobrooks.senate.gov voted against the rights of trans people. Do we have a JK Rowling-sycophant representing Maryland, or simply an opportunist who thinks of civil rights of trans people as negotiable. Shame on you, Angie.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. Last night, 26 Senate Dems helped pass a NDAA containing a military trans sports and surgery ban and dropped demands for protections against US troop deployments in the bill.

It is the latest in the national fight over must-pass bills during the shutdown.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 2d

putting in 70 hours a week and i'm still at the bottom of the escaping samsara leaderboards, what the fuck

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 2d

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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misspooki 🎃🦇 @misstsuki.bsky.social · 2d

No joke at the work function with older conservatives I got to bring this up and even got one of them to chime in and he called it propaganda to say the whole city is ravaged and I was floored. It really does help to have completely non threatening evidence to the contrary of their claim

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 2d

agree asking for Trump's help is not the best idea but she clearly did that. Also, stop calling him Hitler, there so many better nicknames for him, like Agolf Shitler, Epstien's BFF, Cheeto Benito, etc.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

nobel peace prize goes to Trump’s little extrajudical murder supporting friend

What a pack of fucking loser weirdos that panel is

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V's @onlyfronds.me · Jun 22

Hi, quick TL;DR: My name is Victoria, I'm a black trans woman in my mid thirties, and my heart is failing. I have months of testing to go while they figure out a safe treatment option with as few complications as possible, but eventually I'll be having heart surgery.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-mo...

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 2d

this needs to happen more regularly.

famous, and rich, ppl need to be told they can't buy their way out of things.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · Apr 4

Bleh.

Anyways.

Another sketchbook comic. 4 panels

P1: title panel. FORK + FROG. beside each word, a lil fork and a lil frog

P2: The fork and frog begin to magically combine into--

P3: FORG. The frog just has the fork strapped to their back

P4: Forg stands in front of a raging fire, backlit and facing us.

In all lower case the text "burn it all down"

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