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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1h

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2h

Their example of @eliferalp.bsky.social being "polarizing" is a quote with which we already know a supermajority of Berliners agree. So.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2h

In which the Tagesspiegel announces the methods by which it will attempt to reelect Kai Wegner and the CDU

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 13h

“Another Berlin is possible. A Berlin where we make sure life is affordable for everyone and giant real estate companies don’t decide how our city changes.”

From the video: “People like you and me aren’t supposed to be Mayor.”

eliferalp.bsky.social @eliferalp.bsky.social · 16h

Ich bin überzeugt:
Ein anderes Berlin ist möglich.

Ein Zuhause, in dem wir uns unterhaken, das Leben für alle bezahlbar ist und nicht große Immobilienkonzerne darüber entscheiden, wie sich unsere Stadt entwickelt. Dafür trete ich an und danke meiner Partei für das Vertrauen.

Die Linke Berlin @dielinkeberlin.bsky.social · 17h

Elif Eralp ist die beste Kandidatin für Berlin. Mutig, entschlossen und Anwältin all derer, die den Laden hier am Laufen halten. Mit @eliferalp.bsky.social nehmen wir den Kampf um diese Stadt auf. Wir kämpfen dafür, dass alle Menschen ein sicheres Zuhause haben und Berlin wieder bezahlbar wird.

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eliferalp.bsky.social @eliferalp.bsky.social · 16h

Ich bin überzeugt:
Ein anderes Berlin ist möglich.

Ein Zuhause, in dem wir uns unterhaken, das Leben für alle bezahlbar ist und nicht große Immobilienkonzerne darüber entscheiden, wie sich unsere Stadt entwickelt. Dafür trete ich an und danke meiner Partei für das Vertrauen.

Die Linke Berlin @dielinkeberlin.bsky.social · 17h

Elif Eralp ist die beste Kandidatin für Berlin. Mutig, entschlossen und Anwältin all derer, die den Laden hier am Laufen halten. Mit @eliferalp.bsky.social nehmen wir den Kampf um diese Stadt auf. Wir kämpfen dafür, dass alle Menschen ein sicheres Zuhause haben und Berlin wieder bezahlbar wird.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 14h

Introducing the next Mayor of Berlin, @eliferalp.bsky.social: elif-fuer-berlin.de/

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 18h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 23h

me at the gay bar when a mean twink invites me to say something mean about his ex

Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 23h

Ok that’s nice but probably still not gonna read him

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

Berlin is the world capital of gay guys who are Spanish, but also somehow Lebanese? And approximately 5’9” tall, with one earring and a beard, and a single geometric tattoo. Named Javi;

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning to this spectacular document of one part of the 60s desperately trying, and failing, to understand and incorporate the other part youtu.be/ng2Ls4OA2k4?...

Debbie Reynolds - If I Had A Hammer

YouTube video by Tuggle

youtu.be

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1d

another data point of a Dem MORE popular on trans issues than they are in the abstract. As with abortion, the theory of a socially conservative electorate before whom libs must cringe is simply not borne out in general.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

5. The CNU poll shows Spanberger with a commanding +10 lead in the governor’s race. When asked which candidate would better handle transgender issues, voters sided with Spanberger over Earle-Sears by a 50–37 margin, giving Spanberger a whopping +13 advantage.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

In 2005, Elizabeth shared a special moment with a unique star, Bonkers the Bear.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

The names of all the children that are known, with many more likely buried under the rubble. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

Forthcoming.....

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

Gay Studies, Queer History, Queer Theory (They/She)

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

I can flee to the axis between my office and Virgil's studio

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

we lack the vocabulary for what we are doing to our brains

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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 2d

Interview, in which Jutta Ditfurth Imagines herself as victim of "jew haters", remakes the term "blue blood" as "racism against aristocrats" (herself), and the interviewers write querfront as "queerfront".

Idk if thats misspelled

Its all deranged German genocidal consensus

BDS antisemites want to beat me up. At my last event in Berlin-Kreuzberg, I needed protection from Jew Haters in the hall and to get to my accommodation safely.

OnCurating: How did the legal dispute with Mr. Elsässer come about? Regarding the antisemitic Queerfront, with which speakers did he appear?

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Never, ever Newsom. Fuck that guy.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

updates from the free speech movement

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 2d

Broke: blaming institutions
Woke: blaming individuals
Bespoke: blaming disabled people's means of staying alive

Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 2d

Well there are 1.6 billion cars in the world, so the impact of your asthma inhaler is…not remotely statistically relevant

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

everyone is 12 now theory

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

gayguys rock

Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 4d

Overheard, large muscled man to impossibly tiny longhaired dachshund: “Please shit, princess.”

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 2d

This is something I wish my AI-cheerleading colleagues in archives and libraries fully understood: all the work we've done in the past 25+ years, all of it, is now actively being used to putting us out of business in the most dire fashion imaginable by the wealthiest people on the planet

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 2d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 3d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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