A. Lee Bennett Jr.
@albj.net
I apply powdered dinosaur fossils onto dead trees for a living.
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Serving notice:
Effective immediately I am suspending posting new content to this platform. While I can’t really object to ICE’s right to create an account here, I can object to Bluesky legitimizing its presence by explicitly verifying the profile.
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Effective immediately I am suspending posting new content to this platform. While I can’t really object to ICE’s right to create an account here, I can object to Bluesky legitimizing its presence by explicitly verifying the profile.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Serving notice:
Effective immediately I am suspending posting new content to this platform. While I can’t really object to ICE’s right to create an account here, I can object to Bluesky legitimizing its presence by explicitly verifying the profile.
(1of3)
Effective immediately I am suspending posting new content to this platform. While I can’t really object to ICE’s right to create an account here, I can object to Bluesky legitimizing its presence by explicitly verifying the profile.
(1of3)
January 19, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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The man's brain is pudding. Why is he still in charge of anything??
January 19, 2026 at 1:05 PM
The man's brain is pudding. Why is he still in charge of anything??
Chili cheese baked potato—a great choice for a drizzly gray gloomy windy day
#food #meal #potato #chili #cheese #delicious
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#food #meal #potato #chili #cheese #delicious
flic.kr/p/2rSpjky
January 18, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Chili cheese baked potato—a great choice for a drizzly gray gloomy windy day
#food #meal #potato #chili #cheese #delicious
flic.kr/p/2rSpjky
#food #meal #potato #chili #cheese #delicious
flic.kr/p/2rSpjky
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To the developers of the web portal I use for print order submissions and billing…
THANK YOU for having the foresight to program automatic rejection of a command to digitally shred credit card info…
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#TalesFromThePrintShop
THANK YOU for having the foresight to program automatic rejection of a command to digitally shred credit card info…
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#TalesFromThePrintShop
January 15, 2026 at 2:28 PM
To the developers of the web portal I use for print order submissions and billing…
THANK YOU for having the foresight to program automatic rejection of a command to digitally shred credit card info…
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#TalesFromThePrintShop
THANK YOU for having the foresight to program automatic rejection of a command to digitally shred credit card info…
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#TalesFromThePrintShop
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Babylon 5, but there are no Shadows, and it's just religious fanatics, grifters, racists/xenophobes, and psychotic billionaires all the way to Z'ha'dum.
You know, I loved Babylon 5 a lot, but I actually didn't expect it to be somewhat directly relevant to a political situation in my country in my lifetime.
January 12, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Babylon 5, but there are no Shadows, and it's just religious fanatics, grifters, racists/xenophobes, and psychotic billionaires all the way to Z'ha'dum.
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"organized gangs of wine moms us[ing] Antifa tactics" should be a genre
this could be the next heated rivalry
this could be the next heated rivalry
January 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
"organized gangs of wine moms us[ing] Antifa tactics" should be a genre
this could be the next heated rivalry
this could be the next heated rivalry
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When Vance insists, contra the videos, that Good threatened the ICE agent and "had it coming", what he means is that he, like Ross, feels threatened by any woman who has the audacity to use her voice in the public sphere.
This deeply misogynist worldview is core to MAGA.
This deeply misogynist worldview is core to MAGA.
January 9, 2026 at 8:06 PM
When Vance insists, contra the videos, that Good threatened the ICE agent and "had it coming", what he means is that he, like Ross, feels threatened by any woman who has the audacity to use her voice in the public sphere.
This deeply misogynist worldview is core to MAGA.
This deeply misogynist worldview is core to MAGA.
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And this is an accurate statement, not an exaggeration. All of the parts of that tweet are not only technically accurate at every level, it is a meaningfully accurate description. Straightforwardly true. And so many would laugh in your face for saying it
I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.
January 8, 2026 at 12:30 AM
And this is an accurate statement, not an exaggeration. All of the parts of that tweet are not only technically accurate at every level, it is a meaningfully accurate description. Straightforwardly true. And so many would laugh in your face for saying it
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ICE is a domestic terrorist organization that has invaded our cities, assaulted immigrants & thrown our neighbors into concentration camps.
ICE executed Renee Nicole Good in broad daylight. Any legislator who doesn’t immediately move to abolish ICE is a traitor who sold out their country to fascism
ICE executed Renee Nicole Good in broad daylight. Any legislator who doesn’t immediately move to abolish ICE is a traitor who sold out their country to fascism
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
ICE is a domestic terrorist organization that has invaded our cities, assaulted immigrants & thrown our neighbors into concentration camps.
ICE executed Renee Nicole Good in broad daylight. Any legislator who doesn’t immediately move to abolish ICE is a traitor who sold out their country to fascism
ICE executed Renee Nicole Good in broad daylight. Any legislator who doesn’t immediately move to abolish ICE is a traitor who sold out their country to fascism
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Republicans are Nazis. It’s a mirror. It’s the same thing.
Republican officials are Nazi officials. Republican leaders are Nazi leaders. Republican propagandists are Nazi propagandists. Republican party members are Nazi party members.
Republicans are Nazis.
Republican officials are Nazi officials. Republican leaders are Nazi leaders. Republican propagandists are Nazi propagandists. Republican party members are Nazi party members.
Republicans are Nazis.
January 7, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Republicans are Nazis. It’s a mirror. It’s the same thing.
Republican officials are Nazi officials. Republican leaders are Nazi leaders. Republican propagandists are Nazi propagandists. Republican party members are Nazi party members.
Republicans are Nazis.
Republican officials are Nazi officials. Republican leaders are Nazi leaders. Republican propagandists are Nazi propagandists. Republican party members are Nazi party members.
Republicans are Nazis.
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Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.
January 7, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.
Free lunch courtesy of @chickfila.bsky.social rewards: (1) sufficient points for spicy chicken sandwich, (2) medium waffle fry reward drop, (3) milkshake reward drop, and (4) sweet front counter worker who didn't want to bother collecting 32¢ for the pepperjack cheese I added to my sandwich order!
January 8, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Free lunch courtesy of @chickfila.bsky.social rewards: (1) sufficient points for spicy chicken sandwich, (2) medium waffle fry reward drop, (3) milkshake reward drop, and (4) sweet front counter worker who didn't want to bother collecting 32¢ for the pepperjack cheese I added to my sandwich order!
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Unless I'm missing something, and I'm pretty sure I'm not, Twitter's AI is cranking out CSAM deepfakes, Elon Musk is making jokes about it, and nobody is doing anything to stop it or hold anyone at Twitter accountable for its creation and distribution.
Is that right?
Is that right?
January 2, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Unless I'm missing something, and I'm pretty sure I'm not, Twitter's AI is cranking out CSAM deepfakes, Elon Musk is making jokes about it, and nobody is doing anything to stop it or hold anyone at Twitter accountable for its creation and distribution.
Is that right?
Is that right?
January 2, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing
December 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing
December 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
December 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The thing is:
They CAN do these things. There's literally nothing stopping them from doing it.
Congress would have to protest, and they won't. States will have to sue, and they will have to fight for YEARS to get their due.
The laws say one thing while behavior says another.
They CAN do these things. There's literally nothing stopping them from doing it.
Congress would have to protest, and they won't. States will have to sue, and they will have to fight for YEARS to get their due.
The laws say one thing while behavior says another.
1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The thing is:
They CAN do these things. There's literally nothing stopping them from doing it.
Congress would have to protest, and they won't. States will have to sue, and they will have to fight for YEARS to get their due.
The laws say one thing while behavior says another.
They CAN do these things. There's literally nothing stopping them from doing it.
Congress would have to protest, and they won't. States will have to sue, and they will have to fight for YEARS to get their due.
The laws say one thing while behavior says another.
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I love The Verge
December 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I love The Verge
’Tis the season for coworkers’ holiday out-of-office e-mail autoresponders suggesting I e-mail XYZ other worker for urgent assistance, all of whom are *also* out for the holiday.
December 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
’Tis the season for coworkers’ holiday out-of-office e-mail autoresponders suggesting I e-mail XYZ other worker for urgent assistance, all of whom are *also* out for the holiday.
Well I might have been curious to read this but WSJ (et al) straight up lies. It’s not a gift article if you have to sign up for an account to read it.
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Well I might have been curious to read this but WSJ (et al) straight up lies. It’s not a gift article if you have to sign up for an account to read it.
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Whew, a word: “This is about a sort of learned helplessness that has somehow become socially acceptable, even quirky and endearing in some circles — a professional skill gap that wouldn’t be tolerated in any other field.”
“Imagine a carpenter who couldn’t figure out how to adjust their table saw, or a surgeon who shrugged and said something like, “I’m just not a scalpel person.” We would never accept that.“
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/plea...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/plea...
Please learn how to use your computer
"The number of professionals in journalism, media, communications, and academia who still don't understand how to use the very tools they depend on for their livelihood is, frankly, staggering."
www.niemanlab.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Whew, a word: “This is about a sort of learned helplessness that has somehow become socially acceptable, even quirky and endearing in some circles — a professional skill gap that wouldn’t be tolerated in any other field.”