Random Human
@anotherben.bsky.social
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Random Human
@anotherben.bsky.social
· May 23
Oh hey there. :)
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I knew the "urbanists just don't understand that not everyone can ride a bike!" people were acting in bad faith but it's wild having them still saying it to me when I'm like "yeah, it literally me - my chronic illness causes fatigue and unpredictable dizziness. I still want bike lanes."
February 18, 2026 at 2:08 AM
I knew the "urbanists just don't understand that not everyone can ride a bike!" people were acting in bad faith but it's wild having them still saying it to me when I'm like "yeah, it literally me - my chronic illness causes fatigue and unpredictable dizziness. I still want bike lanes."
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4 corporations. $315B in profits. Just 4.9% in federal taxes. Tesla paid $0.
With Trump’s billionaire tax cuts Amazon, Alphabet, Meta & Tesla got $51B in cuts in ONE year.
At the original 35% rate, they’d owe ~$110B. Free public college costs ~$75B.
45M students drown in debt so 4 corps cash in 🇺🇸
With Trump’s billionaire tax cuts Amazon, Alphabet, Meta & Tesla got $51B in cuts in ONE year.
At the original 35% rate, they’d owe ~$110B. Free public college costs ~$75B.
45M students drown in debt so 4 corps cash in 🇺🇸
February 18, 2026 at 5:50 PM
4 corporations. $315B in profits. Just 4.9% in federal taxes. Tesla paid $0.
With Trump’s billionaire tax cuts Amazon, Alphabet, Meta & Tesla got $51B in cuts in ONE year.
At the original 35% rate, they’d owe ~$110B. Free public college costs ~$75B.
45M students drown in debt so 4 corps cash in 🇺🇸
With Trump’s billionaire tax cuts Amazon, Alphabet, Meta & Tesla got $51B in cuts in ONE year.
At the original 35% rate, they’d owe ~$110B. Free public college costs ~$75B.
45M students drown in debt so 4 corps cash in 🇺🇸
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
February 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
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FBI once again (!) confirming, in public, that they plan to make being transgender a federal crime - and it's crickets at best from the Democrats and the media.
Kash Patel: "We looked at the facts and the evidence. We saw a stream of violence related to transgender ideology that led to unfortunate deaths and assassinations, and we took action."
February 18, 2026 at 5:17 PM
FBI once again (!) confirming, in public, that they plan to make being transgender a federal crime - and it's crickets at best from the Democrats and the media.
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It’s not especially hyperbolic to note that perhaps the single worst way to succeed as the head of any organization is to tell your staff only to tell you what you want to hear.
Kash Patel: "You know why it's called the President's Daily Briefing? Because the president decides what are the intel priorities in that briefing."
February 18, 2026 at 5:09 PM
It’s not especially hyperbolic to note that perhaps the single worst way to succeed as the head of any organization is to tell your staff only to tell you what you want to hear.
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Make her name synonymous with Epstein’s. We have the power.
February 18, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Make her name synonymous with Epstein’s. We have the power.
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I know this is sadly not how anything works, but I would love to live in a world where dumb shit like this gets you and your party ostracized from public life - not even for ideological reasons, but purely because no one with even a modicum of self-respect should tolerate such idiotic nonsense.
Sen. Mike Rounds makes the case for voter ID: "Look, I can't even buy a Coors Light without showing my ID"
February 18, 2026 at 4:05 PM
I know this is sadly not how anything works, but I would love to live in a world where dumb shit like this gets you and your party ostracized from public life - not even for ideological reasons, but purely because no one with even a modicum of self-respect should tolerate such idiotic nonsense.
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lmfao what a hilariously unnecessary lie
February 18, 2026 at 6:02 AM
lmfao what a hilariously unnecessary lie
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Here's a headache.
I cannot take anyone seriously about defunding ICE, while they only mention the murders of Pretti and Good as their reasoning.
Let's not forget about Keith Porter Jr., or the countless migrants in that body count.
You're only upset because minorities aren't the only bodies.
I cannot take anyone seriously about defunding ICE, while they only mention the murders of Pretti and Good as their reasoning.
Let's not forget about Keith Porter Jr., or the countless migrants in that body count.
You're only upset because minorities aren't the only bodies.
February 15, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Here's a headache.
I cannot take anyone seriously about defunding ICE, while they only mention the murders of Pretti and Good as their reasoning.
Let's not forget about Keith Porter Jr., or the countless migrants in that body count.
You're only upset because minorities aren't the only bodies.
I cannot take anyone seriously about defunding ICE, while they only mention the murders of Pretti and Good as their reasoning.
Let's not forget about Keith Porter Jr., or the countless migrants in that body count.
You're only upset because minorities aren't the only bodies.
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This is a subtle point but I’ll try it out as a “yes, and”: What Minnesota (not just Minneapolis) showed us is even bigger than “love your neighbor,” because in Minnesota, “neighbor” is a more expansive category than proximity. It’s anyone who needs help.
My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
February 16, 2026 at 11:12 PM
This is a subtle point but I’ll try it out as a “yes, and”: What Minnesota (not just Minneapolis) showed us is even bigger than “love your neighbor,” because in Minnesota, “neighbor” is a more expansive category than proximity. It’s anyone who needs help.
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i don't really have ill will toward anyone trying to find interesting things you can do with new technologies, but it becomes a bit much when you start moralizing my lack of interest in something that empirically animates certain politics i dislike, and only speculatively enables other ones i like.
February 17, 2026 at 5:32 PM
i don't really have ill will toward anyone trying to find interesting things you can do with new technologies, but it becomes a bit much when you start moralizing my lack of interest in something that empirically animates certain politics i dislike, and only speculatively enables other ones i like.
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ICE is bad. Deportation is bad. Immigration restriction is almost always bad. Armed masked men going into homes without warrants is so obviously villainous that the fact anyone approves it is a stain that will haunt even generous histories of our nation ever after.
I am anti-ICE.
I am anti-ICE.
Also, here's a gift link to the article about the administration's social media investigations, and the image with alt text included.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM
ICE is bad. Deportation is bad. Immigration restriction is almost always bad. Armed masked men going into homes without warrants is so obviously villainous that the fact anyone approves it is a stain that will haunt even generous histories of our nation ever after.
I am anti-ICE.
I am anti-ICE.
Jesus fuck can we just cage up the technocrats yet?
It's chilling how often this is the new norm in abusive relationships
February 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Jesus fuck can we just cage up the technocrats yet?
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mid-2024 ChatGPT model, huh
It's chilling how often this is the new norm in abusive relationships
February 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
mid-2024 ChatGPT model, huh
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Another Norm Nation update, sent another $670 in NN funds to @nateobermiller.bsky.social, who is helping a family stay housed in Columbia Heights (the city where little Liam was kidnapped from). Appreciate all the work my local friends are doing to protect our neighbors and all of your generosity.
February 16, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Another Norm Nation update, sent another $670 in NN funds to @nateobermiller.bsky.social, who is helping a family stay housed in Columbia Heights (the city where little Liam was kidnapped from). Appreciate all the work my local friends are doing to protect our neighbors and all of your generosity.
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This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it
this RAM crisis feels like it’s going to ruin consumer electronics over the next decade. Bloomberg reports that Sony is considering pushing the PS6 release to 2028 or even 2029 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
February 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it
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I’m nearly certain Polymarket will be how all of us find out. As many people as possible will place huge bets on it being that day as they try to beat the news, no matter how much they internally demand secrecy.
February 16, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I’m nearly certain Polymarket will be how all of us find out. As many people as possible will place huge bets on it being that day as they try to beat the news, no matter how much they internally demand secrecy.
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I don't mean to kink shame but yelling that Gavin Newsom deserves all our support in 2028 is public masturbation as a self-soothing mechanism to avoid confronting Trump's attempts to subvert the entire electoral process here, now, in 2026
February 16, 2026 at 5:19 PM
I don't mean to kink shame but yelling that Gavin Newsom deserves all our support in 2028 is public masturbation as a self-soothing mechanism to avoid confronting Trump's attempts to subvert the entire electoral process here, now, in 2026
Josh Johnson is a national treasure.
Josh Johnson destroying Elon Musk for begging Epstein to come to the pedo island is the funniest shit I’ve seen this morning.
February 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Josh Johnson is a national treasure.
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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
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Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.
The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb
February 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.
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ICE doesn't ever "leave" any state. There will continue to be ICE and CBP enforcement actions as there were during previous presidents. Hillary Clinton was saying this in her remarks. She doesn't like the visible violence but she is fine with "regular" violence.
February 16, 2026 at 5:23 PM
ICE doesn't ever "leave" any state. There will continue to be ICE and CBP enforcement actions as there were during previous presidents. Hillary Clinton was saying this in her remarks. She doesn't like the visible violence but she is fine with "regular" violence.
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This is why you keep whatever parts of the Federal government shut down that you can. They are actively working hard to make life worse for Americans. That's the entire goal. You Nazi enablers with a D next to your name already gave them my tax money to build camps in November. Not another dime.
The Trump administration has formally denied Minnesota law enforcement access to information and evidence from the FBI investigation into the shooting death of Alex Pretti by federal agents on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis.
Trump administration formally denies Minnesota investigators access to evidence in Alex Pretti shooting
Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota BCA, said the FBI has formally denied his agency access to evidence and information from the killing of Pretti at the hands of federal officers.
www.startribune.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:40 PM
This is why you keep whatever parts of the Federal government shut down that you can. They are actively working hard to make life worse for Americans. That's the entire goal. You Nazi enablers with a D next to your name already gave them my tax money to build camps in November. Not another dime.