Benson Flinn
@bensonflinn.bsky.social
He/Him
interested in politics, history, personal sustainability, chickens, gardening and video games. My kingdom for a small electric pickup truck
interested in politics, history, personal sustainability, chickens, gardening and video games. My kingdom for a small electric pickup truck
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this is true and stancil shouldnt be banned, but I think you should also have trepidation about feeding somebody to the Justice machine while you yourself are saying they are becoming a fascist police state in your town. this is dumb but there have been many dumb 21-year-olds throughout history
February 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
this is true and stancil shouldnt be banned, but I think you should also have trepidation about feeding somebody to the Justice machine while you yourself are saying they are becoming a fascist police state in your town. this is dumb but there have been many dumb 21-year-olds throughout history
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You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
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January 30, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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There's always another secret. Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive are headed to Apple TV.
#Mistborn #TheStormlightArchive
#Mistborn #TheStormlightArchive
Apple TV Acquires Adaptation Rights to Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive - Reactor
Sanderson will reportedly retain creative control over the adaptations
reactormag.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:45 PM
There's always another secret. Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive are headed to Apple TV.
#Mistborn #TheStormlightArchive
#Mistborn #TheStormlightArchive
the james will always be one of my favorite places
January 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM
the james will always be one of my favorite places
animal well then, animal well now
Quote this with your favourite game from 2024, and whether that's changed from what you would have said a year ago
Localisations/early access/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations/early access/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
January 9, 2026 at 4:46 PM
animal well then, animal well now
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Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Berniecrat outcomes through Warrenite means
January 2, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Berniecrat outcomes through Warrenite means
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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3. Leadership is about doing what is necessary, not just what is popular. Read literally anything our founders wrote about virtue, and the inherent risks to a society based on democratic processes to sustain the rule of law to the extent that unvirtuous people gain power.
December 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
3. Leadership is about doing what is necessary, not just what is popular. Read literally anything our founders wrote about virtue, and the inherent risks to a society based on democratic processes to sustain the rule of law to the extent that unvirtuous people gain power.
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If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
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relatedly it's probably worth reminding people online that it is A-OK to simply not like someone - to find their personality and/or opinions grating - and not Do Theory about it
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
relatedly it's probably worth reminding people online that it is A-OK to simply not like someone - to find their personality and/or opinions grating - and not Do Theory about it
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Hey look! The inevitable sense of impending catastrophe! My favorite!
October 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Hey look! The inevitable sense of impending catastrophe! My favorite!
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Can I interest you in converting to Star Wars Protestantism? We only acknowledge a canon of the original trilogy, Rogue One, Andor, the Zahn Trilogy, the Dark Horse comics, the 90s Lucasarts games, the West End roleplaying game, and the "Tales from..." anthologies.
September 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Can I interest you in converting to Star Wars Protestantism? We only acknowledge a canon of the original trilogy, Rogue One, Andor, the Zahn Trilogy, the Dark Horse comics, the 90s Lucasarts games, the West End roleplaying game, and the "Tales from..." anthologies.
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Bill’s exactly right. 99.9% of climate denial is solution aversion. They don’t want to fix it, but they know that saying “it’s real and serious but I don’t want to fix it” isn’t a great message. So they go with the smoke screen of science denial instead.
September 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Bill’s exactly right. 99.9% of climate denial is solution aversion. They don’t want to fix it, but they know that saying “it’s real and serious but I don’t want to fix it” isn’t a great message. So they go with the smoke screen of science denial instead.
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Interesting. I was told that both boats that had been struck down were verified to be carrying narcotics and had connections to criminal groups, but we couldn’t see any of the totally real evidence. Surely fishing would be perfectly safe under such conditions?
Vance on Trump's strikes on boats: "I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world."
September 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Interesting. I was told that both boats that had been struck down were verified to be carrying narcotics and had connections to criminal groups, but we couldn’t see any of the totally real evidence. Surely fishing would be perfectly safe under such conditions?
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great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
September 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
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a big reason companies are caving this hard is that they're banking on hunkering down for the next 3.5 years and then coasting by when the dust settles
Democrats need to make it very clear that there will be future consequences for defecting in this prisoner's dilemma
Democrats need to make it very clear that there will be future consequences for defecting in this prisoner's dilemma
September 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
a big reason companies are caving this hard is that they're banking on hunkering down for the next 3.5 years and then coasting by when the dust settles
Democrats need to make it very clear that there will be future consequences for defecting in this prisoner's dilemma
Democrats need to make it very clear that there will be future consequences for defecting in this prisoner's dilemma
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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i do not think ezra klein genuinely grieves for charlie kirk. i think ezra klein thinks it’s professionally advantageous to perform grief.
September 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
i do not think ezra klein genuinely grieves for charlie kirk. i think ezra klein thinks it’s professionally advantageous to perform grief.
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this is a comforting thing to believe if you have the political inclinations you're likely to have if you're reading this, but is unfortunately not true. alternative medicine is huge in Germany and the UK for example.
The incredible and baffling power of the woo woo wellness bullshit in America can be laid directly at the feet of our ghoulish for profit healthcare system. They don’t believe this shit to anywhere near the same degree in countries with universal healthcare
August 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
this is a comforting thing to believe if you have the political inclinations you're likely to have if you're reading this, but is unfortunately not true. alternative medicine is huge in Germany and the UK for example.
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yeah today it's a reactionary thing mostly, but for a long fuckin' time until *very* recently there was way too much tolerance for this shit in left and liberal spaces. from "oh it's not harming anyone" to "different ways of knowing". RFK jr fucking came from that milieu.
August 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
yeah today it's a reactionary thing mostly, but for a long fuckin' time until *very* recently there was way too much tolerance for this shit in left and liberal spaces. from "oh it's not harming anyone" to "different ways of knowing". RFK jr fucking came from that milieu.
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I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.