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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

He looks like a dejected cabbage

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

I think he genuinely believes this stuff. He forgets he’s traditionally enemy #1 for his own audience

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

Celebrity encounter: I was pitching some crappy high concept comedy with Ben Stiller at Paramount, and for some reason did a Sean Connery impression.
And then Sean Connery stepped into the room, said hello to the exec we were pitching, and left.
Life is a strange tableau

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

I agree with this as long as one caveat applies: this will be the new normal. Democrats will stop things from getting worse but are not equipped to make things better

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

‘No longer’ is doing a lot of work here

Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

We don’t use that word anymore

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

I’m wearing my trousers at half mast

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

Socialism tbh

Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

I hope she pees on them and they have to go to the cleaners on their own

Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

R/worldnews is having a normal one over the UN Gaza genocide report

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

Which seems insane. But historically this is all 100% predictable and the right move is to split immediately. I guess we’ll be cutting it close instead

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

(Leans forward, rests elbows on knees)
We moved to France before the election. Had to return for a spell. I’ve been in the U.S. for about 5 weeks. It’s a nonstop panic attack.
When we go back to France, we have at least two friends joining us. The question is when won’t we be allowed to leave

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

I might do that, but only to be irritating

Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

He dislikes Pink Flamingos and regards it as little more than a remake of Multiple Maniacs

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

Interesting design choice to put ‘left’ at the summits. Makes it look like it’s beating the right every time

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

Not when it happens. You think “okay metric I guess? So…a kilo? No, half a kilo?” Then you try to do kilos into pounds and break into a flop sweat

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

AIPAC. Just put it in the headline

Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

We don’t know that. Due process still exists in some scattered corners of the nation

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

So, how are the “when do we flee” conversations going?

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

I admit even my ironclad cynicism wasn’t prepared for this. They literally never put up a fight at all.

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

bluesky has once again taken down one of my posts for unacceptable content. No idea which one. They didn't say. But I'm outta here for an unknown interval. I'm sick of our ninny-ass culture of anonymous pearl-clutching

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

We're going to see a lot of this, and Democrats will do nothing to stop it

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25d

Nancy Mace is sharing the text of a House resolution targeting Ilhan Omar in which her interview with me and Zeteo is cited by name but they can’t actually provide any quotes from Omar to support their case against her. The only other thing they have is a video she reposted. But nothing from her.

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

I've seen a couple of mine. Made me a fervent believer

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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 25d

White man here. I insist everyone treat me like a tiny sparrow egg because I am frail and delicate. If you do not, I will unleash Bewegungskrieg upon you

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 25d

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men."

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

Fired By The Post

The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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