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Ben Peake

@reddishraven.bsky.social

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Somewhat random. Full of all the vices and none of the virtues of my Gen-X heritage. He/Him.

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · Mar 21

Given it's late March, probably past time I start a 2025 New Tunes thread.

First off the rank is art-rap group clipping. Daveed Diggs may not objectively be the best rapper in the world, but damn it if he's not my FAVOURITE.

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Dodger

YouTube video by clipping. - Topic

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 4h

Hi hello I am an American citizen with a very intense knowledge of the first amendment.

Apparently people who are not American cannot say Charlie Kirk "devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynist rhetoric."

I fact checked it.

Charlie Kirk devoted his life to that.

Jail me.

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 5h

Some favourite songs shrink when you revisit them, being linked very precisely to who you were when you first heard them. Others retain their full power to delight and to move. Vleugels, by @michelbanabila.bsky.social falls in the latter category.

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 5h

The Archer-fication of society proceeds apace.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 6h

I didn't intend to write this today

On the sick lie of sick people in a sick culture, that violence and military might can bring peace and harmony

On Trump in Israel

On the wisdom of dissenting Jews, Arendt and Butler

On the necessity of grief

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Bombs for peace and other lies

A shaky ceasefire holds in Israel-Palestine. And yes, thank whatever or whoever, this is cause for some hope and some celebration. Fewer people are dying today. This is good. But I am filled with gr...

in-between-days.ghost.io

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 6h

Definitely

<dirty chuckle on loop>

Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks Fiona! Try to keep my expectations low, but may have failed on this occasion.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 6h

It really feels like Sam Altman promised a lot of Very Serious Old People he was going to create capitalist blowjob jesus based off a tech demo, and now that the bottom’s falling out he’s throwing whatever he can think of at the wall to avoid getting disappeared because he wasted all their money.

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 6h

Some disappointing professional news had kinda knocked the wind out of my morning. Oh well.

<swigs coffee>

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 10h

Bittersweet.
My @smh cartoon.

Single frame. Three pairs of hands reaching from the left towards three pairs of hands reaching from the right. But on the left, two pairs of hands are dotted outlines.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the thing, 99% of method actors aren’t cunts whilst in character, I’ve had a blast with method actors in character.

As Daniel Day Lewis said “if it interferes with other people’s work you’ve gone wrong”

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2d

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 7h

I dunno, it's almost as if the State of Israel might be a bad faith signatory to the ceasefire. Just spitballin' here.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 7h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 8h

Look, that would be against nature.

Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 8h

Depends on what dataset the sinner has been trained on.

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 8h

WHO KNEW?

Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 10h

In the 'very unsurprising' category today...

Major study finds tooth decay in Queensland children has declined since water fluoridation expanded.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Water fluoridation leading to lower rates of tooth decay in children, study finds

The findings are released as more Queensland councils opt out of water fluoridation and amid rising rates of misinformation.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21h

Seriously, what is this shit?

ABC 730 with a truly embarrassing story of Young Liberals featuring some of the most vapid people you could ever have the misfortune to encounter.

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 8h

That thing when you see a story RTed by multiple people and you choose between them as to who has added the best meta commentary before you add the underlying story to your feed by RTing them...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 9h

groyper occupied government

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 10h

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

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Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 10h

I understand this perspective, but after decades of studying human behavioral ecology & history of colonization, I've found this perspective essentializes acts of murder and genocide as inevitable rather than acts that are a result of a concatenation of circumstances AND individual choices. 🧵

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 8h

This product in particular will break people's brains in new and exciting ways.

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 9h

The delay from launch to the first paedophilic output being produced will be under a minute.

The Verge @theverge.com · 13h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 21h

Happy 100th Birthday Margaret Thatcher.

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 1d

The whiplash is amazing.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Creative Australia awards Khaled Sabsabi $100,000 grant months after dumping from Venice Biennale

Funding is a silver lining in a tumultuous year for the Lebanese-Australian artist from western Sydney Creative Australia has awarded a $100,000 grant to artist Khaled Sabsabi, months after he was controversially dumped and then reinstated by the federal arts body as Australia’s representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale. The grant – one of 16 made under Creative Australia’s Visual Arts, Craft and Design Framework – will fund the creation of a new body of work for a solo exhibition opening in March 2027 at Adelaide’s Samstag Museum of Art, which will also include Sabsabi’s Venice Biennale work. Continue reading...

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 1d

Get the feeling a lot of Big AI people genuinely do believe in socially positive outcomes. They just simultaneously feel no deed could possibly be too evil if it brings about a Singularity in which that happens.