Ben
vagabending.bsky.social
Ben
@vagabending.bsky.social
Technology, Politics, Travel
Two presidents in a row who are late 70s or early 80s and both seem to have dementia to one degree or another

Almost like there’s a pattern here
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Oh noooo don’t goooo

Anyway
December 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Literally never have I wanted to press “AI mode” in Google search and yet every other time I press it trying to get back to all because it’s the first fucking option.

Be gone you ghoul.
December 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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not to put too fine a point on it but every one of these people—lizza and nuzzi, obviously, but also sundberg herself—are symptoms of the same problem, which is that larping as a journalist is orders of magnitude more lucrative than actually practicing journalism
a paywalled substack chat is an interesting marketing strategy
December 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Any time someone tells you the mainstream media is liberal, pls tell them to jump up their own asshole for their stupidity.
Donald Trump had reasonable concerns about how Joe Biden’s relatives enriched themselves through his service. Yet his own family is making the “Biden crime family” look small-time
How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden
It’s about more than denying inflation
econ.st
December 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
$250 is zero dollars.

Fuck these people. Pay taxes.
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A fair society is marked by a high quality of life for everyone. American society is marked by an increasingly infinite collection of luxuries for the rich and an infinite bucket of low quality slop for everyone else.
December 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
If it’s not obvious, the main reason the US has had such an explosive economy over the last 50 years is immigrants. Doing a hard stop of that engine instantly is going to drive us into a crater.
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Tummy time
December 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Nanobanana is frighteningly good at generating images that look very very very real.

Not good.
December 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
They really are begging us to leave aren’t they.
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, just introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship. The bill says that to “preserve the integrity of national citizenship, allegiance to the United States must be undivided.” It’s called the Exclusive Citizenship Act.
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It’s not that “strong floor, no ceiling” is inherently dumb, it’s that no amount of messaging will fix a bunch of centrists who still have dumb ass policies that no one wants implemented.
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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presented without comment
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is also exactly how the Democratic Party has operated for the last twenty years and why everyone across the political spectrum thinks democrats are weak spineless creatures.
this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
December 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Yeah man this is the same Pete hegseth who added a journalist to a secret signal chat and that had another 15 secret signal chats and kept fucking forever.

That guy - would never be foolish enough to —-// k
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, 'Kill everybody. Kill the survivors,' because that's a clear violation of the law of war."
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If you cannot say this, don’t even run. We do not want you.
imo if you want to get back in power your slogan should be "If you elect us we will prosecute everyone in government who has violated the law"
November 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I will vote for democrats who want to punish fascists who have committed crimes even after they have left office , for democrats who want to create structures that will prevent future infinite grifting loopholes —-

Anyone who has plans that do not include this is not getting a vote.
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Listen to FDR’s fifth fireside chat:

millercenter.org/the-presiden...
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
You want to know why people like Luigi did what they did —- because billionaires do not believe that the average American is anything other than chattel and every system is this entire country is designed to prove billionaires right.
"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Good - real cities are designed for people not cars.
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Writing a haiku that can be read by a dotard so that the dumbest people alive can accidentally end the world as a business plan
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "

www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I was trying to articulate why I don’t like dancing with the stars and —- it’s an advertisement pretending to be a show.
November 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM