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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 4h

Curious to see frog costume antifer reclaiming the frog identity from the alt right.

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 15h

Be safe!

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 19h

Myopic

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 20h

UGHHHH, look, why does EVERYONE have to keep rehashing how the Democrats lost in 2024?!

It’s a glasses ad, but it says “Why your progressives FAILED”

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 1d

Helpful context for the whole Qatari base thingy.

Basically we're just selling planes. And training people. The usual.

Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 1d

Oh thank goodness, there's context.

bsky.app/profile/nodd...

noddin0ff @noddin0ff.bsky.social · 1d

From 2022
www.stripes.com/branches/air...

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 1d

We are in a real life game of Catan except China has put all of their cities on the mountains and they don't want our wheat

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 1d

Uh why

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

Neil Postman undefeated

Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 1d

1. Social media is now 5% following friends and 95% watching videos made by strangers.
2. Every podcast is turning into a YouTube show.
3. AI companies can't stop building TikTok clones.

Everything is becoming television.

I wrote about why that matters.

www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

Everything Is Television

A theory of culture and attention

www.derekthompson.org

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 1d

Happy little trees

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 1d

I want a bob ross halftime show.

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 1d

It is incredible.

Steep learning curve. Nothing makes sense. And yet, I've invested more time in this game than any in the last several years.

And it is incredibly beautiful.

Just run away a lot. It helps.

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 1d

Momento mori

a black background with red letters that say `` you died ''

ALT: a black background with red letters that say `` you died ''

media.tenor.com

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 1d

My children and wife never bully me as much as when I die in the stupidest way in elden ring.

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Aaron, just Aaron @a-j-ruszk.bsky.social · 1d

Kendrick Lamar smiling at the Super Bowl performance

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

Hello dear friends--My book just can’t seem to get traction outside a narrow subset. I’m humbly/humiliatingly asking for some people power on my behalf. Thanks for any help you can offer. Details in this post.
open.substack.com/pub/hollyber...

Ain't too proud to beg

sorry/not sorry

open.substack.com

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 2d

Total aside in the everything is terrible narrative

But it is really exciting that everything is especially terrible for fans of Bill, belichick and UNC

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

“In Cyberpunk 2077 universe, AI killed the Internet by propagating all over it, faster than humans could hope to stop it. This forced companies and people to abandon it and either use isolated small networks or reconnect in real life”

Me seeing AI in real life doing just that:

[Image of a person looking directly at the camera with a knowing, unimpressed, or weary expression]

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 2d

First ever people encyclical with an emoji and it's just 😾

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 3d

a man and a woman are looking at each other in front of a sign that says spur

ALT: a man and a woman are looking at each other in front of a sign that says spur

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 3d

uh no more cyberpunk posting only

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

related: reading AEI/Heritage healthcare proposals is always weird because you always read things like "high deductible plans don't seem to have lowered consumer costs"

yeah man, it turns out that you actually require information to have an efficient market

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

american healthcare policy is a mess primarily because the GOP doesn't really have a plan outside of "what if we did Singapore but without forced savings" and Obamacare is essentially, "what if we created a MA style risk pool"

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 4d

It's the Charleston Heston movie prop table

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 4d

The thing about the ten commandments they keep putting up on the walls of schools is that they aren't the actual ten commandments but so many people are Bible illiterate and don't even realize that. So it becomes this weird cultural shibboleth that has nothing to do with God

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Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 4d

real swifties know that Travis is Yoko Ono

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

need a messy wedding implosion with kelce to return quality back to TS albums

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot believe these lyrics from the new Taylor Swift album are real

Benjamin Marsh @wearenotenemies.bsky.social · 4d

I hope visiting officers in Portland remember their collectible knot

a man in a pink suit and bow tie is dancing with another man .

ALT: a man in a pink suit and bow tie is dancing with another man .

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