Ben Schachterle
@benschack.bsky.social
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This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
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If they had a real Religious Studies scholar here, as opposed to a pundit versus a cognitive psychologist, they would know this entire debate is between two cultural Christians, since they're both operating under a framework that makes private, interior belief constitutive of religious identity.
December 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
If they had a real Religious Studies scholar here, as opposed to a pundit versus a cognitive psychologist, they would know this entire debate is between two cultural Christians, since they're both operating under a framework that makes private, interior belief constitutive of religious identity.
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"I think Bari Weiss deserves the benefit of the doubt."
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"I think Bari Weiss deserves the benefit of the doubt."
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Can they both lose?
December 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Can they both lose?
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a just god would never have allowed Steven Pinker's hair.
December 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
a just god would never have allowed Steven Pinker's hair.
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On this day in 1997, right-wing paramilitary group Máscara Roja murdered 45 people at an Indigenous Catholic prayer meeting in Chiapas. The Government of Mexico admitted responsibility in September of 2020. US officials in 2012 recommended immunity for former president Zedillo.
Acteal massacre - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
On this day in 1997, right-wing paramilitary group Máscara Roja murdered 45 people at an Indigenous Catholic prayer meeting in Chiapas. The Government of Mexico admitted responsibility in September of 2020. US officials in 2012 recommended immunity for former president Zedillo.
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
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Congress’s three favorite lines:
1. Sorry we can’t do anything, we’re in the minority
2. Sorry we can’t do anything, we need a supermajority
3. Sorry we can’t do anything, our party’s in the White House and we have to support the president
1. Sorry we can’t do anything, we’re in the minority
2. Sorry we can’t do anything, we need a supermajority
3. Sorry we can’t do anything, our party’s in the White House and we have to support the president
December 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Congress’s three favorite lines:
1. Sorry we can’t do anything, we’re in the minority
2. Sorry we can’t do anything, we need a supermajority
3. Sorry we can’t do anything, our party’s in the White House and we have to support the president
1. Sorry we can’t do anything, we’re in the minority
2. Sorry we can’t do anything, we need a supermajority
3. Sorry we can’t do anything, our party’s in the White House and we have to support the president
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As the year draws to a close, we wanted to wish you a happy and restful holiday season, and thank you for supporting Hades II and our team!🙏🌖
This festive moment in the Crossroads brought to you by our environment artist Joanne Tran.
This festive moment in the Crossroads brought to you by our environment artist Joanne Tran.
December 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As the year draws to a close, we wanted to wish you a happy and restful holiday season, and thank you for supporting Hades II and our team!🙏🌖
This festive moment in the Crossroads brought to you by our environment artist Joanne Tran.
This festive moment in the Crossroads brought to you by our environment artist Joanne Tran.
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It’s not a refusal to re-enter society.
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It’s not a refusal to re-enter society.
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
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Johnson: If we lose the House majority, the radical left will impeach President Trump.
December 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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cowboy who stubbed his toe:
December 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
cowboy who stubbed his toe:
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so we're just getting straight-up censorship now.
December 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
so we're just getting straight-up censorship now.
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POV: Your spouse is neither white nor Christian but you need the support of people who demand both.
December 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
POV: Your spouse is neither white nor Christian but you need the support of people who demand both.
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Recall a time when someone came to your aid, stood up for you, showed you an unexpected kindness. Hold on to those memories, for they are dear. Strive every day to make someone else feel the way you did in that moment.
December 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Recall a time when someone came to your aid, stood up for you, showed you an unexpected kindness. Hold on to those memories, for they are dear. Strive every day to make someone else feel the way you did in that moment.
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this is 4chan gutter racism and everyone knows it
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
this is 4chan gutter racism and everyone knows it
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AI advocates: you really need to learn to stop coming off to subject matter experts in other fields as if you’re Kool-Aid manning into the room and going “you’re dumb not to use these tools for your trivially easy jobs”
you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
You absolutely will not convince a bunch of historians and sociologists and whoever else is in this thread that you know more than we do about this and we should use it. I wish you AI enthusiasts would stop wading into our conversations. You have nothing helpful to contribute and are snarky.
December 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
AI advocates: you really need to learn to stop coming off to subject matter experts in other fields as if you’re Kool-Aid manning into the room and going “you’re dumb not to use these tools for your trivially easy jobs”
you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
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It's always "why did we spend $10m to study grass flu?" and you do 2 minutes of digging and it turns out grass flu destroys $75 billion in crops every year and now we have a new vaccine for that that costs $3 to apply.
November 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It's always "why did we spend $10m to study grass flu?" and you do 2 minutes of digging and it turns out grass flu destroys $75 billion in crops every year and now we have a new vaccine for that that costs $3 to apply.
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When you see Republicans using grants for weird sounding animal experiments as a justification to cut research funding, this is what they are using
By combining 8 different nanobodies isolated from alpacas and llamas following immunization with snake venom - this research team has produced an antivenom that not only protects against 17 different snake venoms but also protects from tissue local damage, a major problem associated with bites.
Single antivenom protects against 17 different snakebites
Researchers immunized an alpaca and a llama with snake venoms, and combined some of the antibodies produced into a potent cocktail.
www.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
When you see Republicans using grants for weird sounding animal experiments as a justification to cut research funding, this is what they are using
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sure make your lazy jokes. don't even think about the ppl hurt by them. make your crack about "an egg fried this rice" not even thinking about that poor cook in the back of the restaurant making you a delicious meal. sweating half to death because she won't take off that oversized hoodie
December 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
sure make your lazy jokes. don't even think about the ppl hurt by them. make your crack about "an egg fried this rice" not even thinking about that poor cook in the back of the restaurant making you a delicious meal. sweating half to death because she won't take off that oversized hoodie
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It sounds like Waymo failed to program the vehicles to switch to stop sign mode in the event of a failed light? Every human driver has to learn this rule, and I don’t understand how the California DMV can possibly justify licensing any “driver” including an algorithm that doesn’t know this
Much of SF lost power last night. Waymos blocked intersections across the city, even though they are Wayless than 1% of cars on the roads. They accumulated at their failure points--intersections with no green lights, in busy areas, and shut down traffic there.
December 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It sounds like Waymo failed to program the vehicles to switch to stop sign mode in the event of a failed light? Every human driver has to learn this rule, and I don’t understand how the California DMV can possibly justify licensing any “driver” including an algorithm that doesn’t know this
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the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now
December 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now
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as an educator I know even if someone is willing to learn from you, knows they're confused, and wants to learn, it is hard to untangle confusion
online arguing is expecting to untangle someone's confusion who is unwilling to listen to you, doesn't believe they're confused, and doesn't want to learn
online arguing is expecting to untangle someone's confusion who is unwilling to listen to you, doesn't believe they're confused, and doesn't want to learn
May 14, 2024 at 10:27 PM
as an educator I know even if someone is willing to learn from you, knows they're confused, and wants to learn, it is hard to untangle confusion
online arguing is expecting to untangle someone's confusion who is unwilling to listen to you, doesn't believe they're confused, and doesn't want to learn
online arguing is expecting to untangle someone's confusion who is unwilling to listen to you, doesn't believe they're confused, and doesn't want to learn
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And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.