@benwhetsell.bsky.social
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Imagine being a right-wing newspaper columnist whose job consists of writing like 800 words per week while making 6 figures and saying this.
If you think the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding white guys at all that seems to be an issue of your media diet and not a reflection of reality
December 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Imagine being a right-wing newspaper columnist whose job consists of writing like 800 words per week while making 6 figures and saying this.
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The workflow of a ‘prompt engineer’ making a video seems like a skit when contemplated.
Begging a text prompt to do your job, watching a couple heartbeats worth of movement on screen, and then repeating that over and over.
Professional Slots player, except you don’t even get a bucket of nickels.
Begging a text prompt to do your job, watching a couple heartbeats worth of movement on screen, and then repeating that over and over.
Professional Slots player, except you don’t even get a bucket of nickels.
December 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The workflow of a ‘prompt engineer’ making a video seems like a skit when contemplated.
Begging a text prompt to do your job, watching a couple heartbeats worth of movement on screen, and then repeating that over and over.
Professional Slots player, except you don’t even get a bucket of nickels.
Begging a text prompt to do your job, watching a couple heartbeats worth of movement on screen, and then repeating that over and over.
Professional Slots player, except you don’t even get a bucket of nickels.
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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again, it is just arrogance. “there is one true meaning of the constitution and it can only be derived by a special caste of lawyers with a special interpretative lens and once discovered it is binding.”
December 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
again, it is just arrogance. “there is one true meaning of the constitution and it can only be derived by a special caste of lawyers with a special interpretative lens and once discovered it is binding.”
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
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i really thought the "emperor's new clothes" was more metaphorical than this.
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
i really thought the "emperor's new clothes" was more metaphorical than this.
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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Bill Ackman and Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon watching this WH presser
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Bill Ackman and Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon watching this WH presser
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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why are we paying federal taxes again
Red Line Extension frozen.
White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago projects, Vought says reut.rs/4mFOoPX
October 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
why are we paying federal taxes again
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There’s a lot of Psychology happening with early 2000s nostalgia slop but especially among zoomers it does seem like there’s just a real hankering for less phone, and therefore the time before phone is the glorious past to which we must return
September 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
There’s a lot of Psychology happening with early 2000s nostalgia slop but especially among zoomers it does seem like there’s just a real hankering for less phone, and therefore the time before phone is the glorious past to which we must return
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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The best quote I’ve ever seen about this is that every Democratic leader of the 21st century is ideally suited by temperament and mindset to be in congress in 1995 debating the v-chip.
the democratic party's bias to normalcy is gonna kill us off.
the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
September 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The best quote I’ve ever seen about this is that every Democratic leader of the 21st century is ideally suited by temperament and mindset to be in congress in 1995 debating the v-chip.
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they’re so close
September 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
they’re so close
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Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge.
*Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump.
*When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired.
www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
*Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump.
*When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired.
www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
Politics may have spurred August purge of 5 veteran FBI agents
Details are emerging about the possible motivation behind the firing of five senior FBI agents.
www.cbsnews.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge.
*Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump.
*When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired.
www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
*Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump.
*When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired.
www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
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"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. That’s why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardice—to give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...
Why Republicans Are Terrified of Nonexistent Crime
They need an excuse to violently subjugate liberal cities.
prospect.org
August 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. That’s why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardice—to give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...
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Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
Exclusive | Rep. Hakeem Jeffries pays just $200 in property taxes thanks to sweetheart subsidy law
Public records show that Jeffries and his family reside in a condo unit in Prospect Heights, paying just $213 a year in property taxes.
nypost.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
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i am so sick of hearing about people who are uncomfortable about trans people in public bathrooms as if you have some right to total peace of mind in the place you can hear strangers having diarrhea
August 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
i am so sick of hearing about people who are uncomfortable about trans people in public bathrooms as if you have some right to total peace of mind in the place you can hear strangers having diarrhea
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people have a profound yearning right now to be “saved” by a technological quantum leap forward, coupled with a profound fear of missing out that comes from having failed to get rich / being born too late to get rich in the Silicon Valley digital revolution
It really does feel like a lot of formerly reasonable people have been infected by some sort of terrifying brain parasite when it comes to unthinking and total acceptance of using AI tools
Absolute worst part, imo, is the pressure from school administrators to "welcome our new overlords" by adopting AI. It's also happening in elite universities, to my utter bafflement & horror. Anyone who calls bullshit on AI is treated as if only ignorance could explain their perspective.
August 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
people have a profound yearning right now to be “saved” by a technological quantum leap forward, coupled with a profound fear of missing out that comes from having failed to get rich / being born too late to get rich in the Silicon Valley digital revolution
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One thing that the current exorbitant investments in "AI" show is that the investor class and big tech corporations do not pay enough taxes: If you have billions to set on fire for spicy autocomplete we should take some or all of those to do something useful with.
August 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
One thing that the current exorbitant investments in "AI" show is that the investor class and big tech corporations do not pay enough taxes: If you have billions to set on fire for spicy autocomplete we should take some or all of those to do something useful with.
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I’ve yet to encounter an ai booster whose response to its critics isn’t at least partially “you don’t know enough about it and how it’s useful.”
That’s not it, bro.
That’s not it, bro.
August 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I’ve yet to encounter an ai booster whose response to its critics isn’t at least partially “you don’t know enough about it and how it’s useful.”
That’s not it, bro.
That’s not it, bro.
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Centrists: *see Trump beat Harris to win a second term with a weak-ass campaign and then see Mamdani win the NYC mayoral primary against a legacy candidate with name recognition who the entire establishment was pushing*
Also centrists: "The left can't stop losing"
Also centrists: "The left can't stop losing"
August 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Centrists: *see Trump beat Harris to win a second term with a weak-ass campaign and then see Mamdani win the NYC mayoral primary against a legacy candidate with name recognition who the entire establishment was pushing*
Also centrists: "The left can't stop losing"
Also centrists: "The left can't stop losing"