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Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 17h

Jaylen Brown specifically got dinged in some NBA draft rankings for being smart and curious.

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is stupid and dangerous right now, *but* we have an opportunity to make a least one thing less stupid and dangerous.

Please submit a comment to the PDX city planners asking them to prevent any further expansion of liquid fuel storage at the CEI Hub and mandate a fuel drawdown.

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Demand a Safer Portland! Stop the CEI Hub Time Bomb!

Tell City Hall to Choose Public Health and Safety Over Corporate Profits at the CEI Hub Portland faces a historic choice—one that will determine our city’s safety and environmental legacy for generat...

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Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 1d

What is it about positions of power in America that send to turn people's brains into soup?

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Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 1d

It gives the game away that some drivers will get mad at you for following vehicular rules and others will get mad at you for following pedestrian rules. It's not about cyclist behavior, it's that they resent that you're there period

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RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 1d

Reagan and Bush were not fascists, but they are parts of the cumulative radicalization of the American right towards fascism that resulted in Trump, and helped cement the imperial presidency that enables him.

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Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 1d

Specifics aside (lol) The Smashing Machine is really just a bad name for a movie. If you don't bring any context to it it's an opaque and unpleasant phrase

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Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 1d

get in the robot, greta!

love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 2d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 3d

wu tang truly is for the children

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Phuoc Nguyen (Fook Win) ✍️ @phuocerman.bsky.social · 3d

A work of art.
A masterpiece.

Our Game Magazine @ourgamemagazine.bsky.social · 4d

Olivia Moultrie.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 4d

ENJOY YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU CAN'T CHANGE ANYTHING ANYWAY

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 4d

In its defense it was decent bad pizza rather than bad good pizza, but what are you doing serving decent cafeteria pizza in new york?

Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 4d

never trust an old man wearing cool sneakers

Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 4d

If you want to know what is going on in the Portland political landscape, this is a much better article than the NYT parachute journalism nonsense going around today

madoccassia @madoccassia.bsky.social · 4d

www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/06...

With Newfound Sway in City Hall, Portland’s Democratic Socialists Hope to Redefine the City’s Priorities

How do you solve a problem like an unprecedented city budget deficit? Over the last few months of budget planning, Portland leaders suggested a host of ways to close the roughly $93 million gap, from ...

www.portlandmercury.com

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Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 4d

I have found the worst pizza in nyc, it is in the new international terminal at jfk

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joan @joanbybike.bsky.social · 4d

Okay the real outrage in that NYT piece is Dan Ryan calling himself a progressive

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Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 6d

NPR's national news has been a deep disappointment in toothless both-sidesism for a long time now, alas. They seem to operate from a defensive crouch scared of bad faith right wing criticism at all times.

Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 6d

This is unseemly for the CEO. You're here in a professional capacity and trying to dunk on earnest critique, part of doing your job is being above such things unless you have very different goals than it seems. Get an alt if you want to shitpost

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 7d

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the terrorist group known as the federalist society?

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Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 7d

It really is a bullseye that she thinks a hypothetical white flight racist's fear of a predominantly black neighborhood is "violence" while getting more or less all of the racial dynamics of white flight backwards.

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 7d

The empire is not insurmountable. They rely on posturing but they’re highly disorganized and fragmented.

We are going to win.

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Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 7d

I would like to thank the mlb app for teaching me the meaning of "oppo taco" roughly a billion times this season, because I am both a diehard baseball fan and also two years old this has been very helpful and not just annoying

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Ben Birdsall @elephony.bsky.social · 7d

It is both cheaper and moral to give healthcare to everyone. Healthcare is a human right that everyone should have regardless of their immigration status.

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