Ben Fagan
@fagan.bsky.social
Debate Coach. Bad Movie Lover. Non-Profit Neophyte.
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Hong Kong was where I saw self-organisation happen - spontaneously, at very, very large scale - for the first time.
I think the what's in people's head and what's in people's hearts matter a lot more than the technological enablers. The sense of commitment to the people around you is the key.
I think the what's in people's head and what's in people's hearts matter a lot more than the technological enablers. The sense of commitment to the people around you is the key.
January 28, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Hong Kong was where I saw self-organisation happen - spontaneously, at very, very large scale - for the first time.
I think the what's in people's head and what's in people's hearts matter a lot more than the technological enablers. The sense of commitment to the people around you is the key.
I think the what's in people's head and what's in people's hearts matter a lot more than the technological enablers. The sense of commitment to the people around you is the key.
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Having a full blown panic attack as I see Matthew McConaughey advertising Uber Eats rather than Agentforce The Powerful AI Agent From Salesforce
January 25, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Having a full blown panic attack as I see Matthew McConaughey advertising Uber Eats rather than Agentforce The Powerful AI Agent From Salesforce
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I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”
January 24, 2026 at 11:56 PM
I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”
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I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth:
“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.
This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”
“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.
This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”
January 24, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth:
“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.
This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”
“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.
This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”
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this is a weird take to me
i dont care about lawmakers having credentials like this
jim jordan shouldnt chair the judiciary committee cause he's a fucking conspiratorial buffoon, not because he didnt pass a test
i dont care about lawmakers having credentials like this
jim jordan shouldnt chair the judiciary committee cause he's a fucking conspiratorial buffoon, not because he didnt pass a test
Jim Jordan has never passed the bar exam. The fact that he serves as Chair of the House Judiciary Committee tells you everything about how seriously today’s Republican Party takes its responsibility for legal oversight.
January 22, 2026 at 3:56 PM
this is a weird take to me
i dont care about lawmakers having credentials like this
jim jordan shouldnt chair the judiciary committee cause he's a fucking conspiratorial buffoon, not because he didnt pass a test
i dont care about lawmakers having credentials like this
jim jordan shouldnt chair the judiciary committee cause he's a fucking conspiratorial buffoon, not because he didnt pass a test
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I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
January 21, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
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Countdown until a John Mearsheimer take about how Greenland provoked US aggression by being part of NATO?
January 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Countdown until a John Mearsheimer take about how Greenland provoked US aggression by being part of NATO?
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it's interesting to see criticism of stancil that basically amounts to "yes, he's doing good things in the real world, but don't lose sight of the fact that he's annoying online." please take a breath.
January 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
it's interesting to see criticism of stancil that basically amounts to "yes, he's doing good things in the real world, but don't lose sight of the fact that he's annoying online." please take a breath.
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They aren't specialists in violence they're just dicks the government gave badges to, don't mythologize being a thug because you're scared of loud noises
It’s worth considering that an overnight dismantling of ICE in 2029 would release into the wild a whole herd of specialists in violence with scant other marketable skills.
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 AM
They aren't specialists in violence they're just dicks the government gave badges to, don't mythologize being a thug because you're scared of loud noises
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wooof having watched that presser just now, "don't take the bait" is a real shit thing to tell people who are, by all knowledge and information and evidence, acting in defense of themselves and their neighbors and their communities
January 15, 2026 at 4:48 AM
wooof having watched that presser just now, "don't take the bait" is a real shit thing to tell people who are, by all knowledge and information and evidence, acting in defense of themselves and their neighbors and their communities
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At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
January 8, 2026 at 5:35 AM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
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Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.
January 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.
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Maduro is awful but this isn't order prevailing over chaos, this is a territorial takeover of one criminal overlord by another. I hope that a year from now the Venezuelan people are still happy and didn't go from bad to worse but Trump's track record on making people's lives better is not good.
January 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Maduro is awful but this isn't order prevailing over chaos, this is a territorial takeover of one criminal overlord by another. I hope that a year from now the Venezuelan people are still happy and didn't go from bad to worse but Trump's track record on making people's lives better is not good.
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I’ll respond to this disingenuous question exactly one time.
Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.
Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.
Do you dispute their description of maduro’s rule?
January 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I’ll respond to this disingenuous question exactly one time.
Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.
Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.
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okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."
January 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."
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Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.
December 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.
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In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
One of many things the pro-AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is the very important distinction between academic scholarship and the production of papers. Of course they can be related but they're not necessarily the same thing
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
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Oh no, I'm having that dream again
December 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Oh no, I'm having that dream again
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masterful move by susie wiles
![from @mikefossey: Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:maiw2rfujepnphhrejytvuu5/bafkreiebujluqcv6swiapzevfhqkj4ajellvsdaofjsywryz777kxcs7h4@jpeg)
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
masterful move by susie wiles
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If what he's alleging is true (Nuzzi hasn't denied any of the accusations about her ethics as far as I'm aware), he should have come forward with it *sooner.* It's an extremely big deal that a national news reporter was actively aiding the campaign of an anti-vaxxer!
December 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If what he's alleging is true (Nuzzi hasn't denied any of the accusations about her ethics as far as I'm aware), he should have come forward with it *sooner.* It's an extremely big deal that a national news reporter was actively aiding the campaign of an anti-vaxxer!
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Stephen Miller talks like every nerve in his body is forcefully trying to reject what his mind is telling it to say but he powers through anyway & yet the most remarkable thing about him is how his eyes are more soulless than Pinhead's while his appearance entirely What If Buster Bluth Had A Wario
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Stephen Miller talks like every nerve in his body is forcefully trying to reject what his mind is telling it to say but he powers through anyway & yet the most remarkable thing about him is how his eyes are more soulless than Pinhead's while his appearance entirely What If Buster Bluth Had A Wario
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”