Ben Tillman
@tdesign.bsky.social
Architect & Sustainable Designer
Trying to build a better world, otherwise playing old video games.
Trying to build a better world, otherwise playing old video games.
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Oak Lawn Methodist Church Nativity in Dallas, TX
December 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Oak Lawn Methodist Church Nativity in Dallas, TX
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Thinking today about this sentence:
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
Inflation is making homelessness worse
Rising housing costs, combined with persistent inflation for basic necessities like gas and food, have left more Americans newly homeless and millions more fearing they’ll soon lose their homes.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thinking today about this sentence:
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
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GenAI is inevitable and will definitely be a major part of every art form from now on. Just like NFTs!
December 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
GenAI is inevitable and will definitely be a major part of every art form from now on. Just like NFTs!
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I love when I can see the work in a piece of art. Practical effects in film, brush strokes on canvas, strange sounds in music, "impossible" visuals in games. It puts me in conversation with the artist. That's why - ethics aside - art created with AI is just so disappointing. There's no work to see.
August 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I love when I can see the work in a piece of art. Practical effects in film, brush strokes on canvas, strange sounds in music, "impossible" visuals in games. It puts me in conversation with the artist. That's why - ethics aside - art created with AI is just so disappointing. There's no work to see.
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
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Once again, I dare the vote blue no matter who crowd to defend these vile people and their fascistic votes. At the barest minimum, have the decency to no longer cosplay as caring & empathetic people.
HR 498 passes 215-201. 4 Democrats join the Republicans to ban Medicaid from funding youth trans healthcare: Henry Cuellar (TX), Don Davis (NC), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), and Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA).
www.congress.gov
December 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Once again, I dare the vote blue no matter who crowd to defend these vile people and their fascistic votes. At the barest minimum, have the decency to no longer cosplay as caring & empathetic people.
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Imposter syndrome cured
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Imposter syndrome cured
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Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
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For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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sometimes i see an article or news bulletin underlying the sheer, unfathomable scale of climate apocalypse heading right for us in the shockingly near future and my ears start buzzing for like ten seconds before i'm like well. guess i better get crack on with gaming
December 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
sometimes i see an article or news bulletin underlying the sheer, unfathomable scale of climate apocalypse heading right for us in the shockingly near future and my ears start buzzing for like ten seconds before i'm like well. guess i better get crack on with gaming
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The most important political fault line of our time is over whether children are people or property.
This whole so-called “parents rights” movement the right has taken up and the left is supposed to kowtow to for votes is so obviously anti-child it really bothers me to see it presented as anything other than justification for abusive “parenting” and disregard for actual science on child development
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The most important political fault line of our time is over whether children are people or property.
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As long as Spotify is willing to take money from ICE, they don’t need (or deserve) free advertising for Spotify Wrapped: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
December 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
As long as Spotify is willing to take money from ICE, they don’t need (or deserve) free advertising for Spotify Wrapped: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
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As a US senator, my heart breaks for the families of the Venezuelans that Pete Hegseth ordered executed without trial. If they could see my state’s Republican primary polling data, I think they would understand why I had to vote to confirm him.
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
As a US senator, my heart breaks for the families of the Venezuelans that Pete Hegseth ordered executed without trial. If they could see my state’s Republican primary polling data, I think they would understand why I had to vote to confirm him.
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And the Target boycott continues as they allowed ICE staging in their parking lot. Shame!
#noicestaging
#minneapolis
#noicestaging
#minneapolis
"How many years did Geo Washington boycott Brits?" (He kept going after the Revolution bc he was STILL pissed at the Brits.) It is not just a two-week thing. #Target boycott took time to build.
This is new stuff. We are all learning.
@indivisible.org
@indivisiblenempls.bsky.social
#WhatsThePlan
This is new stuff. We are all learning.
@indivisible.org
@indivisiblenempls.bsky.social
#WhatsThePlan
December 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
And the Target boycott continues as they allowed ICE staging in their parking lot. Shame!
#noicestaging
#minneapolis
#noicestaging
#minneapolis
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Issues like anti-trans panic are not organic red state issues. They are engineered like viruses in a lab of bad faith politics, and the way to deal with bullies using them is to tell them to fuck off.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
Culture Wars Are For Cowards
And most people don't like bullies.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Issues like anti-trans panic are not organic red state issues. They are engineered like viruses in a lab of bad faith politics, and the way to deal with bullies using them is to tell them to fuck off.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
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Social media feeds are full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped, but Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads. Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops helping ICE terrorize our communities. app.sosha.ai/s/T7ngbtyS
Spotify: Wrapped in complicity
app.sosha.ai
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Social media feeds are full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped, but Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads. Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops helping ICE terrorize our communities. app.sosha.ai/s/T7ngbtyS
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those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station
We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station
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