Tracy Benton
@tigerb.bsky.social
Cat lover. Book reader. Sarcasm & QA my services. Repartee over rapiers.
THE HIGH COST OF AGILE: after so many years I am unable to type the word "spring" successfully the first time
December 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
THE HIGH COST OF AGILE: after so many years I am unable to type the word "spring" successfully the first time
At this point I might appreciate a six hour internet outage, frankly
December 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
At this point I might appreciate a six hour internet outage, frankly
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READERS! Did you finish a book lately? Did you like it? Homework: go review it online! Your stars and words help the author sell books! Don't you want more?
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
READERS! Did you finish a book lately? Did you like it? Homework: go review it online! Your stars and words help the author sell books! Don't you want more?
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
The more I hear ICE quotes as " I know an illegal immigrant when I see one," the more I feel an ethnic cleaning mass murder could occur in our country soon.
December 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The more I hear ICE quotes as " I know an illegal immigrant when I see one," the more I feel an ethnic cleaning mass murder could occur in our country soon.
Justice.
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Justice.
ChatGPT told me Brennan Lee Mulligan is still making American Girl doll shoes
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
ChatGPT told me Brennan Lee Mulligan is still making American Girl doll shoes
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Steampunk Virtual Book Chat 2026 schedule. We’re excited for another 10 months of wonderful reads. Links to the Zoom found the day of on the group's Facebook page(www.facebook.com/groups/tempo...) or Madame Askew’s YouTube channel for past Book Chats:(www.youtube.com/@madameaskew...) Please join us!
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Steampunk Virtual Book Chat 2026 schedule. We’re excited for another 10 months of wonderful reads. Links to the Zoom found the day of on the group's Facebook page(www.facebook.com/groups/tempo...) or Madame Askew’s YouTube channel for past Book Chats:(www.youtube.com/@madameaskew...) Please join us!
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Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
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image 1: CNBC, Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI (April 29, 2025)
image 2: from Xitter, Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken (November 20, 2025)
image 2: from Xitter, Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken (November 20, 2025)
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
image 1: CNBC, Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI (April 29, 2025)
image 2: from Xitter, Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken (November 20, 2025)
image 2: from Xitter, Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken (November 20, 2025)
Have you not read the Astreiant books? They are SO GOOD
#Booksky Sporadic reminder that we are the current publisher of the entire Astreiant Series and that it will be eligible for this year’s Hugo for Best Series, just in case you wanted to support a terrific award-winning series of gay fantastical mysteries! queenofswordspress.com/product-tag/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Have you not read the Astreiant books? They are SO GOOD
For current hellscape, I like Hellboy applied directly to the eyeballs
Absolutely! He’s a salve for the horrors of reality.
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 AM
For current hellscape, I like Hellboy applied directly to the eyeballs
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“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 AM
“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”
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Ghost Show Press needs your help to get their latest book of film essays over the finish line. I've written for several of their books (but not this one) and they're always tons of fun, with great writing about a wild array of movies. Join me in backing the book!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...
Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution
More Reflections on Futuristic Films That Broke the Rules
www.kickstarter.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Ghost Show Press needs your help to get their latest book of film essays over the finish line. I've written for several of their books (but not this one) and they're always tons of fun, with great writing about a wild array of movies. Join me in backing the book!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...
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will kim is still in ICE detention
will taeheung kim, a korean american scientist and doctoral candidate with a green card, is still being detained by ICE. he's been in detention since July 21, first at SFO for over a week and then in various ICE facilities all over the country.
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
will kim is still in ICE detention
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This is insane. He has been in jail for a month on $2M bond and he doesn't have his first hearing until December 4 - for posting a meme on Facebook.
theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
theintercept.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is insane. He has been in jail for a month on $2M bond and he doesn't have his first hearing until December 4 - for posting a meme on Facebook.
theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
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We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire
October 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire
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EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.
kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
October 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.
kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
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I feel naive just writing this, but a president threatening to withhold funding to a city unless it elects his preferred candidate for mayor seems like the sort of thing that shouldn't be legal.
Trump on Mamdani: "He is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City. Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises. He won’t be getting any of it, so what’s the point of voting for him?"
September 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I feel naive just writing this, but a president threatening to withhold funding to a city unless it elects his preferred candidate for mayor seems like the sort of thing that shouldn't be legal.
Latest "dangerous immigrant" kidnapped by ICE: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
MSN
www.msn.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Latest "dangerous immigrant" kidnapped by ICE: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
Rapture soon? Here's your hat, what's your hurry?
September 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Rapture soon? Here's your hat, what's your hurry?