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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 29/09/2026

$700M per plane, we buy 2 per carrier and just pair it with -18s until they're 100 years old

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 29/09/2026

15:45 in the video You can see it more zoomed out at 10:25

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 29/09/2026

too grainy to really tell, but the guy in the top left has potential

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 29/09/2026

The Library of Virginia has come out with guidance on AI and the Public Records Act. The gist of it is that if the AI is used to conduct government business, then the chat/prompt/AI-generated record is a public record and must adhere to a records retention schedule #ai #recordsmanagement

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"The American age that followed World War II was bound to end eventually. What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived.”

theatlantic.com

The American Age Is Over

A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 14/09/2026

The bill was patroned by Majority Leader Charniele Herring and L. Louise Lucas, Senate President Pro-Tem, and passed both chambers by a wide margin. Virginia is famous for its exemptions from FOIA, and this is another in a long line. Maybe we can fix this exemption next session.

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 14/09/2026

When creating law about license plate readers last year, the Virginia General Assembly specifically made all system and audit data exempt from FOIA, meaning the public can't check to see if the searches their police are running are legitimate or not.

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 14/09/2026

*looks at my 3.37% mortgage and my house that I wish was like 400 sq ft bigger* welp i'm never moving

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 12/09/2026

How does Disney Plus still not have the ability to block specific shows per profile? All they have are MPAA style ratings controls, but I want my kid to be able to watch Frozen and Turning Red, but not the youtube slop they've brought over.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

JUST IN: Larry Ellison to sell up to $7.5 billion worth of Oracle, $ORCL

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 10/09/2026

the last 10 years have been proof positive of that every day

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 09/09/2026

Little miss muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey Along came a spider who sat down beside her and yelled THATS ILLEGAL CANADIAN WHEY

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 08/09/2026

8 hours for work 8 hours for rest 8 hours for what you will post

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Andrew @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Every single article about solar power and battery tech is like "We put solar panels on the Hellmouth and the Hellmouth is now reciting poetry and smells like peppermint and teaching young orphaned birds how to fly. Also we can power a small city block."

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 26/08/2026

Just have fingerprinting left and then I will be ready to be a volunteer officer of election for my county! my mom was an officer of election in ohio, so I'm continuing in her footsteps

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 26/08/2026

is ~~kissinger~~ even in this thing!

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 25/08/2026

My 3 year old and I were reading "I Am Dolly Parton" last night :(

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026

tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation

youtube.com

What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 24/08/2026

just breaking out the textbook definition of genocidal language, cool cool cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 20/08/2026

Don garber pulls off a face mask and it's been an episode of Nathan for you this entire time

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 20/08/2026

The one thing it doesn't look like it has, and therefore might still need zoning approval, is the local power transformer (lines are already there though). I have a FOIA request in with the authority for agendas and minutes, so I'll continue to let folks know what I find

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 20/08/2026

It also has fiber and natural gas already available onsite, which would be very attractive to a data center, given how often they need to run on backup generators.

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 20/08/2026

The site already has water supply on site and is already contracted for 1M gallons a day of water and wastewater. That was a big concern in Hanover, but they don't have to get a zoning change for that in Pulaski.

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 20/08/2026

In my Hanover County, data centers have so far been defeated by denied zoning changes, but the situation in Pulaski County is different: They already have a lot of the infrastructure onsite, but seem to be missing at least one thing that would require Supervisors approval

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 20/08/2026

The land the Authority owns is around the Pulaski County Airport, in between the runway and the Town of Dublin. The Authority owns the land, and my father-in-law says there are rumors of a September handover date.

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 20/08/2026

Codenamed "Project Goose," the Virginia's First Regional Industrial Facility Authority wants to hold a community meeting about a proposed data center

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 20/08/2026

Dug into something my father-in-law put me on, and a consortium of 11 localities in Southwest Virginia are in negotiations to bring a data center codenamed "Project Goose" to Pulaski County, right behind the Town of Dublin

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 19/08/2026

The only good thing about the redistricting amendment failing is that I don't have to have vindman as my rep

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 19/08/2026

I loved automatic noodle, thank you for it!

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 18/08/2026

This is why the humanities will always be important

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Emily Higgs Kopin @ehkopin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

example of why digital preservation as a primarily social issue rather than a technical one. I wish discourse about this focused on that piece, the failures of policy and labor outsourcing and technofeudalism. Preservation is people, it is not a hard drive or a NAS or [insert obvious solution here]

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 12/08/2026

I'm sick of psychologist and therapist websites telling me that them not taking insurance is actually a benefit to me. I get why many places don't, but lets all be honest with each other: a lot of us don't have an extra $600 a month, so those "benefits" only go to the already financially secure.

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 06/08/2026

Trump energized voters already starting to leave the electorate? or too simple a conclusion

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 01/08/2026

"especially in those countries where support is most needed" aka "i really thought you would let me bribe you"

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 29/07/2026

open.spotify.com/track/4U9Zjq... open.spotify.com/track/0MSjS4... open.spotify.com/track/62Zspg... open.spotify.com/track/6xgCx5...

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 28/07/2026

that's.....pretty bad for 5 years

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 28/07/2026

I actively disrespect anyone who platforms Matt Yglesias. He's a vapid, self-searching hack and he and Chris Cilizza should make like a coronal mass ejection and hurtle away from all of known humanity at millions of miles an hour

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 27/07/2026

Its been over 16 years since the men's soccer concern in DC could reliably do something like this #dcu

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