Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 2hI don't pretend to understand how a text to voice works but I know it doesn't just work on how things sound, because there's no way it could mix up the way I say "we're" and the way I say "were," but it does it all the time 000
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 2hI love those days when you look at your afternoon schedule with mounting dread but apparently everyone else was feeling the same so one after another meetings get canceled and you actually have the afternoon to do work 110
Reposted by Ben AbrahamseMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/08/2025- DC/PR/USVI statehood - Enlarging the House - MMDs - New VRA - Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop... - Automatic universal voter registration - Rewriting <all> the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop... - Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop... Etc. 30610141
Reposted by Ben AbrahamseRichard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 22hWhy did Eric Schmitt fuck up his gotcha moment so badly? No one involved considered the possibility that Jack Smith attended a women’s basketball game. A MAGAt undone by misogyny. Not at all surprising. 30383721522
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026But they were all deceived, for he was in Row 1A at the Hawkwind concert, that night 000
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026as a tech services librarian I often feel like it's my job just to sit and listen to very long explanations and then ask, Ok great, but what about serials? 081
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026if you were an adult in the 1990s you probably remember how conservatives could not stop talking about how terrible it is that liberals will make you say funny words out of a concern for political correctness 240
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026if Democrats were any kind of a political party they would already be demanding that senator Schmitt apologize and resign 5184
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026saw another one of Boston's finest on patrol (leaning against a stop sign with his face buried in his phone) 020
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I don't know about you but I'm looking forward to the hearings where Jack Smith gets to be the one to ask the questions 052
Reposted by Ben AbrahamseYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026 619125
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sen Schmitt just eternally beclowned himself. For the rest of his natural life he will be the dude who doesn't know the difference between Hawks and Hawkeyes 2342
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The next Democratic President needs to make it clear to Musk, Bezos, and the rest of the oligarchs that if they want access to the White House they are free, like anyone else, to take the tour 071
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026fine I'll bite. I don't like Texas, and I don't like songs about Texas 000
Reposted by Ben AbrahamseUrvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which. 142464853
Reposted by Ben AbrahamseAskme @askme99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Only in America do they deny children free lunch while forcing them to read about Jesus feeding the hungry. 563241710
Reposted by Ben AbrahamseSolidPhil @solidphil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If the Democrats sweep and do nothing to effectively enforce accountability then there are two US political parties that must be destroyed. 0103
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Im sorry but if you bring 10 olives-one on each finger-to a job interview, you are disqualified. it's not hard,. people 040
Reposted by Ben AbrahamseAmanda Cook @amandacook627.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Protect trans kids. That's it. That's the post. 053
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026but show up with a Dunkin Box of Joe and when do you start 131
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026humans are resilient and fragile at the same time. we're made out of clay 020
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026it's okay for rich people to be feeble-minded because they are rich but I don't recommend a normal person not remember their address 010
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026still processing the fact that Venus ate its moon 010
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026little vignette about this piece of shit who thinks he is a doctor 030
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"the Revenant Senator from Kentucy, Mitch McConnell" 041
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the more widespread the loss the GOP suffers in November the harder it will be to claim a rigged election 110
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026worst thing about a head cold is the almost certain knowledge it's going to drop into your chest & you will be coughing for the next 3 weeks 010
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I haven't been seriously sick or injured in years I guess I better do something about that before Dr Oz kicks me off my insurance 030
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026tired staging Shakespeare in Old English wired: staging Shakespeare in Anglo Norman 000
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Republicans in 2028 we have always been against Trump and in fact the person who was most responsible for Trump is Joe Biden 130
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Susan Collins is deeply worried and even concerned about the influence of big money on elected politicians 160
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026gonna be kind of weird when by the middle of the 21st century countries go back to encouraging immigration & competing over skilled immigrants. And the US will have fucking destroyed its inherent advantage 020
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026this is maybe the dumbest fucking thing I've read all day 130
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026this is ridiculous ofc, and nothing like my carefully curated collection of McNuggets sauces and soy sauce packets, of which I am very proud 020
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Obviously, all monumental architecture in DC serves a dual purpose for national defense. The Washington Monument is also a missile silo 000
Reposted by Ben Abrahamseraymz @raymz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational triumphal arch 0163
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Democracy relies on convincing, not influencing 070
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I bought my kid so many Lego sets but now he's old enough to help me put together furniture, so maybe I knew what I was doing 030
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026it sure feels like the elites know their days are counted & are doing their best to leave nothing unfucked up before they get tossed out 030
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026someone made a joke how every librarian has their own Hogwarts house and I was like, not in the last 5 years they don't 090
Reposted by Ben AbrahamseDilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026There's too much talent trapped in poverty and too much mediocrity funded. Just sayin. 4766228
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026halfway through a bowl of all natural raisin bran and I think my jaws are too tired to finish 130
Reposted by Ben Abrahamsemewelke @mewelke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A campaign to help City College students mtyc.co/c6ltmfmtyc.coSupport Elizabeth's LBCC's Basic Needs Campaign! on Long Beach Gives Campaign!Many LBCC students are financially struggling, resulting in food insecurity, making it difficult to study and pay attention in classes when they are hungry. The Viking Vault food pantry is their lifel... 011
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I mean obviously it's not great from the first amendment standpoint but personally I wouldn't mind hearing less reporting about captain crazy pants and whatever bullshit is going through his moth ridden attic of a brain 020
Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026once again: the reason we have libraries is to keep librarians off the streets where they cause trouble 214156
