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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

That is a thing Michael Burry likes to say.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I miss my claymation Einstein.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Even a broken clock runs once a day.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Are you a conservative grifter not getting the lift you needed being "Big Mad about a black lady in the Odyssey?" Podcast numbers limp? Great news! Disney+ has a new movie with an ASIAN Mad Hatter! Get in on the ground floor! You'll be booking protein supplements again in no time! #NotMyHatter

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Such a relief. I was really worried after that cut to black.

Tony Soprano and his wife, alive, with today's Washington Post.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Our Dear Most Alive Senator McConnell called us today and spoke with perfect eloquence for many minutes. He gave correct and very lucid answers to all our difficult questions. Then he played a perfect round of golf: eighteen holes in one in a row!"

famous North Korean news anchor presenting a broadcast.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Look. The press release doesn't say they're going to end up diverting a bunch of money to Trump's own nuclear startup. That's not how press releases work. It also doesn't say it's for making AP1000s. It MENTIONS AP1000s, and it says the loan is for reactors.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Press releases are not news. Here's what the news said about how targeted and above board this program is.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

@gizmodo.com This is happening on your site right now. It's very bad. Shut it down right now.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Seeing old works with new eyes.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels cover with a man tied down with ropes by lilliputians.

Tonight's episode: the writer's barely-disguised fetish.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“ᴹʸ ⁿᵃᵐᵉ ᶦˢ ᴼᶻʸᵐᵃⁿᵈᶦᵃˢ, ᴷᶦⁿᵍ ᵒᶠ ᴷᶦⁿᵍˢ.” ᴸᵒᵒᵏ ᵒⁿ ᵐʸ ʷᵒʳᵏˢ ʸᵉ ᴹᶦᵍʰᵗʸ, ᵃⁿᵈ ᵈᵉˢᵖᵃᶦʳᵎ

Turtle on a toppled Japanese pagoda in a pond

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Me reading about another four felonies openly committed by the President and cabinet-level members of the Trump administration this morning, just like every other morning since January 20th, 2025.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Brb hitting up the print shop. Gotta get these mailed off before FedEx closes.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

There should be penalties for lying under oath in your confirmation hearings.

Nytimes: Here's the latest.
Kevin M. Warsh, President Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve, asserted at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday that he would not do the president's bidding on interest rate decisions, pledging to be "strictly independent" if confirmed for one of the world's most powerful economic positions. In sometimes testy exchanges, Mr. Warsh, 56, sought to dispel doubts around his credibility, saying Mr. Trump had "never asked nme to predetermine, commit, fix, decide on any interest rate decision in any of our discussions, nor would I ever agree to do so."

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

In July, she claimed to be from Nevada before the Ways and Means committee. Either way, hell of a long delivery drive.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The sort of detail CBS could only have gotten by Googling her name, but presumably the Ellisons made them use OracleSearch or something.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Everything he touches. Every time. No exceptions.

The Tesla event on the White House lawn with Elon Musk occurred on March 11, 2025. During this "showcase" President Trump inspected multiple Tesla vehicles on the South Lawn to show support for Musk's company and announced his intention to buy a Tesla Model
S.NBC News

Elon Musk announced on January 28, 2026, during Tesla's Q4 2025 earnings call, that the Model S (and Model X) will be discontinued by the end of Q2 2026. This decision aims to repurpose the Fremont factory production lines for the Optimus humanoid robot, focusing on an autonomous future, with final orders for the vehicles now closed. Fox Business

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The right is much better at weaponizing the mathematical illiteracy of the US population, but they sure aren't the only ones who suffer from it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/s...

Based on U.S. Census Bureau data for those specific years, here is how those numbers represent the percentage of the adult population (ages 18 and older):

1. The Year 1990
Single Adults: 70 million

Total Adult Population (18+): ~185.1 million

Percentage: 37.8%

2. The Year 2023
Single Adults: 111 million

Total Adult Population (18+): ~263.5 million

Percentage: 42.1%

The growing number of U.S. singles indicates she’s in good company. As of 2023, the last data available from Pew Research Center, there were about 111 million single adults ages 18 and up in the United States. That was a sizable increase from 70 million in 1990.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"I have escaped justice and that is the same thing as innocence. And I skipped several of the child sex trafficker's birthday parties."

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

As coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her. And she's not only merely dead,

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Hey look that burger purchase included three bucks towards the childcare.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Fun Quiz! This NYT article was written: A. Monday. B. Monday a week ago. C. Monday two weeks ago.

Here’s the latest.
After a day of conflicting signals about when the war against Iran might end, President Trump struck a belligerent tone Monday evening, warning of even more aggressive action if Iranian leaders tried to cut off the world’s energy supply.

“We will hit them so hard that it will not be possible for them or anybody else helping them to ever recover that section of the world,” Mr. Trump said, meeting with reporters.

Earlier in the day, the president suggested that the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran could be near an end. The war “is very complete, pretty much,” Mr. Trump said in a phone interview with a CBS reporter, Weijia Jiang. He said, “We’re very far ahead of schedule.”

Those comments appeared to ease market fears of a prolonged war. Oil prices dropped and stocks rose. But after markets closed for the day, Mr. Trump appeared to switch gears.

“We have won in many ways, but not enough,” he told a gathering of Republican lawmakers in Florida. “We go forward more determined than ever to achieve ultimate victory that will end this long-running danger once and for all.”

Asked at the news conference later if the war with Iran would be over this week, Mr. Trump said, “No.” He said only “soon, very soon.”

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I'm just so tired of people whose job it is to plainly describe reality tying themselves into pretzels every single day to avoid stating the obvious fact that he's suffering from dementia.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Just months away from an insurance company going to court to argue whether Trump is, in fact, a God.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

No see they're wearing these, not boots at all. New eight billion dollar Pentagon contract, great footwear for combat, the best, not boots, doesn't count.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I choose to believe the otherwise bizarre use of "concept" in this statement was extremely intentional.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Glad I got my warp back to working.

2mo2.com daily challenge, win with 4 seconds remaining.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

New York Times scours thesaurus to unearth previously unattempted euphemisms for "dementia."

NY Times: "Live Updates: After Global Economy Shudders, Trump Zigzags on Whether War Is Nearing End
The president told reporters at a news conference in Florida that the fighting is “going to be ended soon” but added that the U.S. would strike Iran harder if needed."

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

JUST under the wire. If my engine had been hit I would have been sunk.

2mo2 daily challenge. 0 seconds remaining win.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Pretty big story today as the sitting President has been accused by what the FBI called a credible witness of raping a child, in documents illegally hidden and then finally released by the FBI. Let's see where this news is on the New York Times homepage!

Very long screenshots of the New York Times homepage, all the way to the style section. The story is not present.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Probably the ideal preference for Claude to have!

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Amazing that Sneakers came out in 1992. (Fun fact: the consultant on that movie is the Turing Award recipient Len Adleman, the "A" in the RSA algorithm).

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I imagine folks like Runpod are probably offering them up for PRETTY close to cost? They don't have the deep pocketed investors you'd need to subsidize for market share and I doubt Nvidia is giving them hardware under wholesale. Internal costs for, eg, Meta would be cheaper but not dramatically.

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Even ICE agents, in THIS administration, at THIS moment in history, are granted the New York Times' unearned, baffling presumption that, surely, if they killed an unarmed man, it was a product of "flawed reasoning" and not their fully realized, cruel, criminal intention. But it was their intention.

New York times headline:

"New Video Analysis Reveals
Flawed and Fatal Decisions in
Pretti Shooting A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the officers who shot him shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn't pose a threat."

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