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Brad Benner

@bbenner7.bsky.social
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Fifty-something software development engineer living in Idaho. Lover of fast computers, slow airplanes, nat 20's, and things that go bang! He/him.

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43rd State Blues @43sbdotcom.bsky.social · 7h
"Everything" pretty much sums it up...
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Nathaniel Hoffman @paleomedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
David Adler of Idaho Falls Alturas Institute: “Really, HJR 4 asks Idahoans to surrender both their rights and their powers to shape their future.” idahocapitalsun.com/2026/10/06/p...
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Passing HJR 4 would give Idaho Legislature sole authority to legalize marijuana, other drugs • Idaho Capital Sun
Idaho voters decide whether to give Legislature sole power to regulate drugs and eliminate their right to bring a ballot initiative to do so.
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Brad Benner @bbenner7.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on Bluesky.
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Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Alien Contact
Alt: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Alien Contact
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026
Here's the @perimeterinstitute.bsky.social write-up of today's physics Nobel Prize, featuring a quote from our director, particle physicist Marcela Carena, and one toward the end by me :) perimeterinstitute.ca/news/francis...
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Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics | PI News
The 2026 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to particle physicist Francis Halzen today “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Campaigning against the spread" is woefully inadequate, because the status quo is ALREADY intolerable. The campaigning should be to not only ban these unconstitutional things, but to destroy every one that already exists.
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Brad Benner @bbenner7.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
tremors and jaws are both great movies, and Jaws probably succeeds more as a work of horror. but Tremors is actually perfect. an almost unique example of a film executed flawlessly in line with its vision.
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Sisyphus Idaho @sisyphus43.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
current status
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Brad Benner @bbenner7.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Post a vampire not Dracula.
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Count Duckula's Scary Carrot Encounter
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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I did NOT vote for the rapist @sarahgies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Your sons and daughters are
10000x safer with drag queens than frat boys btw
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
slow clap 👏🏾
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IdahoLark @idaholark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And positraction.
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Brad Benner @bbenner7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You know this is coming....
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Interesting. Thank you, America.gov!
Screenshot of America.gov answering whether the Trump administration has arrested any of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients or co-conspirators during Trump’s current term. It says no arrests could be verified and cites a July 2025 DOJ/FBI review stating it found no incriminating “client list” or evidence sufficient to predicate an investigation of uncharged third parties.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Zuckerberg thinks his vile surveillance gewgaw can be magically made less vile by putting it in the form of a baby rattle. Though admittedly, he does seem to understand the intellectual level of his intended audience of marks.
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Brad Benner @bbenner7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is nothing quite like having 100 lbs. of Black Lab/Pit Bull mix getting a case of the zoomies. It's...something else, that's for sure. #dogsofbluesky
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
Shared with me by @jjindc.bsky.social, in the Denver Post. Dana Miller, you rock. Flight attendants know what’s up.
Immigrants shackled for
DIA flights are at risk
It was good to see Denver International Airport's commitment to safety demonstrated by its full-scale emergency exercise Aug. 19. 1 was a flight attendant for close to 30 years and I am glad to see the exercise included realtime role-playing, not relying solely on simulated training scenarios.
I wonder if DEN included the consideration that Immigration and Customs Enforcement charters fly in and out of the airport frequently.
These ICE flights contain passengers who are shack-led. They are restrained by leg irons and handcuffs attached to a waist chain and stay shackled throughout the flights. The restraints prevent them from reaching for an oxygen mask if there is a decompression, and in the event of a water emergency, donning personal life vests would be nigh impossible.
It seems to me that specialized training would be necessary for first responders and firefighting crews. Evacuations and rescues of an aircraft full of shackled passengers could make a horrifying situation much worse.
- Dana Miller, Denver
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Larry J. Simon @larryjsimon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring … and it blossoms in the summer … and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone … just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops." mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giama...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Poor, sad, stupid orange white man. He would sell his soul—and country—for a few hollow words of praise."
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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The tech bros wake up every day wondering how they can make the world a worse place.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I would *never* drink iced coffee at a job interview. That is so lame—when you could be lining up shots of tequila!
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404 Media @404media.co · 25/09/2026
Meta announced that its new AI agent, Muse could call businesses for you to do things like make reservations. But in reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media @jasonkoebler.bsky.social learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well, Trumpism is a cult, and they're always babbling about Greco-Roman civilization. So I think they should pattern themselves after the cult of Cybele and simply castrate every ICE goon.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CEO of MicrosoftAI on anthropomorphization: “AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations. They are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by humans.“
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A warning about ‘model welfare’
AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. Training a model to believe it might be a moral patient, as Anthropic’s constitution does, makes the alignment and containment challenge...
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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is elder abuse.
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Sisyphus Idaho @sisyphus43.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 16/09/2026
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Brad Benner @bbenner7.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That poor cleaning crew...
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hi Trump. Get out the ketchup. NBC: The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rates for the first time since 2023, in a move aimed at slowing inflation that picked up again last month. The Fed’s hike of 0.25% brings the central bank’s flagship rate to 3.75% to 4.00%.
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As a sociologist, can confidently say, this is not an ethical experiment.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Very interesting, and good to know. I hope that learning about this leads to understanding, and understanding to acceptance.
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Buddy Stone @buddystone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Accurate. They really are THAT stupid.
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Brad Benner @bbenner7.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Another good explanation as to what really happened with the "rogue" chat bots...
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Journalists, you understand that you don't need to promote fascist propaganda, right? You really can just say "Flock" and people will understand which company you mean. You don't need to repeatedly parrot the copaganda claim that unconstitutional warrantless surveillance is "safety".
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Whitesheepranch @whitesheepranch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is gold. I might just post it every day so Idahoans can see why we need to #RetireRisch. I want a senator who's not afraid to talk to people. @achillesid.bsky.social
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Politico cartoon
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She started one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night.” ― Arthur Henry Reginald Buller
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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
100%. There is a huge failure by the DC press corps, and if it was any other president, of either party, they would definitely be reporting it.
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Brad Benner @bbenner7.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is a fantastic look as to what really happened. I highly recommend giving this a read!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nailed it
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I wish people who "just have questions" about trans issues would spend even five minutes just *trying* to research trans issues. Because the inevitable conclusion I get from 95% of people who do this is that all they really want is their internal discomfort with trans people validated.
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