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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 4h

I want to hang out with this guy every day. Only rule is no translator, ever, for either of us

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 9h

Feel bad for all 37 of those viewers

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 10h

Imagine being someone who spends their time arguing that this isn’t apartheid

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 17h

“Vote Blue No Matter Who!! …wait, not YOU, we don’t mean you”

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 18h

Rape culture is the worst part of Greek life, but not even the only problematic one. It all rests on a foundation of othering and male hierarchy. Promises of a great life with endless connections - as long as you debase yourself during rush, mistreat women and call the alums “sir” when they visit

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PCA hasn't caught any of these homers. And I was told he was the MVP

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two things can be (and are) true: 1. Relative to the past, this Senate vote is a positive step 2. It's still disgusting that if it weren't for the 9 Americans, they'd be fine continuing the slaughter with our tax dollars

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026

Since 2022, Israel has done all of these in the WB •Killed over 1,300 Palestinians. •Killed 9 American citizens. • Detained over 30,000 Palestinians in military prisons • Displaced over 45,000 Palestinians • Established over 260 illegal settlements and settler outposts on stolen Palestinian land.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The writers of Idiocracy rejected this plot line because it was too silly for their premise

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stay at home (work from home technically, but with a very flexible schedule) dad here - daycare is as essential to our life as a car or an internet connection. Having it available for free would be a life-changing event.

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Claire Connelly @claireconnelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Concern for women’s safety is never so quiet as it is when one of us is assaulted by a man, or in this case a group of men

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Claire Connelly @claireconnelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Re Cornell: Where are the bathroom defenders now?

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It don’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning’s winning.

Me winning my fantasy baseball league by 1 point

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Right down to the billionaires who are funding this death spiral, very intentionally, so they and their friends can do whatever they want without being held accountable at all

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hillary is absolutely seething that she didn’t get to be the one invading Iran

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 26/09/2026

Has any left-wing member of Congress ever praised Trump's foreign policy so directly and so unequivocally as the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate?

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Hillary Clinton and Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza - The American Prospect

Why would the former Democratic presidential nominee endorse one of Trump’s more grotesque ventures?

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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Breaking Bad is a great show. It isn't even the best show made within its own universe. I only speak facts

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nic Cage butchering an absolute legend while Christian Bale does Oscar-level acting alongside him sounds incredible, sign me up

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat?

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Asked our car dealer rep for some basic lease-end info. He sent me a screenshot of an AI Google search as an answer.

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Pffttt Facepalm

Alt: Pffttt Facepalm

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Despicable creature

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hell yeah, shouts to JVP and all these brave people. Let them hear you

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A protest organized by @jvp.bsky.social has just blocked traffic on First Avenue at 39th Street to protest today’s speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s “class warfare” if employees unionize or citizens protest a government action, but it’s “the American way” when a corporation lays off 4,000 people so the CEO’s stock will go up .75 points

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This kid is Canadian Kucherov if he stays healthy

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Lord help us" absolutely sent me

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seeing a LOT of Blue Wave certainty based on polling data over a month before elections. Do we all have goldfish memories or what?

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

These people will talk about a “big tent“ and then say that a position held by over half of Democratic party voters is DISQUALIFYING.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Scott Galloway says that Abdul El-Sayed calling Gaza a genocide, the consensus of basically every credible international institution, is “disqualifying.” Absolutely absurd.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Any AI proponent who isn't also a universal basic income proponent is giving the game away. If you truly believe this tech will replace/revolutionize human jobs, then UBI is the only logical next step for a society.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy 13th birthday to the most hilarious Emmy decision in history (a high bar to clear, I know):

Jeff Daniels winning the 2013 Best Actor Emmy for The Newsroom over Bryan Cranston, Hugh Bonneville, Damian Lewis, Kevin Spacey and John Hamm

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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Me whenever I see someone post about how the Twitter experience has once again somehow gotten even worse for them, a person still actively using Twitter

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fuck Zionism for so many reasons, but one I'm really feeling lately is how it's splintered numerous Jewish communities. I was never a religious Jew, but I always LOVED the Jewish community (in particular how they didn't other me for not being religious). Now I'm a complete leper there.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"If you are making a New Yorker's life a little smoother, so too you are making their journey to believe in government's ability to deliver for them." The guy just gets it.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Life update: The 3 year old has begun saying “oh dear” with frequency

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Liberals: “Conservatives don’t care about any societal issue until it personally impacts them! What a bunch of selfish jerks, right guys???” Also liberals, to a trans person: “Shut the fuck up and accept lesser rights so that our candidate can win”

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Liberals will naturally try to paint this kind of self-serving ignorance as a conservative-only problem, but it’s not. It’s an American problem. Want proof? Just look at trans rights or Gaza.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is awesome, fantastic work. Make some time

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Liberals will naturally try to paint this kind of self-serving ignorance as a conservative-only problem, but it’s not. It’s an American problem. Want proof? Just look at trans rights or Gaza.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The racism is cool, the fascism is no problem, but by god if you threaten our access we will not stand for it

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Working from a coffee shop all week because the "top local fiber provider" in my area has been getting DDoS'd since Thursday and can't handle it. They've done the impossible: Make me pine for Xfinity (switching to them next week)

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sports gambling legalization is the wrongest I’ve ever been about anything. I legit supported this shit and thought it was the right move a decade ago. What a fucking idiot

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Jeff Brack @jeffbrack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If everyone did what they thought was right and defended it on it's merits in good faith, we'd be so much better off. Instead, we pretend everything is a system that needs to be gamed and nobody does anything in good faith.

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