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Ben Dreyfuss

@bendreyfuss.bsky.social
22K followers 137 following 447 posts

You don’t need to follow me just because we were mutuals on Twitter. I won’t be offended. Seems like this account is mostly me getting in dumb arguments which I wouldn’t want to read either. CalmDownBen.com

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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Apparently Popehat was banned from BlueSky for some naughty tweets about Elon Musk or something. I just want to register my opinion that this is dumb and banning people from platforms for stuff that isn’t like direct harassment is stupid.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The little bo peep rhyme is fascist www.calmdownben.com/p/little-bo-...
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SOLVED: The Shocking Crime At The Heart Of One Of England's Most Famous Nursery Rhymes
This is longer than you might first expect.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I’m sure everyone in Bluesky will love this podcast with Jesse Singal, hosted by @bendreyfuss.bsky.social and others! www.centralairpodcast.com/p/real-accou...
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The latest episode of everyone’s favorite centrist podcast just dropped! On this week’s episode we welcome little known science journalist @jessesingal.com to discuss his recent NYT op-ed about some issue im sure no one feels strongly about www.centralairpodcast.com/p/real-accou...
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Real Accounts (feat. Jesse Singal)
Jesse joins us to discuss his New York Times op-ed on the turning tide on youth gender medicine, and why people go insane about him on the internet. Plus, Ben's hopes for Iran.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I came over here to defend him but wow fine ok he’s a nazi
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Apparently people on BlueSky got mad at us about this joke about how the files included random nonsense like tweets and articles. That you don’t have a sense of humor isn’t my problem.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Crazy that people on this platform are so happy today considering what’s going on in Sudan. Must be nice not to give a shit about genocide.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I only remember to even open BlueSky once a month but whenever I do I am reminded that I’m quite fond of many of you wish you still did the tweets. A lot of other people on the site I think are not so good, but a lot of you I do miss.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This is a great idea for a podcast but it actually isn’t what ours is about.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Hello BlueSky! Here is something new many of you will hate. I’m doing a new podcast with Josh Barro and Megan McCardle about how centrism is good. www.centralairpodcast.com/p/welcome-to...
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I’m disabled and I think I should have subsidized DoorDash but only me. The other circus freaks don’t deserve it.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The new Superman film is pro-immigrant, but it definitely isn’t woke. It’s a defense of assimilation. open.substack.com/pub/bendreyf...
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
My favorite moment of WelcomeFest was after Josh Barro finished his onstage conversation and sat down next to me and I was giggling and whispered “they’re really mad at you on BlueSky lol” and tried to show him my phone and he was like “I don’t care” and didn’t look
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I fell asleep in a NYC cab once and woke up in a lot in east New York and there was this 6’ guy standing over me and he said he was an important journalist who was a top podcaster and they covered trans issues. And then he put a Heineken bottle up my ass. I woke up 3 days later in Rhode Island.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I love Starbucks for the very simple reason that I hate small business owners
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
BlueSky has been getting owned for not having a sense of humor and the screenshots are quite funny
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
How is BlueSky? Still doing you?
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I’m not surprised the TikTok left has a crush on China. Luigi Mangione is going to die in prison so if your love language is murdering corporate executives, Xi Jinping is going to be the most eligible bachelor on your list not named Vladimir Putin.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I’ve seen a lot of really funny tweets from left wing TikTokers that are like “I wish I lived in glorious China where they respect freedom of speech, celebrate queerness, and people don’t have to work so hard just to scrape by!” I imagine there are some funny version here. Please send me examples
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
When I joined BlueSky all these people blocked me and were not nice but then a few weeks later @jessesingal.com joined and everyone stopped talking about me. I feel a bit like Stalin, rolling around in hell, whining about how he doesn’t get to headline shows.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
This bitch said something not nice to me!!! Chop him up and feed him to the Europeans I mean the poor
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I fucking dare you to make this argument at the Supreme Court! I will argue that the mutants who can shoot death lasers out of their eyes are not protected by the bill of rights because they aren’t humans and you can argue they are. You will lose 8-1, maybe 9-0.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Why are there so many Jews in America? Oh whoops sorry I meant to share this one BlueSky.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy new year to white people I mean everyone
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The X-Men and every other mutant are a clear and present danger to humanity and of course must register their powers with the authorities. This would not be controversial. The bill would pass 99-1 in the Senate. Once we have a cure we also will force them to take it. This is common sense.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
@mcatonj.bsky.social Hi Mr Caton-Jones, my name is Ben Dreyfuss. I’m a journalist. I’m writing a thing about one very specific part of Rob Roy which I don’t think anyone else has covered. I’d love to chat with you if you ever have a few minutes to spare! Best, Ben
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
There is nothing in the preliminary exit polls to suggest that Twitter swung the election to Trump. The groups most active on Twitter did not move towards Trump as much as other groups. Musk and the anti-Musk left both pretend like the other did this but it’s just pretend
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
You can also just say this! This is honest. I am not asking everyone on this site to answer for the worst among them. Of course I’m not. I won’t defend the worst on Facebook or Twitter. I just want people to be more honest about how network effects are the main thing!
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Jesus Christ I am not asking anyone to block anyone. I just was trying to show that a lot of people on this site are assholes too like every other site . I just would like people to say “I use BlueSky because my friends are here” and not “BlueSky is filled with angels!”
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
When I joined BlueSky a month ago I instantly got all these messages calling me a faggot. I then was successfully bullied off and logged out of the app. I remembered my password this week and would like to point out that I am still getting this
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This is such horse shit lol. I played a scenario based paintball game with a friend, and revealed it to social media to explicitly show how reductive and stupid outrage online is! No one was hurt. No one did anything against their will.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
It’s so funny that half of Bluesky was like “yes we must kill all the CEOs and then dance in their blood” but Jesse Singal’s mere presence is what led to the dumb company actually having to be like “let’s discuss moderation”
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
One of the reasons the left shouldn’t try to gin up a civil war is that they’re going to run out of bullets super quickly if they’re putting two in @jessesingal.com’s chest AND one in his forehead.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This is outrageous! I am only blocked by 5k people
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I took some time off this app because I figured it was filled with people being like “yay let’s kill the executives” but have decided to check back in and see if BlueSky has moved on yet
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I’m sorry for how it happened and we should have been nicer about it but we did need to take the land from the Indians. www.calmdownben.com/p/we-did-nee...
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We Should Have Handled It Better But We Did Need To Take The Land From The Indians
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This seems good and productive! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...
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Transgender Activists Question the Movement’s Confrontational Approach
Facing diminishing public support, some activists say all-or-nothing tactics are not working. “We have to make it OK for someone to change their minds.”
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
@eliasisquith.blog hey! Hope you’re doing well! I hate this app but I do like getting to see some friends I haven’t seen in a while.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Many people have said that LGBT+QIA2S is unwieldy and that the acronym should go back to LGBT+. Others have pointed out that + is idiotic and it should be LGBT. Some have said that bisexuality is pretend so it should be LGT. I would go further and say lesbians are just gay women so it should be GT.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I admit that Twitter is in certain ways worse since Musk bought it but it has improved in two ways: 1) a lot of the most annoying people left and moved here, and 2) I now randomly get paid money once in a while for tweets I was already sending
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I love Twitter and will go down with it, but I have lots of memory on my phone and room for many apps that I use only occasionally
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I kept checking BlueSky the last few days sporadically and being like “seems like all these maniacs have stopped complaining about me” and honestly I sort of lost interest, but I just realized it’s because I had turned on this mute. It’s off now and I see you have all continued
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This is absurd lol. The chart in this video ends in 2020 because wealth inequality actually went down immediately after that, aka in the period relevant to this election
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The last 200 years of world history can be summed up as: liberalism and capitalism are so extraordinarily successful that we can afford to tolerate even the perverts and the freaks
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
white college educated men like myself are the only demo that swung towards Kamala. We’re all very frustrated with the minorities and women. Please come to my tedtalk
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
$1,800,000 Clangston, WV 29 bd, 43 ba 62,358 sq ft
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I wonder if we’re going to do war with Iran? On the one hand, I don’t really trust Trump to be the good cop to Israel’s bad cop in such a war. On the other hand, they are asking for it. Maybe we should just get it over with.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Actually we lost
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Donald Trump is a cuck bitch just like Kamala and Biden when it comes to war. What democrats need to do it become loudly pro-war so we can take back the mantle of “killers of terrorists.” Obama got this. We need to invade Cuba (and probably Afghanistan again)
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Trans issues are not why Dems lose elections and it is totally unfair to trans people to blame them for that. Climate change and everything the left has said about race for the last decade is why democrats lose elections.
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