Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 141152925115
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I've heard The Bear really fell off. Haven't watched past S2, but even when it was good, a character stabbed another character while they were feuding, and even though it was accidental, she never apologized and the two characters just somehow became cool with each other. 000
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'll just preemptively say fuck Rahm Emanuel regardless of whether he runs or not. 061
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You can tell Control Resonant wasn't made in America by the way there are billboards all across Manhattan promoting awareness about climate change, unionization, and suing your employer for wrongful termination. 4907143
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” 282158852
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Rose 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @anaemicroyalty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Have we seen what Sheeran's cousin said about him? Brutal hahaha clearly a long held grudge. 58918
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 21/09/2026when mom says we're out of toaster strudels and I have to eat a pop tart instead 2983878
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026American politics is just putting a picture of the current president on a gas pump. 000
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Jill Valentine needs her own new mainline Resident Evil game. 010
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 16/09/2026Detroit the first city to be represented solely by DSA members in US house democraticleft.dsausa.org/2026/09/06/c...democraticleft.dsausa.orgCurtain Closing on 2026 Primaries - Democratic LeftPlus a plan for universal healthcare in Pennsylvania, a stand with nurses in Boston, and two high-profile mayoral endorsements in this month’s edition of “Chapter and Verse.” 14802140
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Here's Ed Sheeran being apolitical and not taking sides 110123
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I swear they made Mike Johnson in a lab. He might even be AI himself. 000
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The thing is, Ed Sheeran did pick a side, and it was the wrong one. Fuck Ed Sheeran. 000
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The through-line for the Workers Deserve More program is an expansion of democracy, in our communities, in our politics, and in our economy. Visit dsausa.org/join today and help bring real democracy to our lives. You can also see the full Workers Deserve More program at program.dsausa.org 🌹 28828
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 12/09/2026Whether intentional or not, what @lillywachowski.bsky.social has said is *precisely* what needs to be said, at *precisely* the time it needs to be said. This puts Rowling on her back foot at the worst possible time for the HBO series. Brava, Lilly! 71782425
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Hitler just gives him a head nod and keeps walking 000
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I find the current state of AI depressing as hell. 000
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Ian, in the Year of the Bean🫛🫘 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Can't think of a better example of the @doctorow.pluralistic.net "Reverse Centaur" argument of tech than paying a human to be constantly alert in case a machine screws up, rather than paying a human to drive and having a machine be alert in case they screw up. 69116
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/09/2026Free newsletter: The AI bubble bears remarkable similarities to the great financial crisis - AI startups are the NINJA borrowers, and Anthropic and OpenAI's $1.3tn in compute commitments are the adjustable-rate mortgages set to explode starting in 2027. www.wheresyoured.at/concentration-risk/ 13501123
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026How do you go from making First Reformed, an excellent climate alarm movie, to saying extremely-bad-for-the-environment AI slop is inevitable and using it to make your shitty script into a shitty movie? 000
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/09/2026You have this asymmetry where the White House can make video games on government websites about brutalizing immigrants but a random Democrat has a few old tweets and the latter carries the news cycle. It's all such incredibly performative bs. 351430267
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Hoping something cool happens today on my birthday 000
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹jacob galapagos @jacobgalapagos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It’s think for yourself thursday 241492353
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Yes, a lot of people, including myself, hate that we're funding a colonial project currently engaged in a genocide and hate the ideology behind it. 010
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/09/2026Last night, Seth Moulton became the latest anti-trans Democrat to fall. There is good evidence that his anti-trans positions directly impacted the election - 67% of voters said those positions made them less likely to vote for him. Markey wins in a landslide. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comSeth Moulton Abandoned Trans People, And It Cost Him Everything: Ed Markey Crushes Him In MA Senate PrimaryMoulton is the latest Democrat to lose his job after staking out anti-trans positions. 191523291
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I thought the new HP series was at least telling new side stories or heading into the future or the past. This really is just remaking the movies. If you REALLY need a nostalgia fix, just get the books or movies out from the library. I want this brand poisonous/dead while the TERF is profiting. 021
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract. 9052112614
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Counterpoint: All Trump does is make deals for the American people. He is a bad deal machine except when it comes to doing crime for his own personal benefit. 000
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Remember when Elon Musk's DOGE cut all that wasteful government spending and our lives all got immensely better? 000
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I find the AI push incredibly depressing. So much online content has become homogenous, soulless, inauthentic, and flat-out fake. It is not inevitable to have it take over. Another great episode from Citations Needed. 010
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right 1101286176347
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I legitimately believe that the proliferation of AI slop, if left unchecked, will serve to further detach people from reality. We've obviously had illustrations before, but it was never posing as real-life. This slop pretends to be human-made, and I just find it so cheap and valueless. 021
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Facebook just serves me a ton of posts now of AI generated menus from restaurants because I keep telling the businesses that they are serving slop. Look at this monstrosity. This is not what tacos look like! 000
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I don't even think we'll have people working on the moon in 50 years, my dumb/lying/stock-bumping dude. 000
Reposted by Ben Gifford 🌹Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-... 10154591825
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Dems got us Medicare for all when they put on the Kente cloth, so I think Jeffries is getting us high-speed rail now with this latest killer photo. 010
Ben Gifford 🌹 @bengiff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I'm curious about how much it costs them to run this kind of surveillance and how it actually benefits them. 000
