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benjamintf1.bsky.social

@benjamintf1.bsky.social
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like board games. lefty Car/Suburb Abolitionist/ Public Transit gang. Heckin love doggos. Am a software engineer by trade. Wish I had friends to hang out with

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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not sure. Honestly I'd love to see a in depth industry analysis of the economics and logistics of book series, but id think each book in the series would have a decreasing market in terms of audience. Perhaps some sort of logarithmic curve down. Iirc libraries always have the most copies of book 1
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I get some people get upset about companies like waymo sometimes getting increased scrutiny when they behave like assholes(or especially moreso, when safe in ways that frustrate road ragers), but it's wild when you start with that and your conclusion is "asshole behavior is cool and good actually"
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ain't ever gonna catch my ass paying for TSSA premium or KKKustoms and border protection+.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"may I see your boarding pass" Oh so we're gatekeeping flying now.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"this ain't my first rodeo" ~ guy at his second rodeo
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Celsius? What's happened to you? Who took Val?
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tbh, there's some part of me that's like "1$ Is something that, although a big lift/push to politically pas, sounds viable to add as a surcharge to gas fee's". It's not quite a "solution to allow us to pretend we can keep things the same forever", it's an incentive for change then.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's wild how you can be walking down some street in Europe and it Will just be absolutely packed with people and some fucking dickhead will be like "excuse me, make way for king dickhead in a car. I absolutely must drive through this packed pedestrian plaza"
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's one thing to talk about evs when you have control of your house/garage, but I think institutional power to get electric charging as an option in parking garages in apartments good.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"what if we had a roundabout but it was bullshit" England is out there inventing some nonsense
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Claims to be a leftist, doesn't drive/bike/walk on the left side of the road/sidewalk
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Turns out the answer is yes. Yes they do. Also there's a line of text on them that says "please don't take me off the plane"
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm not the type of person to steal from like hotels, but I do wonder if anyone has ever stolen those.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Stupid thought in my brain: "what if I stole the laminated airbusA330-200 safety information card/booklet"
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tsa k9s could be in use. Do not pet the dogs
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
have you been to LA before and what did you think of it?
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I suspect this might not be what you're referring to, but by "standard hardware" do you mean "red and blue flashing lights"? 😂
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Having more then one credit card seems fucking wild to me not gonna lie.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You shouldn't really be a "carnivore". All humans are omnivores and we should all be reducing our meat consumption (in America at least for most). We don't need to cede ground to the manosphere Peterson types. Texas doesn't even "own" chili. It comes from Mexico
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Correction tho. Chili con frijoles. Huevos is eggs I messed up. You never see that term around but you do see chili con carne because the meat is optional.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm saying etymology and history proves the subset of texans(or identifying as aligned with this "texan" stance) hatred of beans wrong. They can eat their chili without beans, but it isn't a "more pure" version of chili. It's perhaps even less authentic.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If meat belonged in chili there'd be no need to specify "chili con carne" as a variant of chili as it'd be redundant. Con juevos is therefore assumed to be present. Beans therefore are more core to chili then meat. Ty for attending my chili lecture.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Modern people: "this would kill a Victorian child" Victorian child: "time to drink a pint of gin"
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 01/09/2025
happy labor day
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Now, Richard, I am with thee here alone: This is the hand that stabb'd thy father York; And this the hand that slew thy brother Rutland;" richard, you have him, he's run out of hands to slay.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"My Lord of Warwick, hear me but one word: Let me" henry vi doesn't know how to count
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
`And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose,As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate,Will I forever, and my faction, wear` bro was made he had to pick rose color second and got stuck with white
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Two households, both alike in dignity (In fair Verona, where we lay our scene), From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Ok it's line 6 but still
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm watching this YouTube video about Shakespeare and they were like "well one of the difficulties with Romeo and Juliet is everyone knows how it ends now" and I'm like? Did you fucking see it, because they literally describe how it ends in the like 5th fucking line. Wtf
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What about for me for a beer.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's wild that people will be like "ben you were a child in the 2000s, your opinion on the mania of the 2000s is irrelevant" and don't realize that if I acted like a child id have the excuse of being a child. But they were adults and they acted like children and still act like toddlers.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Fun fact about Denver. www.rtd-denver.com/zero-fare-fo...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
one thing that is really frustrating about our discourse right now is that we’re just not talking about hasan piker enough
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This would be hilarious for "historic parking garages".
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart. Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound, But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
`I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Why, so can I, or so can any man, But will they come when you do call for them?` I think i've seen this line before, it's a good one tho
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
`Do you not love me? Do you not indeed? Well, do not then, for since you love me not, I will not love myself.` girl have some self respect
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
`By the Lord, our plot is a good plot as ever was laid, our friends true and constant—a good plot, good friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot, very good friends.` me when i plot in crusader kings
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm choosing to imagine the Russian American character also speaking in an Italian American accent too, because i find it funny. "🤌I am russian 🤌"
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Guy with completely loose and bouncing to threaten to fall off and impail whoever is behind them truck needs to loose their cdl then prolly get kicked in the groin a few times till they learn to have some basic safety sense and decency
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
What if the real sea people are the friends we made along the way.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
to be fair, that's pretty consistent with my introduction to the concept I think? (I think www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9jq... is one of the videos i originally saw?)
youtube.com
Who were the Sea Peoples? | The Bronze Age Collapse
YouTube video by ReligionForBreakfast
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
makes sense
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
which like even then i'd accept the former premise is wrong. I assume, to some degree, you're referring to the Emily Wilson article? I was kinda disappointed she just said "it's made up" without digging into which parts of it are made up and why.
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
tbh, i'd still file this under "sea people's are real" category? If you say "ahh yes, there was a big period of societal upheaval caused by raiding greeks and they were sometimes called the sea people's at the time" I'd be like "ok". If you say "they arn't from Atlantis therefore fake" id say huh?
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
yes
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I make too much money
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benjamintf1.bsky.social @benjamintf1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What?
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