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@bennessee.bsky.social
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🌿🚩 ecosocialist 🦠🧬 microbiologist 🌎📍Knoxville electronic music 🎛🔊 @dialecticsines.bsky.social disco jockey 🪩🎧 @deejayba.bsky.social

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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
it’s time for the kirkulator
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
i enjoyed the halftime performance but really don’t need to be beat over the head with Canvaslop about its importance
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.
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Michael Pina @michaelvpina.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens
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Geert Verhoeff @gjverhoeff.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
2026 beginning of the year cleaning up files on my PC and found this one a friend send me when working on some code. Every developer can relate. #solodev #indiedev #development
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.
48 minutes ago
Mariana Martinez Reporting from Caracas,
Venezuela
At least 40 people were killed in
Saturday's attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians, according to a senior Venezuelan official who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe preliminary reports.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
grok how to undermine employee grok how to undermine wife grok how to undermine son
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
He walked so Zohran could fly
Jimmy McMillan aka the Rent is Too Damn High guy
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Thank you for debtmaxing to continue rotting everyone’s brain Mr. Zuckerberg, we couldn’t do it without you giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Meta readies $25bn bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off
Social media group sheds $200bn in market value as Mark Zuckerberg’s investment plans spook investors
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week
wired.com
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
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brie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
i love women
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
NEW for @washingtonpost.com: Pentagon reporters exited the building in unison Wednesday after turning in their badges, having refused to sign the Defense Department's press policy. @nancyayoussef.bsky.social called it a “sad day for those who support a free press.”
washingtonpost.com
Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules
After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.
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erick (friend of draculas) @ericktheblue.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Hamburger, help thyself
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
portland frog you smoke too tough. your swag too different. your rubber suit is too bad. they’ll kill you portland frog
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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Around this time of year, brits will wear ‘poppies’ out of deep respect for the international heroin trade
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND


He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
if you’re a victim of a girlboss crash out you may be entitled to financial compensation
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
let’s bring back “get a life”
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
let’s go Memphis Tigers 🫡 🐅
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I hate this.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 04/10/2025
Absolutely heinous.
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
kermit in the streets, miss piggy in the sheets
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
don’t like how many people are becoming anti-social degenerates this year
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
poor hank jr…like half his songs are For The Last Time I Am Not My Daddy and the other half are Gotdamn Do I Love (Blacking Out)
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
"school shooting industry"
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The inflation rate looks alarming in nominal dollars, but after adjusting for inflation, the real inflation rate remains a steady 0.00%/yr.
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Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 05/08/2025
Hey congrats to everyone who took the soft anti-vaccine stance of “mRNA vaccines aren’t 100% effective and aren’t useful against future variants so the mRNA vaccines aren’t good, we need to mask forever”, your stance has been noted by RFK Jr. to kill mRNA technology in America.
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liberationroad.bsky.social @liberationroad.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Check it out! Liberation Road in convo with North Star Socialist Organization, @socialistmajority.com, Rising Majority & @mvmnt4blklives.bsky.social on the latest "Block and Build" podcast from @convergencemag.com. convergencemag.com/podcast/bloc...
convergencemag.com
Blocking the Right, Building the Base – Live from Socialism 2025
W/ Bennett Carpenter (Liberation Road), David Duhalde (Socialist Majority Caucus/DSA), Montague Simmons (M4BL, Rising Majority), and Jayanni Webster (North Star Socialist Organization)
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WVLT News @wvlt.tv · 08/07/2025
Y-12 is in the process of destroying Alpha-2, which was used during the Manhattan Project in the 1940’s.
wvlt.tv
Y-12 demolishing building used during the Manhattan Project
Y-12 is in the process of destroying Alpha-2, which was used during the Manhattan Project in the 1940’s.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
notice how strategically he says "we" and build that into your politics yesterday
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Happy Juneteenth
William H. Johnson, Harriet Tubman, ca. 1945, oil on paperboard
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
well at least this site still works… still hasn’t captured the zeit unfortunately but the other always seems moments away from collapsing
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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
No war with Iran, fuck Israel!
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liberationroad.bsky.social @liberationroad.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🧵 We just released our 2022 - 2025 Main Political Report: our official organizational assessment of the key social, political, and economic developments of the past 3 years. Here are 6 key takeaways:
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
tickled that the new subject of the right wing is the failed white athlete. parents spend tens of thousands on private training, equipment, schools of choice, etc only to come out decisively middling. sports didn’t work, now you must hang with dorks like Charlie Kirk for a living
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Miller is best understood as a would-be school shooter who had the discipline to bide his time
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Up with the people of LA, down with Trump’s fascist regime.
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Protesters continue to clash with ICE agents over raid operations in the Los Angeles area 📍Paramount, CA
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
have gone deep on Falcon radio (local high school station), tons of 50s-60s pop, creepy bubblegum that sounds amazing. but i cannot stand how much they play The Candy Man, detestable…
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J HELL P @jlp.systems · 20/05/2025
I ♥️ My Trusted Device
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Ben @bennessee.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Among many problems of the left, the wholesale adoption of Canva-core infographics and flattened Corporate Memphis aesthetics by social justice organizations represents capitulation to hegemony. Bland, bloodless design, "for all" but nobody in particular, representing no threat to the oppressor.
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Grist @grist.org · 07/05/2025
A malaria-like disease spread by ticks is moving into Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. The tick that causes Lyme can also spread babesiosis — and researchers fear doctors in the mid-Atlantic don't know about it. grist.org/health/babes... #Delaware #Maryland #Virginia #ticks #Climate
grist.org
A malaria-like disease spread by ticks is moving into Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia
“Wherever we found positive ticks, there were cases."
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