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Benny6Toes

@benny6toes.bsky.social
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Sci-Fi, board games, UX, politics, sarcasm, laughter, science, ally. It's a strange Venn diagram. I probably have more toes than you.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Heraty Law @heratylaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash” the 15-year-old said: “When I was in a test and I couldn’t use AI, it was hard to think.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...
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Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far
The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.
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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shameful
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026
sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too
ad for some AI company called evenfall
copy says "meet derek. ai every day. always hitting a wall. then he found evenfall"
the only graphic is a stick figure holding... a tablet maybe? he's missing an arm
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 15/09/2026
Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) got a harsh reckoning from the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board on Monday, as she was exposed for talking out of both sides of her mouth on President Donald Trump's trade policies.
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WSJ catches GOP senator quietly begging Trump for the tariff break she publicly praised
Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) got a harsh reckoning from the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board on Monday, as she was exposed for talking out of both sides of her mouth on President Donald Trump's trade policies.When the Supreme Court struck down Trump's first tariff scheme, the board wrote,...
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Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is such a stupid self-own by sanders. DON'T PLATFORM FASCISTS. Especially don't platform the ones who are on the record saying they want to destroy the government you serve in. 🤦‍♂️
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A Democrat should file a bill on Monday for everyone to get $5,000 checks right now to see if Mike Johnson, John Thune and congressional Republicans will advance and pass it. Call their bluff. Pass the bill.
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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating to think that every single one of us is descended from either Fred & Wilma Flinstone or Barney & Betty Rubble.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I recently wrote a piece about the subterranean influence of that Nazi-adjacent Christian Identity tradition on the white Christian nationalist right. rightlandia.ghost.io/basically-ch...
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"Basically Church Type Stuff:" Old Timey Christian Americanism and the Rhizomatic History of American Fascism
Or, the crucial but sometimes fuzzy distinction between a) being a White American Christian, and b) being influenced by a violent, White Christian Supremacist variety of conspiratorial, antisemitic Am...
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 🚨 More Outrageous Trump Corruption! It's wide out in the open for all to see & Republicans say nothing even though they know it's wrong! Trump is using this presidency as a cash register. Vote for Democrats up and down the ballot. #HoldTheCrooksAccountable
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Want to understand the mentality behind corporate greed? Just watch The Lorax.
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Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Facts
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A huge weakness in America's political culture is that we never developed the habit of using the word "fascism" to describe other Americans with any sort of precision or accuracy. Hence fascists like G. Roy Lockwood just passed through life known as a "conservative Christian who hates Communism."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Markus @markusbuhmann.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Hot take: The Arts; Media literacy; civics; critical thinking; and learning about history, especially the gnarly bits of colonialism are more important than f*cking STEM to protect our future.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous to the existence of an independent and free media. Take action: glaad.org/fcc
Tell the FCC: LGBTQ People on TV Don't Need A Warning Label
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
As my mentor Marcus Raskin (the late father of Jamie and co-founder of my office) used to say, “When the situation looks hopeless, you are the hope.”💪
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/05/2026
Sotomayor apologized for criticizing Kavanaugh. Thomas publicly embraced Harlan Crow, then compared progressives to the forces that enabled Hitler and Mao. Guess which justice got pressured to say sorry? Melissa Murray on the Supreme Court’s selective decorum rules.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New details have been released about Palm Beach International Airport, recently renamed to Donald J. Trump International Airport. Their new contract requires the airport to purchase Trump merchandise from Trump's own licensor, directly violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Not a great sign that President Trump’s judicial nominees seem incapable of stating that President Trump is ineligible to run for a third term.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.
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Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
As it always has been
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This puts the security debate in better perspective. I know this space really well. The guy wasn’t anywhere near the ballroom. He was basically trying to rush the security perimeter and failed. It’s a big complex with lots of different event happening at the same time.
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Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
nfts and blockchain? As an already financially precarious board gem company? Pack it up. They're done. boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... #boardgames #fail
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CMON to invest $2.1m in NFT video game maker, says digital shift needed to expand revenue, remain ‘relevant’ -
CMON's board said it planned to transition its titles such as Massive Darkness and Super Fantasy Brawl Reborn into "high-quality digital assets", adding that it believed integrating its board games wi...
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 24/04/2026
Regarding junior developers vs. LLM www.youtube.com/shorts/Ioi7D...
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How Sr Devs are *really* made
YouTube video by Alberta Tech
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I think the gerrymandering race to the bottom is genuinely bad and undemocratic and unfortunately what the dems are doing is the least bad of the bad options available.
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Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Very neato burrito
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Seentoomuch @seentoomuch.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
JD: I'm going to try to convince Iran to sign our proposal DM: OK. Roll for Negotiation. JD: What? DM: Negotiation. JD: I don't have that as a skill DM: OK, just use your charisma score modifier. JD: Oh. Shit.
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casey morell @caseym.org · 09/04/2026
very pleased to report everyone's favorite @financialtimes.com correction today is, in fact, in the print edition too
a correction notice in the print edition of today's financial times. it reads as follows:

Correction
• Researcher Brené Brown was misquoted in an interview published on April 6. She described herself as "solidly in my fuck it era" rather than "solidly in my fucking era".
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 09/04/2026
Hall of fame FT correction
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...
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FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
When you think about how the media covered Biden’s mental acuity and then see this, you really see how horrible things are and have been and will continue to be.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If I were a senator or congressperson, I would not be on social media right now. Actually, I would be on social media. I would be live in an airport or on a train while on my way back to the Capitol to hold a sit-in with as many colleagues and camera crews as possible over this ****.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The White House has removed this video from their social media channels. But not before we could post it.
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Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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a man is sitting at a table with the words breaking news duh written below him
ALT: a man is sitting at a table with the words breaking news duh written below him
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Like many science journalists this week, I'll covering the #ArtemisII mission for @nature.com. Our first story is now up! We explore the science that the astronauts will do on their flight — and how this advances beyond the Apollo era. 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Artemis II mission is about to fly humans to the Moon — here’s the science they’ll do
Set to lift off this week, the NASA flight will take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
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Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Reasonable and necessary measures even if it is probably too late to fix things. Damage mitigation is still worthwhile though.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/03/2026
We are estimating more than 200,000 people at the flagship No Kings rally in the Twin Cities. #NoKings
A screengrab of the huge crowd at the flagship No Kings rally in the Twin Cities.
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Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 18/03/2026
People are asking whether it's moral to delete large amounts of content from the internet. A retort was - is it moral to lose the information space?
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 16/03/2026
Holy shit y’all I just got an email I’d like to nominate for the "Wildest All-Faculty Email" Hall of Fame
We are experiencing an extremely rare maintenance issue at BUILDING REDACTED. Basically, the building thermostat is not working properly. It is set to 216 degrees F.  To give everyone an idea of how hot it is, the cold water in the kitchen lounge on the second floor is hot to the touch and the metal door hardware is hot to the touch as well.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/03/2026
"By the way, there’s an easy tell if I’ve got the pink slip to someone’s soul: if suddenly they get something that makes no sense. Like Indiana winning the national football championship or Kash Patel getting a law-enforcement job."
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Why I, Lucifer, Rejected a Deal for Donald Trump’s Soul
I’ve made contracts with every sort of lowlife. I’ve been to the crossroads. I’ve been down to Georgia. I’ve signed agreements with legions of lawy...
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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A big takeaway this year has to be that Sinners and One Battle After Another were big, artist driven, swings bankrolled by WB whose future is ultimately unclear. I like living in a world where people like PTA and Ryan Coogler get to make the films they want to make with those resources.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 09/03/2026
ICE just got caught in another lie. ICE cut over 40% of its training program, slashed half of all firearms instruction, and eliminated ALL evaluation of agents’ grasp of skills specific to immigration enforcement and deportation operations.
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ICE training was slashed, records show, corroborating whistleblower claims
Previously unreported records also offer new details about what was cut from ICE’s basic training program. Concerns about the quality of ICE agents’ training have mounted for months.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
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