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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 25/09/2026

(ok but I'll watch Psych on purpose)

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 20/09/2026

work / rls extremely millennial and also I'm apparently very agreeable

work: :thumbs-up: :smile: :nod-yes: :thinking: :eyes:

:nod-yes: :joy: :this: :hmm-yes: :heavy_plus_sign:

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 09/09/2026

I got this comment on LinkedIn the other day regarding the DHH/1Password stuff and I can't stop thinking about it. The richest man in the world is an open white supremacist boosting 14 Words content daily. Maybe the "overuse" of the term is because all the -ists are getting bolder every day

RANDY CASEY, Games Industry Veteran
Lol I don't take people who use "ist" words seriously anymore. Those words have lost all power due to overuse.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 03/09/2026

When I first heard "no ethical consumption under capitalism" I took it to mean a capitalist economy is inherently exploitative & to be more about the systems at play. And all of that is true but also we're learning that basically every company is run by bigots & abusers & it's a bummer

Sonic doing finger guns: "There is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism"

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 31/08/2026

Why does he always look like this

meme of kid straining in class with veins bulging on forehead

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 27/08/2026

Like this is just so insanely dishonest. This is Mitch Hedberg's "have you ever tried sugar… or PCP?" There are three examples and three items in this list. @mainenewsroom.com is ostensibly the third, but really just A Guy, who is a Dem, talking about the news. #mepolitics @pressherald.com shame

Each page presents itself as a reputable local news source while posting steady streams of politicized news. They are all run by either super PACs, nationwide dark money groups or partisan operatives, all obscuring their roles in swaying Maine’s media ecosystem for political benefit.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 26/08/2026

lol get absolutely fucked @nerevolution.bsky.social haven't watched a game since the *second* Genocide Signing and now they've got TERF night #NERevs

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 22/08/2026

Great job @pressherald.com. No notes. Today: "Graham Platner still has my vote in November," by Jennifer Duryea of Limington. A year ago: "Susan Collins impresses this lifelong Democrat" by Jennifer Duryea of Limington (praising another meaningless "maverick" vote that doesn't affect the outcome).

Portland Press Herald
Kudos to Sen. Collins for standing up and doing the right thing by voting against Pete Hegseth.
Please know that this does not go unnoticed.
I am a lifelong Democrat and have been an elected party official, but if Collins keeps this record going forward, I will not only repaint my
4-foot-by-8-foot Kamala Harris sign with Collins' name, I will volunteer to work for her campaign in two years.
Jenifer Duryea
Limington

Portland Press Herald
…National Committee (DNC), who - in their
"infinite wisdom"- joined their Republican colleagues in crushing the most political passion
I have seen in Maine since 2008.
This is the same approach the DNC took in 2016 when they tried to shut out Bernie Sanders, which resulted in (the Democratic vote/party?) losing most of Sanders' army of newly active young folks, who would probably have saved us from our current crisis.
After a lifetime as a born and bred Democrat, with nearly 60 years of party activism, my last vote will be to write in Graham Platner in November.
Jenifer Duryea
Limington

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 21/08/2026

I will forever be pointing to @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's great piece, "Wanting the government to help people is free" www.welcometohellworld.com/wanting-the-...

I've written on this in here before but wanting the government to help people is free. You don't have to preemptively circumscribe your demands to appease the reasonableness referee in your mind or to placate a hypothetical political opponent. You are just some guy you can ask for whatever. So many people even or perhaps especially liberals have got a little Matthew Yglesias living inside of them like Kuato from Total Recall that makes them think like a centrist pundit and feel like they're "playing the game" by being sober and removed about the realm of the possible.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 18/08/2026

I should note there's a whole separate Up Next list for nonfiction. I mostly read fiction so it's shorter.

Up Next (Nonfiction)
Collection Items: 14
5d 5h 2m 7s

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 18/08/2026

The "Up Next" collection in my Audiobookshelf is getting uh, out of control. Authors: please stop releasing books for at least six months. Thank you ❤️

Up Next
Collection Items: 47
26d 4h 37m 4s

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 01/08/2026

Let 👏🏻 girls 👏🏻 be 👏🏻 indoctrinated 👏🏻 into 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 culture 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 violence 👏🏻 too

Zuru XShot "Blastercorn" pink unicorn foam dart pistol and Gatling gun

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 27/07/2026

when even AI is like "nah, pass" maybe your ideology really is toxic

DHH on X
"This is why we need competition and open weights in AI. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K)

screenshot:
"Translate this blog post into italian: … /dhh/wolves-sheep-and-g*psies

I'm going to pass on this one. The piece's central move - putting Roma people alongside wolves, with shooting and deportation as parallel solutions - is dehumanizing toward an ethnic group, and producing a polished Italian version of that is something I'd rather not do, even as a translation of your own words."

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 23/07/2026

The cast list is just the cast of A Christmas Carol, including the three ghosts. Is this just another Christmas Carol? If so, fine, but what even is this "before he was Scrooge" business? Fuck Johnny Depp either way

Cast
Johnny Depp as Ebenezer Scrooge, a stingy, penny-pinching, cantankerous and lonely old man whose sheer miserly nature leads him to despise Christmas and all things which engender happiness.
Arthur Conti as young Ebenezer
Rupert Grint as Bob Cratchit
Andrea Riseborough as the Ghost of Christmas Past
Tramell Tillman as the Ghost of Christmas Present
Ian McKellen as Jacob Marley
Daisy Ridley as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Sam Claflin as Fred
Charlie Murphy as Mr. Fezziwig
Ellie Bamber as Isabel Fezziwig
Nicholas Day as Minister

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 22/07/2026

This is the actor Steven Lang wearing a logo I made in my first job out of school. I never met him. The program the logo was for didn't last; the company that had the program got bought by Equinox shortly after I left it.

Stephen Lang wearing a BLITZ tee shirt at Sports Club/LA …somewhere

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 21/07/2026

This feels prudish, to me. Swearing? Storming out of rooms? But it also misses important context. Is he yelling at his colleagues because they took the last granola bar from the kitchen, or because they want to take away people's civil rights?

The water bottle clash, which was first reported by the Washington Post, was not a one-off for a lawmaker also known for pounding on desks, storming out of rooms, getting into shouting matches with members of his own party and swearing at colleagues, sources told CNN – with one ex-colleague resorting to recording meetings out of concerns over his behavior.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 21/07/2026

It's the meme. Running around the field holding the goalposts.

OC Choppers meme:
1: SOCIALISM NEVER WORKS
2: NORWAY IS SOCIALIST AND THEY'RE DOING GREAT
1: THEY'RE NOT SOCIALIST THEY'RE CAPITALIST COUNTRIES WITH STRONG WELFARE POLICIES
2: THEN LET'S ADOPT THOSE POLICIES
1: NO THAT'S SOCIALISM

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 19/07/2026

It seems like so many people all around me are absolutely loving the Dungeon Crawler Carl series but every new thing I hear about it makes it seem less appealing than before. Right off the bat, this sounds *insufferable*.

Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1) - Goodreads
Dungeon Crawler Carl is about Carl and Donut, his ex-girlfriend's cat, who are plunged into a sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 13/07/2026

Noteworthy that not just the Bernie-backed progressive but the DSA-opposed "centrist" are calling for ICE to be dismantled #mepolitics

Jackson, Shah call for ICE to be dismantled

Senate candidates Troy Jackson and Nirav Shah said they support abolishing federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement while attending a protest in Biddeford.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 11/07/2026

TheStoryGraph reading challenge: "A Young Adult Novel by a Latinx Author". Second book added by users: Book 2 of Southern Reach by Jeff VanderMeer. Why even do the reading challenge if you're just gonna put whatever?

a young adult novel by a Latinx author

Authority by Jeff VanderMeer

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 09/07/2026

Wild that a publication that is constantly stirring up old Red Scare stuff about the left-wing candidates winning all over would argue that the Democratic Party is not "litigat[ing] what the party actually believes" this cycle.

But a big tent is worth pitching only if something is argued inside it, and that is precisely what this midterm cycle has lacked. Handed the chance to litigate what the party actually believes, Democrats have mostly declined.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 08/07/2026

A lot of the commentary here may be missing that Serrano set the "passing" number to 40 for the test. I think that's not the main focus of the discussion here but it's notable. S22 passed, for example.

In a follow-up message to students, Serrano announced the midterm was void and the final exam would be worth 80 percent of the students’ final grade. Any student that scored a 40 percent or higher on the final earned a passing grade—previously, he set the passing line at 50 percent or higher. In total, 19 students failed the class.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 07/07/2026

Screencapping because I'm not trying to dunk on the author but it is fascinating to me that the person appears to think the latter statement doesn't sound absolutely bloodcurdling

Do you think that what she said was a warning? That's not how I read it, it's so ambivalent.

"No, he's not safe."

vs

He's charming, smart, and funny and sometimes has trouble with consent sometimes

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 06/07/2026

Yeah honestly if I were a Belgian fan I would be piiiiiiiissed, even more so now.

Royal Belgian FA 5h
RBFA STATEMENT UPDATE
Following its previous statement, the RBFA wishes to publicly explain the events of the past few hours.
After learning through media reports of FIFA’s decision to lift the automatic suspension of player Balogun, the RBFA sent a letter to FIFA requesting a copy of the decision, an explanation of the process that had been followed, and setting out its position regarding the applicable regulations.
As its only response, FIFA sent a letter to the RBFA stating that it considered this correspondence to constitute an appeal, that a judge had been appointed, and that the RBFA had only a few hours to complete that appeal. No information whatsoever was provided by FIFA.
For an appeal to be admissible, FIFA’s own regulations state that the reasoned decision must first have been communicated to the appellant. While the RBFA was merely seeking legitimate explanations, FIFA itself created an appeal and immediately ensured that it would be declared inadmissible.
All of this occurred while FIFA simultaneously refused to respond to the RBFA’s legitimate requests.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 05/07/2026

tbh this feels a bit too advanced

xkcd
caption: Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.

Character 1: Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars.
Character 2: And quartz, of course
Character 1: Of course

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 27/06/2026

They're calling it "reverse rainbow" I guess

202 points
Hub first +20
Purple first +15
Reverse rainbow +30
Perfect game +35
2-day streak +2

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 26/06/2026

Absolutely not. Purple was one of the easiest, green was the most obscure???

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 20/06/2026

Ohhh it turns out there's another level to score! - purple first - hub first - hardest to easiest 🟪🟦🟩🟨

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 19/06/2026

Just when you didn't think they could, they invented a new Type of Guy

hating capitalism even though I'm posting on a computer? buddy, I'm hating capitalism even though | like Al

(Seemingly unrelated Leaflet article link)

and, considering that it's Al that wrote that article, we've reached the point where people gotta decide which one of those they hate more.
kinda fucked up that so many people have decided they hate the Al more than they like the prospect of being ever able to retire, but y'all do you l guess

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 18/06/2026

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 18/06/2026

I think I've got the hang of this. www.hankgreen.com/fourbythree#...

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 15/06/2026

you couldn't make this today because woke

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, a urinal signed R. Mutt 1917

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 14/06/2026

I enjoyed Connections but won't play NYT games for obvious reasons so I'm happy to have found this. www.hankgreen.com/fourbythree

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 13/06/2026

Fellow Mainer: literally zero need to use AI to send this message :(

Batman breaks a rifle:
This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 12/06/2026

I mean I say run with it

90's style blue-and-yellow Wolverine, claws extended, shoulder thingies sticking up prominently

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 11/06/2026

Not a counterargument at all bc I'm sure that's true but also Luna is an incredibly popular name right now so "otherwise strange" is just wrong www.behindthename.com/name/luna/to...

Luna on BehindTheName:
Popularity spoiled in the US after 2000 and has held steady in the top 20 since 2019

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 10/06/2026

ppl logging into X, the White Nationalism Everything Site™: "I know Elon actively manipulating this site to promote murderous ideologies, but I'm built different. I'm immune to the effects."

Tobias & Lindsay Bluth on Arrested Development:
Tobias: Well did it work for those people?
No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but…
…it might work for us.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 02/06/2026

lol. "Nearly 40% of signature gatherers for Maine trans athlete ballot question were from out of state" themainemonitor.org/out-of-state...

During a hearing at the Maine State House earlier this month, the secretary of state’s office heard testimony from an unlikely source: a man calling in from an unnamed cargo ship somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.

He was joining remotely to answer questions about his work collecting signatures for the “Protect Girls Sports in Maine” citizen initiative, which petitioners are trying to get on the ballot this November.

“That was a first,” said Tim Woodcock, a Bangor-based attorney representing the committee attempting to get the referendum on the ballot, when asked about the transcontinental call.

The witness involved, a man from Georgia, was being questioned about his time in Maine several months prior when he collected signatures for the aspiring ballot question, which would restrict participation in school sports and access to bathrooms and locker rooms based on biological sex. He and several other out-of-state petition circulators have been at…

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 02/06/2026

There … there's actually a very clear, direct, and simple way to answer that question. "No." I think he's thinking of the rhetorical hypothetical of "have you stopped [doing that]?" which is hard to answer clearly with "yes" or "no" but still pretty easy to answer

Rosenbaum would not weigh in on the accuracy of Pangram’s results. In fact, he didn’t want to talk about them at all. “I don’t participate in that conversation,” he said. “It’s like saying, do you beat your wife? It’s one of those accusations that there’s no response to.”

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 21/05/2026

But never mind that Gen X voted in the largest numbers for Trump, they're also just completely insufferable and solipsistic, while loudly proclaiming themselves to be the opposite. "OG stuff, 80's baby stuff" bro Sesame Street started in 1969 and had celebrity guests in 1970

"Sesame street was so much better when it was just a bunch of regular-degular average, majority POC and elderly … not these celebrities and highly polished actors"
*List of celebrities that have been on the show since the beginning*
"I meant like the OG cast, 80's baby stuff"

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