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Benson Flinn

@bensonflinn.bsky.social
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He/Him interested in politics, history, personal sustainability, chickens, gardening and video games in that order. My kingdom for a small electric pickup truck

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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
a little recency bias, but these all definitely changed how I played games in their own way
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
You don't own your baby. A child is not property. They have a right to live that eclipses your right to believe stupid shit
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I don't really see too much of a gulf between "revenge on the rurals" and "reduce subsidies on rural areas somewhat" policy. A mild pullback is an extinction-level event for these areas, and people are mostly choosing their preferred branding
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
see also: the idea that there is a strong contingent of people who are dooming too much and whose apathy is hurting climate solutions. by far the super majority of people are not worried enough about climate change and not doing enough to stop it great thread, this brain poison is everywhere
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
problem with this is that the level of consequences is different on a neighborhood level site than one ostensibly meant to be the global town square. the negative outcomes are greater and the resulting consequences should be as well. canceling as a thing cant take place on nextdoor like it can here
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Meet Crumb, Button, and Clover. A friend in the Bay Area found them behind a gas station. Unfortunately, she isn't able to keep them, so if she can't find someone to adopt them, they will be going to a shelter. Can you help me find them a home? They are in good health and very tame.
Three kittens in a small cage. Two are orange; one is black. The black cat wearing a blue scarf.The two orange cats in a blanket and wearing blue scarves.The two orange cats laying next to each other while wearing blue scarves.
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 23/04/2026
You like variety? You like lots of gameplay? How about some awaited release dates? We already know you like some cool world premieres. The Second Wind Games Showcase kicks off in ONE HOUR. Proudly powered by @playtracker.bsky.social.
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The Second Wind Games Showcase - Spring 2026 Edition
YouTube video by Second Wind
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
right, that's the basic issue: you think that this is a bad idea for a good reason, and you imagine that the strength of your argument can be bolstered by adding bullshit to it, which it can't be.
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
if orgs like AIPAC and the ADL work for decades on a rhetorical project to conflate Judaism with Zionism and then the world's only Zionist state commits horrible war crimes the already racsist and the uninformed will either choose anti-zionist and anti-semitic or pro-zionist and not anti-semitic.
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
i personally think the obvious answer is green tech, abundance and the space economy
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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
People need to understand that although it’s a natural & human response to think selfishly about things like this you can also shut the fuck about that
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Oracle Must Be Destroyed @tomek-here.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"Wow it's so tiring living through historical events" I say as a Syrian farmer's livelihood is obliterated by debris from missiles overflying his country in a war my government started
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...
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You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
There's always another secret. Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive are headed to Apple TV. #Mistborn #TheStormlightArchive
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Apple TV Acquires Adaptation Rights to Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive - Reactor
Sanderson will reportedly retain creative control over the adaptations
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
the james will always be one of my favorite places
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
animal well then, animal well now
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations.

Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.”

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said.

Heller said it appeared the woman then accelerated and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles. She could be seen slumped over inside her car.
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Evelyn Waughluigi @mattressisland.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Berniecrat outcomes through Warrenite means
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKz9...
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Inside CECOT (the banned 60 minutes special)
YouTube video by roterote
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
3. Leadership is about doing what is necessary, not just what is popular. Read literally anything our founders wrote about virtue, and the inherent risks to a society based on democratic processes to sustain the rule of law to the extent that unvirtuous people gain power.
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 25/11/2025
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
relatedly it's probably worth reminding people online that it is A-OK to simply not like someone - to find their personality and/or opinions grating - and not Do Theory about it
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Hey look! The inevitable sense of impending catastrophe! My favorite!
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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Can I interest you in converting to Star Wars Protestantism? We only acknowledge a canon of the original trilogy, Rogue One, Andor, the Zahn Trilogy, the Dark Horse comics, the 90s Lucasarts games, the West End roleplaying game, and the "Tales from..." anthologies.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18/09/2025
Bill’s exactly right. 99.9% of climate denial is solution aversion. They don’t want to fix it, but they know that saying “it’s real and serious but I don’t want to fix it” isn’t a great message. So they go with the smoke screen of science denial instead.
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Amanda Hoey @amandahoey.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Interesting. I was told that both boats that had been struck down were verified to be carrying narcotics and had connections to criminal groups, but we couldn’t see any of the totally real evidence. Surely fishing would be perfectly safe under such conditions?
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/09/2025
great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
a big reason companies are caving this hard is that they're banking on hunkering down for the next 3.5 years and then coasting by when the dust settles Democrats need to make it very clear that there will be future consequences for defecting in this prisoner's dilemma
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
i do not think ezra klein genuinely grieves for charlie kirk. i think ezra klein thinks it’s professionally advantageous to perform grief.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
this is a comforting thing to believe if you have the political inclinations you're likely to have if you're reading this, but is unfortunately not true. alternative medicine is huge in Germany and the UK for example.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
yeah today it's a reactionary thing mostly, but for a long fuckin' time until *very* recently there was way too much tolerance for this shit in left and liberal spaces. from "oh it's not harming anyone" to "different ways of knowing". RFK jr fucking came from that milieu.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
they wont care about $8 Oreo or whatever if their rent and child care costs are lowered substantially. I get that it's really frustrating that people don't know as much about the issues as you or I do but calling them stupid is not going to work. even if it's true. we do need to actually kill glonzo
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
they are wrong in the details but they are correct in that affordability is a problem, and has been for a while. sure, we can't touch grocery margins but we can go after housing, healthcare, child care and transportation which are the actual largest line items in people's budget.
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
groceries and gas are expenses that people have to deal with multiple times a week and are very easy to track on a week-to-week basis so any increases, even if they're a small proportion of their income, are very noticeable. these concerns are nullified if affordability generally is tackled.
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I agree that people don't know exactly what they want and are not well versed in policy, but I also think it's fair to ask what you would do instead of meeting them where they're at currently? it seems flattening to say that low info people only care about groceries. they care about affordability.
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
To start, you need to know what TNO is. It stands for The New Order. It's one of the most popular HOI4 mods that centers on a nazi victory scenario. its also rather old at this point, with I believe it's 10 years passing recently.
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The New Order on X: "On the fifth day of our fifth birthday: A comprehensive expansion of Africa and how it interfaces with all the Great Powers, with new conflicts, political struggles, events, and more. Africa in 1962 and one possible result for 1964: https://t.co/BbBHgeaP3H" / X
On the fifth day of our fifth birthday: A comprehensive expansion of Africa and how it interfaces with all the Great Powers, with new conflicts, political struggles, events, and more. Africa in 1962 and one possible result for 1964: https://t.co/BbBHgeaP3H
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 26/07/2025
but i think they are very wrong about the relative size of each of these constituencies, especially given that people like yglesias think the "hard left" includes anyone who believes in trans rights
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 26/07/2025
like there's the hint that they think the plan is to cut off the Hard Left (imagined to be very small) and win over the Moderate Center (imagined to be very large), finally arriving at the seventh party system--
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? LINCOLN (2012) and ARGO (2012)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/07/2025
oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Benson Flinn @bensonflinn.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
as someone who grew up in this intellectual milieu, I can say with 100% certainty that just like the vast army of illegal immigrant gang members that are just waiting to be rounded up they truly believe that there is a massive cohort of stoners just waiting to be turned into plumbers or farmers.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
LBJ: what if a bad person cared about the poor
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/07/2025
I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I am being negatively polarized from “mostly fine, few dumb ideas, would probably have ranked him third” to a rabid pro-Zohran partisan by how fucking vile this shit is.
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