Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialRikaku @beastmasterrika.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA. 180103304086
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialJack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 17/07/2026No fuck off we're not calling this "Millennial grey" this shit was dictated completely by boomer retiree house flippers we absolutely had NO say in this 36594552070
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialProloe 🌙🧚♀️ Very Fairy Vtuber @proloe.gay · 28/02/2026I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere 63103944780
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026we had the dotcom collapse, the great recession and covid. somehow people are very surprised that the 80s/90s church of "trust the market" is losing followers, especially among the people who went through those things in their teens and twenties. 710818
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/06/2026🤔 "War?" "Hijack?" "Takeover?" Y'all use the weirdest vocab to describe voters calmly walking into a voting booth and filling in the bubble next to the name of the candidate that says things like "Childcare can be cheaper!" and "Let's fix that bike lane!" and "Elon should pay more tax than you do!" 13574154
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialOsita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 22/06/2026The are no barriers to entry into the arts. Cavemen made art. Toddlers make art. What's being argued for is a basic human entitlement to being respected as someone who can make art that is pretty or meaningful and good, which AI might fulfill. This entitlement does not exist. 8759133
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 09/06/2026Not sure why the tech bros don't get that an assistant whose work you have to check constantly is an assistant you fire 835593
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialMyka @puzzledpolygon.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Some jackass is like "I don't get why people hate data centers!" Do you live on the same planet? Water consumption, air pollution, 24/7 noise, high af electricity prices, destruction of natural land, immense environmental impact, used for Al (elimination of jobs), benefits the 1%. Gee, I wonder why. 0329
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialPellechs @pellechs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026This hit me so hard this week. 261568562
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Doorman and building staff may go on strike against building owners in NYC for the first time in 30 years+ next week, and I can say that among apartment building residents, there is a 50/50 divide between "Give them anything they want" and "Give them anything they want, you assholes." 7856130
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialChris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 17/04/2026We all have days like this 34480722134
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Pack the court with so many people that you won't even know their names. That it won't even be news when one of them dies. That they have to meet in an NFL stadium. That their relatives won't realize they're related to a Supreme Court justice. That they quit because they don't feel important. 1657297
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 11/02/2026I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*. 1438775
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/01/2026I believe this may be the moment where the sleeping giant that is Normal America finally decides to stop being held hostage by a small minority of absolutely miserable whiny assholes. 1659391
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is 141254695257
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/12/2025It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost. 2838691078
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/12/2025again, it is just arrogance. “there is one true meaning of the constitution and it can only be derived by a special caste of lawyers with a special interpretative lens and once discovered it is binding.” 432009183
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.” 234153694267
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/12/2025i really thought the "emperor's new clothes" was more metaphorical than this. 39316
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialsadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 21/11/2025TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to 5893121782
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Bill Ackman and Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon watching this WH presser 251136189
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.social🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird! 132173484476
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialJesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 08/11/202540 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion 69129714607
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialMeredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 03/10/2025why are we paying federal taxes again 1387
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 29/09/2025There’s a lot of Psychology happening with early 2000s nostalgia slop but especially among zoomers it does seem like there’s just a real hankering for less phone, and therefore the time before phone is the glorious past to which we must return 2039944
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20/09/2025this exists it is called thinking 81331236086
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 02/09/2025The best quote I’ve ever seen about this is that every Democratic leader of the 21st century is ideally suited by temperament and mindset to be in congress in 1995 debating the v-chip. 19848166
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialJonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 02/09/2025they’re so close 743972854
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...cbsnews.comPolitics may have spurred August purge of 5 veteran FBI agentsDetails are emerging about the possible motivation behind the firing of five senior FBI agents. 12736281761
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/08/2025"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. That’s why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardice—to give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...prospect.orgWhy Republicans Are Terrified of Nonexistent CrimeThey need an excuse to violently subjugate liberal cities. 472027675
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialLindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...nypost.comExclusive | Rep. Hakeem Jeffries pays just $200 in property taxes thanks to sweetheart subsidy lawPublic records show that Jeffries and his family reside in a condo unit in Prospect Heights, paying just $213 a year in property taxes. 21852521572
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialnora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14/08/2025i am so sick of hearing about people who are uncomfortable about trans people in public bathrooms as if you have some right to total peace of mind in the place you can hear strangers having diarrhea 153836968
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialYell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 11/08/2025people have a profound yearning right now to be “saved” by a technological quantum leap forward, coupled with a profound fear of missing out that comes from having failed to get rich / being born too late to get rich in the Silicon Valley digital revolution 39212
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialtante @tante.cc · 07/08/2025One thing that the current exorbitant investments in "AI" show is that the investor class and big tech corporations do not pay enough taxes: If you have billions to set on fire for spicy autocomplete we should take some or all of those to do something useful with. 525682
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/08/2025I’ve yet to encounter an ai booster whose response to its critics isn’t at least partially “you don’t know enough about it and how it’s useful.” That’s not it, bro. 1118722
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Centrists: *see Trump beat Harris to win a second term with a weak-ass campaign and then see Mamdani win the NYC mayoral primary against a legacy candidate with name recognition who the entire establishment was pushing* Also centrists: "The left can't stop losing" 31458
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025THEY LITERALLY DID THE ONION HEADLINE 201666533
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialNothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience. 3967782775
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialLori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Prince wisdom drops 031
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Shitting on their most popular energizing young talent while trying to win Republican votes is going great 251227283