benwhetsell.bsky.social @benwhetsell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Johnny Cash: I Walk the Line Temptations: My Girl Beatles: Penny Lane CCR: Lookin’ Out My Back Door George Harrison: My Sweet Lord Cheap Trick: Surrender Cheryl Lynn: Got To Be Real Joan Jett: Bad Reputation REM: Stand Frank Black: Headache (deep album cut, I know) Fountains of Wayne: Stacy’s Mom 030
benwhetsell.bsky.social @benwhetsell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“Back on the Chain Gang” by The Pretenders is a good one: youtu.be/cMOKamtpUA8?...youtu.bePretenders - Back on the Chain Gang (Official Music Video)YouTube video by Pretenders 120
benwhetsell.bsky.social @benwhetsell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Not the point obviously but “The government’s indictment, which contains a typo (“Untied States Code”)…” 🤦🏻♂️ 031
benwhetsell.bsky.social @benwhetsell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026As they say in law school: the Supreme Court isn’t last because they’re right, they’re right because they’re last. 020
benwhetsell.bsky.social @benwhetsell.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Which, by extension… means you can perfectly impersonate Sean Connery?! 030
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. 180103284086
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 36594552069
benwhetsell.bsky.social @benwhetsell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026A woman drives her group of friends to her childhood home in a big truck, and then they turn around and drive back. 0210
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 63104004778
benwhetsell.bsky.social @benwhetsell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Another data point… www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...newyorker.comWhy Biden’s White House Press Secretary Is Leaving the Democratic PartyKarine Jean-Pierre feels that Democrats were so mean to Biden that she is becoming an Independent. 270
benwhetsell.bsky.social @benwhetsell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026This can’t be real. Please tell me this isn’t real. 020
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.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 34480712134
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialEd BooOOooOOmila @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*. 1438774
benwhetsell.bsky.social @benwhetsell.bsky.social · 30/01/2026It’s kinda weird but I knew exactly who this was about without even needing to see the name 120
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 141254675257
benwhetsell.bsky.social @benwhetsell.bsky.social · 12/12/2025I have to think these guys know what they’re doing… 0100
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.” 234153684267
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 5893111782
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! 132173464476
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 69129684606
Reposted by @benwhetsell.bsky.socialMeredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 03/10/2025why are we paying federal taxes again 1387