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Blair Bendler

@blairbendler.bsky.social
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K-12 Director of Technology. CLI nerd who loves Macs. Progressive, raging anti-Trumper. Aquarist… not Aquarius.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think it's closer to the truth that LLMs *can* save time on *some tasks* which can be valuable *if* you monitor them and check their output. But that doesn't get you a trillion dollars so they have to squint into the middle distance and say stupid sci fi bullshit instead
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Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m not one to brag… but I mean… thanks so much to my wife for letting me do this and to Bill Kelliher for the awesome private lesson.
Me and Bill Kelliher of Mastodon after a private lesson.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Personally, as a journalist and a Jew, I think the most important thing to do is to call out and point at things like the phenomenon described below. But there are a lot of gross people who have attached themselves to this conflict who are benefiting from it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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IDF deliberately targeting children in Gaza, US doctors allege
American physicians reported treating children younger than 12 "every single day" for gunshots to the head by Israeli forces.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I do not mean to center myself here as I know these problems pale in comparison to the experiences of people in the war zone and their families. But in the US context, being a Jew opposed to Israel's actions is a really confusing and lonely square on the chess board.
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Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@capillariancrest.bsky.social so what’s your verdict on Marrow Deep?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"I have to make it about me," says the One Special Boy
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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
People sometimes ask me when Silicon Valley really turned bad. I always say: although it's a continuum, there was a distinct change in 2008-2009, when the Wall Street bros saw their scam collapse and moved west to start it up again.
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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
as I’ve become older and wiser, the death penalty is one of the things I’m really radicalized against. we only get one go at this and there are no circumstances under which the state should be allowed to use its monopoly on violence to cut that short.
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Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The folks from Maine talking about how Bluesky doesn’t “get it” have zero self awareness.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Graham Platner trying to explain away his behavior as *living a regular life* really evokes *locker room talk* for me. The normalization of men’s abuse of women has to stop. Abusing women is not regular or normal or in any way okay. I hope this gets called out by lots and lots of people.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/06/2026
Anyway this is why you bail at (or preferably before) nazi tattoos
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Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Having a Nazi tattoo isn’t a purity test, you goddamn moron.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.
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🎃HalloDeeny🎃 they/them @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The good thing about data centers is that theyre flammable
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witchy raerae 👍🧙🏻‍♀️ ❌👑 @rachaelnevins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Yes, Garland was too slow & timid & sure, we can be angry at that, too. And yes, Biden should have tried to reform our broken institutions, but honestly, where were the votes coming from in Congress for that? But again, these are mistakes #4 & #5 at best, after "GOP Senators were cowards & failed."
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Praying for Rudy Giuliani. Complicated man, but he taught me that marriage and family don't mean anything. You can just do whatever you want. Humiliate and lie to everyone you're supposed to love whenever you want, or are bored. Honestly fuck them. Also he taught me everything else is like that too.
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Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Flyers win in in OT! Dan Vladar puts in a thoroughly impressive performance in net.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The media people who attended this dinner are content creators, not journalists. They're enabling fascists and having a good time doing it. You should unfollow them.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/04/2026
No, the thing that has me *terrified* about AI is that when it craters and takes the economy with it, that we will respond the same way we have during every financial crisis of the 21st century: with austerity, and austerity breeds *fascism*. 9/
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
of course it will fail. the point is to say "he is a danger to the country. he thinks he's jesus and he has the nukes. but republicans think he should endanger us and the troops. they should be removed from office too." and then repeat.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Doctors dress like Jesus now.
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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Eric Swalwell and Graham Platner are reminders that Democrats need to stick to their principles or face consequences We don’t have room for sex pests or Nazis
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Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I’m not normally a fan of mashups, but holy shit this is good.
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Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Everyone better keep saying this. Just the message itself is more than enough. This needs to be over. Now.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/04/2026
you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it
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Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
They’re talking about sports on MSNOW. For christs sake.
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littlestormcloud.bsky.social @littlestormcloud.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Tikun olam in practice. Modeling it in a reality where regimes are tearing apart the world.
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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 06/04/2026
Nobody who truly knows sam trusts him.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 06/04/2026
If you dine with a monster, either you are a monster too —Or you’re on the menu.
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Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is terrifying and makes me extremely angry. How have we gotten to this point.
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Allison Good @allisonwgood.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
A lot of leftists seem to be using Graham Platner as an excuse to dip their toes into publicly applauding and supporting antisemites. And guess what that makes you? An antisemite!
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
With "crawl out of your Sabbath hole" I think it's safe to say Glenn Greenwald has gone full Nazi.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
no one in the history of I Will See You In Court has ever come close to Seeing You In Court this hard
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Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I love that Markwaynejoebob feels comfortable enough to constantly refer to congress as “you guys.”
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16/03/2026
So let me be clear: Israel and the United States have started a horrific war. People who claim that Jews are to blame can fuck off with their antisemitism.
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Drive less and eat veggie burgers! @dogenrinzai.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Trump lowered gas prices by raising gas prices.
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Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
They obviously think we're idiots. Nothing else could explain the moronic shit these guys spew.
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Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Oliver North and Iran-Contra was my introduction to the concept that bad guys can in fact get away with crimes as long as they are high up enough in any organization.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Minimum table ante, yes. The real stakes: - No clerks - No building - No operating budget - No shadow docket - Riding the circuit - 25 justices; 9 chosen by lottery per case We can go back to normal once they stop ignoring the law, data, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
antisemitism among young people is: -heavily rewarded on tiktok and other youth-heavy social media -not confined to any one ideology -often directed explicitly at jewish people and jewishness, not israel
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
congress sounds cool i wish it was real
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
They killed schoolchildren, Chuck. Your “imploring” isn’t going to solve shit. Resign and let someone willing to fight against fascism take over.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 28/02/2026
Fuck every Trump voter forever.
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Stupid dumbshit goddamn motherfucker aka jonny esquire esq @orbit56.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Every republican is a scumbag.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
OK everyone who is making fun of Kristi Noem over the blanket thing has OBVIOUSLY never had a toddler who was elevated to a Cabinet position
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