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Chima Simone Benson

@chimasimone.bsky.social
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Perpetual momming. Eventual writing. Respirator on. Prayers up. In my preservation of self — and family — era. Forever survivor. Never complier. (Can you do it?) I'm not gonna be able to do it! (8x) M.A., USC Annenberg ••• 💖💚

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bees pollinate roughly 1 in 3 bites of food we eat. When they decline, entire ecosystems unravel — rivers lose life, flowers stop reproducing, and springs go quiet. This is not an isolated crisis. It is a systemic one. We traded resilience for short-term wealth. The bill is now due.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“British food allows you the space to fill in the gaps with your imagination of what it could taste like.” He says bleh so poetically.
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Grandma Orc @esoorc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OMG, now its rabies?? www.vet.cornell.edu/about-us/new...
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Two confirmed cases of rabies in a New York beef herd
In September 2026, over the course of three weeks, three adult Angus beef cattle in a herd of 114 animals developed severe acute neurologic signs and died. Clinical signs included excessive salivation...
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Love the brush at the beginning. Could have used it at the end too.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 25/09/2026
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump supporters nationwide should agree.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
Every time one of these companies rolls out a new "amazing" "AI" feature, it turns out to just be howevermany exploited humans in a trenchcoat. Every fucking time.
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m not chronically ill/disabled, but I am Covid-aware. Aware that even a minor bout with this virus can ravage organ systems throughout the body. So I don’t let those who judge & smugly insist Covid is no longer a thing get to me. The science backs the still-masking. Don’t believe me, just watch..
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/09/2026
Y’all have seen the viral short clip. Here’s the full original. The energy we need when somebody tries to push disinformation down our throats.
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Death links up with enshittification. — a sequel to “A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator.”
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The number of people who tut tutted about white nattonalists eroding rights in 24 is only dwarfed by their silence now.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Organize *with* people, not *for* them. It’s different
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/09/2026
They’re about two weeks away from telling people they can always eat bugs
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
AGAIN! You do not need to fear "superintelligent AI" "going rogue" & killing humans, when HUMANS keep putting regular, everyday shitty-assed, extremely error-prone "AI" into potentially life-&-death-crucial systems. It does not have to be "powerful" to do that! It can do that & still be very shitty!
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Virgíl Al-Hawkíns @crymsondawn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Desmond Tutu, the South African anti-apartheid hero, recognized Israeli apartheid after 5 minutes there. It's why Israelis were celebrating his death & calling him an anti-semite. www.theguardian.com/world/2002/a...
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Apartheid in the Holy Land
Desmond Tutu: In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people.
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Because the people most likely to mutiny voted for this shit. When Vance takes over, and their dear leader is in hospice somewhere, his base will flood the streets in protest, if climate collapse doesn’t flood them first.
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A K @aklingus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Keith Haring painted one of his most astounding and heartbreaking works in Stewart's honor, "Michael Stewart - USA For Africa" bsky.app/profile/work...
Keith Haring's Michael Stewart - USA For Africa
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
YES. It’s especially aggravating when most won’t acknowledge the learning loss & behavioural issues we’re seeing in kids from cumulative Covid brain damage. Brains that are still developing. Nope. It has to be those few months of remote learning over 6 years ago, even for those born after 2020.
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Saving this for when the GOP inevitably cheats and says their voters turned out in droves to cast a vote for continuing this bullshit.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: “I will match Macklemore's donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza. Over 20,000 precious Palestinian children have been killed and children continue to be killed every day.”
Ms. Rachel Instagram:

“I will match Macklemore's donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.
Over 20,000 precious Palestinian children have been killed and children continue to be killed every day.
We have a moral obligation to use our privilege and platforms to protect children and human rights.”
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well said
Tweet from @NairYasmin

So many people are forced to work through their sickness are often not allowed to even mask in their workplaces. AOC could have easily sent a clear message: "Covid is serious, and since I can, I'll work remotely and minimise the risk. Everyone deserves my kind of privilege."
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AOC is setting a terrible example. She can choose to work remotely, make sure she's well enough to travel, and not potentially infect others. Instead, she's sending a message to Americans that's it's not only okay but necessary to spread the virus. 1/2...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“This is so much fun, we never get out.” Felt. Even with just a trip to Costco.
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I feel the class consciousness rising. The veil is slowly lifting. It’s fcuk the billionaire oligarchs forever. Their profiteering. Their pillaging. Their putting profits over people. Their system where they buy the rules and we all pay the price, with costs skyrocketing. I know I’m spent…
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kraft’s donations are busy funding Friends of the IDF.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yikes.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/09/2026
Donald Trump’s allies are closing the historic theater—all because Trump can’t put his name on it. trib.al/kHm7gmh
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Kennedy Center Votes to Shut Down After Trump’s Brutal Loss in Court
Donald Trump’s allies are closing the historic theater—all because Trump can’t put his name on it.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The guy who helped kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran’s tour was charged with soliciting prostitution, got those charges dropped with the help of Epstein’s lawyer, is a longtime friend of Trump, has taken NFL players on propaganda trips to Israel, and received a special $1 million award from Netanyahu.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/09/2026
So much winning
Today's oil/gas news:
— Brent ~$108, WTI ~$104-105 on Saudi supply fears
— Saudi East-West pipeline still shut; repairs may take weeks
— Oil loadings suspended at Yanbu, Saudi Arabia's main Red Sea port
— No Red Sea Saudi crude exports since
Saturday
— Houthis seize Red Sea islands and attack
Saudi airbase
— US diesel hits record $6.27 a gallon
— Ukrainian drones hit Russia's top diesel refineries
— China's yuan crude futures at a record
- Goldman: oil could reach $120 if fighting escalates
— Aramco delaying/canceling some late-September European cargoes
— Costco starts rationing motor oil as prices spike
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dumb? More like emboldened. No consequences tends to have that effect on people.
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Societal and climate collapse AT THE SAME DAMN TIME. Nothing is like it was. Everything is destabilising. If you think I’m being hyperbolic, you’re not paying attention.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
hot ppl mask!
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Gen X & Elder Millennial parents must be stopped. How did latchkey kids of the “figure it out,” era become highkey stage 5 clingers… I get the uncertainty of this timeline is anxiety-inducing, but we have to prepare kids for a life without us in it. A stand-in crutch impedes this. Cut the cord!
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
biggest laugh ive had in a minute
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“It is what it is.” IT is not a cold. Hit by a truck is a phrase practically synonymous with flu & Covid. Shame on production for letting this spread throughout the house. And cutting the cameras when houseguests are discussing symptoms doesn’t exactly scream, “we’re handling this responsibly.”
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No one should be getting Covid/Flu/A Cold on “Big Brother.” Full stop. This is a closed, controlled house. Set, really. Isolating a sick person should be the easiest call in the world, not an afterthought. #bb28
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a Sunday reminder for Washingtonians out there Washington is the only state where a MAJORITY of the state Supreme Court is on the ballot, all at once a very rare situation no party label on the ballot but candidates are still aligned with parties! important to learn: boltsmag.org/your-state-b...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
You can't imagine that even technically, he doesn't know what he's talking about. The white man "whistleblower" must be the technical expert. You can't imagine that WE are the scientists painstakingly documenting our work, with years of expertise and that HE is in a eugenicist doomsday cult.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
These arseholes have such a bleak, dangerous and joyless view of the future. A future filled with STEM-drones toiling for capitalists, because heaven forbid we aim for anything else in life other than "value to the nation."
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Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Zebra returns for another song from this Disney princess. Magical.
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