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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I understand why all of the internet is dunking on Senator Eric Schmitt right now, but really I think he should first be dragged for all the harm he did as CEO of Google.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I do not need a foldable iphone. What I need is a phone that I can crumple up and throw across the room.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Meat impresario Pres. Trump has teased the import of cheap foreign beef to ostensibly increase supply and lower prices. Because the name “Trump Steaks” was already taken, the ground beef will be sold in commemorative packaging labeled “Soylent Orange.”

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Every time I read some jagoff posting about ”fintech” I just think, “Sharks! With laser beams!”, and I recommend that you do the same.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Today’s metaphor: I have to use Outlook web email at work. Outlook added a large AI assistant button at top right. If I accidentally mouse over it, it pops up helpful hints that cover up the “Sign in” button. So I have to wait for the AI to stop blabbing at me so I, the human, can sign back in.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

American Jews are deeply disturbed by Trump admin EEOC demands for lists of Jewish students, staff, and groups from the U. of Penn. A grave risk is Feds sharing lists with their useful-idiot allies at the ADL, so that Jews get that asshole Jonathan Greenblatt’s fundraising emails and can’t get off.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In today’s seminar Roger Blandford said the X-ray polarization shows that SS433’s magnetic field is very well organized. So, yet another astronomical object making me feel inadequate.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Please nobody feel obliged to get me any Christmas presents. I am going to be busy unwrapping “Staff walkout at the Heritage Foundation” for all twelve days.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Kristi “I shot a dog in Reno, just to watch him die” Noem has ordered army troops into Portland to maintain order. No one is exactly sure what the disorder was, but there are rumors that an antifa barista made a latte with soy milk for an ICE captain.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Whispered comment during an astronomy talk today: “This slide is really hard to read for people who are blue-black colorblind.”

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

High of 107 in Tucson today; No Kings scheduled a car march. Rather than drive I went to a corner and waved a large California Republic flag at the parade for 2 hours. Because republic. People were enthusiastic and if they rolled down the window to wave I hollered “Free the Bear!”

Waving a California state flag in 107 degree heat

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

A crow having a dispute with its reflection in the VERITAS telescope mirror, seen at Whipple basecamp on the way back from @mmtobservatory.bsky.social

Crow perched on segmented telescope mirror of VERITAS

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Observing a star occulted by Uranus, in the infrared with MMIRS at the MMT @mmtobservatory.bsky.social

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Rumors that the DoD purged webpages about Navajo Code Talkers of WW II in an anti-DEI rampage are untrue and unfair to the Trump admin. They purged the Navajo Code Talkers because these men violated the admin’s English-only policy. A Navy banner about “revised content” per the President’s order:

history.navy.mil

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Dear Friends, with all the recent disruptions in scientific research, you will be excited to know that I am joining a new venture in high-end, luxury foods. Delivered straight to your door! If you liked Trump Steaks, you’ll love our new, exclusive to us, Trump Eggs.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Making American cholesterol levels great again!

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I know the Republican Party has been upset ever since John Dean said there was a cancer growing on the Presidency, but I don’t think freezing programs at the National Cancer Institute was the best way to address this.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

I propose to found a Museum of Fiascos. Informational and instructional exhibits would describe and demonstrate notable fiascos, failures, blunders, botches, collapses, and cock-ups through time. My university’s IT department could sponsor a wing.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

The robot AI apocalypse is stupid; I say that machine malevolence is overrated, and complex computing systems are more likely to end the world due to critical network failures caused by an expired SSL certificate.

An old tweet saying some say the world will end by fire, some say by ice, and I say the world will end when we are hit by a giant asteroid that no one saw because a network was down due to an expired SSL certificate.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Yesterday’s NY Times spelling bee pangram was ZOMBABLE: what can become a zombie. A person animated by a bokor, killer rabbit, yr middle school nemesis, a once-respected news outlet, a totalitarian ideology, the MySpace of a band you liked in 2005 whose guitarist is posting lately after his divorce.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Spoiler: Today’s NY Times Spelling Bee pangram is “HEALGOON.” This is the name of an anti-recidivism program that retrains mob enforcers to use their talents peacefully as massage therapists.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

I propose that ginning up a fake moral-political panic over a pop star who dares to attend football games should be called Taylor Swift-boating.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

My new plan to get astronomy-famous: enroute to next conference, get loaded on double scotches in the airport bar and tweet ignorant remarks about cosmic inflation, “This is why Americans think the matter-energy balance is terrible,” “Hubble tension is caused by coastal elites,” etc.

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Benjamin Weiner @cloud149.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

Let’s start up this social medium the right way - a cat picture.

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