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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it’s wild that my workload is what it is and I still am a walking talking human being with doctors’ appointments and car maintenance and emotional responses to manage

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Captain Riker, at the end of TNG S3 E26: “Mr. Worf…fire.” *fade to black* partner: “imagine you’re watching this on TV and you’re 11 years old and the next week’s episode is a re-run”

Commander Shelby and Captain Riker aboard the bridge of the USS Enterprise. It’s the Season 3 finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Commander Shelby is looking at Captain Riker with surprise and trepidation during a tense episode that ended on TNG’s very first cliffhanger (or so I read)

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

me, watching soccer with my friend: “wait, it’s the second half already?” friend: “yeah, they’re 45-minute halves” me: “and there are only…two halves, right?”

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

mr. bennet really went off with “for what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

doctors are finding really interesting ways to call me old and fat this week

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

putting the phone right up to my face over and over so I can tell my vision therapist next week that I actually did my homework this time

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the incredible irony of leaving my abusive alcoholic husband and then I turn out to be the one with a liver problem even though I don’t drink that often

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

gonna go get an ultrasound to examine the effects of stress on my body and then go right to the Stress On My Body Factory

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve become newly obsessed with Star Trek and if TNG Season 2 doesn’t STOP fucking with Lt. Commander Data then I will be rioting

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

current burnout stage: scheduling my emotional breakdowns (waiting until I am seated in the nail salon massage chair before I read this petty client email)

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

simultaneously incredibly behind on work & volunteer tasks while too congested to make progress on any of it

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

good thing about seeing doctors: getting to hear “god you’ve been living like this?” from a professional bad thing about seeing doctors: spawns more appointments for new doctors

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

told my 23yo coworker I own a DVD player. he was like "did you just like decide to get into DVDs at some point?" and I had to explain to him that DVDs were the primary media that was available before we all had streaming

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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

One more thing - our Comp Plan should simply come out and say that the CEI Hub shouldn't actual exist in this seismically challenged location, *especially* as a single point of failure for 90% of Oregon's liquid fuels. The long-term COMPREHENSIVE PLAN should be that it eventually goes somewhere else

Proposed Comprehensive Plan policies do NOT include any sort of statement that says the CEI Hub needs to RELOCATE a lot of the fuel capacity AWAY from the current concentrated ticking time bomb for 90% of Oregon's liquid fuels.

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

currently at the step in the procrastination cycle where two reports that are 4 days overdue have gone unnoticed so my brain has convinced me that no one will ever ask about them (they absolutely will)

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I know A Crown of Candy has been out for about 6 years but I’m watching it now for the first time and I’m sobbing?? at D&D???

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

the feds want to kidnap and murder people. their goal is spreading terror and destroying lives. your constituents are endangering themselves to protect each other every day, and you’re a mealy-mouthed bitch if this is the only fucking thing you can think to say about it

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/01/2026

This is actually demonic & should strike as corrosive to the souls of anyone who considers themselves American. It’s the most dishonorable act imaginable. It’s beyond disgusting.

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

chat is it good if you buy a car that has no accident on the carfax, and an inspector finds no evidence of collision damage, and then you find out your wiper fluid reservoir is cracked because the front bumper support apparatus was bent into the reservoir indicating a front-end collision??

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

incredibly embarrassing when a local figure’s racist texts can be easily photographed from a row behind him, and it’s in the news and going viral, and your phone’s font size is as big as his because your vision is just real fucking bad for reading anything

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

University of Nebraska-Omaha is my alma mater. hugs to my fellow Mavs, and also what the fuck??

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

thank you for renting with us! we slapped on the most lifeless paint color; don't you dare change it even though we have to paint again when you move out. please enjoy the cheapest fixtures we could find. don't mount anything on the walls or we will hunt you down. rent will increase 200% in 1 year

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

a couple years ago my usual Walgreens location told me they were out of stock and I needed to call other pharmacies to see who had any stock for me. bless the friend who offered to call around for me and found stock at the downtown Target so I could function

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/01/2026

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

Eyewitness account:
Good morning,
My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction.
I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend.
As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it.
We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

six weeks into being a car owner again and maintenance is already outlandish

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

"shitting on ai makes you sound like a Luddite" oh okay, thank you! Luddites were cool as hell

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ceej @ceej.online · 09/05/2025

I have a plan to radicalize the centrist pundit class using the same mechanism that radicalized me: regular exposure to smoking hot anarchists

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

fellow Portlanders: get trained for Migrawatch/legal observation to help keep our neighbors safe. PIRC runs the rapid response hotline & maintains the volunteer base. follow them on socials, sign up for trainings, save the hotline: 1-888-622-1510 linktr.ee/pirc_pdx - training RSVPs updated here

Flyer for PIRC: Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition

TRAININGS FOR 2026

MIGRA WATCH

We’re seeing increased ICE activity, and this is a critical moment to show up for our neighbors with knowledge, care, and courage. Join us for our next ICE Watch trainings! No prior experience is required.

SAVE THE DATE (bullhorn graphic)

ENGLISH TRAININGS
- Jan 14 - Virtual
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SPANISH COMING SOON!

Links to RSVP will be available 1 week before each training in our linktree.

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Border Patrol shot two people about a half mile from where my close friend and favorite 7yo live. I don’t really have coherent thoughts except that DHS needs to be fucking razed to the ground, and also we should all be building trust with our real life neighbors

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

ICE surveillance is directly connected to ICE violence. One of the most concrete things that progressive leaders can do in cities targeted by ICE is work to roll back surveillance ASAP: -Cancel contracts with Flock -Ban facial recognition -End private camera registries -Data privacy protections

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Larger context on the ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota: Fed. officers have fatally shot at least 3 other people in the last 5 months & wounded or threatened others. We describe a few of the recent incidents and patterns we've noticed here. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...

themarshallproject.org

Before ICE Shooting, Immigration Agents Repeatedly Used Deadly Force

The killing of a Minneapolis woman is latest by ICE and Border Patrol officers in recent months. Others have been wounded or threatened with guns.

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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

And we said abolish ICE too. ICE is not inevitable, its existence is not settled —even as it fortifies the settler state. Historically speaking, that ain’t certain either.

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Walz is happily doing the work of manufacturing consent on behalf of the feds with this statement

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

my brain has always fought me on audiobooks/podcasts & I've never enjoyed them. I asked reddit how to become an audiobook girlie and all the advice is about sticking to "easy" fiction where the details don't matter, and only listening to good narrators. I think I am doomed on the reading front, lads

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

my eyesight is really getting worse and getting new glasses every year isn’t really keeping up with it. at the point where I’m ready to purge all my paper books because I simply cannot read them for longer than 30 minutes

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

this website desperately needs baseball season to start

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I dated someone who told me he knew he loved me because he was really attracted to me even though I’m not a perfect 10 for privacy reasons I will not post his out-of-pocket praise about my [redacted]

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

why is it so hard to get any sort of regular CPAP parts refill shipment from my local medical supply store? much less an accurate one??

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The Horrible Sexy Vampire (1971)

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

group chat popped off this morning with a discussion of what it would be like if humans didn’t have elbows. nature is healing, &c.

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I spent the day watching kung fu movies with my partner and then pretended to blow bubbles at my toddler niece on a video call. v good Christmas so far

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morpheme enthusiast @anderswo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

People have historically, and rightfully, seen the evil of Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, and now CECOT for what it is, but I wish more people would also see the evil in our domestic prisons too. How we treat our most vulnerable, including prisoners, really sets the tone for our whole society.

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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 23/12/2025

blue states should create escrow accounts into which citizens pay their federal taxes but are withheld by the state until the federal government stops acting like its only obligated towards states that support the maga agenda

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bbenny @determinedfox.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

wow don’t tell anyone but I’m finally old enough to be on Bluesky

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