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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 4h

The political ads during football are insufferable right now. Give me beer and car ads instead any day.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 22h

That Pitt-Va Tech game was great.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If Ohio is suspending its gas tax for 90 days I should also get a 25% reduction in the extra registration fee I have to pay for driving an EV.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m no republican strategist but wondering if impeachment could be a midterm strategy given how poorly they’re polling on literally everything else

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sigh I love waking up to further proof the death penalty should be abolished

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Interlibrary loans have to be one of the greatest things ever created. “We’re sorry we don’t have the thing you want to read, but we will find it and get it to you for free so you can!”

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Grabbing paper towels from a new vs old pack and they just felt a bit different. Fucking shrinkflation.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s decorative gourd season, motherfuckers.

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“You’re 45, so it’s time to get a colonoscopy.” Cold. Impersonal. Uninspiring. “Two score and five autumns have cooled your brow, so we must search your corn-maze for haunts.” Mysterious. Fun. Seasonal.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think I’m going to go snake pit for next year’s Metallica show. Technically one of the few ways I haven’t yet seen them.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m a rock guy and have never been to a rave. But I saw Darude is coming to Detroit and have loved Sandstorm immensely since the first time I heard it. Should I go yay or nay?

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This list easily could have been 16+ and included Clean Water Fest on Saturday, right @neorsd.org?

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m not sure I will survive this show. Avatar and Metallica same stage same night.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m overdue to rewatch Pulp Fiction

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years and many memories of little parts of that day still feel as fresh as if they were last week 🇺🇸

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In a world of $9/lb ground beef I just got four pounds of dried chickpeas for $5.99 which feels like quite a bargain.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

FFS I just queried the Google search bar why the Ohio State-Texas game is at 7:30 since so many prime time games are noon now and Google told me it’s at noon because of the Fox Big Noon Kickoff. It’s at seven fucking thirty and two years ago Google wouldn’t lie to me it would just search.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ok this is rather surprising. I spent tons of time visiting family in Wisconsin & southern MN growing up and no doubt that influenced my dialect, but northern MN? I grew up in central Ohio y’all (and yes I also do regularly use y’all)

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is delightful: first photographic evidence of a coyote catching a roadrunner! Scientists do say it’s happened before since coyotes are faster (it’s just that other prey are easier). And guess what the ornithologist’s dad does for a living?!

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Coyote spotted carrying roadrunner in rare sighting caught on camera

YouTube video by KTLA 5

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Absolutely pathetic that Apple Maps has the “Lake America” label above the border. That part is officially still Lake Ontario per Canada. At least put the damn label below the border line.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So I’ve got this huge invasive vine growing up a tree in my yard and the internet suggests concentrated triclopyr to kill the roots after the trunk is cut. It arrived today and the booklet contains instructions for use in a helicopter for crop dusting! 😬☠️ 🚁

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pierre Damas Bel was a new student at Wright State University, after graduating Springfield City High School (with honors & other awards) in May. Bel posted outfit photos of his first day of classes on 8/24, & wrote he was studying both physiology and neuroscience in preparation for medical school.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We need to make it harder to change names in the US Geographic Names Information System. One person should not be able to make it so.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So it’s a pink screen of death on here, huh?

Unexpected fetchHandler) error: fetch failed: UnexpectedException: An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made. (at ExpoModulesCore/ Promise.swift:56)

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Glad I deleted Google Maps. Fuck them.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Whoever created sweet and sour cauliflower is a poet who didn’t know it

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Tom Hamilton is going to need to change his call after the first pitch to “We’re underway at the corner of Carnegie and America”

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If I were our neighbors to the south I’d be renaming the Colorado River Río Mexico pretty soon

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh bloody hell deaths do come in threes huh. And a third great one.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hmm, two 80 year old deaths in two days, they usually come in threes right?

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Home Alone: Yes, I Win

ALT: Home Alone: Yes, I Win

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thank you, Dolly. I couldn’t quickly find all we got (including The Little Engine That Could) but this is such a great mix of literature. “Little E” was my daughter’s favorite for quite a while!

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

make a band bigger: Rob Zombie Apocalypse

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You mean like porch pirates already do?

Amazing drone delivery security: Can packages be stolen, hampered with or hacked?

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Of course Weird Al’s recent Tiny Desk concert made it into my YouTube feed, and he played eBay, so this morning I wake up with I Want it That Way stuck in my head 😕

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Abbott: "They are not interfaith chapels open to all. They exist to benefit the Muslim population alone” Huh, I thought Jesus did that too did he read his Bible or nah? www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

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Abbott urges DOJ probe into foot-washing stations at Texas airports

In a letter to the DOJ, Abbott argued that government-owned airports should not provide spaces that favor one religion over others.

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’m working 3rd shift which isn’t my usual thing so I’m relying on AI actual intelligence

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Oh my word this is delicious. Takes a bit of time but is worth it. Nice to know their stuff can be made at home after eating there in June; I made this with paneer vs chicken. eatseats.blogspot.com/2025/01/dish...

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Dishoom Makhani Sauce

We were lucky enough to eat at Dishoom in Edinburgh this past summer and when we went down to London and discovered that a Dishoom branch wa...

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I can’t believe today is the last day of summer break!

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Ben Zonatate @drxuggist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sure national parks are cool but if you want to get off the beaten path, find a national natural landmark. Especially getting a tour of one normally closed to the public.

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