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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 29m

As a person who straddles the Gen X/millennial line, “this is your brain on drugs” is the winner.

Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 23h

I'm about to tell my 13yo that he can't get a certain video game for the Nintendo because it's too violent and, wow, I feel like such a square.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone remotely curious about what the hell is going in with this country absolutely needs to check out D.L. and Krispin’s work.

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anyone in #PDX who has or knows teens who like D&D, I'm leading a 7-week session at Mt. Scott Community center. 7:30-9:30pm on Fridays starting 10/16. It's free! There are still some spots available! anc.apm.activecommunities.com/portlandpark...

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Portland Parks & Recreation

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lots of good shows here, but nothing animated? No Avatar: The Last Airbender?????

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This seems like a helpful perspective.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I didn't know who @sarahjeong.bsky.social was before this morning and now I absolutely need to know when she lands at PDX.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I will likely be flying from the PNW to Edinburgh next spring so I'm paying CLOSE attention to this story. Also, as much as it sucks to go through this, it has been a very entertaining read.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just finished a rewatch of Loki s1+2 and man oh man that is a good show. Even better the second time through.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Supreme Intelligence? All hail our new Kree overlords.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think our mainstream media is drawn to shame. GOP has none so media just moves on. Dems have shame to spare so the coverage is extremely lopsided.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Based entirely off only what I’ve seen online, this guy rules.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would love to see one of these guys but also feel they should be left tf alone.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Avengers: Doomsday Marketing could use some work.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's stunning to think how easy it would be to get this question right and take a moral stand. It would simply involve talking to a single person. And yet . . .

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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Staring at a ratty old couch . . .

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We simply cannot afford to let republicans have power for the 30th anniversary.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anybody from #PDX with teen kids, I'm leading a 7-week #DnD group at the Mt. Scott Community Center in SE. 10/16-12/11 (w/ breaks for holidays) 7:30-9:30pm on Friday Nights 4 spots available!!! And it's free!!! No experience necessary. Link: anc.apm.activecommunities.com/portlandpark...

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Portland Parks & Recreation

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It *is* a little unsettling that she exists somewhere on the Don Bluth Mouse Girl Compass

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is good, but he could have given basically the same answer for the trans kids in sports question as well, and didn't.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I do wonder if Dems are talking to . . . literally any trans people at all . . . like anywhere. This is NOT A THING that happens and you don't need to fall for it!!!! Deeply disappointing.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I definitely read this as though I was reading a Mary Oliver poem.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My takeaway? Make sure you have friends who will give you honest feedback and tell you “under no circumstances will we allow you to release this video to the public.”

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Playing Dungeons and Dragons and singing in choir with my friends from high school.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I love Aaron. But this seemed unusually important, so I watched the speech until I got to this part. He says he was lifted out of the US Steel building because it was creaking and people thought it would fall down, NOT that he was lifted from the rubble on 9/11.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Honestly didn't know you could have it in a tab.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I watched Avengers Endgame with the kids today and would like to thanks all the union folks that made that masterpiece possible.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I believe this goes in the “Everything is Gender” hall of fame.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Believing that other people are real is antifascist praxis.

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Anna Stesia @onlychyld.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

Where did they even find some of these?

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Between Reagan, Fetterman and Trump, I think it's time we had a frank discussion about how the American electorate has a revealed preference for cognitive decline.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Why does every picture of Paxton look like the Edgar Suit from Men in Black?

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Takes one to know one I guess.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Stared at today’s connections puzzle for several minutes and had no idea what was going on. Stopped and came back a few hours later and got it in like a minute.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

1) This is the first time I'm hearing about Oreogate. 2) I looked up information about it, noticing that it confirmed some priors. 3) got suspicious and tried to figure out if it was real or not. 4) Don't know. Withholding judgement until I learn more. Proud of myself.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Apparently some kids in my 4th grader's class were making a "death note" based on an anime on netflix and, ok parents, Netflix is not a babysitter!!!!

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An Island Resort gets a 1-star review.

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My middle kid bought a telescope this summer and we are PUMPED.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026

there are going to be many remembrances of Tim Curry today for his brilliant work in Rocky Horror and Clue and so much more, but to me this ridiculous bit from Red Alert sums up everything that made him great you never knew what you were going to get with him, but whatever it was would be brilliant

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Tim Curry: Uncorrupted Space

Alt: Tim Curry's Space gif from Red Alert

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Say what you want about Jubilee, but a pre-taped presidential debate with fact-checks during the broadcast would be pretty awesome.

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