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I once glanced at an interview with Curtis Yarvin and his whole plan for destroying the government and instituting a monarchy was "we'll give people a little payout so they won't make a fuss." Like that was it. That was the depth of thinking.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Why show sympathy to someone whose existence and self-worth is based entirely on inflicting cruelty? She's an adult. Others are under no obligation to pity her.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And the menace of halal trucks on every corner

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

*INFANTINO: SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO LEARN GAMBLING IS GOING ON THERE* *pockets money

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Believe it or not R. Crumb has this covered in the 1970s.

Vintage poster of talking toilet telling men to wipe their asses. Two women at the bottom gossip about a man who is emitting stink lines from his ass.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yes. Nothing easier than organizing facts, especially those from way back, you know, when those facts have date ranges in the thousands of years.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I love listening to Henry Rollins on KCRW. Eclectic mind and tastes, and he tells you stuff about the artists.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm looking forward especially to the scene that Nolan's wokeness refused to film: when the Thundercats appear to take down Penelope's newest suitor, Skeletor.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Utz Crab Chips. Walker’s Thai Chili Crisps strong second.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

When Alexi Lalas speaks Zlatan looks like he wants to lean over and eat him. #worldcup

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

They're real. I've known some. I call them human EMPs.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

St Peter has the keys to weight loss

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Waiting for proof-of-life that is spirit photography.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Trump cursed us. That’s what’s happened.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Maybe we are finally done with Platner now? Dude has become a time suck, resource suck, and attention suck from all the bad things republicans do.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Except for Elon and Thiel. 100% takers.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Oh yeah they just won-won no matter what

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

No matter what happens Cape Verde has won.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

All you fascists bound to lose.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

As an art historian I don't think this tells you anything insightful (that I'm aware of and some of the data is very wrong), but as a visualization layer it is pretty cool. #dataviz

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Cosmos worked really well and it was fun to play with some of the vis types like mesh and worm. The dataset itself is fairly straightforward, but I added some more complex logic for searching and filtering that changes the opacity and it gives it a nebula-like look.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I've become a fan of the webgl world for doing interesting #digitalhumanities data viz with larger datasets for both look and performance - go-tos like Gephi and Sigma.js tend to struggle with 11K nodes and 14K links like here. Cosmos is probably overkill for a smaller set.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Finally able to build something with cosmos.gl, a program I came across while teaching data visualization this year at Pratt. I have a pretty large network dataset of artists compiled from Wikidata that I often use to test out capabilities. bzweig633.github.io/universe-of-...