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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The saddest baby
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What I’m seeing is: being very vocal about the damage thar hateful bigot worm person JK Rowling has done to the world in her pursuit of eradicating trans people is damaging the Harry Potter brand. So definitely keep doing that.
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I don’t want devices to be online but I would like every device with a clock to have a little nfc chip so I can boop my phone to it and set the clock to local time. It’s a crime this isn’t already standard
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Petting Coconut on a lazy Sunday
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Oat was a bit of a rascal but I loved him so much and he spent a lot of cat time being a chill, restful cat
Cat standing proudly, looking as if he was in a wind tunnel, but while actually in a living room
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I had a dream that RFK Jr stopped by for a health inspection and put his unwashed fist in my partner’s refried beans and I kicked him out of the house. Honestly this feels 100% like what even my woke brain imagines such an encounter to be like
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I lost my tiniest baby, Oatmeal today. He was miserable for the last three months and I’m relieved his suffering is over. He was the crime baby of all time, the best to ever do it. It will be weeks of removing child locks and sobbing over here. I’ll miss you little man
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I started seeing a specialist about Oatmeal this week. He has some sort of chronic digestive condition but we’re trying to work out exact diagnosis and he’s doing better now than he has for weeks. Hopefully we can get his weight back up while we wait for test results.
A gray cat on the floor looking up at the camera. He is thin but doesn’t look miserable.
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Oatmeal, my criminal baby, has developed a chronic condition but I’ve switched his diet and he’s doing okay. Here he is looking normal about it
A cat with a bald patch that’s technically on his belly but because he’s sitting up it looks like his knee is bald.
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Why isn’t there metric for time? Why are we on the king’s minutes
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Going on gbbo to have paul hollywood correctly identify my hero flavor as tj’s everything but the bagel seasoning
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/02/2026
"power holds no value unless it is exercised"
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is exciting youtube.com/shorts/d9Xvb...
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Weevil rediscovered after being thought extinct for decades
YouTube video by iNaturalist
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Hermit crab
Cat living in box with body half in
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 10/11/2025
JCO proving what I’ve been saying for years when it comes to engaging with chuds - they don’t care if you think they’re stupid, or hypocritical, or evil (they’ll like it because they hate you). But if you find the way to accurately show how *uncool* they are, you can really really fuck with them.
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Say what you will about Dick Cheney, but he did politics the right way: lying to the American people while shooting his friend in the face
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I finally made a decision to buy some larvae but the temps are too cold to ship them and I may have missed my chance for the entire winter. :/ I need like a solid week of > 50°F/10°C lows
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
This little guy, I am told, is not a weevil but he does the signature flying style of the weevil (very cute)
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
the left is responsible for the sexual revolution, maybe the most important development for guys trying to get laid in human history. the right opposes it to this day.
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
When is Chicago going to rip out Lake Shore Drive
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 28/07/2025
many of you know this already but @katewagner.bsky.social is one of our greatest living writers lux-magazine.com/article/priv...
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Bringing Sexy Back
Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
as someone who was alive in the 90s this is a surreal headline to read. We actually defeated the Satan Bug
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I would go to a conference where it’s just people showing off their complex excel spreadsheets and people get awards
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/06/2025
the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
About today's public transit discourse: I believe that riding public transit is a spiritual good for increasing your empathy and practicing minding your own business. It also helps you internalize that most people mind their own business, e.g. no one is looking at you.
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The first person to discover black peppercorns must have lived like a goddess
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I’m not putting anyone on a pedestal but at every opportunity to be a shithead who throws marginalized people under a bus this man chooses the opposite and he’s wildly popular because of it and I don’t understand what about that isn’t clicking for other dems
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🐑💬🐝🔒❤️ (♂️) @bobbylox.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
If you have any positive feelings for the Chicago Indie Gamedev community, please back Indie City Games' kickstarter. They're 2/3rds of the way towards creating a real IRL home for ICG to meet, cowork, learn together, etc. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ind... #GameDev #IndieGameDev #IndieGame
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Chicago Indie Game Showcase
Chicago Indie Game Showcase (C.I.G.S) is a one-day convention featuring independent games from Chicago and the greater Midwest.
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
And just like that, everyone forgets Pizzaballa
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Once again it is time for the Met Gala, an event I completely understand and find enjoyment in as a result of said understanding. Love that everyone dresses up for the red carpet and then immediately gets down to the business of the Met Gala!
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Fun fact: the average adult spends 1/3 of their life doing multi factor authentication
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Dear god let this man cook.
Pritzker: It’s time for us to be done with optimism about their motives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in his car. Our military service members don’t deserve to be told by a washed-up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve their country simply because they are Black, gay, or a woman.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 16/04/2025
my longest held belief is that if you’re nearing your middle ages you need to get into a semi-social hobby or creative project quickly otherwise you are more susceptible to rightwing radicalization brain rot content
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
My fiancée’s son took this candid Coconut photo and it’s perfect
A fluffy cat is hanging his head upside down off a platform on a wall. He is reaching his arms out to the next platform. Everything is bathed in blue light. Put simply, it is the pose of a cat without a thought in his fluffy head.
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This animal will never sleep with all four legs in
Floofy cat sleeping on a ledge with back leg and tail hanging off
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
it's incredible how many stages of fascism you can avoid succumbing to as a voter by simply asking not who this plan hurts but how it helps you
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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 22/03/2025
If AOC or someone like her started a progressive party that ran on things like universal healthcare, UBI, protections for immigrants and LGBTQIA people, antiracism, etc., I (and I imagine many others) would gleefully organize and vote for that party, like I think it might actually work
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
If someone said “dishwasher juice,” would that be the water or the detergent?
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
You are MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. If they threaten you with arrest for trying to access a site you are lawfully entitled to access, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING ARREST YOU. YOU MAKE THEM SLAP THE CUFFS ON A CONGRESSMAN LIVE ON TV, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING DO IT.
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Deleted my twitter today. I forgot how much fun I used to have on social media before things got like this
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Any time an industry gets de-regulated or allowed/made to self-regulate (as with FAA/airlines), that’s an attack on us and our safety and QoL. The ruling class is killing us and they want us to thank them for it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The announcement from Meta makes me wonder if conservative echo chamber is just the death state of social media.
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I resumed a playthrough today of Disco Elysium. Pretty sure it’s going to take this time
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Ben @paracatgames.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Posting is such a specific social skill and way of thinking that I like to speculate what popular posters would be like irl and how annoying I would find them
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/12/2024
republicans should definitely try to stop the corrupt democrats from winning with the electoral college by getting rid of it
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