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RS Benedict

@rsbenedict.bsky.social
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wrote that essay about superhero dicks * published in the New Haven Independent, New Haven Review, FSF, Fangoria, Blood Knife, Seize the Press, Typebar, Current Affairs * rs-benedict.com * RIP Rite Gud

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 6h
ICE is terrorizing our city and our communities. They’ve just shot someone with a five-year-old in the car. There is no justification for this or their presence in New York. ICE out of NYC. #abolishice. Image via @gothamist.com
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18h
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h
Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police. It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.” (Published Nov. 2025 w/ @startribune.com)
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Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
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Connor 🦇 @roxconn.bsky.social · 4h
The woke mob made Johnny Depp show up three hours late drunk as shit every day of filming while knowing none of his lines until studios decided he wasn’t worth it and stopped hiring him
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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 5h
So much of Silicon Valley and therefore also genAI boosterism is motivated, on a deep and fundamental level, by petty resentment that other people are allowed to exist.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h
When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.
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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am trying to think of AI from a standard corporate accountability perspective and I found this line from the safety policy employee who quit to be the most succinct explanation of the concern. it doesn't need you to buy into any sci-fi narratives. it's all about scale/scope:
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
are you fucking kidding me
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An initiative on the ballot in Washington State this fall would require families to pay for their daughters to have a genital exam or other sex test if they want to play sports AT ANY LEVEL, and the left is sleeping on it. I talked to KUOW:
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Polling shows ban on trans girls in girls' sports could pass in November
Washington state voters will soon weigh in on a ballot measure to ban transgender girls from playing on girls’ school sports teams. The initiative is controversial, but national and local polling sugg...
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Eric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They started texting with a 16-year-old. After two years, they offered to sell him a gun. They consider that "stopping a terrorist attack." And they are calling it heroic. What an absolute embarrassment.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At least 66 Palestinians in Gaza were killed by Israeli forces between Aug. 23 & Sept. 6, 2026. Over 1,400 have been killed since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire signed in Oct. 2025. This video from Gaza City features 4 instances of unprovoked Israeli attacks on Palestinians during the two-weeks noted.
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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Virgil Finlay, Sharane Beneath the Veils, illustration for Abraham Merritt's The Ship of Ishtar, 1949
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J.A. Killingsound @kislingconnection.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Folks, I know times are tough, but remember to put some money aside for when it happens, because even if you don't take off work to celebrate, you're going to have to account for buying drinks for everybody. Don't assume it will all be on the house. Start planning now.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Call me crazy but maybe the FBI should not give the mentally ill teens it constantly grooms into doing terror plots assault rifles then arrest them on the spot
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FBI says it thwarted an attack on the Mall of America by a teen it supplied with an assault rifle
The FBI thwarted an attack on the Mall of America by a teenager after agents supplied him with an assault rifle, authorities announced Wednesday.
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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Former Joliet police lieutenant Jeremy Harrison, 50, faces a charge of computer tampering and official misconduct in Will County, per Illinois State Police. Harrison’s charges make him at least the third Will County law enforcement officer accused of misusing the surveillance technology this year.
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Former Joliet police officer charged over alleged Flock camera misuse
Jeremy Harrison, 50, faces a charge of computer tampering and official misconduct in Will County in July 2025, when Harrison was serving as a lieutenant in the Joliet Police Department.
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
Collectively, the cases we’ve documented show that as the administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, it has run roughshod over the constitutional rights of citizens, too, and on a scale not seen in generations. Read our full story:
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RFK JR YOU SON OF A BITCH www.mynbc5.com/article/stew...
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Stewart's Shops recalls some ice cream over possible metal contamination
Popular convenience store chain Stewart's Shops is recalling some of its ready-to-eat ice cream due to the possible presence of metal.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
God everything is so DUMB.
United States
Attorney's Office
Southern District of New York

PRESS RELEASE
North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted
Music Streaming Fraud
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026
Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/10/2026
sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump and his allies have spent most of the past decade doing the administrative equivalent of ripping bundles of wiring out of the walls. When everything's trundling along, you don't necessarily notice the missing wiring. When something goes very wrong, suddenly the damage becomes apparent.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
commute her fucking sentence jesus christ
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"And 👏 we 👏 did 👏 nothing 👏 to 👏 stop 👏 it 👏."
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A pro-Trump billionaire family now controls all of these platforms.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 05,1972
P1- NANCY IS DOWNTOWN AND SEES A SIGN IN A WIG SHOP

GOING OUT OF
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ALL WIGS $1

NANCY: OH, BOY--ID LOVE TO HAVE A WIG

P2- SLUGGO SEES NANCY  WALKING WITH HER HAIR REACHING THE GROUND 
SLUGGO ,NOT KNOWING ITS A WIG, IS SO SHOCKED HIS HAT GOES STRAIGHT UP IN THE AIR
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Llewellyn @llewellynrose.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ahh this was excellent!! justice for HIM
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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this will be funny to like 3 people but I’m one of them and that’s all that matters
The poster for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, but it’s been edited to include And Knuckles at the end of the title, and Knuckles has been edited into the photo of the cast
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
HIM (2025) is a movie in which a blonde, mar-a-lago faced football cultist named Marjorie (VERY CLEARLY based on a certain Republican congresswoman) gets beaten to death in a sauna. 5/5 stars.
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Median Voter
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Genuinely great performances in that movie! Julia Fox as the bizarre trophy wife! Tim Heidecker as the ultra-sleazy agent! Marlon Wayans is fantastic in it! It's a solid movie and it got so much unjustified hate!
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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Football is human sacrifice/body horror. Critics hated this movie because it was up front about all that in a maximalist way. There is no subtlety when discussing a sport where the announcers straight up say "you can do sexual assault if you score enough touchdowns"
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Even if being a putschist wasn't itself a bad thing, like 12 of them are convicted child molesters
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: on the set of the Jerry Springer show, a man sits in a chair. Jerry signals off-stage and says, “we have with us: your ancestor who crawled out of the ocean 375 million years ago!” Panel 2: the live studio audience is booing. Panel 3: security attempts to break up a fight between the man on stage, and his ancestor, a tiktaalik.
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The Haunted Oaf 👻 @snackalgorithm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The most likely explanation for the endorsement is that he best represents every single Republican voter (pedophile). bsky.app/profile/sun-...
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 05/10/2026
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so incredibly massively fucking tired of this
Three National guard soldiers walking through a metro station
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Matt Keeley, or the discovery of television among the bees @kittysneezes.com · 05/10/2026
AND both episodes are now up for all at Kittysneezes or wherever you get your podcasts!! Here's @rsbenedict.bsky.social and @nextmooregoscinny.bsky.social talk about Sharknado! kittysneezes.com/sharknado-wi...
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Sharknado with R.S. Benedict
R.S. Benedict comes out of podcast semi-retirement to join Jerna for a look at Sharknado and just how it fits in the Z Nation universe.
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Matt Keeley, or the discovery of television among the bees @kittysneezes.com · 05/10/2026
Ray convinced me (and later my mom) to watch HIM, and they're right! The ending kinda biffs it, but it's worth it. I honestly think HIM went too hard on the awfulness of football culture and pissed a bunch of people off.
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They hated HIM because HIM told them the truth
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Having to deal with this all the time at work (not from choice, other businesses have implemented it) I can say that is absolutely true. It cannot explain simple software tasks for its own product but we trust it with all the big stuff because it talks real pretty and says we're smart?
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Blur @tomboypepsilove.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Watched an El Santo movie and I htink the funniest thing to me is that he's simultaneously played as a detective superhero yet he's also still an in-universe wrestler, so he has to pause the plot to go wrestling three separate times
El Santo on a phonecall: "When I develop it, it'll be confirmed. Got to go wrestling."
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Donald trump has openly supported Bolsonaro and tied economic punishments levied on Brazil to his prosecution. Wild to claim America hasn’t interfered with the election
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tanning is back in style? Nonononononono (I have a very high skin cancer risk and had many, MANY biopsies in my teens and early 20s. Do not tan. Sunscreen. We like sunscreen. Hats. Long sleeves. I dress like a murder accomplice with an elaborate scheme to outthink Monsieur Poirot)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies… ex British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide…Simon Andriesz was previously a managing director at Wall St firm where Lutnick was CEO…” www.thebanker.com/content/0228...
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