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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙

@thisisbensilver.bsky.social
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Art toucher, earnest trier, compulsive hydrator and one day I'm gonna lick the moon. linktr.ee/thisisbensilver

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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’ve waited for this since Elise told me she was thinking of writing it over a year ago An incredible retrospective “In my first essay for Current Affairs and return to publishing after a two year hiatus, I present the only 9/11 meme analysis worth reading.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/meme-in...
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Meme-ing Our Way Through the Era of Ultra-Violence
Dark jokes about 9/11 distract us from a real reckoning with U.S. foreign policy and the horrors of the Global War on Terror.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I have two tickets to the @404media.co live recording tonight I can’t make anymore, free to a good home
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Whomp whomp @ifbookspod.bsky.social
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Some extremely nuanced and insightful analysis of the Hank Green AI stuff, and AI use in general from the inimitable Charlotte Moore-Lambert (@charlottereads.com) slate.com/podcasts/icy...
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We Lost Another Creator To AI, Boys
AI is making the Vlogbrother’s burnout even worse.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
YES VIRGINIA DOING THE FUCKING WORK Can you imagine how much better the world would be right now if Democrats had grown spines and teeth at any point in the last 25 years? Take notes @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Do your fucking jobs and get your knuckles bloody
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I dont want to see any more close-up photos of Karoline Leavitt’s lips I want to see a real-life close-up of your lips because we're about to kiss
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I love these videos because this is literally $4,040 of equipment and $4,000 of it is being used for a basic little background loop and the last $40 is used for the super catchy “live” melody which is the reason people stick around.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Woah I just dug up some really racist posts from Tilly Norwood.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Me too, Erika… Me too.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Childhood ADHD Ben would like to thank Louis Sachar for Wayside School Childhood Autism Ben would like to thank Louis Sachar for Someday Angeline Adult Autism/ADHD Ben will finally get to thank Louis Sachar tonight
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I’m so jealous of the Pope for dying because he didn’t have to learn about Kanye’s incestuous confession to sexual abusing his cousin
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Heads up y’all… Skylight is NOT “Bluesky’s version of TikTok” It may be a great app, but it is not from Bluesky
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Wear a mask when you travel!!!
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Is this anything??
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I've always had a particular affect in my speech/writing (Autism brain!!!) It feels truer to my voice, It's help the translation of my tone and intention I often use eccentric punctuation, spacing, and capitalization And now I'm terrified people will think my writing was done by generative AI
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Chuck Schumer doesn’t have time to deal with a Government Shutdown because he’s too busy touring for a book he wrote about how it’s okay to kill children as long as they’re Palestinian.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
At first I thought Jerry Seinfeld might care more about Palestine if he learned that more than half of all Gazans are younger than 18... But then I remembered that Israel destroyed all of their schools... so he wouldn't know where to find any of them, anyway.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Jerry Seinfeld might actually care about Palestine if someone told him that half the population of Gaza is younger than 18.
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I also get death threats, doesn’t stop me from doing my job and my job is stupid
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Federal Budget, USAID, International Relations, Humanitarian Assistance, and the Destruction of the American Machine.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Exclusive footage of Mitch McConnell’s fall today
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Easter is gonna be so expensive =\
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Omg I’m a day late because I never remember when it’s Groundhog Day… but I will ALWAYS remember how Bill de Blasio killed one. RIP Charlotte the Groundhog.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Why is Billie Eilish performing in that one diorama in every children’s museum??
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Thinking of all the “Hey are you doing okay?” texts I’ll have to send tomorrow if Taylor Swift doesn’t win a Grammy this year
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Does anyone else dream exclusively in moral quandaries??
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Wouldn’t it be so crazy if everyone got a clear phone case and put some “Know Your Rights” cards in them so they were always accessible?
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I cannot properly express how healing it is to be in a room with hundreds of other pro-Palestinian Jews Thank you @peterbeinart.bsky.social for writing this book, and for bringing us together I’m proud of being a Jew, I’m proud of my morals, Those things are tied deeply together Free Palestine
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It’s kind of extraordinary how much I don’t hate being in midtown rn. I love congestion pricing.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
What would you do if a stranger slid into your DMs with two photos and said “Rate my teeth? 😃 😆”
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Eggs are one of the foods that freeze dry extremely well, so you can buy powdered eggs. They have long shelf lives, and can be used in any baking, and rehydrated directly into scrambled eggs.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
So many male comics are weird creeps because they misunderstood that “Sketch Fest” wasn’t meant to be a description of them.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
And Animorphs
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Noor Hindi @noorhindi.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I’m just here to shout for a Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Folk Punk is the most important thing that ever happened to me, and intentional community is everything. Just thinking about that a bit today.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Y’all are so uncultured, let me teach you the proper Roman response to seeing a Roman Salute
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We thought we’d created vaccines⁽¹⁾ that virtually eliminated Polio⁽²⁾ but then a bunch of right wing lunatics waged a campaign against vaccines⁽¹⁾ so now Polio⁽²⁾ is back and spreading… (1) Democracy (2) Fascism
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
No it’s cool I totally wanted to do weeks’ worth of someone else’s job today!
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Cinnamon @cinnachick.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
No one is coming to save us. It’s up to us to save each other. Every day, make something better.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Slate is my favorite news/culture outlet by far. They understand that journalism inherently has a point of view And they don’t do the “both sides” bullshit or sanitize their language or feign neutrality. (All of their podcasts are top tier, too)
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elisabeth @elisabeth.love · 20/01/2025
hey i love you jsyk
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I have very bravely started to get sexbot followers on Bluesky
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
How many times are they going to “accidentally” do Nazi salutes before “we didn’t know these were Nazi salutes” stops being an excuse???
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
If Biden wanted to do something to help being remembered positively, he would die on live television in the middle of the Inauguration. It wouldn’t change anything… but it would be hilarious and it would ruin Trump’s day.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Joe Biden, you are a bumbling fucking fool. And you’re always been driven by ego and obsessed with your legacy… So I hope you live just long enough to realize the damage you’ve done, and the shitstain on American history you’ll be remembered as.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
None of this is Trump’s fault. It doesn’t matter if he floated the idea to ban TikTok first. Democrats embraced the idea. They legitimized it. They sold us out. Instead of opposing it, they adopted it. Joe Biden happily signed it into law. Malfeasant fucking fools.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
This is all Joe Biden’s fault. It’s wild how determined he’s been to fuck us over. Biden is Emperor fucking Nero playing his fiddle while the world burns around him. Ultimately we can stand up to, and fight Trump and his malice… But we have been kneecapped and defanged by Biden and his indifference.
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Ben Silver 🚀⚓️💙 @thisisbensilver.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I hate TikTok… they stole 300k followers from me It severely affected my mental and financial health But I am still resolutely agains banning it This bill muzzles our free speech It’s profoundly dangerous precedence Even if you think TikTok is bad… This ban is unconscionably irresponsible.
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