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General nerd in the PNW. Amateur musician. Former photographer. Occasional podcaster but we don't have to talk about that. He/They
- Then I have been a holy man my entire life.
- We got Amalthea’s paw prints back. Her little stamp on the world that says “I was here.” I started crying when looked at them. I miss her so much.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedOnce again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
- I took a few days off of all social media after our cat died because I just couldn’t stomach it and also what was I gonna do, post “yep still miss our sweet baby still dissociating on the couch”? And y’know I gotta say I didn’t miss social media and just maybe it’s poisoning my brain.
- They forced everybody back into the office and two weeks later half my team is out sick who could have possibly foreseen this outcome?
- Peter, a wristwatch guy: As a wristwatch guy, I can say that nobody will ever give a shit about whatever watch you are wearing. Me, a wristwatch guy: <nods sagely to myself>
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- There should be a service where you give Hideo Kojima $1,000 USD and a brief biography of yourself and then he legally changes your name to whatever he wants and you absolutely have to use this new name.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedthey should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
- Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. bit.ly/4rmRhrK
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedAbolish and prosecute ICE
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedTake me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
- Today we said goodbye to our sweet girl Amalthea, “God’s favorite princess”. My wife had her for 17 and a half years and she has been part of my life for 9 of them. She was a gorgeous cat that everybody loved, and her absence is already felt.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedI don't know why we're still debating about the logistics of renewable power sources when we could just harness Chuck Schumer's loser energy and keep the grid lit up indefinitely
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i so wonder what this coyote felt and thought as it looked at alcatraz from the shore- i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedJew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks
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- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedTom and Jerry imagining a world where Norman Rockwell is much cooler.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedIf ICE thinks they're hated in America, wait until they find out what the rest of the world thinks of them.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashed"its scary and powerful and you need to understand that its too good, the thing im selling, like how when the cheetohs became dangerously cheesy. this is as serious as the dangerously cheesy cheetohs gambit. god help us, ya know?"
- ‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief www.ft.com/content/c309...
- We have scheduled euthanasia for our elderly cat for this Friday. So on top of the world being on fire I am also absolutely devastated in my personal life. I am a hot mess on the hot mess express.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedmy guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter. name a fucking high school after him.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedwe love the tyrannosaurus roundboi
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedHappy "large boulder the size of a small boulder" day to those who celebrate.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedEven if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go. Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go. Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go. As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
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- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedyou guys literally voted three days ago to fund the people who executed him.
- "My heart is with Alex Jeffrey Pretti’s family. No words can bring back your son, but his name and the justice he was fighting for will never be forgotten." - @repmarktakano.bsky.social
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedThis is how I feel every day when people ask me how it’s going
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedSeeing the NYT switch to active voice feels like watching a seal holding back the apocalypse crack
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedIf you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedyeah I gotta say, no one would be more surprised than me, but this is an uncharacteristically robust reply
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedClarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account
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- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedIt’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedBy who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedChuck, maybe you could call your Senator about it? The Senate switchboard can be reached at (202) 224-3121. If the Senior Senator from New York and Senate Minority Leader isn't in, leave a recorded message.
- Basically every customer I talked to east of the Rockies preparing to not return to work until like next Thursday. Everybody else was talking about how glad they were that they weren’t in the shit.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedA bipartisan bill would allow finally make small-format "kei" trucks street legal in Oregon, and offer communities one simple way to increase safety, save money, and remove unnecessarily huge, polluting vehicles from the roads.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashed“It was a simpler time then, back when all people wanted to talk about was the leader of the country molesting underage girls,” said Denver resident Scott Munoz
- Is it dehumanizing language? Yes. Is it probably supposed to be a joke about Maine lobsters or whatever? Yes. Is it also (on accident or on purpose) making a reference to a line by an imperial officer in The Empire Strikes Back? Also yes. They’re literally just doing a Galactic Empire.
- Federal officials launch ICE operation in Maine and begin arrests: “Operation Catch of the Day” Given that they undoubtedly knew the level of scrutiny, this would be subjected to, the choice of name is deliberately disrespectful to human beings. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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- I finally got some time to start Hades 2. As expected, it is good.
- We happened to be back in our old neighborhood so we stopped at the Indian food cart there. Their lamb korma is maybe in my top 5 foods ever. It is just perfection.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedI’m a kitten In a sealed box I lie I’m quantum Dead and alive
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedEating the AI art in protest is ironically more Art than whatever the fuck the ai guy was doing
- I’m not gonna tell Weird Al what to do but he should write a parody song of “Wanted Dead or Alive” about Schrödinger’s cat called “Dead and Alive”.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedoh it's going to be a Recession recession
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedeat this pancake for it is my body, the syrup my blood. the butter is uhhh cerebrospinal fluid
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedAnd everybody was stunned to learn that people at FIFA can feel embarrassment.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crasheddon’t make me tap the sign
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- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedMiddle finger mask guy welcomes ICE agents back to HQ. Whipple Federal Building, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota 01/17/26
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedA downside to literally no one in this Administration understanding basic economics is that "we're going to raise tariffs until you give up Greenland" is the econ version of "I'm going to repeatedly kick myself in the testicles until you do what I want" www.cnbc.com/2026/01/17/t...
- This is not the behavior I would expect from a Nobel Peace Prize borrower.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedRoses are red Nazis are lurking Beware of them here because
- I was listening to the Behind the Bastards episode about the history of cigarettes and my brain was like “damn I want a cigarette.” Reader: I have never smoked in my life. But I grew up in a smoker’s household and I do think that broke my brain a little bit.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedIf It Happens and he becomes president, he'll become the first one in history to get bullied into tears by his own citizens
- One of the longest day of work in recent memory. So out of it that a single glass of whiskey obliterated my sense of self. I am now floating through an amorphous ether and having brunch with the void.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedRT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedIs mercury in retrograde or is it just fascism.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedno one: the president of the united states: they wont stop checking me for brain damage
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- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedI maintain that a significant part of why the Idaho Stop works is that drivers have absolutely no problem seeing cyclists when they're doing something drivers think they shouldn't.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedsure, Jack Daniels has been crippled by Trump's pointless trade war with Canada. but surely the CBS News Whiskey Fridays with Some Guy No One Knows will turn things around
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedHoly shit if he's this soft don't ever give him a moment's rest in public
- No I’m allowed to bring this food into the movie theater it is my emotional support Taco Bell.
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedonce more with feeling
- I was up way too late one night last week watching this and it was worth the sleep deprivation. A lot of technical stuff about Apollo 13 and if that’s your thing you should definitely watch it.
- Full doc about Apollo 13 -- an absurdly deep dive -- is right here! youtu.be/gQUHVYYHTb0
- Reposted by ben.exe has crashedWe used to call this subtweeting and also yes
