Ben Abrahamse
babrahamse.bsky.social
Ben Abrahamse
@babrahamse.bsky.social
library guy
I have a few vacation days to do whatever I want with and I plan on spending them playing video games and practicing the drums
December 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Brigitte Bardot, actress and singer, remembered for those sleazy duets she sang with Serge Gainsbourgh
December 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Does every "Heritage American" look like an open jar of mayonnaise sitting out at room temperature or just Adrian Vermuele
December 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
if I were a democratic message maker I would just relentlessly point out that a secular, democratic multiracial society was how this country was set up, it's served us quite well, and there's no reason to innovate on that formula
December 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
never grow out of wanting the window seat
December 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
when everything collapses around him Trump will try to make us feel sorry for him and some of you lovely empathetic people are going to fall for it
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Make a Bond movie academic:

Dr. No (but you can just call me Kevin)
Make a Bond movie academic:

Live and Let Dissertate
Make a Bond movie academic:

For Your Peer-Review Eyes Only
December 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Miller is a very stupid man who has risen to prominence by taking things that even a child knows is wrong and angrily claiming they aren't. A true creature of our age. Soon his life is going to be nothing but shame and misery and a lot of former friends saying I never knew him
December 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
JetBlue has a channel that just shows puppies the whole flight
December 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
people say X is terrible but if it keeps most of the insufferable pricks off of bsky maybe it's doing its job
December 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
the only center our petomanical President should be able to put his name on is a center for performing farts
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Numismatics is a waste of time," she said, speciously
“Frankly, philately will get you nowhere,” he said stamping out thar idea.
December 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
not a creature was stirring
not even a mouse
December 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
it's no wonder ICE isn't observing the holidays they are reserved for people with souls
December 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Reposted by Ben Abrahamse
Fascism collapses because large numbers of people see what it is and what it does and get together to do unto fascists before they're done unto themselves.
December 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
fascism collapses because in addition to it being morally execrable it turns out the world does not run on fairy dust
December 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
key lime is the absolute empress of pies
December 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I think the best way to interpret this scotus ruling is that at least some on the court now see the curve in the road ahead
December 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Father take this football away from me
He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
December 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
a new thing this year is trying to catch up with friends who have never been particularly interested in talking about politics and all they want to talk about is how much Trump is fucking us over
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
not that crazy, but finding a typed and signed letter from Hitler to Theodore Komisarjevski, congratulating him on a successful play opening, when I was working for the Harvard Theatre Archive
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Reposted by Ben Abrahamse
I firmly believe we're going to survive this era -- broken, hobbled, with decades of rebuilding that will not be finished in my lifetime -- but we are going to survive and every asshole who collaborated in the effort to destroy this country will forever wear the stain of it.
December 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
if I owned a fast dying media outlet like a television network I would be eager to add viewers not reassure them you're still not worth watching
December 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
whoops
December 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Reposted by Ben Abrahamse
In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is:

“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM