Ben Saufley
@bensaufley.com
software engineer and illustrator. soccer fan: #USMNT, #USWNT, #NWSLBoston, Portland #UpTheHearts, QPR, Serbia, Zvezda. anti-racist. anti-terf
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The actual claim being made, as always, is "no one should be allowed to make things that are not for me."
"They don't make games like they used to", says man who refuses to play indie games made exactly like they used to be
December 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The actual claim being made, as always, is "no one should be allowed to make things that are not for me."
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Here’s yet another poll, this time out of the U of Chicago, showing that the majority of Americans oppose expanding fossil fuel production.
Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
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Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
🤔
December 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Here’s yet another poll, this time out of the U of Chicago, showing that the majority of Americans oppose expanding fossil fuel production.
Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
🤔
Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
🤔
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My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail
December 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail
It's all bad faith but:
1. If we take "diversity" as a simple dictionary term for "variety", of course it can be diverse without any one demo. The world is full of different ppl!
2. If we choose a more political angle there's a case to be made that "diversity" *shouldn't* include the dominant group
1. If we take "diversity" as a simple dictionary term for "variety", of course it can be diverse without any one demo. The world is full of different ppl!
2. If we choose a more political angle there's a case to be made that "diversity" *shouldn't* include the dominant group
Fact | You can't write something predicated in the utterly ludicrous assumption that white men are being excluded from publishing unless you are racist.
December 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It's all bad faith but:
1. If we take "diversity" as a simple dictionary term for "variety", of course it can be diverse without any one demo. The world is full of different ppl!
2. If we choose a more political angle there's a case to be made that "diversity" *shouldn't* include the dominant group
1. If we take "diversity" as a simple dictionary term for "variety", of course it can be diverse without any one demo. The world is full of different ppl!
2. If we choose a more political angle there's a case to be made that "diversity" *shouldn't* include the dominant group
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More about anti-Italian discrimination. The historical amnesia on display in the Trump administration is dazzling.
BTW, here's a Life Magazine cartoon from 1911, two years after Michele Bovino came to the US:
December 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
More about anti-Italian discrimination. The historical amnesia on display in the Trump administration is dazzling.
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“Refuses to be controlled” is very funny for someone whose whole thing is doing whatever the oligarchs want her to do
December 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
“Refuses to be controlled” is very funny for someone whose whole thing is doing whatever the oligarchs want her to do
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What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome
December 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome
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We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
December 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
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What's a few life-threatening mass blackouts when you can type in a few keywords and get a picture of Sydney Sweeney as Lara Croft but with 3 boobs
Texas faces a power grid overload due to a surge in demand from Al
Utility CEO on the data center crunch: America's 'check engine light' is on and 'no one's going to pay attention until it breaks down' | Fortune
"We are telling policy makers the warning lights are on," Exelon CEO Calvin Butler told Diane Brady at Fortune Brainstorm AI in San Francisco.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM
What's a few life-threatening mass blackouts when you can type in a few keywords and get a picture of Sydney Sweeney as Lara Croft but with 3 boobs
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I have so many questions
December 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I have so many questions
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.
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Two stories side by side in WashPost
December 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Two stories side by side in WashPost
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President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
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Donald Trump spent Christmas:
- Referring to millions of Americans as “scum”
- Bombing another country without congressional authorization
- Defending Jeffrey Epstein
- Threatening it “may be our last Christmas ever”
Just an absolutely deranged person with advancing dementia!
- Referring to millions of Americans as “scum”
- Bombing another country without congressional authorization
- Defending Jeffrey Epstein
- Threatening it “may be our last Christmas ever”
Just an absolutely deranged person with advancing dementia!
December 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Donald Trump spent Christmas:
- Referring to millions of Americans as “scum”
- Bombing another country without congressional authorization
- Defending Jeffrey Epstein
- Threatening it “may be our last Christmas ever”
Just an absolutely deranged person with advancing dementia!
- Referring to millions of Americans as “scum”
- Bombing another country without congressional authorization
- Defending Jeffrey Epstein
- Threatening it “may be our last Christmas ever”
Just an absolutely deranged person with advancing dementia!
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Did you know that each region of Ireland has its own figure who traditionally delivers presents on Christmas Eve??
December 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Did you know that each region of Ireland has its own figure who traditionally delivers presents on Christmas Eve??
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Imagine being so utterly incapable of joy
December 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Imagine being so utterly incapable of joy
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Oofa doofa
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Oofa doofa
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to be clear: Jesus also said denying help to the poor is rejecting God.
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
to be clear: Jesus also said denying help to the poor is rejecting God.
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I mean this genuinely constructively: Mark Cuban should, but won’t, reflect on why he feels more comfortable on the site run by a Nazi than on one where randos are moderately intemperate to him.
No shock. This app has turned my mentions, and others, into mostly hate. But there are a few people worth connecting with
CRAZY how it's easier these days to have a real discussion on X, or threads, than on here.
CRAZY how it's easier these days to have a real discussion on X, or threads, than on here.
December 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I mean this genuinely constructively: Mark Cuban should, but won’t, reflect on why he feels more comfortable on the site run by a Nazi than on one where randos are moderately intemperate to him.
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Time for Patel to answer for his lies.
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Time for Patel to answer for his lies.
Oh my god I was certain this was someone doing a cute parody of less-common Christmas folklore but it's real??
Tonight is Christmas Eve, when we in Iceland open presents. All the Yule Lads have already come down from the mountains, but tonight the Yule Cat arrives and he will eat all the children who weren't gifted any new clothes for Christmas.
My daughters both got woollen socks so they are safe 🙏
My daughters both got woollen socks so they are safe 🙏
December 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Oh my god I was certain this was someone doing a cute parody of less-common Christmas folklore but it's real??