bonque, ben
@kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social
They/them
Bi enough
Statistician/mathematician with physics and Xtian theology experience
CIO of Jacurutu's Municipal Water Utility
My hyperfixation is Shaul ha Melekh, who did NOTHING WRONG
Bi enough
Statistician/mathematician with physics and Xtian theology experience
CIO of Jacurutu's Municipal Water Utility
My hyperfixation is Shaul ha Melekh, who did NOTHING WRONG
Pinned
ויי אזוי זאגט דאך גוטער בוכ, "כי מלאכיו יצוה-לך": דו געפינסט שטענדיק דעם ציטאט *נאכדעם* וואס דו פובליקירסט
Gut (bald) Shabbos, and I don't think this one is my fault, @theradr.bsky.social
www.thetorah.com/article/amal...
Gut (bald) Shabbos, and I don't think this one is my fault, @theradr.bsky.social
www.thetorah.com/article/amal...
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Sure, trials build character. But at what cost?
I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do
November 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Sure, trials build character. But at what cost?
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Bovino's "tragic family secret" is that his alcoholic father killed a young woman in 1991 while driving drunk.
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Bovino's "tragic family secret" is that his alcoholic father killed a young woman in 1991 while driving drunk.
Sure, trials build character. But at what cost?
I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do
November 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Sure, trials build character. But at what cost?
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ויי אזוי זאגט דאך גוטער בוכ, "כי מלאכיו יצוה-לך": דו געפינסט שטענדיק דעם ציטאט *נאכדעם* וואס דו פובליקירסט
Gut (bald) Shabbos, and I don't think this one is my fault, @theradr.bsky.social
www.thetorah.com/article/amal...
Gut (bald) Shabbos, and I don't think this one is my fault, @theradr.bsky.social
www.thetorah.com/article/amal...
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
ויי אזוי זאגט דאך גוטער בוכ, "כי מלאכיו יצוה-לך": דו געפינסט שטענדיק דעם ציטאט *נאכדעם* וואס דו פובליקירסט
Gut (bald) Shabbos, and I don't think this one is my fault, @theradr.bsky.social
www.thetorah.com/article/amal...
Gut (bald) Shabbos, and I don't think this one is my fault, @theradr.bsky.social
www.thetorah.com/article/amal...
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The government of China spent $42 million on lobbying last year. AIPAC spent $3 million.
Correction, here is the pac list. My previous point still stands.
www.opensecrets.org/political-ac...
www.opensecrets.org/political-ac...
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The government of China spent $42 million on lobbying last year. AIPAC spent $3 million.
CW for immigration/deportation doom and because I feel unwell thinking about this.
See comment.
See comment.
November 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
CW for immigration/deportation doom and because I feel unwell thinking about this.
See comment.
See comment.
Hashtag goals
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Hashtag goals
She's 32. How is she even old enough to have these kinds of thoughts about Obama? Prodigy of a different kind, I guess.
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
She's 32. How is she even old enough to have these kinds of thoughts about Obama? Prodigy of a different kind, I guess.
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Oh, so now it's fine to have a war on Christmas
Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Oh, so now it's fine to have a war on Christmas
The idea that Jesus personally ordained the destruction of the Jewish Temple would explain Jewish animosity towards him even without the centuries of persecution by his followers. Nebuchadnezzar hasn't even been forgiven.
me: Jesus theyre hoarding money again
Jesus: Destroy that goddamn temple
Jesus: Destroy that goddamn temple
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The idea that Jesus personally ordained the destruction of the Jewish Temple would explain Jewish animosity towards him even without the centuries of persecution by his followers. Nebuchadnezzar hasn't even been forgiven.
Whole profile gone. Let's celebrate with naps
For your various lists.
By @adventurecabaret.bsky.social
By @adventurecabaret.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Whole profile gone. Let's celebrate with naps
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Oh my GOD.
Puget Sound Energy gets you to donate to their “Warm Home Fund” and then turns those funds over to the Salvation Army, the Christian supremacist hate group known for refusing queer people shelter when temperatures are dangerously cold.
The irony is painful.
Puget Sound Energy gets you to donate to their “Warm Home Fund” and then turns those funds over to the Salvation Army, the Christian supremacist hate group known for refusing queer people shelter when temperatures are dangerously cold.
The irony is painful.
Something else I regularly share for those of us in the Seattle-ish area...
November 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Oh my GOD.
Puget Sound Energy gets you to donate to their “Warm Home Fund” and then turns those funds over to the Salvation Army, the Christian supremacist hate group known for refusing queer people shelter when temperatures are dangerously cold.
The irony is painful.
Puget Sound Energy gets you to donate to their “Warm Home Fund” and then turns those funds over to the Salvation Army, the Christian supremacist hate group known for refusing queer people shelter when temperatures are dangerously cold.
The irony is painful.
It occurred to me just now that the history is there and is driving whether or not we understand that history. It's like society's subconscious
The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all we do.
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It occurred to me just now that the history is there and is driving whether or not we understand that history. It's like society's subconscious
Academic, economic, legal, social disenfranchisement.
NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill
Elected officials and activists note work vehicles removed lightning fast, resulting in hundreds in fees.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Academic, economic, legal, social disenfranchisement.
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A half-what carrying three what
wake up babe, new units of measurement just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A half-what carrying three what
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
Chomsky repeatedly defending genocide wasn't enough, but a couple of mentions in the Emails apparently is.
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Chomsky repeatedly defending genocide wasn't enough, but a couple of mentions in the Emails apparently is.
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Just months before his arrest and suicide in a prison cell, Jeffrey Epstein played matchmaker to Steve Bannon and Noam Chomsky, connecting the pair for a lunch and debate at Chomsky's residence. Oh, to have been a fly on that wall.
civicanger.com/2025/11/17/n...
civicanger.com/2025/11/17/n...
Noam Chomsky and Steve Bannon: The Lunch Epstein Brokered
Just months before his arrest and suicide in a prison cell, Jeffrey Epstein played matchmaker to Steve Bannon and Noam Chomsky, connecting the pair for a lunch and debate at Chomsky's residence. Oh, to have been a fly on that wall.
civicanger.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Just months before his arrest and suicide in a prison cell, Jeffrey Epstein played matchmaker to Steve Bannon and Noam Chomsky, connecting the pair for a lunch and debate at Chomsky's residence. Oh, to have been a fly on that wall.
civicanger.com/2025/11/17/n...
civicanger.com/2025/11/17/n...
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The worst "bigotry" these guys can imagine is "some girls don't find me attractive".
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The worst "bigotry" these guys can imagine is "some girls don't find me attractive".
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Teodora Eling Estrogen
Philippines Civil Registration (National), 1945-1996
Philippines Civil Registration (National), 1945-1996
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Teodora Eling Estrogen
Philippines Civil Registration (National), 1945-1996
Philippines Civil Registration (National), 1945-1996
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Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
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Noam Chomsky was always bad and if you’re surprised you should feel bad.
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Noam Chomsky was always bad and if you’re surprised you should feel bad.
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Rabbi Akiva: “Men who punch holes into wall when angry will end up worshipping idols, because that’s the evil impulse at work.”
(Avot deRabbi Natan ch. 3)
(Avot deRabbi Natan ch. 3)
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Rabbi Akiva: “Men who punch holes into wall when angry will end up worshipping idols, because that’s the evil impulse at work.”
(Avot deRabbi Natan ch. 3)
(Avot deRabbi Natan ch. 3)
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As a complete aside, “Nuzzi” sounds like a weird sex thing a teenager would make up and put into Urban Dictionary.
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
As a complete aside, “Nuzzi” sounds like a weird sex thing a teenager would make up and put into Urban Dictionary.
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but at least I did not have to worry about the
worm that was not a worm in his brain.
but at least I did not have to worry about the
worm that was not a worm in his brain.
BUT AT LEAST I DID NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE WORM THAT WAS NOT A WORM IN HIS BRAIN.
worm that was not a worm in his brain.
but at least I did not have to worry about the
worm that was not a worm in his brain.
BUT AT LEAST I DID NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE WORM THAT WAS NOT A WORM IN HIS BRAIN.
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
but at least I did not have to worry about the
worm that was not a worm in his brain.
but at least I did not have to worry about the
worm that was not a worm in his brain.
BUT AT LEAST I DID NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE WORM THAT WAS NOT A WORM IN HIS BRAIN.
worm that was not a worm in his brain.
but at least I did not have to worry about the
worm that was not a worm in his brain.
BUT AT LEAST I DID NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE WORM THAT WAS NOT A WORM IN HIS BRAIN.