Megan Dee Benedictson
@megsbenny.bsky.social
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a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
January 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
Made a typo in the word typo today (while attempting to correct a typo.)
May 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Made a typo in the word typo today (while attempting to correct a typo.)
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My daughter had triple negative breast cancer at 32 yrs old now clear at 33
colleague’s daughter had hers at 21 years old, it’s come back 3 times now stage 4
assumptions lead to death
Montreal woman dies at 32 after being told she was ‘too young for breast cancer’ www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
colleague’s daughter had hers at 21 years old, it’s come back 3 times now stage 4
assumptions lead to death
Montreal woman dies at 32 after being told she was ‘too young for breast cancer’ www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Montreal woman dies at 32 after being told she was ‘too young for breast cancer’
A Montreal woman who was told by health-care professionals that she was too young for breast cancer but later diagnosed with it, has died from the disease. Valerie Buchanan was 32 when she died at the...
www.ctvnews.ca
May 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My daughter had triple negative breast cancer at 32 yrs old now clear at 33
colleague’s daughter had hers at 21 years old, it’s come back 3 times now stage 4
assumptions lead to death
Montreal woman dies at 32 after being told she was ‘too young for breast cancer’ www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
colleague’s daughter had hers at 21 years old, it’s come back 3 times now stage 4
assumptions lead to death
Montreal woman dies at 32 after being told she was ‘too young for breast cancer’ www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
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These people have spent years saying the cancellation of college lectures was a slippery slope to totalitarianism. Now that marginalized minorities are losing their rights — literally the Niemöller poem — it's just an oopsie with no broader implications.
March 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
These people have spent years saying the cancellation of college lectures was a slippery slope to totalitarianism. Now that marginalized minorities are losing their rights — literally the Niemöller poem — it's just an oopsie with no broader implications.
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Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
February 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
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I find this truly disturbing.
For almost all of us, these sorts of bots will be an annoyance at worst.
But if we've correctly gleaned the intent behind them, we're not the target. The target is socially isolated people who don't get interactions organically.
For almost all of us, these sorts of bots will be an annoyance at worst.
But if we've correctly gleaned the intent behind them, we're not the target. The target is socially isolated people who don't get interactions organically.
Meta is testing, or has started to ship, its AI generated profiles, here on Instagram
www.instagram.com/himamaliv
#SocialWeb
www.instagram.com/himamaliv
#SocialWeb
January 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I find this truly disturbing.
For almost all of us, these sorts of bots will be an annoyance at worst.
But if we've correctly gleaned the intent behind them, we're not the target. The target is socially isolated people who don't get interactions organically.
For almost all of us, these sorts of bots will be an annoyance at worst.
But if we've correctly gleaned the intent behind them, we're not the target. The target is socially isolated people who don't get interactions organically.
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Some terminal Ted Talk Brain in the NYT today:
If it's true that millions of young people is not prepared for the workforce, we're probably going to need a more meaningful solution than teachers slightly changing the phrasing of their classroom instruction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
If it's true that millions of young people is not prepared for the workforce, we're probably going to need a more meaningful solution than teachers slightly changing the phrasing of their classroom instruction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
January 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Some terminal Ted Talk Brain in the NYT today:
If it's true that millions of young people is not prepared for the workforce, we're probably going to need a more meaningful solution than teachers slightly changing the phrasing of their classroom instruction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
If it's true that millions of young people is not prepared for the workforce, we're probably going to need a more meaningful solution than teachers slightly changing the phrasing of their classroom instruction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
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I remember reading this when the book came out and thinking "Nah, way too pessimistic".
Now the incoming US Health Secretary doesn't think HIV causes AIDS.
Now the incoming US Health Secretary doesn't think HIV causes AIDS.
November 29, 2024 at 11:20 AM
I remember reading this when the book came out and thinking "Nah, way too pessimistic".
Now the incoming US Health Secretary doesn't think HIV causes AIDS.
Now the incoming US Health Secretary doesn't think HIV causes AIDS.
I am unlikely to last 20 days but this would be my day 1 pick, for sure.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
💙📚
Day 1
💙📚
Day 1
November 14, 2024 at 12:50 AM
I am unlikely to last 20 days but this would be my day 1 pick, for sure.
Yeah, there's meteorological spring and astronomical spring. But when your cats start getting up to so much shit that you can't keep up, you know the season has truly arrived.
April 1, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Yeah, there's meteorological spring and astronomical spring. But when your cats start getting up to so much shit that you can't keep up, you know the season has truly arrived.
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do you want to see something so so beautiful
December 24, 2023 at 3:40 AM
do you want to see something so so beautiful
Happy Christmas Eve Eve!
Gonna celebrate later by cracking open the Christmas Chips™️ I bought on sale two weeks ago and forbade my family from touching.
Gonna celebrate later by cracking open the Christmas Chips™️ I bought on sale two weeks ago and forbade my family from touching.
December 23, 2023 at 8:09 PM
Happy Christmas Eve Eve!
Gonna celebrate later by cracking open the Christmas Chips™️ I bought on sale two weeks ago and forbade my family from touching.
Gonna celebrate later by cracking open the Christmas Chips™️ I bought on sale two weeks ago and forbade my family from touching.
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"Since 2017, firearm suicide has been the cause of roughly 25,000 deaths each year. Nearly 80 percent are white males ages 15 and older." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Death of a Gun-Rights Warrior
Bob Owens was one of the firearms industry’s most prominent, passionate defenders. Then he turned his gun on himself.
www.theatlantic.com
December 14, 2023 at 3:59 PM
"Since 2017, firearm suicide has been the cause of roughly 25,000 deaths each year. Nearly 80 percent are white males ages 15 and older." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Furthest I've been:
E: Saguenay Fjord, Quebec
W: Kailua-Kona, HI
N: Churchill/Prince of Wales Fort
S: Antigua, Guatemala
Realizing as I mapped this that it's all been in the same NW quadrant of the earth. So, lots more to see!
E: Saguenay Fjord, Quebec
W: Kailua-Kona, HI
N: Churchill/Prince of Wales Fort
S: Antigua, Guatemala
Realizing as I mapped this that it's all been in the same NW quadrant of the earth. So, lots more to see!
furthest I've been:
e: England
s: south Florida
w: SF
n: quebec
e: England
s: south Florida
w: SF
n: quebec
furthest I've been:
e: austria
s: belize
w: california/washington state
n: ontario
e: austria
s: belize
w: california/washington state
n: ontario
December 13, 2023 at 12:01 AM
Furthest I've been:
E: Saguenay Fjord, Quebec
W: Kailua-Kona, HI
N: Churchill/Prince of Wales Fort
S: Antigua, Guatemala
Realizing as I mapped this that it's all been in the same NW quadrant of the earth. So, lots more to see!
E: Saguenay Fjord, Quebec
W: Kailua-Kona, HI
N: Churchill/Prince of Wales Fort
S: Antigua, Guatemala
Realizing as I mapped this that it's all been in the same NW quadrant of the earth. So, lots more to see!
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I have this posted on the wall of my office. And surely -- it will get better after this week...
December 12, 2023 at 1:45 PM
I have this posted on the wall of my office. And surely -- it will get better after this week...
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[R.E.M. voice]
🎶 Eeeeeeverybody’s siiiiick! 🎵
🎶 Eeeeeeverybody’s siiiiick! 🎵
December 11, 2023 at 4:54 PM
[R.E.M. voice]
🎶 Eeeeeeverybody’s siiiiick! 🎵
🎶 Eeeeeeverybody’s siiiiick! 🎵
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Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
November 20, 2023 at 2:36 PM
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.