BENDER9000
@bender9000.bsky.social
Heyyyy, it's me Bender. I have hot takes and can't form complete sentences.
Who would've thought life could suck so much?
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Who would've thought life could suck so much?
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“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.”
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
June 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.”
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
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Not Japanese, but it felt relevant to share. The Earth isn't Dying, Streetart by Banksy. Located in NYC at the Bansky Museum.
February 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Not Japanese, but it felt relevant to share. The Earth isn't Dying, Streetart by Banksy. Located in NYC at the Bansky Museum.
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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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U.S. Mint Introduces New Controversial John Wilkes Booth Pennies
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January 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
U.S. Mint Introduces New Controversial John Wilkes Booth Pennies
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I got my eye on you. You cute kitty 😍
December 6, 2024 at 3:02 AM
I got my eye on you. You cute kitty 😍
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Having been assigned in Europe for 12+ years, I saw a lot of classified intel & experienced a lot of interaction w/ Putin and the Russian military.
The Russian government is a mafia. Europeans know it & we keep failing to understand it. They don't "negotiate."
Putin & his army must be beaten.
The Russian government is a mafia. Europeans know it & we keep failing to understand it. They don't "negotiate."
Putin & his army must be beaten.
November 25, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Having been assigned in Europe for 12+ years, I saw a lot of classified intel & experienced a lot of interaction w/ Putin and the Russian military.
The Russian government is a mafia. Europeans know it & we keep failing to understand it. They don't "negotiate."
Putin & his army must be beaten.
The Russian government is a mafia. Europeans know it & we keep failing to understand it. They don't "negotiate."
Putin & his army must be beaten.
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The US government recently bought powerful spyware that could make hacking your phone easier—and shape the way Trump executes some of his campaign promises, including mass deportations. My latest in
@newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
@newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone
Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Could it happen here?
www.newyorker.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:01 AM
The US government recently bought powerful spyware that could make hacking your phone easier—and shape the way Trump executes some of his campaign promises, including mass deportations. My latest in
@newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
@newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
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I wrote about Trump's new FCC boss Brendan Carr, and how the vast majority of U.S. press outlets didn't think it was important to mention how he plans to take an absolute wrecking ball to broadband consumer protection enforcement and media consolidation limits
Press Glosses Over Fact Trump’s FCC Pick Will Decimate Consumer Protection, Media Consolidation Limits
We noted earlier this week how Trump had unsurprisingly picked Brendan Carr to head the FCC. We also pointed out how Carr’s “policies” are utterly indistinguishable from the inter…
www.techdirt.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:01 PM
I wrote about Trump's new FCC boss Brendan Carr, and how the vast majority of U.S. press outlets didn't think it was important to mention how he plans to take an absolute wrecking ball to broadband consumer protection enforcement and media consolidation limits
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that is absolutely fucking adorable
November 19, 2024 at 3:54 PM
that is absolutely fucking adorable
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Photographer Annet de Graaf captured Israeli Maccabi fans’ violence in Amsterdam. She tells Mehdi Hasan how media like CNN, BBC, and the New York Times used her video to twist ‘the whole narrative’ to portray Maccabi fans as innocent and ignore their anti-Arab racism:
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EXCLUSIVE: Dutch Photographer Reveals How the Media ‘Changed the Whole Narrative’ On Israeli Hooligans
Annet de Graaf talks to Mehdi about how her footage of Maccabi fans’ violence in Amsterdam was distorted by the media to tell a different story.
zeteo.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Photographer Annet de Graaf captured Israeli Maccabi fans’ violence in Amsterdam. She tells Mehdi Hasan how media like CNN, BBC, and the New York Times used her video to twist ‘the whole narrative’ to portray Maccabi fans as innocent and ignore their anti-Arab racism:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
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Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies.
#bydhttmwdi
#bydhttmwdi
a pixel art of a man standing under a rainbow on a blue background
Alt: a pixel art of Levar standing under a rainbow on a blue background
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November 18, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies.
#bydhttmwdi
#bydhttmwdi
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Good morning, Bluesky.
I keep seeing complaints about echo chambers.
I don’t care about the opinions of assholes who want to harm my family. Idgaf. 🤷🏽♀️😮💨
I don’t need to hear from ignorant hateful people. I’m happy to exist in a “echo chamber”.
Go subject yourself to abuse if you want. 🤷🏽♀️😮💨✌🏽
I keep seeing complaints about echo chambers.
I don’t care about the opinions of assholes who want to harm my family. Idgaf. 🤷🏽♀️😮💨
I don’t need to hear from ignorant hateful people. I’m happy to exist in a “echo chamber”.
Go subject yourself to abuse if you want. 🤷🏽♀️😮💨✌🏽
November 16, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Good morning, Bluesky.
I keep seeing complaints about echo chambers.
I don’t care about the opinions of assholes who want to harm my family. Idgaf. 🤷🏽♀️😮💨
I don’t need to hear from ignorant hateful people. I’m happy to exist in a “echo chamber”.
Go subject yourself to abuse if you want. 🤷🏽♀️😮💨✌🏽
I keep seeing complaints about echo chambers.
I don’t care about the opinions of assholes who want to harm my family. Idgaf. 🤷🏽♀️😮💨
I don’t need to hear from ignorant hateful people. I’m happy to exist in a “echo chamber”.
Go subject yourself to abuse if you want. 🤷🏽♀️😮💨✌🏽
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Vivek and Elon at the first DOGE meeting
November 13, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Vivek and Elon at the first DOGE meeting
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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
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Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome!
We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:
We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:
November 15, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome!
We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:
We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:
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The American Taliban are in charge.
November 15, 2024 at 2:15 PM
The American Taliban are in charge.
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Here's the thing about guys like Hegseth. And I say this as a fellow former officer.
He assumes that we are inherently the good guys. He doesn't understand that we have to EARN it.
He assumes that we are inherently the good guys. He doesn't understand that we have to EARN it.
November 15, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Here's the thing about guys like Hegseth. And I say this as a fellow former officer.
He assumes that we are inherently the good guys. He doesn't understand that we have to EARN it.
He assumes that we are inherently the good guys. He doesn't understand that we have to EARN it.
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Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
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Ramaswamy, co-chair of the “government efficiency” department, calls for eliminating veterans’ medical care - the largest program with expired authorization
November 13, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Ramaswamy, co-chair of the “government efficiency” department, calls for eliminating veterans’ medical care - the largest program with expired authorization
This would be a monumentally bad move.
November 13, 2024 at 11:17 PM
This would be a monumentally bad move.