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Ben Hellmann
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· May 21
My favorite "on the cusp" thing about being Gen-X is that we got to go from rotary phones to routine genocide
Introduce yourself with five concerts you attended
Dog Faced Hermans
Arab On Radar
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club
Don Caballero
Bob Seger
Dog Faced Hermans
Arab On Radar
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club
Don Caballero
Bob Seger
Introduce yourself with five concerts you attended
The Residents
Fishbone/Murphy's Law/The Toasters
Slant 6
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Live Aid
The Residents
Fishbone/Murphy's Law/The Toasters
Slant 6
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Live Aid
Devo
Pato Banton (w/Crazy 8s)
Toy Dolls
Oingo Boingo
Dead Milkmen (w/Mary's Danish)
Pato Banton (w/Crazy 8s)
Toy Dolls
Oingo Boingo
Dead Milkmen (w/Mary's Danish)
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you attended
Dog Faced Hermans
Arab On Radar
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club
Don Caballero
Bob Seger
Dog Faced Hermans
Arab On Radar
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club
Don Caballero
Bob Seger
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Released 49 years ago
Crime "Hot Wire My Heart" b/w "Baby You're So Repulsive"
In November of 1976, this debut single by the San Francisco band was the first punk rock single to emerge from the U.S. West Coast
#punk #punks #punkrock #crime #punklegends #history #punkrockhistory
Crime "Hot Wire My Heart" b/w "Baby You're So Repulsive"
In November of 1976, this debut single by the San Francisco band was the first punk rock single to emerge from the U.S. West Coast
#punk #punks #punkrock #crime #punklegends #history #punkrockhistory
November 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Released 49 years ago
Crime "Hot Wire My Heart" b/w "Baby You're So Repulsive"
In November of 1976, this debut single by the San Francisco band was the first punk rock single to emerge from the U.S. West Coast
#punk #punks #punkrock #crime #punklegends #history #punkrockhistory
Crime "Hot Wire My Heart" b/w "Baby You're So Repulsive"
In November of 1976, this debut single by the San Francisco band was the first punk rock single to emerge from the U.S. West Coast
#punk #punks #punkrock #crime #punklegends #history #punkrockhistory
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The first thing you see when you walk inside the Harry Ransom Center is the Gutenberg Bible.
Keep going and you’ll encounter another marvel: one of the boxes from SNL's “Dick in a Box.” https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/saturday-night-live-ransom-center-exhibition-review/
Keep going and you’ll encounter another marvel: one of the boxes from SNL's “Dick in a Box.” https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/saturday-night-live-ransom-center-exhibition-review/
Live From Austin: Behind the Curtain of ‘Saturday Night Live’
The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition is a treasure trove of archival material.
www.texasmonthly.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The first thing you see when you walk inside the Harry Ransom Center is the Gutenberg Bible.
Keep going and you’ll encounter another marvel: one of the boxes from SNL's “Dick in a Box.” https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/saturday-night-live-ransom-center-exhibition-review/
Keep going and you’ll encounter another marvel: one of the boxes from SNL's “Dick in a Box.” https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/saturday-night-live-ransom-center-exhibition-review/
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Struggling with image accessibility? James shows how he built an alt text button to make websites more inclusive. Practical, simple, and share-worthy!
jamesg.blog/2025/08/17/a...
#DigitalAccessibility #InclusiveDesign #WebDev #AltText #A11y #UX #WebAccessibility #AccessibilityMatters
jamesg.blog/2025/08/17/a...
#DigitalAccessibility #InclusiveDesign #WebDev #AltText #A11y #UX #WebAccessibility #AccessibilityMatters
Developing an alt text button for images on my website | James' Coffee Blog
Mastodon shows an Alt button in the bottom right of images that have associated alt text. This button, when clicked, shows the alt text the author has written for the image.
jamesg.blog
August 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Struggling with image accessibility? James shows how he built an alt text button to make websites more inclusive. Practical, simple, and share-worthy!
jamesg.blog/2025/08/17/a...
#DigitalAccessibility #InclusiveDesign #WebDev #AltText #A11y #UX #WebAccessibility #AccessibilityMatters
jamesg.blog/2025/08/17/a...
#DigitalAccessibility #InclusiveDesign #WebDev #AltText #A11y #UX #WebAccessibility #AccessibilityMatters
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Seen in the wild in Portland, Oregon!
August 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Seen in the wild in Portland, Oregon!
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I think now after every horrible thing that happens instead of advising people to pray we should all be saying “if you are religious, no matter what god you pray to, tell him to cut the shit”
August 29, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I think now after every horrible thing that happens instead of advising people to pray we should all be saying “if you are religious, no matter what god you pray to, tell him to cut the shit”
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“The trick to steam-powered piracy, then, was somehow to cram a book into a newspaper.”
— @paulcollins.bsky.social on the history IP theft via “mastodon” newspapers
www.thebeliever.net/the-last-mas...
— @paulcollins.bsky.social on the history IP theft via “mastodon” newspapers
www.thebeliever.net/the-last-mas...
The Last Mastodon - Believer Magazine
I hesitate a moment at Stanford University’s Special Collections desk. “I got in touch about seeing the Constellation? The newspaper from 1859?” I ask Tim Noakes, the library’s head of public services...
www.thebeliever.net
July 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“The trick to steam-powered piracy, then, was somehow to cram a book into a newspaper.”
— @paulcollins.bsky.social on the history IP theft via “mastodon” newspapers
www.thebeliever.net/the-last-mas...
— @paulcollins.bsky.social on the history IP theft via “mastodon” newspapers
www.thebeliever.net/the-last-mas...
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Got banned from reviews because of jokes I made nine years ago
July 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Got banned from reviews because of jokes I made nine years ago
“Lee is a prolific user of the platform X,…and has averaged more than 100 posts a day on the platform over the last several months.”
MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED POSTS A DAY
He has to have a staffer whose only job is shitposter, but is called on paper “Social Media Outreach Coordinator.”
MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED POSTS A DAY
He has to have a staffer whose only job is shitposter, but is called on paper “Social Media Outreach Coordinator.”
Here's the coverage of Lee's abhorrent behavior, and an email from Senator Smith's staff imploring him to cut it out, from his hometown newspaper.
After Utah Sen. Mike Lee promoted right-wing conspiracy theories about the man who shot two Minnesota legislators and their spouses, killing one couple, a senior staffer for Sen. Tina Smith wrote a blistering email to Lee’s staff.
June 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
“Lee is a prolific user of the platform X,…and has averaged more than 100 posts a day on the platform over the last several months.”
MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED POSTS A DAY
He has to have a staffer whose only job is shitposter, but is called on paper “Social Media Outreach Coordinator.”
MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED POSTS A DAY
He has to have a staffer whose only job is shitposter, but is called on paper “Social Media Outreach Coordinator.”
My favorite "on the cusp" thing about being Gen-X is that we got to go from rotary phones to routine genocide
May 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
My favorite "on the cusp" thing about being Gen-X is that we got to go from rotary phones to routine genocide
Ya learn something new everyday: I always took "Hurt people hurt people" as a doubled exhortation, but it apparently has another meaning that is supposed to be pithy.
May 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Ya learn something new everyday: I always took "Hurt people hurt people" as a doubled exhortation, but it apparently has another meaning that is supposed to be pithy.
Providence people! A bunch of free books have manifested on the corner of Chapin and Sycamore, if you're into reading & shit, you nerds.
Most-covered topics are US political history, queer history, and anti-racist action. There's maybe a dumb Agatha Christie novel in there, too.
#providence #pvd
Most-covered topics are US political history, queer history, and anti-racist action. There's maybe a dumb Agatha Christie novel in there, too.
#providence #pvd
May 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Providence people! A bunch of free books have manifested on the corner of Chapin and Sycamore, if you're into reading & shit, you nerds.
Most-covered topics are US political history, queer history, and anti-racist action. There's maybe a dumb Agatha Christie novel in there, too.
#providence #pvd
Most-covered topics are US political history, queer history, and anti-racist action. There's maybe a dumb Agatha Christie novel in there, too.
#providence #pvd
I am loving that the newest episode of Doctor Who is obviously a response to complaints about how the casting of Jodie Whittaker and then Ncuti Gatwa made a show centered on compassion "too woke." Russell T Davies is rarely subtle, but this one is an enormous middle finger.
May 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I am loving that the newest episode of Doctor Who is obviously a response to complaints about how the casting of Jodie Whittaker and then Ncuti Gatwa made a show centered on compassion "too woke." Russell T Davies is rarely subtle, but this one is an enormous middle finger.
Absolutely this. I was in the Navy with a dude whose plan was to finish up his commitment and move right back to his hometown to be a cop. There was nothing from his time in service that he was interested in using for a new phase in his life. He wanted to go home and be the bully.
“Recently deputized” means “frustrated gym bros who wanna carry guns and boss people around.” It’s always the biggest failures at life who sign up first to be enforcers, torturers and concentration camp guards. This is beyond fucking dangerous and it’s gonna get people killed.
Using "recently deputized" ICE agents who don't follow procedure and perform arrests in plainclothes wearing masks and refuse to show badges is a great way to generate a violent situation.
It's only a matter of time before these cowboys encounter "stand your ground" and it'll be 100% their fault.
It's only a matter of time before these cowboys encounter "stand your ground" and it'll be 100% their fault.
April 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Absolutely this. I was in the Navy with a dude whose plan was to finish up his commitment and move right back to his hometown to be a cop. There was nothing from his time in service that he was interested in using for a new phase in his life. He wanted to go home and be the bully.
They saw global poverty and their takeaway was, "People are resilient. Americans live relatively comfortably. We can extract more from them."
April 15, 2025 at 2:50 AM
They saw global poverty and their takeaway was, "People are resilient. Americans live relatively comfortably. We can extract more from them."
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It is not tied to curbing antisemitism, though — it is tied to the Trump administration’s pretending that peaceful protests against Israel’s leveling of Gaza, protests that include many Jews, are antisemitism
NEW: The $510m federal funding cut for Brown University could have "a ripple effect throughout our economy," Rhode Island officials and life science leaders tell me.
The Trump administration’s threat is tied to curbing anti-semitism on campus. @bostonglobe.com
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/m...
The Trump administration’s threat is tied to curbing anti-semitism on campus. @bostonglobe.com
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/m...
$510m funding cut for Brown University would have ‘a ripple effect throughout our economy,’ R.I. officials said - The Boston Globe
The Trump administration’s threat is tied to curbing anti-semitism on campus, but Jewish students call the cuts counterproductive. “I feel safer in spaces of academic engagement and open dialogue, not...
www.bostonglobe.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It is not tied to curbing antisemitism, though — it is tied to the Trump administration’s pretending that peaceful protests against Israel’s leveling of Gaza, protests that include many Jews, are antisemitism
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An excellent episode with the kind of deep-dive research and humor that sets this podcast apart. Plus I learned the term "anchoring bias."
This month’s bonus episode is about Senator Josh Hawley’s book “Manhood.”
Learn about masculinity from the dude who encouraged January 6th rioters and then fled in a full sprint when they entered the Capitol.
Learn about masculinity from the dude who encouraged January 6th rioters and then fled in a full sprint when they entered the Capitol.
Josh Hawley's "Manhood" | If Books Could Kill
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March 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
An excellent episode with the kind of deep-dive research and humor that sets this podcast apart. Plus I learned the term "anchoring bias."
To be clear: if you believe that race is a "biological reality," you can then create a taxonomy of races, figure out a hierarchy, and then declare one as supreme. This is KKK shit. This is Nazi shit. This is as American as asshole pie.
March 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
To be clear: if you believe that race is a "biological reality," you can then create a taxonomy of races, figure out a hierarchy, and then declare one as supreme. This is KKK shit. This is Nazi shit. This is as American as asshole pie.
Dude knows from experience.
March 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Dude knows from experience.
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Security is pretty tight here at my home. If you were to break in and harm me, you would be met with a series of lawsuits that would make your head spin, as well as drafts of legislative bills that would guarantee this is one of the last times you will pull such a stunt.
February 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Security is pretty tight here at my home. If you were to break in and harm me, you would be met with a series of lawsuits that would make your head spin, as well as drafts of legislative bills that would guarantee this is one of the last times you will pull such a stunt.