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Ben Joseph
@benjoseph.bsky.social
· Sep 1
Would love this to become the new place where I post then quickly delete things.
Apple king of making shows to torture annoying people who ask “wait but how does this actually work”
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Apple king of making shows to torture annoying people who ask “wait but how does this actually work”
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It is impossible to have a mass movement without cringe, because the masses are cringe. You have to not think you’re better than everyone else to be a part of a mass movement. Cool is inherently exclusionary, you can’t win mass politics with cool.
After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.
Resistance Is Cringe
But it’s also effective.
www.theatlantic.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It is impossible to have a mass movement without cringe, because the masses are cringe. You have to not think you’re better than everyone else to be a part of a mass movement. Cool is inherently exclusionary, you can’t win mass politics with cool.
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Paramount has released the trailer for TALES OF THE TMNT season 2, and launched a new TMNT website at NYCC.
NYCC ’25: TALES OF THE TMNT Season 2 trailer released
The trailer reveals the MUTANT MAYHEM continuation will return this December, and coincides with a new WORLD OF TMNT website.
www.comicsbeat.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Paramount has released the trailer for TALES OF THE TMNT season 2, and launched a new TMNT website at NYCC.
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YOU - “Our lives are very different from each other.”
JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”
JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”
September 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
YOU - “Our lives are very different from each other.”
JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”
JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”
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The plan: we spend an entire award show promoting the Boys & Girls
Clubs, then give them a donation of a few thousand dollars
Clubs, then give them a donation of a few thousand dollars
September 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The plan: we spend an entire award show promoting the Boys & Girls
Clubs, then give them a donation of a few thousand dollars
Clubs, then give them a donation of a few thousand dollars
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Yes he very civilly said my wife was too stupid to be a pilot and my money controls the world and we both were degenerates who should be killed, he said all that very civilly
He argued with civility. It's a start.
What disagreements, exactly, was he bridging via his work and words?
September 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Yes he very civilly said my wife was too stupid to be a pilot and my money controls the world and we both were degenerates who should be killed, he said all that very civilly
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Wife's going out tonight, time to get weird*
*watch a YouTube video called "Every Star Trek Game Reviewed and Ranked" while stretching my hamstrings
*watch a YouTube video called "Every Star Trek Game Reviewed and Ranked" while stretching my hamstrings
August 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Wife's going out tonight, time to get weird*
*watch a YouTube video called "Every Star Trek Game Reviewed and Ranked" while stretching my hamstrings
*watch a YouTube video called "Every Star Trek Game Reviewed and Ranked" while stretching my hamstrings
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you can't say (correctly) "Vote Blue no matter who" and then desert the idea when a left-winger wins, and party leaders even encouraging or winking at opposition to Mamdani at this point are fools
the left very clearly views support for mamdani as a litmus test - does party loyalty run both ways?
August 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
you can't say (correctly) "Vote Blue no matter who" and then desert the idea when a left-winger wins, and party leaders even encouraging or winking at opposition to Mamdani at this point are fools
Capitol is the building, capital is the city. Or money. Or a big letter. Or something British people shout. What I’m saying is we’re not giving capitol enough to do.
July 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Capitol is the building, capital is the city. Or money. Or a big letter. Or something British people shout. What I’m saying is we’re not giving capitol enough to do.
Showing my wife the little collection of TikToks I saved for her like a cat leaving a dead bird on its family’s porch
July 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Showing my wife the little collection of TikToks I saved for her like a cat leaving a dead bird on its family’s porch
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The way you square low party favorables with an okay generic ballot and very strong special election performance is that the Democratic base is ready to crawl over broken glass to oppose Republicans and furious at party leadership for not feeling the same.
And yet the same poll has the 2026 generic congressional ballot at D+3, so that high disapproval is coming entirely from partisan Democrats themselves. If you've ever wanted to challenge an ineffective Democratic incumbent, you're not going to have a better opportunity than next year.
New WSJ poll: The Democratic Party is 30 points under water with registered voters, considerably worse than the GOP (-11). www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
July 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The way you square low party favorables with an okay generic ballot and very strong special election performance is that the Democratic base is ready to crawl over broken glass to oppose Republicans and furious at party leadership for not feeling the same.
Furious this happened a mile away from me and I wasn’t there.
My pals at @vidiots.bsky.social created an interactive experience during the film breaking fakeout scene in their screening of Gremlins 2: The New Batch last weekend. It's even better than what I had hoped to do in 1990! 😁
July 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Furious this happened a mile away from me and I wasn’t there.
Sometimes you learn a fact that you immediately know you're going to work too hard to bring up in casual conversation and today it was "Lou Bega is actually German"
"MAMBO NO. 5"-Sänger über die Welt der Stars und seine innere Leere | Interview mit LOU BEGA
YouTube video by Die Mondschein Show
www.youtube.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Sometimes you learn a fact that you immediately know you're going to work too hard to bring up in casual conversation and today it was "Lou Bega is actually German"
Marc Maron achieving every podcaster's dream, becoming succesful enough to quit your podcast
June 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Marc Maron achieving every podcaster's dream, becoming succesful enough to quit your podcast
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FASHION FASHION FASHION
May 31, 2025 at 3:11 AM
FASHION FASHION FASHION
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kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.
May 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.
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she means your kids, not hers
Leavitt: "Electricians, plumbers -- we need more of those in our country, and less LGBTQ graduate majors from Harvard University. And that's what this administration's position is."
May 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
she means your kids, not hers
Unfollowed me on Instagram just because we haven’t talked in a decade? Heartbreaking. A betrayal. Same situation, still following me? Intrusive. A violation. How dare you.
May 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Unfollowed me on Instagram just because we haven’t talked in a decade? Heartbreaking. A betrayal. Same situation, still following me? Intrusive. A violation. How dare you.
Thought of this all-timer tonight.
"Everything's fine," the babysitter said into the phone. "But can I cover up the weird clown statue in your hallway?"
"Get out of the house, I'm calling the police," the father urgently replied. "You have disrespected my clown statue and I hate you."
"Get out of the house, I'm calling the police," the father urgently replied. "You have disrespected my clown statue and I hate you."
May 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Thought of this all-timer tonight.
Ending of tonight's The Rehearsal made me laugh harder than anything on TV has in months.
May 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Ending of tonight's The Rehearsal made me laugh harder than anything on TV has in months.
Thinking today of the woman on Instagram who cried because all of us stupid radical Kamala voters couldn’t understand she was voting for Trump because she just wanted things to be normal again
April 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Thinking today of the woman on Instagram who cried because all of us stupid radical Kamala voters couldn’t understand she was voting for Trump because she just wanted things to be normal again
Not interested in a movie about whether or not Nathan Caine can feel pain. Nathan LANE on the other hand…
March 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Not interested in a movie about whether or not Nathan Caine can feel pain. Nathan LANE on the other hand…
The White Lotus should have one family that’s just having a nice time.
February 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
The White Lotus should have one family that’s just having a nice time.