Benny6Toes
@benny6toes.bsky.social
Sci-Fi, board games, UX, politics, sarcasm, laughter, science, ally. It's a strange Venn diagram. I probably have more toes than you.
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Birds of a feather
Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Birds of a feather
***chef's kiss***
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
***chef's kiss***
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When dogs sigh it is the craziest thing in the world, deserving of the loudest “OH REALLY” you can muster
it's funny to me when a dog is really sleepy. oh are you all burnt out from lying around all day? did you think too much with your primitive and underdeveloped brain? yeah I can see why you can barely keep your eyes open
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
When dogs sigh it is the craziest thing in the world, deserving of the loudest “OH REALLY” you can muster
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Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.
NYT isn’t worth reading because they are in the bag for Trump
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.
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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
How entertaining would it have been to be in the back of that room, quietly observing? Sounds like a hoot.
Crazy aura farming to go to a meeting about how your invention is impossible with a working version of your invention
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 AM
How entertaining would it have been to be in the back of that room, quietly observing? Sounds like a hoot.
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Looking to introduce some brand new players to D&D and don't want to overwhelm them? Check out my condensed character sheets which keep things super simple for new players.
I use them every time I run for new folks!
Get yours: https://bit.ly/3QMqQw7
I use them every time I run for new folks!
Get yours: https://bit.ly/3QMqQw7
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Looking to introduce some brand new players to D&D and don't want to overwhelm them? Check out my condensed character sheets which keep things super simple for new players.
I use them every time I run for new folks!
Get yours: https://bit.ly/3QMqQw7
I use them every time I run for new folks!
Get yours: https://bit.ly/3QMqQw7
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It's a revealing moment...
J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost.
The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.
J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost.
The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
It's a revealing moment...
J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost.
The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.
J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost.
The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.
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Open bribery by a foreign leader. The exact scenario that the Founders feared.
"no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"
"no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Open bribery by a foreign leader. The exact scenario that the Founders feared.
"no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"
"no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"
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Discretion in immigration proceedings is fundamentally incompatible with due process. Meet every requirement Congress set, but get denied because of the arbitrary animus of the executive, making an inherently legislative determination on what requirements exist.
p.s.: Asylum is also discretionary.
p.s.: Asylum is also discretionary.
The Trump admin is planning to say that being from Cuba (or any other travel ban country) is a "significant negative factor" that could lead to a denial of any of several discretionary immigration benefits (like green cards).
Seriously; national origin discrimination as official government policy.
Seriously; national origin discrimination as official government policy.
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Discretion in immigration proceedings is fundamentally incompatible with due process. Meet every requirement Congress set, but get denied because of the arbitrary animus of the executive, making an inherently legislative determination on what requirements exist.
p.s.: Asylum is also discretionary.
p.s.: Asylum is also discretionary.
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Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
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"You see, once we call the issue something like, just shooting from the hip here, the 'houselessness crisis,' no one will technically be homeless anymore, because we won't use that word." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
Our City’s New Initiative Will End Homelessness by Calling It Something Else
The housing crisis in our city is reaching a breaking point. Something has to be done to help the struggling members of our community, which is why...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"You see, once we call the issue something like, just shooting from the hip here, the 'houselessness crisis,' no one will technically be homeless anymore, because we won't use that word." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
Facts
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Facts
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@ossoff.senate.gov The Hill is reporting you're thinking about caving on the shutdown fight. Don't do it. You will get NOTHING but more broken promises, more fascism, and depressed turnout in the next election because you'll rightly be viewers as weak and ineffective.
DON'T CAVE.
DON'T CAVE.
November 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
@ossoff.senate.gov The Hill is reporting you're thinking about caving on the shutdown fight. Don't do it. You will get NOTHING but more broken promises, more fascism, and depressed turnout in the next election because you'll rightly be viewers as weak and ineffective.
DON'T CAVE.
DON'T CAVE.
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And finally, some thoughts on why the pervasive idea that Trump somehow deserves deference for what he is doing because that’s what “people voted for” gets the idea of democracy all wrong and merely perpetuates the Trumpist claim that they have a “mandate” to tear down the Republic.
October 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
And finally, some thoughts on why the pervasive idea that Trump somehow deserves deference for what he is doing because that’s what “people voted for” gets the idea of democracy all wrong and merely perpetuates the Trumpist claim that they have a “mandate” to tear down the Republic.
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The Tea Party never reached the magnitude of No Kings. Yet it was covered as if it represented “real America,” just like MAGA today. Those are not empirical assessments, but articles of faith – ideological claims about the world that are widely shared in the American mainstream discourse.
October 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The Tea Party never reached the magnitude of No Kings. Yet it was covered as if it represented “real America,” just like MAGA today. Those are not empirical assessments, but articles of faith – ideological claims about the world that are widely shared in the American mainstream discourse.
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Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.
October 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.
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In this piece: The New York Times did not think the No Kings protests were all that significant – which is indicative of how much mainstream institutions have bought into the idea that only Trump and his supporters represent “real America” and have a right to have their message amplified.
October 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In this piece: The New York Times did not think the No Kings protests were all that significant – which is indicative of how much mainstream institutions have bought into the idea that only Trump and his supporters represent “real America” and have a right to have their message amplified.
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
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So, AWS went down and so did most of the internet. And everyone just moved on.
This is part of why we are where we are. Everything we see and hear is owned by maybe five people, and it doesn’t feel like that’s raising enough eyebrows.
This is part of why we are where we are. Everything we see and hear is owned by maybe five people, and it doesn’t feel like that’s raising enough eyebrows.
October 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
So, AWS went down and so did most of the internet. And everyone just moved on.
This is part of why we are where we are. Everything we see and hear is owned by maybe five people, and it doesn’t feel like that’s raising enough eyebrows.
This is part of why we are where we are. Everything we see and hear is owned by maybe five people, and it doesn’t feel like that’s raising enough eyebrows.
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One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”