ben lowery
@blowery.org
web person in saratoga springs, ny, working on tumblr.com (tumblr.com/blowery), our favorite hellsite.
Go Blue! BSE 99
Go Blue! BSE 99
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Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away
White House Scraps Cash Payments for Delayed or Canceled Flights
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away
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Ingrid and I made this years ago, when it was easier to have fun around computation, and I still love it
Every time I get the notification to renew the domain grimoire.computer I'm tickled by the little jokes
The Realm of Rough Telepathy
a grimoire
grimoire.computer
December 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Ingrid and I made this years ago, when it was easier to have fun around computation, and I still love it
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bring back the Ford Pinto and the badly designed rear-impact exploding gas tank
unwind the entire woke legacy of ralph nader and basic auto safety and pollution standards developed after decades of death and misery
do it for innovation and jesus
unwind the entire woke legacy of ralph nader and basic auto safety and pollution standards developed after decades of death and misery
do it for innovation and jesus
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
bring back the Ford Pinto and the badly designed rear-impact exploding gas tank
unwind the entire woke legacy of ralph nader and basic auto safety and pollution standards developed after decades of death and misery
do it for innovation and jesus
unwind the entire woke legacy of ralph nader and basic auto safety and pollution standards developed after decades of death and misery
do it for innovation and jesus
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I worked at a university where the five highest paid employees were the men’s basketball coach, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired before that one, the former president who had been fired, and the current president. In that order.
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I worked at a university where the five highest paid employees were the men’s basketball coach, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired before that one, the former president who had been fired, and the current president. In that order.
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DO NOT CLEAN SNOW OFF THE BLEACHERS WITH YOUR TRUMPET
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
DO NOT CLEAN SNOW OFF THE BLEACHERS WITH YOUR TRUMPET
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
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It terrifies me. it cannot transcribe, which is supposed to be an easy task. And if it transcribes what it hallucinates instead of what it’s supposed to, that’s both patient and provider in peril.
I am not risking my license for presumptuous sand.
I am not risking my license for presumptuous sand.
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It terrifies me. it cannot transcribe, which is supposed to be an easy task. And if it transcribes what it hallucinates instead of what it’s supposed to, that’s both patient and provider in peril.
I am not risking my license for presumptuous sand.
I am not risking my license for presumptuous sand.
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XKCD's role is not to make me cry, but it did. xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
XKCD's role is not to make me cry, but it did. xkcd.com/3172/
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Since when do Americans “do business “with their government in this fashion?
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Since when do Americans “do business “with their government in this fashion?
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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I wonder how jarring it would feel, if you took a time machine to 1995, to experience shared spaces with people who had no phones to scroll. Small talk, eye contact, both extroversion and introspection would all feel pretty different I bet.
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I wonder how jarring it would feel, if you took a time machine to 1995, to experience shared spaces with people who had no phones to scroll. Small talk, eye contact, both extroversion and introspection would all feel pretty different I bet.
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movie posters featuring the muppets: thread
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
movie posters featuring the muppets: thread
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November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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This technology is going to take 100% of white collar jobs
knockout
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This technology is going to take 100% of white collar jobs
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If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
November 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
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The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
To Survive the Next Pandemic, Walk More, the NIH Says
The agency is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
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we're-all-trying-to-find-the-guy-who-did-this dot gif
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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