Ben K 🌈
@realbenk.bsky.social
Single payer healthcare seems like a reasonable, sustainable, freedom enhancing (not tethered to your employer) solution to a universal need for a functioning, growing society that has basic belief in a better future for humanity. It'd prolly help, anway.
I thought this already proved the point that reality can't live up to memory.
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I thought this already proved the point that reality can't live up to memory.
"Rocky" is one way of putting it.
Another is that 12 years on, this Ai company has burned through cash and produced no drugs (the point of the exercise) and, if you read the article, is simply installing a new leader making the same pie on the sky promises that just up ahead it'll all be great.
Another is that 12 years on, this Ai company has burned through cash and produced no drugs (the point of the exercise) and, if you read the article, is simply installing a new leader making the same pie on the sky promises that just up ahead it'll all be great.
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"Rocky" is one way of putting it.
Another is that 12 years on, this Ai company has burned through cash and produced no drugs (the point of the exercise) and, if you read the article, is simply installing a new leader making the same pie on the sky promises that just up ahead it'll all be great.
Another is that 12 years on, this Ai company has burned through cash and produced no drugs (the point of the exercise) and, if you read the article, is simply installing a new leader making the same pie on the sky promises that just up ahead it'll all be great.
Can I claim self defense, or some other form of justifiable homicide, if I beat this guy to death with this book? Asking for a friend.
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Can I claim self defense, or some other form of justifiable homicide, if I beat this guy to death with this book? Asking for a friend.
The Hunger Games was supposed to be fictional social commentary not a model.
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The Hunger Games was supposed to be fictional social commentary not a model.
Remember, no matter how high or low in their careers, the right wing guys are hawking a product.
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Remember, no matter how high or low in their careers, the right wing guys are hawking a product.
This is an anti-Catholic cartoon from 1943.
Andrew Cuomo's dad, Mario Cuomo, was 11 years old when this cartoon came out.
Andrew Cuomo is a practicing Catholic and has made multiple insinuations that his opponent's religion is cause for fear.
Andrew Cuomo's dad, Mario Cuomo, was 11 years old when this cartoon came out.
Andrew Cuomo is a practicing Catholic and has made multiple insinuations that his opponent's religion is cause for fear.
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This is an anti-Catholic cartoon from 1943.
Andrew Cuomo's dad, Mario Cuomo, was 11 years old when this cartoon came out.
Andrew Cuomo is a practicing Catholic and has made multiple insinuations that his opponent's religion is cause for fear.
Andrew Cuomo's dad, Mario Cuomo, was 11 years old when this cartoon came out.
Andrew Cuomo is a practicing Catholic and has made multiple insinuations that his opponent's religion is cause for fear.
Share a famous fictional computer. (Not a robot/android)
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Share a famous fictional computer. (Not a robot/android)
Are doctors hating this thing or what?*
*metal brushes can get ingested and cause huge problems. I don't see how an unattended, automatic machine is better than the problematic manual brushes where there's at least a chance the operator will notice a loose bit of wire and likely fewer brush strokes
*metal brushes can get ingested and cause huge problems. I don't see how an unattended, automatic machine is better than the problematic manual brushes where there's at least a chance the operator will notice a loose bit of wire and likely fewer brush strokes
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Are doctors hating this thing or what?*
*metal brushes can get ingested and cause huge problems. I don't see how an unattended, automatic machine is better than the problematic manual brushes where there's at least a chance the operator will notice a loose bit of wire and likely fewer brush strokes
*metal brushes can get ingested and cause huge problems. I don't see how an unattended, automatic machine is better than the problematic manual brushes where there's at least a chance the operator will notice a loose bit of wire and likely fewer brush strokes
I saw Halloween III at a friend's house and really liked it.
Should I watch the others?
Should I watch the others?
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I saw Halloween III at a friend's house and really liked it.
Should I watch the others?
Should I watch the others?
No no, you gotta ole trusty Cybershot. How else are you gonna read the picture of the billboard and text at tbe same time?
C'mon, man. Get with the program!
C'mon, man. Get with the program!
October 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
No no, you gotta ole trusty Cybershot. How else are you gonna read the picture of the billboard and text at tbe same time?
C'mon, man. Get with the program!
C'mon, man. Get with the program!
I'm assuming the company checked for a permit, right?
October 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I'm assuming the company checked for a permit, right?
Really? C'mon man.
Ds can't catch a fucking break.
Ds can't catch a fucking break.
October 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Really? C'mon man.
Ds can't catch a fucking break.
Ds can't catch a fucking break.
Trump: we're building a big beautiful ballroom and we won't touch any existing part of the White House
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Trump: the East Wing of the White House isn't really part of the White House
See, Trump is just a lying sack of shit.
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Trump: the East Wing of the White House isn't really part of the White House
See, Trump is just a lying sack of shit.
October 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Trump: we're building a big beautiful ballroom and we won't touch any existing part of the White House
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Trump: the East Wing of the White House isn't really part of the White House
See, Trump is just a lying sack of shit.
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Trump: the East Wing of the White House isn't really part of the White House
See, Trump is just a lying sack of shit.
Many have tried. It's cold and echoes like mad and the theater downtown is better.
October 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Many have tried. It's cold and echoes like mad and the theater downtown is better.
I'd love to go back to just after 9/11 and try to explain this skeet to my younger self, including what a "skeet" is:
October 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I'd love to go back to just after 9/11 and try to explain this skeet to my younger self, including what a "skeet" is:
I tried a rewatch and my only takeaway is don't do a rewatch. Nicely filmed, but the writing doesn't hold up.
October 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I tried a rewatch and my only takeaway is don't do a rewatch. Nicely filmed, but the writing doesn't hold up.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
Me: Remember when kitchens were yellow?
Me: Remember when kitchens were yellow?
October 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
Me: Remember when kitchens were yellow?
Me: Remember when kitchens were yellow?
Middle-aged men today: Damn kids these days with their headphones and tablets and Bluetooth speakers and phones, wearing skinny jeans and showing off their bodies and doing up their hair like they were girls. Back in my day ...
Back in their day:
Back in their day:
October 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Middle-aged men today: Damn kids these days with their headphones and tablets and Bluetooth speakers and phones, wearing skinny jeans and showing off their bodies and doing up their hair like they were girls. Back in my day ...
Back in their day:
Back in their day:
?? MTV has been the Ridiculousness channel for years now.
V66 shuttering and turning into the Home Shopping Network and seeing those poor VJs promoting like toasters and shit while they looked for jobs, that was tough.
V66 shuttering and turning into the Home Shopping Network and seeing those poor VJs promoting like toasters and shit while they looked for jobs, that was tough.
October 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
?? MTV has been the Ridiculousness channel for years now.
V66 shuttering and turning into the Home Shopping Network and seeing those poor VJs promoting like toasters and shit while they looked for jobs, that was tough.
V66 shuttering and turning into the Home Shopping Network and seeing those poor VJs promoting like toasters and shit while they looked for jobs, that was tough.
Cramming the night before the final for the class you've never attended:
October 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cramming the night before the final for the class you've never attended:
Megyn. Girl. That sounds like Hitler complaing about art school and instead of recognizing his own shortcomings as an artist, he just called it all degenerate.
October 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Megyn. Girl. That sounds like Hitler complaing about art school and instead of recognizing his own shortcomings as an artist, he just called it all degenerate.
Pendulum swinging wildly.
October 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Pendulum swinging wildly.