Bineid
@tomben91.bsky.social
Recovering research scientist, sometimes musician. Flyover country.
I want to agree, but it will also require concurrent DC and PR statehood as well as reforming (if not packing) the Supremes. If we *only* eliminate the filibuster, it *will* come back to bite us.
I want to take the hand of every Democratic senator and gently tell them:
"I know you're trying, but I swear to god, if we take back Congress and don't eliminate the filibuster and spend several more years telling people what we wish we could do, I'll spend every day hoping you step on LEGOs."
"I know you're trying, but I swear to god, if we take back Congress and don't eliminate the filibuster and spend several more years telling people what we wish we could do, I'll spend every day hoping you step on LEGOs."
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I want to agree, but it will also require concurrent DC and PR statehood as well as reforming (if not packing) the Supremes. If we *only* eliminate the filibuster, it *will* come back to bite us.
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It's unsurprising but nonetheless disturbing and disgusting to see how many "Christian" men are out here doing their damnedest to justify the rape and abuse of teenage girls.
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
It's unsurprising but nonetheless disturbing and disgusting to see how many "Christian" men are out here doing their damnedest to justify the rape and abuse of teenage girls.
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
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Dear Senate Dems,
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Dear Senate Dems,
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
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They already have the $ to keep people from starving. They refuse.
States try to feed people. They try to block it.
Now folks can’t fly home to their parents on Thanksgiving.
All in the name of raising insurance premiums.
States try to feed people. They try to block it.
Now folks can’t fly home to their parents on Thanksgiving.
All in the name of raising insurance premiums.
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
They already have the $ to keep people from starving. They refuse.
States try to feed people. They try to block it.
Now folks can’t fly home to their parents on Thanksgiving.
All in the name of raising insurance premiums.
States try to feed people. They try to block it.
Now folks can’t fly home to their parents on Thanksgiving.
All in the name of raising insurance premiums.
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roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.
October 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.
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Donald Trump was president on January 6
October 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Donald Trump was president on January 6
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As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.
There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."
1/🧵
There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."
1/🧵
October 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.
There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."
1/🧵
There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."
1/🧵
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The Trump administration isn‘t a government. It’s a propaganda operation wrapped around a criminal enterprise.
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The Trump administration isn‘t a government. It’s a propaganda operation wrapped around a criminal enterprise.
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The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.
October 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.
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Well, the federal government has officially shut down, and it’s entirely the fault of Trump and the Republican Party. They control the White House and Congress. They cancelled multiple meetings with Democrats to hash out an agreement. They clearly wanted a shutdown. Pathetic.
October 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Well, the federal government has officially shut down, and it’s entirely the fault of Trump and the Republican Party. They control the White House and Congress. They cancelled multiple meetings with Democrats to hash out an agreement. They clearly wanted a shutdown. Pathetic.
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The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
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I can’t think of any reason to completely wreck the ag markets in entire United States other than purposeful sabotage.
A fire sale on farmland.
A fire sale on farmland.
September 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I can’t think of any reason to completely wreck the ag markets in entire United States other than purposeful sabotage.
A fire sale on farmland.
A fire sale on farmland.
Who are his other four? Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Mitt Romney, and Susan Collins?
September 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Who are his other four? Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Mitt Romney, and Susan Collins?
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"Higher tax rates will destroy the country! It's communism!"
We literally have the interstate highway system because a Republican president--a retired four-star general and noted opponent of communism--kept the tax rate on the highest earners in the country at 91 percent of their income over 200k.
We literally have the interstate highway system because a Republican president--a retired four-star general and noted opponent of communism--kept the tax rate on the highest earners in the country at 91 percent of their income over 200k.
September 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
"Higher tax rates will destroy the country! It's communism!"
We literally have the interstate highway system because a Republican president--a retired four-star general and noted opponent of communism--kept the tax rate on the highest earners in the country at 91 percent of their income over 200k.
We literally have the interstate highway system because a Republican president--a retired four-star general and noted opponent of communism--kept the tax rate on the highest earners in the country at 91 percent of their income over 200k.
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Okay I'll tell a quick story. A million years ago, I used to write for Esquire's website. I wrote a nice thing about Jimmy Kimmel that was almost certainly illegible trash. He then followed me on Twitter and, ever the Weird Twitter purveyor, invited me to meet him after a show after a goofy tweet.
September 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Okay I'll tell a quick story. A million years ago, I used to write for Esquire's website. I wrote a nice thing about Jimmy Kimmel that was almost certainly illegible trash. He then followed me on Twitter and, ever the Weird Twitter purveyor, invited me to meet him after a show after a goofy tweet.
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The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.
September 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.
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Pretty sad that every foreign country understands the best way to get what they want out of Trump—no matter what it happens to be—is throwing him a big military parade. That’s the price. Treating him like a toddler in search of a bag of candy.
September 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Pretty sad that every foreign country understands the best way to get what they want out of Trump—no matter what it happens to be—is throwing him a big military parade. That’s the price. Treating him like a toddler in search of a bag of candy.
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The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it
trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...
September 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it
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Big congrats to all the Democrats who voted for the bill forcing the sale of TikTok... to some of Trump's closest allies. Big brain stuff there, guys. Great move. 🙃
Anyway, remember how Twitter became a far-right cesspool after Musk bought it? That's what's going to happen to TikTok.
Anyway, remember how Twitter became a far-right cesspool after Musk bought it? That's what's going to happen to TikTok.
* ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKOK IN US: WSJ
$ORCL
$ORCL
September 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Big congrats to all the Democrats who voted for the bill forcing the sale of TikTok... to some of Trump's closest allies. Big brain stuff there, guys. Great move. 🙃
Anyway, remember how Twitter became a far-right cesspool after Musk bought it? That's what's going to happen to TikTok.
Anyway, remember how Twitter became a far-right cesspool after Musk bought it? That's what's going to happen to TikTok.
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Your legacy is the way you made people feel. Your words and actions and rhetoric.
It’s how you’ll be remembered. It’s your lasting impact on others.
We should be helpers in this world, not only because it’s right and good and just, but because it is the legacy we leave for others.
It’s how you’ll be remembered. It’s your lasting impact on others.
We should be helpers in this world, not only because it’s right and good and just, but because it is the legacy we leave for others.
September 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Your legacy is the way you made people feel. Your words and actions and rhetoric.
It’s how you’ll be remembered. It’s your lasting impact on others.
We should be helpers in this world, not only because it’s right and good and just, but because it is the legacy we leave for others.
It’s how you’ll be remembered. It’s your lasting impact on others.
We should be helpers in this world, not only because it’s right and good and just, but because it is the legacy we leave for others.
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have spent the last 12 hours in some sort of pre-grief for what's clearly coming, an imperial boomerang with x-ray vision now unconstrained by whatever law we had left
September 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
have spent the last 12 hours in some sort of pre-grief for what's clearly coming, an imperial boomerang with x-ray vision now unconstrained by whatever law we had left
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In fewer than five years, Bari Weiss managed to parlay her resignation as an NYT columnist into a massive platform on Substack and then into editorial control of CBS News--making a vast fortune along the way--all off the absurd claim she's being silenced. First ballot hall-of-fame grifter.
September 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
In fewer than five years, Bari Weiss managed to parlay her resignation as an NYT columnist into a massive platform on Substack and then into editorial control of CBS News--making a vast fortune along the way--all off the absurd claim she's being silenced. First ballot hall-of-fame grifter.
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in any case, every single one of these people hates your freedom and would happily see you enslaved for the sake of their fantasies of domination
September 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
in any case, every single one of these people hates your freedom and would happily see you enslaved for the sake of their fantasies of domination