Benjamin Wimmer
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Lawyer runner reader writer shit like that
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I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.
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I would watch a ten-part prestige miniseries about the backstory of almost every No Context Soviet Union Photo I've ever seen.
December 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I would watch a ten-part prestige miniseries about the backstory of almost every No Context Soviet Union Photo I've ever seen.
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"Now quite frankly you will see me one more time if you say good, and additionally you'll see me two more times if you say bad. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
December 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
"Now quite frankly you will see me one more time if you say good, and additionally you'll see me two more times if you say bad. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
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Nice thread
The in the twilight decades of the British Empire, this kinda handwringing was so common that an entire genre of literature spawned from the anxieties produced by a loss of global dominance lol
It’d be fascinating to examine & live thru now if it weren’t for the technofascist hellscape
It’d be fascinating to examine & live thru now if it weren’t for the technofascist hellscape
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Nice thread
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The in the twilight decades of the British Empire, this kinda handwringing was so common that an entire genre of literature spawned from the anxieties produced by a loss of global dominance lol
It’d be fascinating to examine & live thru now if it weren’t for the technofascist hellscape
It’d be fascinating to examine & live thru now if it weren’t for the technofascist hellscape
December 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The in the twilight decades of the British Empire, this kinda handwringing was so common that an entire genre of literature spawned from the anxieties produced by a loss of global dominance lol
It’d be fascinating to examine & live thru now if it weren’t for the technofascist hellscape
It’d be fascinating to examine & live thru now if it weren’t for the technofascist hellscape
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Mad Max: Holiday Road
December 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Mad Max: Holiday Road
Taylor Swift's "Santa Baby" sucks; there is no way to make Santa Baby a normal song. You have to do the sexy baby Jessica Rabbit voice. I will also accept a punk cover
December 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Taylor Swift's "Santa Baby" sucks; there is no way to make Santa Baby a normal song. You have to do the sexy baby Jessica Rabbit voice. I will also accept a punk cover
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Here's who has come out against the Netflix/Warner Bros. deal:
-Writers Guild
-Directors Guild
-SAG-AFTRA
-documentary filmmakers
-theater owners
So all of Hollywood.
They aren't opposing this because they secretly want a Paramount merger, it's because the deal will harm their livelihoods.
-Writers Guild
-Directors Guild
-SAG-AFTRA
-documentary filmmakers
-theater owners
So all of Hollywood.
They aren't opposing this because they secretly want a Paramount merger, it's because the deal will harm their livelihoods.
December 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Here's who has come out against the Netflix/Warner Bros. deal:
-Writers Guild
-Directors Guild
-SAG-AFTRA
-documentary filmmakers
-theater owners
So all of Hollywood.
They aren't opposing this because they secretly want a Paramount merger, it's because the deal will harm their livelihoods.
-Writers Guild
-Directors Guild
-SAG-AFTRA
-documentary filmmakers
-theater owners
So all of Hollywood.
They aren't opposing this because they secretly want a Paramount merger, it's because the deal will harm their livelihoods.
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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December 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
What if DraftKings, but your entire motherfucking culture
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What if DraftKings, but your entire motherfucking culture
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Normalizing corruption isn't a partisan project for Trump. The important thing is not whether the Menendezes and Cuellars of the world are on the Trump Train - it's establishing that corruption is no longer a thing that's worth prosecuting.
*CORRECT: TRUMP PARDONS TEXAS CONGRESSMAN HENRY CUELLAR, IMELDA
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Normalizing corruption isn't a partisan project for Trump. The important thing is not whether the Menendezes and Cuellars of the world are on the Trump Train - it's establishing that corruption is no longer a thing that's worth prosecuting.
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I wrote about how to "win" the "culture wars," in the sense that once you start playing you have already lost.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
Culture Wars Are For Cowards
And most people don't like bullies.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I wrote about how to "win" the "culture wars," in the sense that once you start playing you have already lost.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
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The President is actively dying right next to his team of simps yelling about what a Big Strong Leader Man he is. Just sitting there, eyes closed, croaking in front of our eyes.
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The President is actively dying right next to his team of simps yelling about what a Big Strong Leader Man he is. Just sitting there, eyes closed, croaking in front of our eyes.
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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"Life goes on. A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms, enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy?"
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"Life goes on. A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms, enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy?"
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Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
January 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
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You know how there are some historical reenactment museum areas where you can go and see people dressed old timey churning butter and making horseshoes? There should be one that's a bar and kids can go listen to reenactors complain about their city's sports teams from different decades
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
You know how there are some historical reenactment museum areas where you can go and see people dressed old timey churning butter and making horseshoes? There should be one that's a bar and kids can go listen to reenactors complain about their city's sports teams from different decades
Act 3 of Fight Club finally kicks off
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Act 3 of Fight Club finally kicks off
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trump has never looked at or even talked about jd vance this way lol
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
trump has never looked at or even talked about jd vance this way lol
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The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.
my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center
we're really not prepared for what's coming
we're really not prepared for what's coming
As a direct result of President Trump's Big Ugly Bill, almost 300 jobs will be cut from Providence Swedish's First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, and Issaquah hospitals and clinics. These are not the only layoffs we've seen in our health care system in Washington state in recent months.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.
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Get in loser, we’re manufacturing consent
November 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Get in loser, we’re manufacturing consent