@thorbenson.bsky.social
Writer. Featured in Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Daily Beast, NBC News and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and science. Newsletter: madness.ghost.io
This was funny
05.10.2025 09:16 β π 98 π 24 π¬ 2 π 0No one told me Slow Horses has started again
04.10.2025 22:34 β π 55 π 0 π¬ 17 π 1Periodic reminder that a local DA could prosecute this.
04.10.2025 21:55 β π 343 π 90 π¬ 15 π 2That means 10:30 lol
04.10.2025 21:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Just make sure you don't compare them to the Gestapo. That hurts their feelings
04.10.2025 21:28 β π 448 π 61 π¬ 24 π 7Well, you're on the IT guy recruitment list if we get to this point lol
04.10.2025 21:20 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Things would be much more dire in this situation, and I'm not saying everyone would be involved
04.10.2025 21:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My point is that we have a lot of technology available to us to circumvent the streams of information that the government might be able to control
04.10.2025 21:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Might write something on this soon, but we've got a lot of hacker-type people in this country who know how to set up networks
04.10.2025 21:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0It doesn't assume this! Welcome to the pirate networks! They'd be up in days
04.10.2025 21:06 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0In all seriousness, I do think it'd be really hard to do total censorship in a country like America that, beyond having a First Amendment, is extremely technologically connected
04.10.2025 21:01 β π 19 π 3 π¬ 4 π 1An authoritarian can't defeat 50 million podcasters. Checkmate, Trump
04.10.2025 20:58 β π 39 π 4 π¬ 3 π 0No Kings worked
04.10.2025 20:49 β π 86 π 6 π¬ 3 π 1It's ridiculous
04.10.2025 20:38 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
"Damn you, Skeletrex!" from I Think You Should Leave
04.10.2025 20:22 β π 18 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We need to get creative
04.10.2025 20:13 β π 18 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
12 foot skeleton
Chicago, send these guys in
04.10.2025 20:13 β π 87 π 4 π¬ 5 π 0And why Schumer and Jeffries are not polling well
04.10.2025 19:42 β π 15 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
making up a reichstag in my head to get really mad about
04.10.2025 19:26 β π 427 π 53 π¬ 17 π 15I never doubted you, Artemis
04.10.2025 19:37 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I say we all just become ungovernable. Random, confusing behavior. Not harmful just weird and disruptive
04.10.2025 19:21 β π 276 π 33 π¬ 25 π 6
Madeline cartoon
04.10.2025 18:58 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This morning, theΒ Trump Administrationβs Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
04.10.2025 18:10 β π 22352 π 6993 π¬ 1374 π 556I kept hearing this tiny meow somewhere and then it just popped up
04.10.2025 18:23 β π 39 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Orange baby
Orange baby
Ah! Grey cat has an orange baby!
04.10.2025 18:22 β π 89 π 5 π¬ 6 π 0Me: So that's the story of our current leaders...
Alexander Hamilton: The vice president is a Catholic?
Can we stop paying scumbags to play G.I. Joe
04.10.2025 17:54 β π 51 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0Music writing was part of how I got into journalism but I only wrote about bands I liked lol
04.10.2025 17:52 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is the way the world ends
04.10.2025 17:46 β π 17 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0report "icy roads"
04.10.2025 17:30 β π 172 π 47 π¬ 1 π 0
