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Benjamin Recchie

@brecchie.bsky.social

Chicagoan, dad, intermittent essayist (medium.com/@brecchie).

177 Followers  |  133 Following  |  608 Posts  |  Joined: 10.01.2025  |  2.2462

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Aaaaaah I knew that building looked familiar.

05.11.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wrote this!

05.11.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe a national popular vote for president?

03.11.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I love that at least 4 of us have said this independently, me included.

03.11.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't threaten me with a good time, Mike.

03.11.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a Catholic, I am deeply offended by this. Everyone knows it's Saint Anthony you plead with to find your shoes.

02.11.2025 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, why is this guy dressed like me, a definitely youthful and cool individual?

02.11.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Flying at 111 knots suggests a propeller aircraft, and the perfectly straight track suggests autopilot. Maybe a Predator drone configured for homeland security?

01.11.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Check and mate, transphobes.

31.10.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

RPG participant: "Hey Steven, do I have enough skill points to cast this spell?"

You: *points at hat*

30.10.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So, cheap in both senses of the word, then.

30.10.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Still, sticker shock bites. Sorry to hear it.

30.10.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Americans have a secret weapon against Trump ο»ΏA new strategy to stop business elites from bending the knee.

Boycotts aren't going to solve everything, but they can get corporations to reconsider allying themselves with the political right.

30.10.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And I assume that wasn't tripled from some comically low number to start with, like $12/month?

30.10.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tiramisu

30.10.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Uh, you're gonna need a whole bunch of citations to back that assertion up.

30.10.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Eyewall-to-eyewall coverage, you mean.

29.10.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Even the whitest of white people do.

Source: me, a white man who has several "aunts" and "uncles" who aren't my parents' siblings or even related by blood or marriage.

29.10.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This isn't even a "different cultures" issue. I have numerous "aunts" and "uncles" who weren't my parents' siblings or even actual relatives, and I'm a white guy born and raised in Ohio. This is being deliberately obtuse.

28.10.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whatever works in restoring Dems to power, I'll get behind. *Then* we can have the factional battles.

28.10.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a liberal Democrat, I am a lot less interested in which faction ends up holding power and the theoretical underpinnings of their philosophy as I am in anyone with a D after their name taking a position of power in the first place.

28.10.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Came here for multiball joke from Futurama; am leaving satisfied.

28.10.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
28.10.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 14593    πŸ” 4497    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 89

"That's it, I'm calling for a new crusade."

28.10.2025 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I appreciate a good correction, even one that disappoints me a little.

27.10.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Probably Border Patrol. Did it look like this? share.google/images/keAZP...

27.10.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I blame the manufacturer.

27.10.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sweet fancy Moses!

26.10.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hypothesis: rural areas of the old Confederacy didn't get lots of new people moving into them in that time frame, and in places that did (like Texas) they disproportionately came from other Southern states. I imagine religious preferences were pretty "sticky."

26.10.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Seriously, a guy who was considered ultra-conservative and pro-military in 1990 would now be seen as a dove and a squish in today's Republican Party.

25.10.2025 05:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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