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Ben Decker

@btdecker.bsky.social

CEO of Memetica...fmr NYT, Harvard, Storyful, and lots of other fun stuff. memetica.co

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Tracy Morgan is my spirit animal

08.05.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a great night to be a New Yorker in Boston

06.05.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As someone in the same line of work:

number of times I was called an antisemitic slur at Harvard: 0
number of times I’ve been called an antisemitic slur by people who voted for Trump: lost count

23.04.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 462    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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Poolside snacks for Ume, our endangered tapir calf, to make swim time a little more tempting!

22.04.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4956    πŸ” 535    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 35

i think we need to start disassociating the ADL from the vox populi of American jews...

22.04.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Best Cannabis Grinder Is Actually a Mill Turns out, milling is a great way to prepare cannabis. For this task, we like the Flower Mill Next Gen Premium 2.5" Stainless Series best.

This would be a pretty funny SNL sketch of the wirecutter reviewer team www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

21.04.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

feeling some intense brawndo vibes right now

02.04.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

mike judge is the hari seldon of the 21st century

21.03.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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how it started, how its going......

17.03.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

whatever happened to andrew yang

27.02.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Faith - YouTube

This release schedule is so absurd and so necessary right now...maybe Kendrick is the post-modern soundtrack architect we all needed www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

20.02.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If we’re this far into the ai era of stuff can we at least fix autocorrect?

12.02.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apparently nobody is aware that the video of Jewish celebrities wearing β€œmiddle finger” Kanye t-shirts is AI-generated

11.02.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sometimes I'll just make thumbnail graphics for YouTube videos that don't exist.

07.02.2025 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 27949    πŸ” 3866    πŸ’¬ 331    πŸ“Œ 138
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Not to downplay the damage that DOGE is doing, but we need to view it primarly as a propaganda tool. It has no authority to "delete" anything. It's a β€œtemporary org” within the US Digital Service. Musk is deleting websites to create the illusion the Trump admin is actually accomplishing something.

03.02.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 665    πŸ” 164    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 16

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

19.01.2025 05:45 β€” πŸ‘ 56599    πŸ” 4962    πŸ’¬ 2583    πŸ“Œ 721
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What a world

19.01.2025 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

guess its time to dust off the ole LiveJournal....

16.01.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Age of Doubt - Monash University Publishing Today, trust seems harder to find than ever before. It's hardly surprising we feel that way. Our politics is polarised, our online world is awash with misinformation, and we’ve lost faith in our bedro...

My print debut! Contributed an essay to The Age of Doubt, coming out in March 2025, and available for pre-order here. publishing.monash.edu/product/age-...

14.01.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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not the most thought-out graphic design job from Pakistan International Air

10.01.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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took 2 weeks off social media and boy was that a healthy decision

06.01.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@craignewmark.bsky.social has and always will be one of my favorite people of the Internet. you are truly awesome www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTj6...

17.12.2024 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

A leaf vacuum would be a lot more useful than a leaf blower imo

16.12.2024 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was at the drs office this week and the guy sitting across from me was wearing a hat that said β€œAss pro” instead of bass pro and I just couldn’t keep it together

14.12.2024 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

is panettone just a challah in a different shape?

06.12.2024 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

curious to see how BlueSky Trust & Safety handle healthcare CEOs being doxxed on platform

06.12.2024 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hate to be that guy screaming into the ether but someone got shmurdered in the middle of New York City and it’s objectively not funny

05.12.2024 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So it turns out we’re all just living in a Cory Doctorow novel

04.12.2024 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s that time of the year again

04.12.2024 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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