Ben

Ben

@detben.bsky.social

Midwest princess 🍂 I have friends everywhere.

438 Followers 519 Following 209 Posts Joined Sep 2023
1 week ago

Nintendo loves to release an adorable lifesim when the world starts going to shit

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2 months ago
crayon napkin drawing of USS
MOTHER Fucker (enterprise d)
BoLDLy Fucking your Shit up

idk where i found this or what the context is but i like it

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Video geolocated by CNN shows a large fire burning near a petrol storage facility in northeastern Tehran on Saturday. The Israeli military said it struck fuel storage sites in the city that evening. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4lhbn4J

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Damn.

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The affordability President just caused the fastest gas price spike in years, and the jobs President just lost 92,000 jobs in February. Are we winning yet?

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Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

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a graph of year-on-year change in US tech employment

Brutal numbers for US tech sector jobs released today—overall, employment decreased by 12k last month and is down 57k over the last year

That's now nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020 recessions

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US nonfarm payrolls decline in February; unemployment rate rises to 4.4% The U.S. economy unexpectedly shed jobs in February amid a strike by healthcare workers and harsh winter weather, while the unemployment rate increased to 4.4%.

Uffda www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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""Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."" im losing my mind

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It’s 2026, AAA games will not be released on a 9 year old console. Idk why people are so surprised by this.

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reache...

Im so angry www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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Trump's War If Trump campaigned as a President of peace, he has governed as the opposite

“Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. ‘I guess,’ he says.”

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Tonight's honored veteran before MSU's game is a special one: 102-year-old Earl Jay "Chuck" Kohler, one of 12 survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack Dec. 7, 1941. And also Jaxon Kohler's great-grandfather. Talk about a senior day memory.

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If you're a military veteran at risk of foreclosure, NPR wants to hear from you The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. We want to hear your story.

Last year the VA abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a veteran who's been struggling because of this, we want to hear your story.

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1 month ago

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

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No, AI Written Romance Novels Are Not Inevitable The New York Times interviewed two authors who claim AI is the future of romance novels, who coincidentally also sell courses about how to use AI to write romance novels.

i got so mad about this article that i blogged about it aftermath.site/ai-romance-n...

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This merger would further concentrate media ownership in fewer hands, at a time when the president and his allies seem to be repurposing regulatory tools meant to protect the public interest to influence media companies' business and editorial decisions.

This deal should be roundly rejected.

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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

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1 month ago

LADY FUCKING GAGA

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1 month ago

Partisan gerrymandering should be constitutionally barred.

SCOTUS says it isn't.

Until a constitutional amendment changes that we can't have unilateral disarmament.

Which means once Republicans kicked off mid-decade redistricting this was the only possible response

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1 month ago

Big night for Michigan State x2

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1 month ago

oh sure europeans love it when a guy on the slopes casually pulls out a rifle and starts blasting away but when an american does it at a dairy queen it's "barbaric"

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Half of People Killed by Police Have a Disability: Report "Police have become the default responders to mental health calls"

And it’s not just mental heath crises. Fully half of the people killed by police in the US have a disability.

What folx need to understand is that cops are not well-trained in deescalation or conflict resolution.

All they have that we don’t is that gun, and permission to use it to end a conflict.

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Michigan lost the most jobs in the Midwest says a new report (by HUGE margin); Second worst job loss in nation in January.

Source: www.challengergray.com/wp-content/u...

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1 month ago

Divine is out for the season.

BRUTAL 😔

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J.D. Vance was booed so badly at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony that even the announcers commented on it.

“There is the Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha—OOP, those are not… uh… those are a lot of boos for him. Whistling, jeering, some applause.”

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only a president who knows his legacy will be as one of the worst presidents in history would press so hard to name stuff after himself while still in office.

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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

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