Ben Harris

TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR DANES DC 1. You must not go to work for ICE 2. You shall do a bad job for ICE 3. You shall work slowly for ICE 4. You shall destroy inportant nachines and tools 5. You shall destroy everything which may be of value to ICE 6. You shall delay all transport 7. You shall boycott all ICE supporter films and papers 8. You aust not shop at ICE supporters' stores 9. You shall treat traitors for what they are worth 20. You shall protect anyone chased by ICE IT WORKED FOR DENMARK IN 1940 & IT CAN WORK FOR DC IN 2026.

Petworth, Washington, DC

Every day it’s something like “sock prices increase 500%” or “US threatening war with Lichtenstein” and I dunno man at some point you’d think people would just be done with it all.

Maybe I’m New Here, but aren’t people just exhausted with the constant, endless, senseless, all-encompassing chaos?

“Stop the Steal” advocate who joined lawsuit to disenfranchise millions of voters in 2020, played a key role in the Jan. 6 plot, and then refused to honor officers who defended the Capitol is now going after successful DC pedestrian safety measures because he didn’t plan ahead on Inauguration Day:

The Optimist: The opera singer turned car salesman whose ads are going viral

The things the WaPo feels should make me feel optimistic are rarely aligned with things that actually make me feel optimistic.

Years ago I learned the Welsh word for a cappuccino is “frothy coffee” and I’ve not forgotten it.

On this day in 1983, New Order released the best-selling 12" single in the world - 'Blue Monday'

"How does it feel,
When you treat me like you do?"

YouTube video by Dr. Marwan Dalbah Mad tv - First to a million

Throwback to one of my all time favorite Mad tv skits—the “First to a Million” game show.

This seriously bums me out.

I am guessing that this was in fact not proper conditions.

I’m a big fan of when Copilot offers to rewrite something that was drafted by Copilot. The sound of a thousand out-of-office replies triggering each other, into infinity.

I spend as much time rearranging the toppings (and putting on new ones—hello, banana peppers) as I would if I were making a pizza from scratch.

I see plenty of discussion and good faith disagreement on this platform. The difference is, these discussions tend to be framed within reasonable parameters rather than, say, “How much naziism is OK?”

Donate to Support Abel Aragon, organized by peyton sherwood On February 24th at 6:15 a.m., Abel Aragon was leaving a Home Depot parking lot when ICE agents … peyton sherwood needs your support for Support Abel Aragon

Abel Aragon, a contractor who helped build the St. Vincent wine bar in DC that has jazz acts 4 nights a week, was grabbed by ICE leaving a Home Depot & sent off to Louisiana for now. Aragon's son is in US Navy. St. Vincent's owner has started this go-fund me to help w/ legal costs

So has @metrorailinfo.bsky.social abandoned ATC? Been a long time since I’ve been on a train not on manual.

I’ve played in a band that opened for Def Leppard and have also been the musical guest on Paula Poundstone’s podcast.

Screenshot of a Nextdoor email subject: Top post: Just terrible have you showed this to the police

Every update I get from Nextdoor is a reminder of why I am not on Nextdoor.

YouTube video by kos tas Beavis & Butthead / Depeche Mode - I Feel You

Also a Beevis and Butthead fave:

I’d be curious to see numbers on how frequently an operator pulls up short or overshoots the platform. Happened multiple times just on my commute home this eve.

Bus headways of 31 and 51 minutes

Bus headways like this during this weather should be illegal.

Me, reading statements from Democrats asking for more details on the war plans:

This is my band, Enthused Realist.

My galaxy brain take is that if Dems were serious about aggressively countering GOP fuckery, they’d host this in DC as part of an aggressive push for statehood.

Such a great track.

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

WHOA: WSJ reporting that DOJ is dropping its appeals of the four law firm executive order rulings as soon as today. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

I really think it is not well appreciated how much longer it takes to check, revise and proof an AI draft versus something you wrote yourself. To do it properly, you need to check *everything*. It’s incredibly time- and resource-intensive.

I am not saying him [redacting] would solve everything, or even most things, but I really wish he would hurry up and [redacted].