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Ben Davis

@bengineerdavis.bsky.social

American expat and social media refugee. Lefty. Open source advocate. Unintentional destroyer of words. I am a 21st century Don Quixote. Lover of cats and big Shepard dogs. Action movie fan. Long live democracy. All hail the republic.

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Latest posts by bengineerdavis.bsky.social on Bluesky

Freedom will live forever; even though we won't.

Use it and a part of you will live on, too. Like wakes made from the impression upon a pond, you will reflect your ripples for all time.

A part of you will be alive. A part of us will be, too.

24.03.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#rangersleadtheway #mountup #buckledown #letsgo #parkingmyvalues

22.02.2025 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You do the work of patriots. #salute

22.02.2025 04:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Charles Young is an important figure to honor, now more than ever. I originally made this video in 2023 after visiting his National Monument in 2022. I am honored to revisit his legacy for #blackhistorymonth and to combat the false narratives being propagated today. #nationalpark #veteran #nps #ohio

22.02.2025 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Canada wins #4NationsCup, defeated USA to become 11th province.

21.02.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

A little soul food to keep our spirits fed and glowing. Find the joy even in the dark and refuse to stop living.
#resistanceisexistance #music #endurance #StrongTogether #youarenotalone

10.02.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

that’s right.

10.02.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 43517    πŸ” 3365    πŸ’¬ 418    πŸ“Œ 72

It is indeed overwhelming thinking about how we are going to climb out of this sinkhole.

I resort to these quotes from one of my favorite movies:

"That's all it takes really ... pressure and time ..."
"Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'"

08.02.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All things change, but the truth. And the truth only seems to change because of what we end up knowing later.

08.02.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DOJ agrees to proposed order to limit DOGE's access to Treasury data The DOJ agreed to a proposed order that would largely block the Treasury Department from sharing sensitive financial data with the Department of Government Efficiency.

I really can't believe that data has not left the treasury at this point and is not already 'in the ether', but this is a start. Even a shallow victory is enormous for us.

Steps like this our essential to our survival. One 'papercut' at a time.

abcnews.go.com/US/judge-wei...

07.02.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine willingly giving the most powerful military in the history of the world to a well known corrupt and crooked real estate developer, and then acting surprised when he’s obsessed with stealing land around the world.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a shitty golf course.

05.02.2025 07:05 β€” πŸ‘ 513    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3
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Who Will Stop Elon Musk’s Coup? The world’s richest man now has the power to override congressional spending decisions and access to private information about every US taxpayer.

My question to all of you:

"Who will stop Elon Musk's Coup?".

But seriously. I'm asking. True Americans will not let Democracy go down this easily.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

05.02.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So say us all. Thank you for being the real patriots. #salute

04.02.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We swore an oath to the Constitution.

Our work benefits wildlife, protects communities, and provides access to people. We work hard and try to do the right thing.

Let us do our job. Treat us respectfully. We are still here.

#Resist

02.02.2025 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 250    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 0

I have no choice to fight with #DNC because frankly there is not effective organizing on the left anyway else. That fact should worry all of us.

We do need to start thinking of a serious political alternative because the #DNC doesn't care about us, either.

03.02.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your desire to fight already makes you the better American.

Those who care, don't politely let their enemies takes anything. Let's make them bleed, sweat, and cry.

03.02.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally, somehow who 'tells like it is'. To the rest of the left -- follow his advice and be the thorn, not the flower.

#amen

03.02.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love.

I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like β€œthe American people want us to work together” and β€œ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”

02.02.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11658    πŸ” 3683    πŸ’¬ 805    πŸ“Œ 1081

The "no good reason" here is to offset further tax cuts for the extremely wealthy (the shareholder class) and replace a competent government funded thru progressive taxation with inept and corrupt governance funded on the backs of working people, the perpetual underclass.

01.02.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As an american I fully endorse all countries of the world to refute our bullshit and embrace your sovereignty.

02.02.2025 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Out on the streets. They call it murder.

02.02.2025 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The sound of silence.

02.02.2025 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's because it's funded by amerikkka's friends.

01.02.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our Father expands his temper tantrums towards punishing all open media and expression with a questionable legal muzzle.

What a tragedy that we could lose the excellent public service these two institutions have been for Americans across the political spectrum and from every walk of life.

01.02.2025 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
bengineerdavis (@bengineerdavis@mastodon.social) This video is really important. It touches on so much of the intersection of practicality, open source, and dealing with the dark realities of our over-dependency on consumer culture. Freedom is more...

mastodon.social/@bengineerda...

#opensource #fossfridays #libertyismaintanence #freedomisntfree

01.02.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers and, on Musk’s instruction, fired the FAA chief early without replacing him.

This should be the only thing Dems are saying today. They should all be out on media saying this.

30.01.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 14744    πŸ” 4452    πŸ’¬ 420    πŸ“Œ 283

Once we put up walls to the whole world ... we will truly be alone.

And probably broke.

But at least the imaginary brown-skinned criminals won't scare the Karens anymore.

26.01.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chris Trottier (@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org) The #Pixelfed and #Loops Kickstarter just got a nice write-up in Forbes! https://www.forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/2025/01/25/open-source-and-ethical-tiktok-whatsapp-and-instagram-alternatives-cou...

I'm pretty hyped about this:

atomicpoet.org/objects/123d...

Now we have our TikTok, and not have business surveillance and China, too!!

26.01.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's because West Virginia is "their people" who on election day "did the right thing". Their tone to each state will be proportional to how badly they lost their and how liberal their politics are.

25.01.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
bengineerdavis (@bengineerdavis@mastodon.social) Maybe he's auschiwtztic? Sorry, I can't help it -- I'm Nuremdivergent. #puns #thereichway #amerikka (Thanks to my friend David Rosen for the inspiration!)

mastodon.social/@bengineerda...

#auschwitztic #nuremdivergent

25.01.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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