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writer, historian, @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022) FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2027) www.benwritesthings.com www.badgayspod.com

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · Sep 9

My profile of the one and only Vaginal Davis. “People are getting all messed up over goddamned pronouns…It’s like, please! My mother didn’t even blink. She just said, ‘OK, Ms. Davis.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...

Parody, Punk and ‘Terrorist Drag’: Inside the World of Vaginal Davis

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 9h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1h

smugly noting that IndySAGE was always already *botched*

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 14h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 14h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 18h

Biden could have accomplished what has happened at any point and saved tens of thousands of lives at a minimum and actively chose not to because of his full-fledged personal and ideological commitment to genocide

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 19h

Worth emphasizing that Trump's singular trick for facilitating a deal in Israel was just...being publicly frustrated with Netanyahu and threatening to walk. That's not a unique talent, it's just a thing Biden personally and ideologically was unwilling to do. Lowest bar cleared to great relief.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 22h

“if you comply, there’s nothing to fear” is perhaps not the most comforting messaging coming from a German politician

Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · 1d

Autoritäre Verhältnisse sind auch solche, in denen jemand im Social-Media-Team denkt: Das ist doch ein super Zitat, damit sollte die Sache für alle vernünftigen Menschen vom Tisch sein.

Zitatkachel der SPD mit dem Bas-Zitat "Wer mitmacht, der hat überhaupt nichts zu befürchten."

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

A star is born. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf1h...

Amami Alfredo - La traviata - Chelsea Lehnea

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 2d

This is what is left of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

Peaches ran so Ke$ha could walk

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

get in loser we’re doing municipalism with @eliferalp.bsky.social

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

that’s right baby

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

because schumer is in favor of what is happening

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

surely the democrats should nominate maine’s 80 year old governor instead

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

Bret Easton Ellis has become a boring bootlicker. Sad!

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

a 10/10 movie. astonishingly good.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

@homomonument.bsky.social i went here and nobody knew you :/

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

we did (the gym)

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

I want to open myself! . . . I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good say women can have a penis! I saw Goody Osburn say women can have a penis!

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

I saw Goody Proctor down by the river saying women can have a penis!

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

I saw Goody Proctor down by the river saying women can have a penis

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

“boys have pee pee, girls have bagina,” intoned the leading media of the husk of a fallen empire as its population fell into poverty, its once-leading universities lost their relevance and reputations, and its industries lost all competitiveness

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

there are no words sufficient for the british press

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

there are no words sufficient for the british press

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

there are no words sufficient for the british press

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