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Benjamin Chambers

@dachshuahuadad.bsky.social

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Dog lover, bigot hater, pacifist, nerd I'm here for the fall of democracy and women's soccer

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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · Jun 25

In my lifetime the GOP has:

Betrayed American hostages in Iran to win an election
Sold weapons to terrorists
Crashed the economy multiple times
Shut down the gov multiple times
Taken away women's right to bodily autonomy
Put children in debt for school lunches

And their voters did get over it

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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 7m

In Seattle? Why not Uber to SeaTac and grab a rental there, it would definitely be less than owning a car, and the airport has 24 hour service

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · Aug 22

The Modern Media Model (rev.)

Stoke hatred and moral panic by platforming bigots.

Cover consequences of platforming bigots.

Produce chin-stroking content "concerned" over the moral panic.

Publish selected voices from the suffering for "balance"

Profit.

Rinse and repeat.

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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 4h

They say Menchville is the Cannes of Virginia

Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 4h

(Me, sipping coffee)

Some dogs deserve to be eaten

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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 4h

Is it stealing, or redistribution?

Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 15h

He did know how to open a novel, though; the first real paragraph of Moby Dick is among my favorite writing in the English language, despite the fact I don't care for the rest of the book

Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 15h

He didn't concern himself with narrative or character arcs, he simply described the different steps for rendering whale oil, and how to handle the carcass before, during, and after, the process

Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 15h

Lol fair

It's worth remembering that I'm the time before TV and radio, Melville's bread and butter were travelogues, and these were often the only exposure Midwesterners had to various cultures and locales

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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 21h

Trump is the first President in U.S. history to preside over THREE shutdowns that all started when his party controlled the entire government.

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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 20h

You mean the travelogue? Because who doesn't enjoy reading an encyclopedia of whaling, right?

I swear Moby Dick only has a plot by accident

Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 20h

Finnegan's Wake is the greatest prank an author ever pulled on a publishing company

Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 23h

Oh no

a man in a baseball cap is standing next to a yellow fence and asking are you okay .

Alt: Tucker is covered in blood after a college kid went and threw himself in the wood chipper He has had a doozy of a day

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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 23h

So she's an illiberal fundamentalist totalitarian?

Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 23h

I know a lesbian who eats there

Online outage doesn't always translate to the real world

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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 1d

Hey man, IDIC

Not everything has to be tailored to my taste; the world would be far less interesting if that were the case

Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway I'm 500 pages in and absolutely loving it

Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 1d

Readers need to stop using "Romance" (including "Romantasy") as a pejorative

Not only is this better written than anything in A Song of Ice and Fire, it has less sex than any of those books. But people don't call Game of Thrones "romance" for some reason.

The cover of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 1d

I tried watching the Netflix adaptation last night, and it was just a yawn

No soul. No atmosphere. No vague unsettling sense of wrongness.

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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 1d

CBS can no longer spell

Thanks, Bari!

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Matthew Benjamin @mattbenjamin.bsky.social · 1d

Next question should be: what’s the point even of appropriations or Congress if the Executive branch can just refuse to spend appropriated funds whenever it wants

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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 1d

Conservatives also believe that power is a reward, not a responsibility

Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 1d

Oh this is a great point

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

fundamentally they do not believe in citizens, only subjects, and barely sentient ones at that

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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 1d

(it might even have been you making this point, I don't remember now lol)

Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 1d

Sometime a few days ago made this point about Russ Vought, that essentially gay marriage is legal because Disney is run by Jews, and that if they just get someone else at the top saying what is or isn't acceptable then the culture will shift to match

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 2d

Alice on the cover of The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien.

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