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Ben Crossbones
@bencrossbones.bsky.social
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Audio expert, burrito connoisseur, anti-Christ, metalhead, cat dad.

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Ben Crossbones @bencrossbones.bsky.social · Sep 21
dumpsterjuicedesign.threadless.com/designs/chic...
Guillotine with a Chicago flag for a blade. FAFO carved into the crossbeam. DumpsterJuiceDesign
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rcmacleod.bsky.social
For Aftermath, @alyssamerc.bsky.social spoke with the Sucker Punch dev fired over Charlie Kirk comments and others, who highlighted the unique way the backlash played out in games
“If we as an industry got better about realizing when harassment is happening and standing up as a block, maybe this wouldn’t stop harassment, but there would be much more hesitation to do it,” the anonymous Sucker Punch employee said. “I know within our studio there’s this mentality of ‘don’t feed the trolls, there’s going to be harassment, there’s going to be people on the fringes trying to nibble at you…just ignore them,” they continued. “But that comes from an era of the internet where everyone was on forums in these siloed communities that were moderated, and you would have a lone actor enter a community and try to agitate people, and everyone would starve them of attention, or the moderators would put them in their little bubble. But that’s not how the internet works anymore, it’s people with global reach, an agitator that has millions of followers, and they use coded language and dog whistles and speak in a way that lets them shirk accountability and responsibility.”
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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tabby676.bsky.social
Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
Still from the first ever MST3K Experiment Crow, Joel, and Beeper are on the bridge of the Satellite of Love
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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zachrabiroff.com
Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 23h
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
In the lawsuit, Garza alleges Bally said Campbell's makes "highly processed food" for "poor people" and made several derogatory comments about Indian employees, calling them "idiots." "We have s--t for f**king poor people. Who buys our s--t? | don't buy Campbell's products barely anymore. It's not healthy now that I know what the f—'s in it," part of the recording said. "Bioengineered meat -- I don't wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3-D printer."
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:

www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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wapplehouse.bsky.social
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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phorrums.bsky.social
I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.

( Also a good excuse for an #art study )
A digital drawing referencing the quoted image. In the style of an early 20th century drawing, a woman in a dress holds a minigun. The text above is changed to read "Does the minigun make women cruel?"
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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lorak.bsky.social
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Sponsored post: When my violin playing, 2-year-old daughter was diagnosed with dadstashnface, our world was turned upside down. Soon all of our friends and neighbors went from attending every… | Ben ...
Sponsored post: When my violin playing, 2-year-old daughter was diagnosed with dadstashnface, our world was turned upside down. Soon all of our friends and neighbors went from attending every recital...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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anildash.com
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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propublica.org
UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114.

This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
projects.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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wesflinn.bsky.social
Come on
Baby don’t you wanna go
Come on
Baby don’t you wanna go
Back to that same old place
Sweet home Chicago
Pope Leo XIV looks like he's singing into the microphone on front of him
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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bencrossbones.bsky.social
$13 sale! All of my awful art is available in t-shirt (and other) format! Yes, I did a weed Santa and at least 2 piss jokes this year. I'M SO ENDLESSLY TALENTED BWAHAHAHAAAA!

dumpsterjuicedesign.threadless.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
bencrossbones.bsky.social
$13 sale! All of my awful art is available in t-shirt (and other) format! Yes, I did a weed Santa and at least 2 piss jokes this year. I'M SO ENDLESSLY TALENTED BWAHAHAHAAAA!

dumpsterjuicedesign.threadless.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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marceliusb.bsky.social
We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.

ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
bencrossbones.bsky.social
ONLY $7 million?! Cut their fucking heads off.
oaklandprivacy.bsky.social Oakland Privacy @oaklandprivacy.bsky.social · 3d
Greystar, the largest landlord in the U.S., will pay $7 million to nine states after getting caught using a rent-setting algorithm that helped drive up housing costs.

The settlement bans Greystar from using software that relies on other landlords’ data to set rents.

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Largest US landlord to pay $7 million to settle rent‑setting algorithm lawsuit
Real estate giant Greystar has reached a $7 million settlement with nine states over its use of rent-setting algorithms that officials say drive up housing costs
abcnews.go.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
If Marjorie Taylor Greene won’t fight for us who will
November 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
bencrossbones.bsky.social
Guy making a salary that could fund 2 AAA projects has opinions on how AI can and should make games.
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
bencrossbones.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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mitchyd.bsky.social
I am convinced that all these executives literally live in a different reality than the rest of us.
eurogamer.bsky.social Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 4d
Ubisoft boss believes generative AI is as big a revolution for games as the shift to 3D, as tech is embraced company-wide

www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-boss...
November 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Bought and sold
Federal election donations by the 100 wealthiest Americans 2000 ’04 ’08 ’12 ’16 ’20 2024 $46M $180M $1.1B $0M $250M $500M $750M $1B Note: Data reflects donations to Federal Election Commission committees and to 527 nonprofit organizations.
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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bencrossbones.bsky.social
Drawing of a pig that looks a bit like Donald Trump, the pederast. The words Quiet Piggy read above his head.
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
bencrossbones.bsky.social
Drawing of a pig that looks a bit like Donald Trump, the pederast. The words Quiet Piggy read above his head.
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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nothoodlum.bsky.social
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been hated by the left for years and never feared for her life. She’s been hated by the right for two days and had to hire security.
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM