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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 23h

You ever cried publicly in a White Castle while pounding down six sliders and a medium fry? Felt cathartic and distinctly American.

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 3d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 4d

Overheard at the Italian festival- “it’s like a real hot pocket”

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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 6d

Happy opening night, and a reminder that Hockey is For everyone

A columbus bluejackets pride jersey that says hockey is for everyone

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 7d

RIP Benjamin Franklin you would have loved girldick

Alex Kelly @AlexJKelly
"None of the founders would've supported trans"
First of all Benjamin Franklin would've been a chaser so jot that down.

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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 8d

Spellcheck is critical. One wrong keystroke and you accidentally federalize the National Gourd.

Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 8d

Who in the FUCK would sell photos of their *five year old and under* children to a company to train AI?!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 9d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Winchell's
Donut Hors
Open
Winchell's
Donut House
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 9d

One last time

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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 11d

The 90s is the greatest decade in cinema, exhibit 1,043

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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 12d

I don’t recall this episode of Dora

A Snapchat new friend suggestion notification for an account named “Hetero- Curioso”

Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 13d

“We cannot control who sees what.” Army chief, also Gandalf

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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 13d

Incredible that the flaw with Palantir is the exact flaw with using a Palantir in LOTR.

Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 13d

What a surprise:

“The Army should treat the NGC2 prototype version as “very high risk” because of the “likelihood of an adversary gaining persistent undetectable access”
www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says

The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems and vulnerabilities, and should be treated as a "very high risk," according to a recent internal Army memo.

www.reuters.com

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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 14d

Moe throwing out Barney meme.
First panel text- 2021 LAA. $240mil 1 AS Game 0 playoff wins Pujols

Last panel text- manager Pujols. 2025 LAA

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 16d

Absolutely insane for a multi-million dollar company to ask for crowdfunding to pay interns.

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The Columbus Dispatch needs your help to train the next generation of journalists

Donate to support The Dispatch's internship program

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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 16d

Go see One Battle After Another. It was so good. Also the mirrors in this AMC made me look better than I actually do in real life, so…enjoy that too.

Mirror selfie of a mid-30s hot topic kid desperately fighting twink death.

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 23d

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

The Simpsons old man sitting on a stump telling a story but all the kids have been replaced with headstones

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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 24d

The library is a magical place.

The complete Captain Planet and the planeteers DVD set. 15 discs!!

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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 26d

This Taco Bell cup is so cool

Taco Bell drink cup with a burrito and tack in pixel form

A Taco Bell cup that says “Taco Bell decades Y2K” with a quesadilla and nacho in pixel form

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26d

Do you know how badly things have to be going in America for us to be owned this hard by the Dutch? The Dutch of all people

Dave Lee @davelee.me · 27d

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28d

Which show was threatened by the government before being pulled?

The answer might (not) surprise you.

On "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday, Sept. 10,

Brian Kilmeade, one of the hosts, said that one

way to deal with mentally ill homeless people

who wouldn't accept services was "involuntary

lethal injection, or something. Just kill 'em."

"The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it," Kimmel said.
"In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving," he added.

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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 28d

First they came for Colbert. Then they came for Kimmel.

Wait is this script right? Kimmel was next? Jimmy Kimmel? *He* was too much??

TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 28d

NEW: ABC puts JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE on hiatus after conservative backlash, station group and FCC chair pressure network over Kirk comment. Details at @vulture: www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’

It follows conservative backlash to a comment Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk.

www.vulture.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29d

This is the DOJ report on far-right extremism and violence that the current administration does not want you to know about.

Be sure to spread this as far and as wide as possible.

web.archive.org/web/20250911...

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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · Sep 15

It got approved after the lawsuit

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