Ben Harris
@benharris1.bsky.social
Resident of the 51st State via Ohio. Lover of 🌶️ 🎸 🏔️ and 🐕.
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Happy Saturday night
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea
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November 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Happy Saturday night
Lands End is thirstier than Saul Goodman after two days wandering the New Mexican desert
November 30, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Lands End is thirstier than Saul Goodman after two days wandering the New Mexican desert
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So, troops were sent to DC to support law enforcement and now law enforcement is going to guard the troops sent to help them? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
D.C. police to begin patrolling with National Guard after fatal attack
If enacted on a long-term basis, the change would significantly shift the way National Guard troops have worked with law enforcement in the District since their arrival.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
So, troops were sent to DC to support law enforcement and now law enforcement is going to guard the troops sent to help them? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Found the western themed coffee shop in Columbus
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Found the western themed coffee shop in Columbus
Doing our annual Browsing of the Columbus Real Estate listings and am trying to suss out the ideal buyer for this $2.5 million Short North condo. (“NEW YORK MEETS OHIO”)
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November 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Doing our annual Browsing of the Columbus Real Estate listings and am trying to suss out the ideal buyer for this $2.5 million Short North condo. (“NEW YORK MEETS OHIO”)
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National Guard aren’t ICE or Border Patrol. They didn’t sign up looking to harass and repress people. They’re volunteers, part time, in case of emergency. They didn’t ask for this.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
National Guard aren’t ICE or Border Patrol. They didn’t sign up looking to harass and repress people. They’re volunteers, part time, in case of emergency. They didn’t ask for this.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
Remember, don’t dump grease down your pipes or this guy will visit your house and talk to you about Congressional Cemetery.
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Remember, don’t dump grease down your pipes or this guy will visit your house and talk to you about Congressional Cemetery.
My 5 yo niece: “Guess what I drew?
Me: “ummmm…”
Niece: “It’s a turkey leg!”
Me: “Ahh, yes. Of course! Haha.”
Me: “ummmm…”
Niece: “It’s a turkey leg!”
Me: “Ahh, yes. Of course! Haha.”
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
My 5 yo niece: “Guess what I drew?
Me: “ummmm…”
Niece: “It’s a turkey leg!”
Me: “Ahh, yes. Of course! Haha.”
Me: “ummmm…”
Niece: “It’s a turkey leg!”
Me: “Ahh, yes. Of course! Haha.”
Having been a band geek myself, I have a real soft spot for the high school marching bands in the parade. These kids (and the band instructors) work so hard to get there, and it’s such a big deal for them to appear in the parade. I’d watch an entire parade of just random school marching bands.
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Having been a band geek myself, I have a real soft spot for the high school marching bands in the parade. These kids (and the band instructors) work so hard to get there, and it’s such a big deal for them to appear in the parade. I’d watch an entire parade of just random school marching bands.
Ah yes, that classic, jaunty Thanksgiving holiday tune, “Turn Down For What”.
a man with dreadlocks is wearing sunglasses and making a face
ALT: a man with dreadlocks is wearing sunglasses and making a face
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November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Ah yes, that classic, jaunty Thanksgiving holiday tune, “Turn Down For What”.
Columbus, I am in you.
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Columbus, I am in you.
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Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
I am sure the reactions to the shooting will be wholly reasonable and thoughtful, and will not confirm anyone’s priors.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I am sure the reactions to the shooting will be wholly reasonable and thoughtful, and will not confirm anyone’s priors.
Would.
Lay's Greektown Gyro Chips (2015-2015): A finalist in the "Do Us a Flavor" contest, these kettle-style potato chips were meant to taste like a gyro, with notes of lamb & beef, a Greek herb and spice blend, and tangy tzatziki sauce
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Would.
How does a grown man get this breathlessly excited over the opening of a Trader Joe’s?
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
How does a grown man get this breathlessly excited over the opening of a Trader Joe’s?
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Quite the pre-Thanksgiving news: Mayor Muriel Bowser will not seek a fourth term in office. That's a huge opening a mayoral race that still doesn't have any major candidates in it, but with possible entries from Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George and At-Large Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie.
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Quite the pre-Thanksgiving news: Mayor Muriel Bowser will not seek a fourth term in office. That's a huge opening a mayoral race that still doesn't have any major candidates in it, but with possible entries from Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George and At-Large Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie.
Keep more of my money?
Cut out insurance companies?
Didn’t have the president pegged as a single-payer guy, but I guess after that Mamdani meeting anything is possible.
Cut out insurance companies?
Didn’t have the president pegged as a single-payer guy, but I guess after that Mamdani meeting anything is possible.
Bessent on CNBC re: White House health care plans: "I'm not involved in the conversation. I know President Trump wants working Americans to keep more of their money, cut out the insurance companies, and we'll see. He's the president of solutions, and I'm sure that we will have a solution to this."
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Keep more of my money?
Cut out insurance companies?
Didn’t have the president pegged as a single-payer guy, but I guess after that Mamdani meeting anything is possible.
Cut out insurance companies?
Didn’t have the president pegged as a single-payer guy, but I guess after that Mamdani meeting anything is possible.
Made this for dinner tonight, and it is money. Only enhancement was adding some white wine to the sauce.
Chicken Piccata (Published 2018)
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November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Made this for dinner tonight, and it is money. Only enhancement was adding some white wine to the sauce.
One of the foundational problems with AI is that something that is a helpful tool in certain circumstances (like quickly summarizing a lot of info) has been marketed as actual intelligence that people can outsource things like emotional therapy to. Clippy should be no one’s therapist.
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
One of the foundational problems with AI is that something that is a helpful tool in certain circumstances (like quickly summarizing a lot of info) has been marketed as actual intelligence that people can outsource things like emotional therapy to. Clippy should be no one’s therapist.
Your own personal Jesus
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Your own personal Jesus
It’s exhausting reading descriptions of RFK’s actions as “reshaping public health,” or taking an “unorthodox approach.” He’s just killing people. Whether out of cruelty, deliberate ignorance, or some deeper psychological problems, he’s killing people.
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It’s exhausting reading descriptions of RFK’s actions as “reshaping public health,” or taking an “unorthodox approach.” He’s just killing people. Whether out of cruelty, deliberate ignorance, or some deeper psychological problems, he’s killing people.
Give Mamdani another 10 minutes with him and Trump will become a staunch land value tax guy.
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Give Mamdani another 10 minutes with him and Trump will become a staunch land value tax guy.
Got my flu and Covid jabs today. Take that, RFK!
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Got my flu and Covid jabs today. Take that, RFK!
I think one of the reasons people react so negatively to AI is that it so often comes off as just creepy.
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I think one of the reasons people react so negatively to AI is that it so often comes off as just creepy.
On pace for 39 goals this year, same as his age.
Alex Ovechkin scores 33rd career hat trick in Capitals' 8-4 beatdown of Canadiens: "Right now we kind of start clicking" russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2025/11/20/a...
Alex Ovechkin scores 33rd career hat trick in Capitals’ 8-4 beatdown of Canadiens: ‘Right now we kind of start clicking’
Alex Ovechkin had another legendary performance in one of his favorite barns in hockey. At Bell Centre, Ovechkin scored once against Sam…
russianmachineneverbreaks.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
On pace for 39 goals this year, same as his age.