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🎃 Benjamin Knoll 🎃

@benjaminknoll28.bsky.social

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Business survey researcher/political scientist. Star Trek 🖖 Kentuckian 🏇 Pro-democracy/pluralism 🗽 Rummelier 🥃🍹 #FeverRising #WNBA 🏀 Amateur artist 🎨 (Views are my own.) www.informationknoll.com Online art portfolio: https://shorturl.at/cqk1y

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🎃 Benjamin Knoll 🎃 @benjaminknoll28.bsky.social · Dec 3

My @bsky.app vibe summarized, courtesy blueskyroast.com

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Pablo Picasso @pablopicasso.bsky.social · 13d

Seated Dora Maar
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/31493

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🎃 Benjamin Knoll 🎃 @benjaminknoll28.bsky.social · 1h

Bravo. Perfection. 🖖

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1h

Learning about autism in a neutral and non-stigmatizing manner, through the lens of autistic lived experience, benefits autistic children’s self-understanding, emergent autistic identity, sense of belonging, and communication/self-advocacy skills.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neurodiversity

“I like being autistic”: Assessing the benefit of autistic-led psychoeducation for autistic children

Background Despite receiving autism diagnoses in early life, autistic children are not routinely supported to understand these diagnoses post-diagnostically ([1][1]). Consequently, they typically grow...

www.medrxiv.org

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 5h

🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 4h

hey now
hey now now
sing thys corrosioun to me

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

Of course, that’s not what he was saying. He was pointing out what was obviously true to anyone alive then - there was a big backlash against Muslim-Americans and anyone with an Arab-sounding name right after 9/11. But Vance has to be an asshole 24/7 for his MAGA troll fans.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 5h

"Women are not usually into science fiction"is legitimately one of the stupidest, most divorced from reality sentences I have ever read in my life

Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 1d

okay grandpa, let's get you to bed

To understand this problem, first, you have to understand the demographics of Star Trek viewers. Trekkies are and always have been men. Women are not usually interested in science fiction, but that’s doubly true of Star Trek in particular.

I hear you, random guy who once knew some lady who watched every Voyager episode. I see you on Instagram, attractive girl cosplaying in Starfleet miniskirts. Unfortunately, you very cool Trek-girls are the exception, not the rule.

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 7h

"Triggered," indeed. ❄️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Says He’s Increasing Canada Tariff by 10% After Ontario Ad

President Donald Trump said he’s increasing US tariffs on Canada by 10% in response to an anti-tariff advertisement by sponsored the state of Ontario that has roiled one of the world’s biggest…

www.bloomberg.com

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 4h

I should not have to think this much about northeast politics

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Aussies3 @aussies3.bsky.social · 4h

Why can't they leave this poor man alone?
www.nysun.com/article/kilm...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia Will Be Deported to Liberia, Court Is Told by Trump Administration

Lawyers for the alleged MS-13 gang member say that the government has chosen a course calculated to inflict maximum hardship.

www.nysun.com

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 1d

Gustav Klimt, Orchard with Roses, 1912.
Oil on canvas.

🙏🏼🌍🕊️

📷 Painting and Fine Arts

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine if in another country the president’s masked army racially profiled in opposition areas as he enriches himself (even raiding the treasury), oligarchs renovated a massive ballroom for him, and his unofficial top advisor said he won’t leave.

Is this how democracies end?

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Shameka 🏀 @shameka23.bsky.social · 3d

Correct 😂 #MNBA #NBA

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 3d

The Constitution is not self-enforcing.

The only thing holding our Republic together are our norms.

And the only thing that enforces those norms is The People.

No one is coming to save us.

It's entirely up to us.

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🎃 Benjamin Knoll 🎃 @benjaminknoll28.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe the big takeaway for Cuomo from the last ten years of Trump's political successes is that a critical mass of American voters might see sexual harassment and assault as troubling, but in the ballot box ultimately don't see it as disqualifying. He probably figures "might as well try!"

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.

She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.

So I confronted him.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 2d

Mark A. Pearce (British Artist, born 1965)
"Autumn Path", 2012.
Linocut Print.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 3d

DISMAYED to find this piece of trivia one day AFTER my lecture on Bentham and Utilitarianism

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 4d

Scrolling through my 5,000 photos on my phone, trying to organise them into albums, and stumbled on this important piece of journalism from 2022 🤣🤣🤣

It's all downhill for philosophy!
HISTORIAN Greg Jenner had a useful suggestion for utilitarian
philosopher Jeremy Bentham's preserved body. "I asked [its curator] whether it'd allow for maximum happiness if we could put Bentham in a bobsleigh and push him down the hill at the Winter Olympics," Jenner tells us, as Bentham argued for maximising happiness for the most people. But Jenner, host of the You're Dead to Me podcast, says his suggestion was met by
"disappointment and genuine alarm".
Happiness minimised.

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🎃 Benjamin Knoll 🎃 @benjaminknoll28.bsky.social · 3d

If you're running low, go to the store. Carry some money, to help you buy more.

The tab is there, to open the can. The can is there, to hold it the Spam.

Andy Warhol @warhol.bsky.social · 3d

Spam, 1980
https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/3991

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RNS @rns.org · 3d

OPINION: The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament offer conflicting accounts for how communities should treat outsiders.
religionnews.com/2025/10/10/w...

In the Bible's immigrant story, a model for humanizing the vulnerable

(RNS) — As biblical references to immigrants become political slogans, Ruth's story shows how keeping the humanity of immigrants in view changes the debate.

religionnews.com

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

This is how a dictatorship works

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "It looks like we're gonna have a Communist as the mayor of New York. But here's the good news -- he's gotta go through the White House. Everything goes through the White House. At least this White House it does."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Over two dozen companies have donated or pledged funds, including: Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, Palantir, Coinbase, Lockheed Martin, Comcast, T-Mobile, Altria, Reynolds American, Blackstone Group.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-w...

Trump unveils model of triumphal arch to business titans at White House ballroom fundraiser

President Trump has sought to raise $200 million for a new White House ballroom — and has tapped these megacompanies and wealthy individuals for donations.

www.cbsnews.com

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 4d

We always used to say satire was so good in Russia because you really had to up your game since reality was so absurd. These are my thoughts upon seeing the president tearing down the White House.

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🎃 Benjamin Knoll 🎃 @benjaminknoll28.bsky.social · 3d

Also most of the paintings at IAH are acrylic on canvas. Sometimes all you see at the museums is oil paint so it's easy to get the impression that acrylics are "kiddie paints." But IAH is showcasing some good acrylics!

🎃 Benjamin Knoll 🎃 @benjaminknoll28.bsky.social · 3d

Cool art at IAH. 🎨

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 4d

45 yrs of US history, in 25 words:

John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 4d

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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