Benjamin Reed (aka Raccoon Fink)
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F/LOSS geek • general nerdery • way too into collecting (and sometimes even drinking) whisky • I write electronic/ambient/dungeon synth music as Raccoon Fink • he/him
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It feels like a good time to re-introduce myself.
I am a musician, a Carolina Hurricanes fan, an engineer at NetBox Labs, and an all-around nerd about a bunch of different things.
You can find links to my music on my linktree.
I am a musician, a Carolina Hurricanes fan, an engineer at NetBox Labs, and an all-around nerd about a bunch of different things.
You can find links to my music on my linktree.
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Socialism... but for nationalists! I wonder if anyone's ever came up with a term for this kind of blood-and-soil right wing ideas?
Republicans consider public initiatives dangerous flirtations with socialism. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy reviving the concept of public ownership by having government agencies take stakes in a variety of companies.
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Socialism, But Make It Trump
After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Socialism... but for nationalists! I wonder if anyone's ever came up with a term for this kind of blood-and-soil right wing ideas?
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low polyamory
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
low polyamory
This is your irregular reminder that there is a movie you can watch over and over again between Halloween season and Christmas because it fits both.
Nightmare before what? Huh?
No, I'm of course talking about Rare Exports, the extremely normal Finnish Christmas movie! Kids will love it!
Nightmare before what? Huh?
No, I'm of course talking about Rare Exports, the extremely normal Finnish Christmas movie! Kids will love it!
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is your irregular reminder that there is a movie you can watch over and over again between Halloween season and Christmas because it fits both.
Nightmare before what? Huh?
No, I'm of course talking about Rare Exports, the extremely normal Finnish Christmas movie! Kids will love it!
Nightmare before what? Huh?
No, I'm of course talking about Rare Exports, the extremely normal Finnish Christmas movie! Kids will love it!
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I think my Word of the Day email might be trolling the Democrats.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I think my Word of the Day email might be trolling the Democrats.
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It’s not about “purity politics” or whatever the current buzzword is, it’s about making sure that, at critical moments, you didn’t put up a popular coward who’ll fail every trolley problem they’re handed
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
It’s not about “purity politics” or whatever the current buzzword is, it’s about making sure that, at critical moments, you didn’t put up a popular coward who’ll fail every trolley problem they’re handed
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One reason I don't think it's useful to argue about the correct tactics for Democrats to win elections is winning elections isn't enough. They've won the presidency 5 out of 9 times since 1992 and where are we now. The question is how we create something better than a dead cat bounce party
May 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
One reason I don't think it's useful to argue about the correct tactics for Democrats to win elections is winning elections isn't enough. They've won the presidency 5 out of 9 times since 1992 and where are we now. The question is how we create something better than a dead cat bounce party
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We need to keep a list of all the new and ongoing horrors and we'll all just use SignupGenius to each pick a horror to worry about for the week so we make sure we get them all.
We can rotate week to week so nobody gets the same horror for too long.
We can rotate week to week so nobody gets the same horror for too long.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
We need to keep a list of all the new and ongoing horrors and we'll all just use SignupGenius to each pick a horror to worry about for the week so we make sure we get them all.
We can rotate week to week so nobody gets the same horror for too long.
We can rotate week to week so nobody gets the same horror for too long.
We know exactly how it works. That's why we're mad at you.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We know exactly how it works. That's why we're mad at you.
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Once they were in the shutdown though they could have made it about anything. Put clips of ICE abducting children on endless loop and say “do we keep funding a govt that does *that*?” Then you might get federal workers clamoring not for concessions but a strike.
Again, requires believing in things.
Again, requires believing in things.
This was a doomed exercise from the outset. They picked a fight to give the GOP something they thought they would want anyway, and have now been embarrassed into capitulating on even that. Beyond pathetic.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Once they were in the shutdown though they could have made it about anything. Put clips of ICE abducting children on endless loop and say “do we keep funding a govt that does *that*?” Then you might get federal workers clamoring not for concessions but a strike.
Again, requires believing in things.
Again, requires believing in things.
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Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net
Run for Something
Find offices you can run for
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November 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net
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Here is your semi-annual reminder that I do draw stuff sometimes & have an online store: shop.roxiqt.com 👻
October 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Here is your semi-annual reminder that I do draw stuff sometimes & have an online store: shop.roxiqt.com 👻
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How come you only hear about last ditch efforts? Shout out to everyone givin' effort on the first few ditches and whatnot.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
How come you only hear about last ditch efforts? Shout out to everyone givin' effort on the first few ditches and whatnot.
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You should call Chuck Schumer right now and say “I’m sorry this is happening to you sir I wish you a heads up penny”
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
You should call Chuck Schumer right now and say “I’m sorry this is happening to you sir I wish you a heads up penny”
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And so a new form of government was born. A system that required citizens to yell at a handful of mostly elderly politicians every few weeks, demanding them not to doom us all. A Screamocracy.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
And so a new form of government was born. A system that required citizens to yell at a handful of mostly elderly politicians every few weeks, demanding them not to doom us all. A Screamocracy.
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So it wasn’t a dream! Whoa
GRAMMY-NOMINATED. WOW.
GRAMMY-NOMINATED. WOW.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
So it wasn’t a dream! Whoa
GRAMMY-NOMINATED. WOW.
GRAMMY-NOMINATED. WOW.
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Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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Do you think if I took a shit on the pillow of the reporters who write like this, they would say I "allegedly appeared to deposit a brown substance" or would they call it what it is
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Do you think if I took a shit on the pillow of the reporters who write like this, they would say I "allegedly appeared to deposit a brown substance" or would they call it what it is
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Heh. The machines might have the upper hand right now, but never fear: I have a plan. (I sit back and smirk while a giant robot destroys the city until it’s clear I’m not going to do anything)
January 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Heh. The machines might have the upper hand right now, but never fear: I have a plan. (I sit back and smirk while a giant robot destroys the city until it’s clear I’m not going to do anything)
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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Pretty cool to get to pick from the party that is too evil to govern and the party that is too stupid to govern
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Pretty cool to get to pick from the party that is too evil to govern and the party that is too stupid to govern
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Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.