benhorst

benhorst

@benhorst.com

Life is a highway and it would be better with protected bike lanes.

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RBG always should have given up her position sooner and so should Mitch McConnell. Retire. America should take care of our elders so that they don’t have to work these positions. At a certain point, age/fragility can be a liability and we should admit that.

I’m very happy to report that I’ve tied a fly that catches fish. No pics of fish but first contact was last weekend. Tied some ants and fished them at Rainy Lake in the north cascades pass.

The thing to remember about billionaires is: There’s a few positive, occasional, philanthropic pros (cool they built a nice park once). The overall net effect of a billionaire behavior is exploitation. If we tax them, yes they might actually move away. Do you want them to stay and exploit us?

MacKenzie Scott may be the most philanthropically accomplished billionaire of our time. She’s given away more money in 2025 than Elon Musk, Larry Page, Larry Ellison, and Jeff Bezos have in THEIR LIFETIMES. …and she still has the same net worth ~35B today as when she divorced.

I just feel like all the headlines that say “millionaire tax passed in Washington” need to stipulate it’s __per year__. The difference between a millionaire and a person making a million dollars in single year income is an EXPANSE.

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the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent

I have a bad feeling this will only begin to end in an ICE vs Citizen firefight in some city and it wont matter who instigated it.

Millennials at 10: what’s an internet 20: internet as an escape from reality 40: reality as an escape from the internet

The thing about “AI-related layoffs” is that the macroeconomic conditions for the layoffs already existed. People are attempting to make up the difference with AI. They would have done the layoffs anyway.

For the record: I don’t believe it’s a national security issue to protect any politician if they’re a pedophile. Get them out of office, they don’t represent us.

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It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

Crazy the kind of stuff citizens get when republicans control every branch of the govt.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

The current government shutdown is now officially the longest in U.S. history, surpassing the 35-day shutdown of President Trump’s first term. The impact of the shutdown, having lasted 35 full days, has already been felt across the country. nyti.ms/3Xaygvt

The DNC being terrified that a progressive mayor might win NYC is so starkly indicative of how centrist the establishment is. There is no Left at the national level.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

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There’s something interesting about the stock market and private interests in the 2020 decade that… the government doesn’t matter. It’s toothless. Regulation is toast. The FTC/SEC are non-factors. The IRS is pointless at scale. There’s no end to the corporate dystopia. The people have lost.

We can have government shutdown after shutdown and the market doesn’t blink. They don’t care. It’s passé. It happens every time. The private market seems to think never interrupt your opponent while they’re making a mistake.

The Needling doesn’t miss. Hang it up, Bill. What reasons could you possibly have to associate with any of this?

The Needling@theneedling.com

Bill Gates Compliments Trump on Wife Who Didn’t Ditch Him Just Because He’s in the Epstein Files: tinyurl.com/mr99vejw

Descent was unbelievable. I am so glad to have lived through that era as a child so I could look at it and wonder with a fully open mind to it. The default keyboard controls were also written by an insane person with twisted piano fingers.

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com

"It's not often in today's gaming world that you get something completely and totally new, but that's exactly what Descent was 30 years ago in 1995."

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Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, but not because women are better leaders. Women can be trash too. Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, because if your country is too sexist to elect women about 1/2 the time, then it's not selecting leaders on talent.🤷🏿‍♂️

Stephen King@stephenking.bsky.social

I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.

Yeah.

Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...