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BENDER9000

@bender9000.bsky.social

Heyyyy, it's me Bender. I have hot takes and can't form complete sentences.

created August 15, 2023

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Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Real life isn't pretty. We should stop trying to hide the ugly side. Do not glorify it, learn from it.

18/9/2025, 5:48:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You cannot bargain with fascists.

18/9/2025, 5:45:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Not sure where Roger Stone got the idea that he's a politician

24/8/2025, 12:28:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

He should resign tbh

1/7/2025, 3:42:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 (@altnih4science.bsky.social) reposted

ā€œWe urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.ā€ Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the ā€œBethesda Declaration.ā€ 🧪

CN Health Subscribe NIH employees publish 'Bethesda Declaration' in dissent of Trump administration policies UPDATED 8 MIN AGO V By Meg Tirrell NATONA, NSTITUTES
9/6/2025, 12:11:42 PM | 655 251 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey Pam, who hurt you?

30/4/2025, 4:35:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

I will celebrate that entire month and every anniversary after it. It should become a national holiday tbh.

22/4/2025, 11:37:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Hi Mr. Takei. Did you see this Motherjones article? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

22/4/2025, 11:36:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

These monsters are incapable of love.

22/4/2025, 11:24:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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20/4/2025, 5:57:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

3 years? that's all? Violation of trust should go so much further.

14/4/2025, 6:10:07 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Domingues (@jeffdomingues.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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14/4/2025, 12:34:48 AM | 132 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

They're trying to save money by not following the law. That money is already legally earmarked to be spent. The executive branch does not have the authority to override the law. In fact, they have a DUTY to follow and uphold the law.

19/2/2025, 4:25:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Weird. I'm seeing nothing but waste. Wasted progress, wasted talent, wasted prosperity.

19/2/2025, 4:11:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

your link is broken

19/2/2025, 4:08:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

They constantly forget that they are running the show now.

19/2/2025, 3:53:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

It's called CULLING. It works.

19/2/2025, 3:40:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Tow + impound should be mandatory.

19/2/2025, 3:12:37 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm with ya. In fact, let's increase taxes to speed run paying off the debt. Not across the board, lets start at the top with 75% effective tax rates.

19/2/2025, 3:11:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Amazing that they are going about it in such an illegal way and Congress is letting it happen.

19/2/2025, 3:09:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pictures of the Floating World (@floatingworlds.bsky.social) reposted

Not Japanese, but it felt relevant to share. The Earth isn't Dying, Streetart by Banksy. Located in NYC at the Bansky Museum.

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17/2/2025, 8:41:52 PM | 284 69 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Chuck the enabler.

18/2/2025, 8:09:35 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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3/2/2025, 8:53:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Musk is not APPOINTED. He has no authority.

3/2/2025, 1:11:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Indivisible āŒšŸ‘‘ (@indivisible.org) reposted

(next to the colors of the Transgender Pride Flag) No executive order can erase our identity.
24/1/2025, 2:45:19 AM | 11531 1615 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) (@liebschutz.bsky.social) reposted

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

22/1/2025, 8:46:26 PM | 12359 5026 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Coordination

22/1/2025, 10:54:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Yar har

22/1/2025, 10:52:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

I've seen the value of DEI for over 40 years.

22/1/2025, 10:51:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted

U.S. Mint Introduces New Controversial John Wilkes Booth Pennies theonion.com/u-s-min...

U.S. Mint Introduces New Controversial John Wilkes Booth Pennies
10/1/2025, 5:00:00 PM | 2034 150 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

The French solved this hundreds of years ago.

11/12/2024, 3:11:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

How big of a cog are boards of directors?

8/12/2024, 3:09:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

As if the information Twitter shows you is factual

6/12/2024, 10:42:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

The good ideas are not theirs in the first place.

6/12/2024, 2:42:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social)

I got my eye on you. You cute kitty šŸ˜

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6/12/2024, 3:02:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

potus can only pardon federal inmates, correct? not state inmates?

2/12/2024, 6:53:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

The Grifter Administration.

30/11/2024, 3:14:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Happy Thanksgiving Kai

28/11/2024, 12:49:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Congress has the reigns now. They can put a collar on this guy.... But they won't.

28/11/2024, 12:48:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

BRB FEEDING IT GARBAGE

26/11/2024, 9:17:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/11/2024, 9:14:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Congrats! Anxiety and fear are normal. They never really go away, to be honest. My oldest will be 25 soon. It gets easier as they grow and learn their way in the world. I try to be their guide as long as they'll have me. Whiskey def helps sometimes. I prefer talking with them, though.

26/11/2024, 9:12:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

My phone has 5k audiobooks. 10-year-old me would have loved this.

26/11/2024, 9:04:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Reality will do that just fine on its own.

26/11/2024, 9:01:19 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Yea. That's not perfectly confusing at all.

26/11/2024, 8:56:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for responding. Always liked reading your work.

26/11/2024, 8:55:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

fannnnncy

26/11/2024, 8:48:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

didn't get those notices, but yea. it's awol

26/11/2024, 8:44:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry to hijack this thread Karl and I know it's been a good while since you wrote for the site, but do you know anything about why DSLR is down?

26/11/2024, 8:42:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hertling (@markhertling.bsky.social) reposted

Having been assigned in Europe for 12+ years, I saw a lot of classified intel & experienced a lot of interaction w/ Putin and the Russian military. The Russian government is a mafia. Europeans know it & we keep failing to understand it. They don't "negotiate." Putin & his army must be beaten.

25/11/2024, 1:04:31 PM | 1641 468 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/11/2024, 3:16:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ronan Farrow (@ronanfarrow.bsky.social) reposted

The US government recently bought powerful spyware that could make hacking your phone easier—and shape the way Trump executes some of his campaign promises, including mass deportations. My latest in @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

21/11/2024, 12:01:46 AM | 2497 1404 | View on Bluesky | view

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20/11/2024, 11:30:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, emulators are pretending from the start.

20/11/2024, 11:28:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Supposedly back then with treasuries. Supposedly.

20/11/2024, 10:49:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Not enough competition in this space. Regulators probably should be watching them like a hawk.

20/11/2024, 10:12:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Grifting developing nations. Pathetic

20/11/2024, 10:09:49 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cowards

20/11/2024, 9:27:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Joey a little slow

20/11/2024, 4:55:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you for speaking up.

20/11/2024, 4:52:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) reposted

I wrote about Trump's new FCC boss Brendan Carr, and how the vast majority of U.S. press outlets didn't think it was important to mention how he plans to take an absolute wrecking ball to broadband consumer protection enforcement and media consolidation limits

20/11/2024, 4:01:34 PM | 543 262 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) reposted

that is absolutely fucking adorable

screen grab of Fox News headline claiming that Trump is a big fan of a
19/11/2024, 3:54:44 PM | 69 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

God help us if it can.

19/11/2024, 2:04:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Let me know when teamfortress.com arrives

18/11/2024, 10:38:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zeteo (@zeteo.com) reposted

Photographer Annet de Graaf captured Israeli Maccabi fans’ violence in Amsterdam. She tells Mehdi Hasan how media like CNN, BBC, and the New York Times used her video to twist ā€˜the whole narrative’ to portray Maccabi fans as innocent and ignore their anti-Arab racism: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

18/11/2024, 10:25:07 PM | 236 60 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Been thinking that the last 4 years. Still waiting

18/11/2024, 10:30:51 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

They aren't civilians.

18/11/2024, 10:17:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Preferably not one influenced by Israel

18/11/2024, 10:16:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not your teacher. Go read a book.

18/11/2024, 10:16:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

It's literally their land. They didn't sell it.

18/11/2024, 10:12:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Or to use their parlance, the swamp.

18/11/2024, 10:10:50 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/11/2024, 10:10:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture LeVar Burton (@levarburton.bsky.social) reposted

Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi

18/11/2024, 7:43:02 PM | 135018 12096 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Not how history happened.

18/11/2024, 10:00:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Tape worm army! Let's go!

18/11/2024, 9:58:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Israel likes to pretend that they are not an occupier.

18/11/2024, 9:58:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

When you are an occupied Nation, you have the right to defend yourself. If you're the occupier, you do not.

18/11/2024, 9:57:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol

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18/11/2024, 9:56:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nah they can stop it all over night if they organized.

18/11/2024, 9:53:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Are there American boots on the ground?

18/11/2024, 9:53:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/11/2024, 9:52:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

And please read some history. What happened in 1948?

18/11/2024, 9:50:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Israel is the occupier. Not sure how everyone against them are terrorists.

18/11/2024, 9:49:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

I would never use those words.

18/11/2024, 9:47:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Voa, a bastion of truth

18/11/2024, 9:27:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone loves paywalled articles. NOT.

18/11/2024, 9:14:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

I've seen rocket launches before. I'm good.

18/11/2024, 9:12:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Americans aren't driving the warship here brother.

18/11/2024, 9:05:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

What did Lebanon do to deserve this?

18/11/2024, 9:04:31 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Ha I got blocked. Typical

18/11/2024, 9:03:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Nobody said any of that

18/11/2024, 9:01:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

States don't issue birth certificates anymore?

18/11/2024, 8:57:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/11/2024, 5:48:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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lol unhinged

18/11/2024, 5:36:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

The national economy has been great the last few years. BOOMING

18/11/2024, 5:25:25 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump will just go after the state attorneys.

18/11/2024, 4:53:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, you're right, but it's not just a dem thing. Americans, in general, are apathetic to the struggles of their neighbors.

18/11/2024, 4:45:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

You're a veteran. You should know all of this already

18/11/2024, 3:20:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BENDER9000 (@bender9000.bsky.social) reply parent

Hamas is, sure. Nobody denies that. But also Israel is an occupier and invader. Palestine has every right to defend itself. Israel does not.

18/11/2024, 3:19:35 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Children is another word

18/11/2024, 3:17:48 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view