Ben Jammies
@benjammin.bsky.social
Cis bi dude in Brooklyn. I love cats, cannabis, and big ass cRPGs. He/him
created July 3, 2023
216 followers 269 following 307 posts
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Linda Holmes (@lindaholmes.bsky.social) reposted
I don’t care what Bill Maher thinks about literally anything, whether I agree with it or not, because it has been decades since he did anything except get attention for saying uninteresting things. People go after Kardashians and so on for “being famous for being famous.” Maher is the same.
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He’s running out of veins to pop
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Friday mood, long week…
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REMEMBER WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU. OLD MAN YAOI, SPECIFICALLY!
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I was fine with DOOM as a kid until the end of DOOM 2. I mean, look at that thing! The sense of scale freaked me out more than anything, I think.
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Oooo you are in for a treat!
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From NY: will i lose coverage? Will it go up by 5 or 38%? WHO KNOWS WHAT A FUN GAME! (Also I already spend way too much on it, and no raise in 2 years.)
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I zip between hyperfixations pretty quick but what I keep coming back to is historical fiction with a focus on late medieval into early modern times. Loved Name of the Rose, Q, Wolf Hall, To Calais in Ordinary Time, and the excellent Kingdom Come Deliverance games. Also just got a bday gift:
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I fucking hate that I know who he is immediately on one screenshot
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Petition to launch Cash Jordan into the sun
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I’ve never had a good view of that shower despite having my birthday on the peak (or maybe beginning) of it. I gotta plan to get out of the city somewhere for my 39th, actually see more than a few comets!
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You know what I’m kinda ok with becoming goo at this point
Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli (@banditelli.org) reposted
UNBELIEVABLELY sweet moment between a peacock chick and their parent. Not sharebait. I COULD NOT believe my luck. Last year I had seen the chicks about 3 weeks later, I was determined to get them younger, and this one DID NOT disappoint! SQUEE - o - meter 10/10, thank you birds! 🥰 🐣 🪶
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Hang on, maybe it’s just sitting there. People can be lazy about putting sauces away!
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If anything, it’s income restricted FROM poor people. Which is why I needed a co-signer to get MY rent-stabilized apartment (which takes up most of my income!) Hell, I had to drag my ass to Long Island to sign the lease and everything!
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My first thought was “who wants to tell them”
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Just curious tho what song did they use?
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Huh. I was wondering why one of my medications started tasting awful all of a sudden. Gotta check the bottle when I get back home, but the medicine is on the list
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Brad Lander (@bradlander.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Cuomo helped form the IDC, a group of rogue Democratic state senators who sided with Republicans year after year to keep loopholes in NY’s rent stabilization laws. The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated. www.politico.com/states/new-y...
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A surprisingly prolific composer, too!
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Don’t forget the wooder ice
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Dammit autocorrect, can you do your job just ONCE
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And he literally posted this while on the way to fundraising in the Hamptond
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Seems like it gets earlier every year!
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Well, it’s a good thing the White House wants to scuttle the CHIPS act. Wait a minute!
Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social) reposted
New book will be announced soon. And, yes, you should be excited. My brain is on fire with all the ideas for it.
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Yeah once I started it I I only took a break to see Sinners and to sleep, it was a one-weekend read because I could NOT put it down
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Happy #Caturday We love a good hand holder
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Hey, quick, someone give me $500k! I guarantee it’ll be JUST as effective as whatever they’re planning. 😉
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Good! Don’t come back, we DO NOT MISS YOU FUCKERS!
Chris— Let’s BOLDLY GO 🏳️🌈 (@brutumfulmen.bsky.social) reposted
“Am I a joke to you, Susan?”
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Lunch today: hot chicken with a side of Weird cosmic horror
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A nice surprise on a Friday for sure (Of course it’s only a 22 minute EP but I’ll take what I can get!)
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Oo that reminds me of the old scary little elevator in my dad’s church growing up. Always seemed like it was about to fall apart!
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Ah yea I remember how the nation instituted common sense gun laws in the wake of Dylan Roof.
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Why seek real, genuine advice when you can just get grifted instead?
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She speaks like how a brain-rotten boomer Facebook post/chain email is written
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One more series of felonies, for the road
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Me on my way to Area X
actual heathcliff comics (@realheathcliffs.bsky.social) reposted
Just got word that @desko.bsky.social, otherwise known as tinycliff, passed away. Desko was a loved member of the Heathcliff community and a dear friend to many, and we're all gonna miss him dearly.
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Ah for me it’s just endless Breaking Bad/Sopranos/Red Dead Redemption and sometimes NYC fear/shock bait
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Was literally listening to that soundtrack while rereading Annihilation on the train. (Had listened to the audiobook but now reading the whole Southern Reach series so catching up on the first book first!)
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He’s been very successful in melting Boomer brains via reels, if my dad is any indication
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Personally I loved it, and it got me to buy the Southern Reach trilogy! I almost always prefer books to their adaptations but a lot of good adaptations have turned me on to some of my favorite book.
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Is this bad or
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I’m still trying to figure out what makes people “elite” to him. Because I went to college and live in a stabilized but still too expensive apartment?
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Further twist: Pagliacci is the mother! Bet you didn’t see that coming, sexists!
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I’m very disappointed to learn he’s still alive and horny as ever
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Man I gotta pull mine out of the cupboard this weekend. Haven’t used it in years!
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A significant number of those are people looking for a fight
j.l. feldman (@jlfeldman.bsky.social) reposted
A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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Better that than my skin, I suppose. Cats definitely have a daily quota of violence, as much as I try to steer mine to cat trees and junk mail.
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Before and after I asked her to stop shredding the couch Forgot to post on #Caturday
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Laundry bag loaf Belated #caturday
Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.online) reposted
Eric Adams, a gentile, going after Brad Lander, a Jew, for not investing in Israel because Adams is running on the End Antisemitism party line to try to salvage his own corrupt legacy and hold onto power is really giving the game away in a way that I hope people notice
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Kim Kitsuragi has stayed in my head as a genuinely helpful source of rationality and hope in my recovery. I’ll ask myself: WWKKD? (Or rather, what would he say to the impulsive urge to drink a liter of booze?) And for that I’ll always love him.
Bright D Limm 임대중 (@bdlimm.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The Commission's currently leaning in favor of including open primaries in its final ballot questions, so we should be ready to vote no in November. But if enough of us express opposition now, we may be able to prevent it from appearing on the ballot in the first place. bit.ly/NoOpenPrimariesNYC
Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) (@lesbrains.bsky.social) reposted
They murdered somebody during one of their raids. They actually did it.
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My great-great-grandfather DIED of farting at Gettysburg. I cannot believe anyone thinks this is funny. My family is all crying now. GREAT JOB
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I was confused until I saw this was 2021
Gef the Toking Mongoose (@geftokingmongoose.bsky.social) reposted
its a living
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N…no???
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Professor Farnsworth speedrun
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Thank you that makes a lot of sense!
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I KNOW OK
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….sometimes I sip a little half and half, as a forbidden treat
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Huh i wondered how that worked…like some kind of pressure buildup?
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I watched a random breaking bad scene, and now that’s like 98% of the feed. Also I think reels are permanently warping my dads brain
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Dang maybe I should actually play Hellblade
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FWIW, the “rent freeze” would only apply to rent-stabilized units, and is something DeBlasio did several times. Mamdani has also spoken a lot about the need to involve private sector in new construction as well. It sounds much more radical than it really is.
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Oh god I’m having Ohio church potluck flashbacks!
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Beginning to think the Hussites had the right idea re: defenestration
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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the democratic nominee for mayor and your constituent. What will you do to protect him from the promise of arrest from the president?
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) reposted
I’ve seen enough, abolition is the centrist position
Bo Bolander (@bbolander.bsky.social) reposted
the lander/mamdani partnership is fantastic because lander has that hater's spirit that zohran isn't allowed to bust out, every public-facing nice person needs a mean bud
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Literally a winning smile!
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When he says “we” he means pedophiles right?
Pavel🐀 (@spavel.bsky.social) reposted
Zohran Mamdani: 40% of the vote, respectable effort, solid victory Zohran the Destroyer: 100% of the vote, the tribes are united under the new Khagan, we ride
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Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants (Not an original joke, I’ll admit)
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Dudes (Brad lander specifically) rock
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Mamdani literally picks up Trump voters, brings out a TON of new voters, and this is the Thought Leader concern? Falls especially flat when the GOP consistently calls everyone a communist.
Rami Ismail (رامي) (@ramiismail.com) reposted
This is from Haaretz, an Israeli news site. It proves that Israeli concentration camp soldiers have been ordered to deliberately shoot at unarmed Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid. No Western media will run this story or even refer to it, because real Western journalism is mostly dead.
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MFers calling it the “Great City of New York” days after foaming over Cash Jordan AI slop pictures of riots that never happened
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Actual conversation I had as an exchange student in Thailand: Thai person: “bagels? What are bagels?” German student: “ugh, some awful disgusting barbaric American thing” Me: um, specifically Jewish American, I can guess why you don’t know German student: “How dare you joke about that!!!”
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And the plan isn’t even to have them compete! It’s for one store in each borough, within food deserts! Unless they mean competing with Family Dollar or something
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I don’t think TCW lives in a food desert so I highly doubt he’d even find them if he tried
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Well earned! And the original NPR review is what turned me on to Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Still the best book I’ve read all year.
Sharon (@sharonk.bsky.social) reposted
give brad lander a gundam
Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog.xyz) reposted
"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
Ben Jammies (@benjammin.bsky.social)
Genuinely can’t remember the last time I stayed up to watch live politics coverage and ended up happy. Tonight has been a fucking treat.
Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) reposted
Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."