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@benrackey.bsky.social

librarian redefining vomitorium marked as rude, alas

created November 21, 2024

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Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

causing harm can be a form of harm reduction. not all harms are equal.

3/9/2025, 9:21:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

I find that the pervasiveness of performative shock/excitement/outrage so ubiquitous online as one of the worst things about modern culture and the dissolution of authenticity is a massive factor in why things suck so fucking much right now.

2/9/2025, 3:55:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

that ain't so bad at all thanks for the info =)

2/9/2025, 1:28:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs.bsky.social) reposted

hey man I don't give a shit what Nate Silver says

1/9/2025, 9:19:50 PM | 2068 206 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

so you are as dumb as you seem. good luck out there.

1/9/2025, 6:39:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

you have so much dipshit pseduoscience in your bio it's hard to tell.

1/9/2025, 6:37:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

are you 1) describing yourself? 2) attempting to diagnose me? 3) some weird third fetish thing? I dunno, go back to make up stories about how strangers think you're cute for opening doors for them.

1/9/2025, 6:36:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

you heard something when you were 10 and decided never to be curious about it again, I understand. sucks, but I understand.

1/9/2025, 6:33:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

No, I just think you fail to understand what you're talking about, but judging from your other posts, that's typically the case.

1/9/2025, 6:31:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol, how do you not live in a constant state of embarrassment? www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what...

1/9/2025, 6:31:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

pretty telling that you choose to use the slur instead of the definition right under it, ya know, the historical one 2) a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woolen mills, that they believed was threatening their jobs (1811–16).

1/9/2025, 6:29:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

A) you (purposefully?) misunderstand the conversation. B) you misunderstand who the Luddites were. C) Even Diogenes wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. Trifectra.

1/9/2025, 6:25:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kelly jensen (@heykellyjensen.bsky.social) reposted

Happy Unions Are Good, Actually Day! Happy Your-Stupid-Ass-Trump-Neighbors-Have-Pulled-Out-Their-Flags-Thinking-It's-A-Cult-Celebration Day, reminding you how much education, facts, information, libraries, public schools, etc etc are–things fought for BY unions.

1/9/2025, 1:29:12 PM | 32 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Wonder how many hitmen you couls hire.

1/9/2025, 1:19:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

happy bday =)

30/8/2025, 1:11:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey NPR, thanks for giving a platform to the absolute dumbest our society has to offer. Really raising the bar.

30/8/2025, 10:25:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

"both sides" is for pineapple on pizza this is wholly different and even the limited equivocating you're doing gives space to their fascism. And I'm positive you know this.

29/8/2025, 10:44:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Pretty wild that people say shit like this out loud for real other humans to see.

28/8/2025, 8:47:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

Some people never learn. I should know.

27/8/2025, 12:06:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

violence as a form of harm reduction

27/8/2025, 11:20:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

(owner, not founder, my b)

27/8/2025, 11:20:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

If only Altman would follow the Segway's founders footsteps (or wheeltracks)

27/8/2025, 11:19:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

Lol at ALA. What a fucking joke organization it's become. Pathetic.

27/8/2025, 9:48:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a weird way to take out your frustration about getting a $40 late fee. Go to therapy, you knob.

27/8/2025, 8:24:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

at least they have you there to help them. it sucks so much. I'm sorry you are all going through it.

26/8/2025, 4:55:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

<3

26/8/2025, 11:32:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The labor librarian (@laborlibrarian.bsky.social) reposted

I fucking love Ursula K LeGuin

A tweet from user deathbybadger that reads “it's actually your civic duty to share Ursula le Guin's casually devastating, icily astute take down of the harry potter novels whenever you see it”. Underneath is an excerpt from an interview: Q: Nicholas Lezard has written 'Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write. What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I'd like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling's writing style UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the
26/8/2025, 12:55:45 AM | 10 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

How big is the rock you live under?

26/8/2025, 11:01:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social) reposted

it is an unassailable truth that burning the flag looks cool and no executive order can ever change that

26/8/2025, 1:23:36 AM | 2605 315 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Quotes deserve quotations

25/8/2025, 5:26:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

You're suppsed to post a picture of a bed bug, but that's just Bret.

25/8/2025, 5:07:43 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Blended fabrics and oyster bars indicate otherwise.

25/8/2025, 2:56:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Hail Satan!'s hot dogs!

chicago's devil dawgs logo
25/8/2025, 1:52:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

"We could commit a genocide in Gaza in an afternoon, but we're having way too much fun to end it that quick". -The full Netanyahu quote

25/8/2025, 12:08:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

And we hope you learn what empathy is. Throwing trans kids under the bus for votes ain't it.

25/8/2025, 10:12:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Bro, you're real fuckin' dumb.

25/8/2025, 10:10:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

buddy, you're real dumb

24/8/2025, 3:51:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

bro, look in the fucking mirror lol

24/8/2025, 3:16:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

words mean things dipshit, you clearly have no idea what those words mean, please stop embarrassing yourself.

24/8/2025, 3:15:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

I'll die on a lot of hills, but one of them is that Galapagos is Vonnegut's best book

24/8/2025, 1:57:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Do they go into detail on what they consider a "title"?

24/8/2025, 1:52:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

news.mit.edu/2025/explain...

24/8/2025, 1:44:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

Daily reminder that the people at the Lincoln Project do, actually, think you're scum, they just also happen to be losing money because of Trump.

24/8/2025, 10:42:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Honestly? Probably, yeah.

24/8/2025, 10:40:48 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

I simply do not understand how you could trust Newson. If he's willing to through one vulnerable group under the bus what on Earth makes you think he wouldn't do it to another group when it because expedient? I do not understand the refusal to see reality.

24/8/2025, 10:04:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

lying on the internet is fun, huh?

24/8/2025, 9:43:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

I would say basic human rights is broad enough to be sufficient to be single issue about.

24/8/2025, 9:42:18 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

like, you're posting this ON THE INTERNET, it's so easy to fact check that you choosing not to is absolutely malicious. Typical center-right dipshit move.

24/8/2025, 9:41:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

wait who was President in 2022? apnews.com/article/heal...

24/8/2025, 9:41:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

every democrat who votes to increase police funding is calling you a liar (and a dipshit)

24/8/2025, 9:39:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

OF is that way -------->

24/8/2025, 9:36:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Are you able to criticize people without also being a bigot? You center-right dipshits are so fucking pathetic.

24/8/2025, 9:34:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

The "Resistance" as they bill themselves is nothing more than self-deluded center-right initiative filled with someone of the dumbest bigots you're apt to meet.

24/8/2025, 9:29:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

(Blame John Shirley lol)

24/8/2025, 8:52:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

I believe in truth in advertising

24/8/2025, 8:52:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay, but you're clearly an idiot, so why would we listen to you?

24/8/2025, 8:17:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, don't talk about politics in politics thread y'all! C'mon! I, too, like to join other people's conversations to conplain about the topic.

24/8/2025, 8:15:50 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

The way you think and speak is an affront to our ability to understand the world.

24/8/2025, 8:14:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Books have covers specificially so we can judge them, that's kinda the whole point.

24/8/2025, 8:08:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Ohhhh so you are a bigot, thanks for clarifying :) Keep licking those boots fuckface

24/8/2025, 7:57:31 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

I see who you repost and quote and I gotta say, makes ya look real fucking dumb.

24/8/2025, 7:53:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

The way you think is embarassing. Please learn to feel shame, for all our sake.

24/8/2025, 7:52:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, or asked them to help us get to the moon.

24/8/2025, 6:54:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

I just can't wait to not vote for a garbage dem candidate and them get yelled at for having a moral core.

24/8/2025, 6:53:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

IV - A Discordian shall Partake of No Hot Dog Buns, for Such was the Solace of Our Goddess when She was Confronted with The Original Snub.

23/8/2025, 9:18:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social) reposted

if you’re on the left, the question of “should you be on a platform consciously designed to turn people to the right” shouldn’t be some head-scratching dilemma

23/8/2025, 2:28:20 PM | 4823 542 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martha Hickson (@sassylibrarian.bsky.social) reposted

“How long can a group of legislators linger over words like genitals and anus before it becomes clear they have an unhealthy hyper-fixation? Can you imagine what the parts that didn’t make the draft bill look like? This isn’t normal!” 😆👏😆👏

23/8/2025, 12:27:31 PM | 5 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

who is "we"?

23/8/2025, 12:09:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

pretty fucking shitty reporting there guys

23/8/2025, 12:04:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems?

21/8/2025, 8:10:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

love seeing the center-right fight with the far right. so fun

21/8/2025, 1:54:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

how are you not embarrassed to exist?

21/8/2025, 1:49:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

very much the reason I didn't run again for director-at-large, what a fucking joke this shit is.

21/8/2025, 1:43:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

you're acting like the people speeding aren't off duty cops.

21/8/2025, 11:49:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture strawberry garfield (@bbburgerrr.bsky.social) reposted

if you enroll your kids in this they should send CPS to your house

20/8/2025, 7:14:41 PM | 33 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture posting expert (@magickfart.bsky.social) reposted

No don’t get me wrong I think I am a much better person than you are for not running to ChatGPT for everything but that said I still think you deserve basic human rights. That’s nonnegotiable it’s not a respect thing. Because I don’t respect you

20/8/2025, 1:54:39 PM | 164 39 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

pls be true

20/8/2025, 1:14:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martha Hickson (@sassylibrarian.bsky.social) reposted

Getting lost in AI; map analogy: “Traditional maps showed us an entire landscape … allowing us to understand how everything fit together. [GPS] gives us what we need in the moment, but at a cost … We move through a constructed reality … never seeing the whole … never getting the sense of place”

20/8/2025, 10:51:46 AM | 3 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Go fuck yourself

20/8/2025, 12:10:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Can you dislike them without also being a fascist? Do you have it in you?

20/8/2025, 8:28:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Have less stupid ideas please.

20/8/2025, 8:27:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Love the quotes around stolen and lost, it's almost like the author already made up their mind (obviously)

20/8/2025, 8:26:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice

20/8/2025, 8:14:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not harmless fun.

19/8/2025, 6:23:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

What kind of gAI garbage is this? Why? Why do this?

19/8/2025, 6:22:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

You're such a chump. I, too, believe the authenticity of random social media accounts and consider them representative.

19/8/2025, 8:02:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

I, personally, don't support MS

18/8/2025, 2:51:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)

I simply wish people had a consistent moral core. It changing over time is cool, people learn and grow, but c'mon, you gotta have a center to care from. This Gavin Newsom simping is fucking disgusting and you should be embarrassed.

18/8/2025, 12:20:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Are you able to dislike someone without insulting normal human behaviour? You center-right dipshits don't realize who you actually support.

17/8/2025, 12:24:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Tweet from Doom saying, 'you control the buttons your press'.
17/8/2025, 12:19:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Megan Piontkowski illustration (@meganpiont.bsky.social) reposted

“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas: NYC Philly Durham, NC All of Massachusetts I will add more as I get them done. Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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16/8/2025, 8:07:39 PM | 1118 584 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted

The point of journalism is to tell people the truth! If the population and political leaders are panicking about something that isn't happening, your job as a reporter is to loudly debunk it — not plead with the other party to join the panic.

16/8/2025, 9:48:05 PM | 1928 420 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Ban dipshit posts.

15/8/2025, 12:43:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Can you try to make a point without eugenics? Or is being a decent person just out of reach?

15/8/2025, 12:40:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Please stop posting until you use your brian. Thanks.

15/8/2025, 12:39:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Individualism is such a fucking delusion. Rots people's ethos from the center.

15/8/2025, 12:38:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

It's good when people vandalize our collection, actually.

15/8/2025, 12:30:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Naw, Dan is a dumb idiot without any neurons to rub together. He just wants attention.

15/8/2025, 12:27:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow, two people willing to throw people under the bus. Imagine thinking either of this idiots deserve our respect lol

12/8/2025, 11:14:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent

You grew a lighter? Thanks for the mushroom for scale.

12/8/2025, 12:25:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view