BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social)
Damn, what a legend.
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social)
Damn, what a legend.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reposted
The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
It's this one greetdeath.bandcamp.com/album/die-in...
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social)
@greetdeath.bsky.social 's latest record is wonderful for a beautiful evening on the back porch, filled with dread. It's gorgeous
alexis simpson (@amutepiggy.bsky.social) reposted
how do i explain to my kids two women being married?? how explain sun go away at night but come back next day? how explain magic rectangle show people talk??? HOW
more mr. nice guy (@juniorhoncho.bsky.social) reposted
it'll be funny when the news is like "a nation is mourning" and then can't find a single live shot that doesn't include people very clearly partying their asses off
strawberry garfield (@bbburgerrr.bsky.social) reposted
remember when obama and lebron broke the nba wildcat strike. happy labor day
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Greatest Doc I ever saw
Your ol' pal Les McClaine (@lesmcclaine.com) reposted
Rudy Giuliani was HEROICALLY TEARING A WOMAN AWAY from the CLUTCHES of a WOLFMAN MOTORCYCLE GANG when FOREIGN TERRORISTS CRASHED his CAR and SHIT in his PANTS
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Love these guys, skilled avians
Alasdair Mackenzie (@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social) reposted
Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru.bsky.social) reposted
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
Vlambeer (@vlambeer.com) reposted reply parent
Nuclear Throne update 100 is launching for free on Steam on December 5th, bringing you: - C-skins for all 13 characters. - Custom difficulty mode. - Localization, 60+ fps support & many more quality of life features.
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
"see you're proving his point and also I just pooped in my shorts"
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Apologies, I should have been more specific "I say one thing about marginalized groups and people are mean to me" does that help?
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social)
There's a whole "gun storage" section at Costco now, in Massachusetts. I hate this fucking country
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Starting off your party with a TERF out front is really showing your heel turn
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social)
All the replies in this thread are: "I like it here, but people get really mad when I use the n word, what's up with that?"
more mr. nice guy (@juniorhoncho.bsky.social) reposted
Due to a booking error Rudy Giuliani has been laid to rest in the parking lot at Woodlawn Mulch & Chip Depot
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
"oy, that's not a woman, that's Ronnie Corbett"
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social)
Years of Benny Hill and Kenny Everett broke the entire Island's brain
april (@april-now.bsky.social) reposted
jelly roll and post malone look like bootleg spirit halloween versions of each other
jeff computers (@helldude.bsky.social) reposted
im constantly getting flagged down to help women victims of domestic violence by the side of the road
andy™ (@andylevy.net) reposted
this is giuliani’s 9/11
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Heemy heems is probably kidding
Simon HB (@norock.bsky.social) reposted
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
leon (@leyawn.bsky.social) reposted
no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say rudy giuliani died from driving his car into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and all his clothes flew off in the crash and then a sixteen wheeler semi truck ran over his dick and balls. don’t say stuff like that
Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant.lawyer) reposted
Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz are engaged in a very high-stakes and high-profile “being like that” contest and it’s gonna be a photo finish
Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Ain't even gotta inspect it no more
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Get anything good?
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
My grandmother's neighbor's opthalmologist was Renée Richards, so I was aware of it as a child, in the 80s.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
"my wife won't stop giving me shit about leaving the god damn strips hanging off the edge of the bag, mother fucker"
bort (@crushbort.bsky.social) reposted
i work at the factory that makes resealable snack pouches making sure the “tear here” label is too high above the ziploc thing when you rip it off. every day i leave work i get shot at in the parking lot by a half dozen guys wearing shirts tucked into jean shorts
Meryl Schumacker (@waybackgen.bsky.social) reposted
Ghost, Beehiiv, and Kit (Convertkit) all offer better deals for monetized newsletters than Substack. For free newsletters with <1k subscribers, there is Pika ($5/mo). Or go old school and mail hard copies! Anything but Substack.
Peter Sterne (@petersterne.com) reposted
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
Luke O'Neil (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social) reposted
fwiw my piece on leaving substack from april 22. It's gotten so much worse since then. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-gotta-get-...
Stella (@antlervel.vet) reposted
Okay here’s the deal. My only client, and a full-time one, has not yet paid me for July yet. It may be a week, it may be a month, who knows about August. I am broke and in housing court trying to keep my apartment. If you like my work/face/dog/whatever and want to help, avenues to do so are below.
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Delicious pudding pops
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Hi
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Love this movie and I'll put it on when I'm doing just about anything chore wise
Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"Fun really is the name of the game for Trump & co. It’s fun for them to see a majority-Democratic city like DC live in fear of violence/deportation, to flood the trains/buses with armed law enforcement just because they can, to unleash troops who understand that they will not be held accountable."
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe they'll make you a big pot and bring it over and post about it 😀
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
I was at this one, so I should probably go to the last one.
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Entire theater was quiet for over 30 seconds
Senator Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov) reposted
Netanyahu is restricting aid trucks into Gaza—the best way to get food to starving people there—so Jordan is delivering some with air drops. The Jordanians said @merkley.senate.gov & I could join one of those flights to see the devastation, but Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight.
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social)
Yes, killing the gnats filling our house thanks to a hidden rotten sweet potato using my weed torch is extremely stupid, but it's also effective, quick and most of all, fun
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Love a rebuilding guy
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Every day I'm amazed at the distance they can cover.
Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reposted
As terrible as every clip of Portnoy on the Fox Big Noon Saturday show is, remember that this is what they wanted Clay Travis to do but he didn’t even have the rizz to be a giant shitheel. Just a wet middle aged loser.
Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted
I will delete this, but can somebody tell me why everybody thinks he croaked? Is it just the many days off and the weird playlist on the lawn earlier today, plus the references to heaven and the hand bruising that we already knew about? Or is there something else?
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Read this back and the missing "is" makes it sound like I'm doing a Yakov Smirnoff bit
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
F1 Quali would be funny.
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
As a Russian Studies major from 30 years ago, this extremely good
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social)
How cool would it be if he'd kicked it while I was getting blasted by head like a hole
Mr. Cait (@chas.bsky.social) reposted
Heads up about things that may or may not be going on: you can legally pray for bad things to happen to people. God doesn’t mind. He’s totally cool with it.
Mike Drucker (@mikedrucker.bsky.social) reposted
I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
Alexander Clarkson (@aphclarkson.bsky.social) reposted
Trump is going to end up carried around in an inert vegetable condition like Bouteflika as rival courtier factions around him interpret vague coughs and gurgles as confirmation that the MAGA god emperor backs their latest brutally delusional scheme
tanya/таня (@tanyavolt.bsky.social) reposted
i wish everyone thought i was dead everytime i had no plans for the weekend
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
You're as useless as the Baileys
The Pumpkin Dipshit (@pumpkinpal.bsky.social) reposted
Oh sure we're all down on The Secret until it's time to manifest something this weekend
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social)
Just get a fucking job in the suburbs, christ. "I'd be ok with militarizing SS if I didn't have to use the bathroom with the homeless" and before you ask, I've had diarrhea at South Station, I've taken a shit at Penn Station and I'm still alive.
lauren (@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com) reposted
only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social)
Why is it always trans rights and/or Palestinian genocide is always the one issue that's easy for people to toss aside for all "other marginalized people"? If Newsom announced he hated all Asians, would we still have to vote blue no matter who. Seems like that fails the centrist purity test.
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social)
Yeah fuck this shit all the way outta here khed
Demetre Daskalakis (@drdemetre.bsky.social) reposted
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Fwiw that port was probably installed in the 10's
Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted
".. military leaders privately questioned whether the troops had received proper training and warned of the 'far-reaching social, political and operational' risks of aiding law enforcement, according to a Reuters review of military records .." @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/mil...
Luke O'Neil (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social) reposted
"I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life."
Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted
i mean, its political malpractice that democrats arent running and promoting a running tab on the cost of the presidents self-suck parties right?
Mallory Moore (@sexabolition.blog) reposted
This sure is a wild spin on a far right detransitioner who wrote and spoke about how much they loved their family and regretted their transness before killing a bunch of people
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
They should continue shooting her dusty bones
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
I get it, felt the same last night
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably deceased
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Where my Hooked on Classics fam at?
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Took another day off. We're ok, she's texting, but sparsely, which is great. It'll probably sting a bit more when the school year officially starts, but I'm pretty steady at the moment. Picked up some surprisingly good bud in Amherst. How are things in your house?
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
You are correct, and apologies for the tone, I shouldn't be replying to anything, the mood I'm in.
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social)
Long, draining day and I didn't pay attention to the outside world, which was nice. Feels like a big empty void in the house.
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
What is this shit?
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social)
Has the number of centrist shit libs suddenly exploded on here?
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, the trolley problem. You're one of those freaks. Have a nice life
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
You're still here?
Bob Burgess (@bobburgess.bsky.social) reposted
"Trump has vowed repeatedly to halve power prices within 12 months of taking office as well as double electricity capacity. Instead, residential electricity prices have climbed about 10% from January until May and are projected to rise another 5.8% next year," www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Selena Larson (@selenalarson.bsky.social) reposted
My councilwoman @janeese4dc.bsky.social put out a plea to neighbors to not order food delivery because of law enforcement targeting delivery drivers.
Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) reposted
Flock seeks to add data from private car dashcams to its massive surveillance network. At minimum it seems like data from random cars driving around is going to be added to their system www.404media.co/flock-wants-...
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
So in your mind all "rural whites" voted for Trump?
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
"every single person in this state voted for Drumpf and that means they all can fuck off and I am smart and moral"
BenRad (@benrad.bsky.social) reply parent
Some real cruel fuckers in the replies