Ben Kester
@benkester.bsky.social
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Trying to sit with life as it is, rather than what I want it to be.
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Hello. I'm Ben. Some things I like: 🥘Stovetop cooking 🥪Eating 🧒Parenting 💪Empowering children 💞Empathy ✨Progression-based strategy games 🥾Gloomhaven ⚔️Path of Exile 🔍Arkham Horror 🛠️Factorio 😈Liberation politics 🍸Cocktails 🥚Vanilla bourbon flip 🍷Campari 🐍Python programming 🎲Probability
over 1 year ago
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Winter
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So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.
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Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson says Bafta told him ‘any swearing would be edited out of the broadcast’
Davidson said he ‘can’t begin to explain how upset and distraught I have been’ over slurs he shouted during the award ceremony
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/25/tourette-syndrome-activist-john-davidson-says-bafta-told-him-any-swearing-would-be-edited-out-of-the-broadcast
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A core headwind against autocracy is an educated population.
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2 days ago
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If you're running for governor, you're a politician. So not only is he a politician, he's a lying politician. Good times here in Iowa.
4 days ago
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Clarifying questions.
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6 days ago
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Reading comprehension isn't everybody's strong suit.
8 days ago
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Jerad Walker
13 days ago
What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.
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We are all going to die. So let's have some fun, Iowa. Happy Valentines day!
13 days ago
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Biden broke ground for Trump's fascism. He showed that institutions will side with genocide.
14 days ago
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It's one thing for this anecdote to be descriptive. But this is normative language.
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15 days ago
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Popular capitalist discovers some capitalism is bad actually.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOR4...
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Why the Economy Hasn't Crashed Yet
YouTube video by Hank Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOR4wuiPeEQ
15 days ago
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Yes, the rich understand the harm they are inflicting.
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15 days ago
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This dude is in the Epstein files.
16 days ago
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"I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about" let's pause right there
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16 days ago
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America doesn't seem to value its status as a worldwide educational leader. As we chip away at our own educational system, people are going to be studying elsewhere.
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16 days ago
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Yeah I don't get it either.
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16 days ago
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rightfully?
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16 days ago
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Ring just advertised to the world that they want to share your data to authorities.
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16 days ago
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MAGA would generally prefer Spanish be spoken nowhere, yet that context is largely omitted from discourse.
17 days ago
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Mondoweiss
17 days ago
Leqaa Kordia was recently hospitalized after a seizure as she approaches a year in government detention. Her family and attorneys say she is being subjected to worsening conditions as punishment for her Palestine activism and her faith.
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...
#Palestine
#Israel
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The government-sanctioned persecution of Leqaa Kordia
Leqaa Kordia was recently hospitalized after a seizure as she approaches a year in government detention. Her family and attorneys say she is being subjected to worsening conditions as punishment for her...
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-government-sanctioned-persecution-of-leqaa-kordia/
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We are already in the "it's your fault we have trump" voting cycle rhythym.
17 days ago
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Schumer wants you to know how little he's asking for.
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17 days ago
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Many people have lost the ability to engage in reality. I've tried having conversations with fox news viewers, and the conversation can't even happen. These experiences are consistent to my untrained eye with group psychosis.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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17 days ago
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We don't need to center MAGA ignorance.
18 days ago
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You keep using the word principled. I do not think it means what you think it means.
18 days ago
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I've watched the super bowl on a baptist church basement projector. Someone was assigned to block the projector when bud light Clydesdales came on.
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19 days ago
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Billionaires understand the assignment. Do we?
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19 days ago
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A lot of white commentators are sharing the image, and I haven't seen a single black person sharing the image.
20 days ago
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170 years later, we still have the president giving preference to property owners.
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20 days ago
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White evangelicals sing "I am no longer a slave to fear" the get in a tizzy because gay people exist.
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...
20 days ago
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The NYT response to Billie Eilish is a joke, right?
21 days ago
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If you have a trust-based relationship with politicians, you are doing politics wrong. This applies whether you are the elected official's senior, peer, junior, staffer, journalist, challenger, lobbyist, historian, voter.
22 days ago
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Dems are getting credit for their hard work to fund ICE. It's a struggle when effort goes unnoticed.
23 days ago
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Here's top secret info about any type of leader. If their comments are not open for discussion, if their comments are filled with angry replies they know
24 days ago
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24 days ago
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jae is tired of this shit🩸✨
24 days ago
If you are a Black artist who does work in tabletop games (or wants to) please share your work here!! I’m not currently hiring for anything but I’ll boost y’all and maybe folks who are following me are 👀 at the very least I’m always seeking more creatives to add to my Rolodex for future projects 🫶🏼✨
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"Would you like to join my institution? We are working hard to make the world a better place?" "Does your institution say abolish ice?" "Um"
26 days ago
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378 P/E ratio, and we have questions about *whether their business model is viable*.
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27 days ago
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Western philosophers: You don't understand, someone needs to die!!!!
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27 days ago
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Lisa Diedrich
28 days ago
"the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women"--Noam Chomsky
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Now the Dems have leverage, huh?
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29 days ago
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Which are the True Leaders fighting for the people, and which are the Fake Grifters wanting to make a quick buck?
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29 days ago
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All this tech hustling and still no workflow-centric home cooking helper app.
29 days ago
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economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/pa...
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29 days ago
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
29 days ago
Strategic is a word that too many folks say when they mean “I think you’re an acceptable sacrifice so I can maintain access “
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You are correct that there is not one secret domestic terrorist lists. There are several secret domestic terrorist lists, and the people on the lists are not "terrorists".
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30 days ago
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE
about 1 month ago
I've been representing protesters pro bono since Trump 1.0. In that time, I've represented protesters against the Muslim ban, ICE, trans bans, DEI bans, genocide in Occupied Palestine, police brutality, and more. Want to know why more people don't protest? Here's why.
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All right wing dialogue is authoritarian but not all authoritarian dialogue lives in the right wing.
about 1 month ago
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So problematic.
about 1 month ago
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I forgot how irrational the fox news crowd is and let myself get tangled up in it.
about 1 month ago
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Many adults hate "6-7" because "it makes no sense," yet when adults
about 1 month ago
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