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
about 1 year ago
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MonsterKing
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American villains
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Christians ignore historical jesus scholarship and act like their group is the true followers. Religion is wild.
3 days ago
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I love it when someone's only posts on resistance are policing the resistance.
3 days ago
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Kids: I don't like this (alfredo) sauce. (It's not like red sauce.) It's like mac n cheese. Kids: Oohh yum this is my favorite.
7 days ago
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Something an institution does when it's definitely not a criminal institution.
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8 days ago
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I can't remember the last marketing text from a democrat pledging specific improvements.
10 days ago
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
12 days ago
And if you’re targeting one ethnic or religious group‘s grief posts with angry comments, ask yourself why you’re targeting that group
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Oklahoma continuing its race to the bottom.
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13 days ago
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I wish people would take critical thought more seriously. Let's question stated intentions more. How do you know ___ is about ____, other than taking the writer's word for it?
14 days ago
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The grinch is running the UK.
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14 days ago
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Another reason I don't go to progressive church.
15 days ago
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I'm not used to the US military bragging about its incompetence but here we are.
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17 days ago
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Notre Dame not breaking from the entitled vibe huh?
18 days ago
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99-0
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21 days ago
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Is this a game for the men who don't see their wives as human beings?
22 days ago
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Perfection isn't the enemy. Don't let the Trump admin tell you they are on the side of perfection.
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22 days ago
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Maybe people think of standardized tests as proper learning assessments?
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23 days ago
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This gets into judging which people are "truly disabled."
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23 days ago
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More laws that do not apply to the rich.
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24 days ago
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When America tells you who they are, let's believe them the thousandth time.
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25 days ago
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The state of Oklahoma is racing to the bottom in education.
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25 days ago
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Two things grinding my gears: 1. People's dependence on others to think for them and inability to handle criticism. 2. "I understand your argument" meaning "I agree with this part of your argument."
27 days ago
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I have a hypothesis that some (mostly white) people see "criticism" as the opposite of "trust." They operate by "trust" so criticism is forbidden.
27 days ago
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I'm so tired arguing with white evangelicals that the government should care for the poor. So many have been taught it's a subversion of how the world ought to be.
about 1 month ago
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We need a search platform that prioritizes human content over AI.
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about 1 month ago
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Pastors: Religion fulfills a unique role in society by connecting people to a bigger story than themselves. Also pastors: The big bang never happened.
about 1 month ago
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One reason liberals dislike Trump is he makes subtext the text. He's not smart enough to disguise US foreign policy.
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about 1 month ago
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The GOP propaganda line: - Trump protects you - They hate you - They want to attack Trump - Attacking Trump is attacking you
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about 1 month ago
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Christian infighting on the right way to hate the world.
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about 2 months ago
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Me: can't find music to match my feelings Them: keep looking its there Me: discovers Locrian Them: not like that
about 2 months ago
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Paul Fairie
about 2 months ago
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵
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As we read foreign sources to learn of national news.
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about 2 months ago
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Peter
about 2 months ago
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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How did I miss this? 2025 has not been kind to abusive church leaders.
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about 2 months ago
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Most people have no idea how happy I feel to have left the white evangelical church.
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about 2 months ago
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"I voted" sticker has already generated discussion around "there's voting today?"
about 2 months ago
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The establishment dems are just as racist as MAGA right.
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about 2 months ago
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Sure people are going hungry, but how does this affect the powerful?
about 2 months ago
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Puff the Magic Hater
about 2 months ago
This is me hearing about this.
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sende
about 2 months ago
The world continues to ignore Sudan and every day, things get worse. So much suffering met with silence.
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People are increasingly upset with the NYT, but they won't call a spade a spade. It's bad faith propaganda, not merely poorly developed thought. I don't know why people refuse to go there.
about 2 months ago
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Puff the Magic Hater
about 2 months ago
"Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them."
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Pentagon Admits to Striking Caribbean Boats Without Identifying Victims’ Purported Drug Links
The White House cannot “satisfy the evidentiary burden” to prosecute those they have been killing, one lawmaker said.
https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-admits-to-striking-boats-without-identifying-victims-drug-links/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNyaCdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFLUjJZM0ZVSUpLNTZ5MjY4AR5oN5dcp37EfNTHJLSjvutxqj2W-i0JNsGcdvJFxRde-_3fJu9IslY1qa9wAg_aem_ML27IYLwgWHHZL5vw-_j8A
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about 2 months ago
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It's wild how fragile far right ideology that trans people existing threatens it.
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about 2 months ago
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The NFL is keeping close watch on whether its fans blame the organization for player injuries.
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
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Poll: Many NFL fans want more games despite risk
Many NFL teams have lost star players to season-ending injuries this season, or played without them for significant stretches -- but a new poll finds that many football fans want more games, even if i...
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46768402/poll-shows-many-nfl-fans-want-more-games-injury-risks
about 2 months ago
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People are celebrating this statement. I do want to point out that Black isn't asking for oppression to cease, but for oppression to stop making his religion look bad.
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about 2 months ago
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Katelyn Burns
about 2 months ago
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
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We still haven't reckoned with news organizations as propaganda outlets.
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2 months ago
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Hear me out. Telling women to submit but AI.
2 months ago
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American presidents, the bulwark of character and commitment to breaking international law.
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2 months ago
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