Benjamin Garvey
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CTO @ Common Paper /
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/ Collingswood / Philly / Twin Peaks obsessor / he / him
There are three kinds of people 1. No stickers on the laptop 2. Stickers on the laptop 3. Overlapping stickers on the laptop
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3 Collingswood teams headed to the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals! Please help offset some of the cost if you can.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-colli...
OM is a student driven, DIY, creative competition.
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Donate to Help Collingswood OM Teams Compete Globally, organized by Benjamin Garvey
Three amazing Collingswood Odyssey of the Mind (OM) Teams are headed to th… Benjamin Garvey needs your support for Help Collingswood OM Teams Compete Globally
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-collingswood-om-teams-compete-globally
2 days ago
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Never deleting it
3 days ago
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Anil Dash
4 days ago
It is unbelievable how completely surrounded young men are in their information environment by the messaging around gambling. It's pretty much constant during every waking hour.
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We should have called the decade from 2000-2009 the zeroes
7 days ago
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Discover weekly trying to act like I haven't listened to this 1000 times.
8 days ago
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Hell yeah this is great for NJ
newjerseymonitor.com/2026/04/08/s...
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Gov. Sherrill signs bill to end de facto moratorium on new nuclear plants • New Jersey Monitor
State law required new nuclear plants show disposal plans to meet a standard that has become impossible since coming into effect 40 years ago.
https://newjerseymonitor.com/2026/04/08/sherrill-new-nuclear-power-plans/
8 days ago
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Eric Haywood
11 days ago
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
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Rake your problems like leaves
bengarvey.com/2026/04/06/r...
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Rake your problems like leaves – bengarvey.com
https://bengarvey.com/2026/04/06/rake-your-problems-like-leaves/
11 days ago
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Next restaurant saying their food is elevated better be on scaffolds
12 days ago
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I've had a blog for 25 years and I didn't write anything in it.
16 days ago
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Trump is such a disaster for America and the world.
17 days ago
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Just admit it gmail, you can't tell what devices I'm logging in from.
17 days ago
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Craig Newmark
17 days ago
I’m spending the 31st anniversary of craigslist explaining in the NYT when enough is enough, and to help folks who haven’t gotten so lucky. Indulge me…
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...
About newspapers revenues and craigslist, fact checking:
www.linkedin.com/posts/craign...
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Opinion | Craigslist Made Me Rich. Giving the Money Away Is Easy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/opinion/giving-pledge-philanthropy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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At least Instagram didn't ruin a 90s song I actually liked.
18 days ago
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The amount of noise you have to deal with using npm and dependabot is so bad it makes me never want to use node again.
22 days ago
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Shameless plug for my tech errors in the wild instagram account
www.instagram.com/rebootthetra...
23 days ago
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TW
about 2 months ago
Bruh I haven’t had a Yuengling in 11 years, don’t underestimate my ability to hold a grudge
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So long I spelled it wrong, too.
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24 days ago
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Jen A. Miller
25 days ago
Lot of us who drank it then don’t drink anymore (or drink rarely like I do). and also the other thing.
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Just kind of realized I haven't seen anyone drink a Yeungling in Philly in about a decade. Wild.
25 days ago
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Joe Woods
29 days ago
Roakland
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My theory on Roku City is that we are actually in Roku Jersey City
about 1 month ago
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Just saw a pharma ad where they admitted, "we don't really understand how Spravato works" and I respect that.
about 1 month ago
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Life update: I need a clamp to open a jar of salsa.
about 1 month ago
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My theory on Roku City is that we are actually in Roku Jersey City
about 1 month ago
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April 22, join us at the Philadelphia Data Visualization Meetup!
www.meetup.com/philadelphia...
#phillydataviz
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April Data Visualization Meetup, Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup
Our next meetup is Wednesday April 22\, 2026 at Star\|Bolt\. Hosted by Ben Garvey and Ben Kates\. Doors open at 5:30pm and talks begin at 6pm\. **Location** Star\|Bolt 193
https://www.meetup.com/philadelphia-data-visualization-meetup/events/313759909
about 1 month ago
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Every scene with Kelly Harbour in DTF St Louis feels like it was written for John C Reilly.
about 1 month ago
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Typos used to say, "I didn't spend enough time on this." Now they mean, "At least I spent _some_ time on this!"
about 1 month ago
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Forgot how nice Ubuntu is
about 1 month ago
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Luke Smith Morgan
about 2 months ago
Incredible. Kalshi is not paying out "Khamenei out of power by [date]" contracts because he died.
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Happy I'm not coaching Odyssey of the Mind this year (it's a lot) but I miss hearing my team sing. They would sing while rehearsing, painting props, using power tools, sewing costumes, making props, etc. All the time.
about 2 months ago
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One thing I'll say about blue sky, it's not addictive.
about 2 months ago
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I still laugh about the time someone on my team had 4 laptops fail on them on the first day and the IT department said, "the macbook has to choose you."
about 2 months ago
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I live every day like it's Twin Peak day
about 2 months ago
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Shipped a Claude skill today for Common Paper.
github.com/CommonPaper/...
Send NDAs and other agreements in Claude Code.
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GitHub - CommonPaper/claude-skill: Official Common Paper skill for Claude and other agents
Official Common Paper skill for Claude and other agents - CommonPaper/claude-skill
https://github.com/CommonPaper/claude-skill
about 2 months ago
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Pretty wild that New Jersey could easily fit into Lake Michigan
about 2 months ago
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The github slack integration is annoyingly bad
about 2 months ago
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Has anyone ever gotten their money back buying ticket insurance from an event?
2 months ago
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I feel like we're only like 18 months away from EZPASS offering to invest my replenish balance in crypto scams.
2 months ago
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I do believe Mike Tyson can eat a quart of ice cream every hour though.
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2 months ago
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Snoop Dogg, at the Olympics probably: "It ain't no funnnnn, if the homies only win the bronze."
2 months ago
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I want Apple to use the name Spam Rick if a scammer is trying to call me.
2 months ago
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I don't believe for a second that Ring cameras have caught any dogs that wouldn't have been found otherwise.
2 months ago
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How come we never got any slow, eerie, breathy, covers of Weird Al songs?
2 months ago
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Hedge Knight answers the question, "What if Cousin Greg was in Game of Thrones?"
2 months ago
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I want to buy a new TV but every movie looks perfect on this Samsung I bought in 2010
2 months ago
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Ugh I did not know that Todd Snider died last fall. Awful news
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Sn...
2 months ago
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LonelyLupine
3 months ago
The time travelers knew, which is why they didn't show up at Hawking's party.
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Fresh Principles > First Principles
3 months ago
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