"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever"
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 22:41:54 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 06:04:54 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
Happening now:
#NJ #Democrat #CoryBooker is delivering a #filibuster in the #Senate
For nonAmericans, it simply means you block all business as long as you can speak
He started at 7 PM Monday, and spoke through the night, and is still going as of 1 PM today
We need *a lot* more than that but it's a start
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech
livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE
edit: it's not even a filler filibuster, where you read the dictionary or something empty, he's still on point the whole speech
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 05:47:01 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
take your purity olympics and shove it up your ass
every fucker in this world is impure, including you
what Cory is doing is helpful
if you cared about changing the world for better support him now
or sit in your ivory tower of fake perfection and masturbate your fucking ego about how people are imperfect- you serve no one but yourself
morality is action
judging everyone achieves nothing but fake high holy indignation. it's not morality
support #CoryBooker here or shut the fuck up
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 14:09:21 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
So yesterday in #Chicago was terrible weather, pouring rain
Despite that 1,000 people showed up for #TransVisibility #TransRights
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/trans-rights-protest-downtown-chicago/
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 08:08:27 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
"#China, #Japan, #SouthKorea will jointly respond to #USA tariffs, Chinese state media says"
you succeeded in uniting south korea, china, and japan against the #us
not that you have enough braincells to understand how extraordinary that is
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 08:30:13 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
#Ivermectin was found to help #COVID patients...
patients with parasites
#Ignorance spread "the cure" without the whole picture
Likewise, #VitaminA was found to help #Measles patients...
patients with vitamin A deficiency
And so, ignorance once again:
"West #Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as #medical #disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak"
People think they know better than #scientists and #doctors, and harm themselves and their children
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 09:25:12 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
Hey #Brazil:
You have this random #American's great respect
Not only do you handle your #Bolsonaro better than we handle our #Trump
You're also master level trolls
๐คฃ ๐คฃ ๐คฃ
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 05:23:57 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
It's not big, but it's a start
"#Illinois returns stolen land to Prairie Band #Potawatomi Nation
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribe's leader 175 years ago but stolen by the federal government 20 years later.
A law signed by Gov. JB #Pritzker last week transferred Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area, 1,500 acres (607 hectares) in north-central Illinois."
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 11:29:23 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis, but it has no power of anticipating any โฆ relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with."
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 11:29:23 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
an interesting connection:
it was #LordByron who proposed the #ghostStory #writingContest that led to #MaryShelley writing "#Frankenstein", and he was the father of another #womensHistoryMonth notable: #AdaLovelace
her story is well known, but less well known is that she predicted #AI
she rejected it
her rejection was not without teeth, because a later champion of AI you might have heard of, #AlanTuring, spent an inordinate amount of time refuting her critique
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 11:29:23 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
footnote:
that summer, 1816, wasn't just unnaturally cold and rainy in Switzerland, the whole world felt it. It was called "the year without a summer." There was famine from crop failures all over the world
this was all due to the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia
so we can say, via the creativity of one bored cold teenager cooped up with nothing better to do except write, that we owe "Frankenstein" partly to massive climate disruption from a volcano
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 11:29:23 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
What do many consider the first #scienceFiction?
One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?
#MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"
Written as a *teenager*
A teenager who had recently lost a baby
I think that's key
Horror not from taking life
But creating life
She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain
The summer was cold and rainy so Lord Byron (yes him) proposed a #ghostStory #writingContest
I think she won
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 07:06:19 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
โThey want 1939 Germany but they're going to get 1789 France if they keep fucking around.โ
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 01:36:34 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
that just makes me nauseous
fucking 4chan sadists
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 00:17:17 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
oh that makes it so much worse
that it's real person
so they're basically harvesting hate for an innocent bystander
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 05:37:34 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
The future of the #USA:
#AOC with the #BernieSanders assist
15,000 just showed up at a rally in Tempe Arizona, where this picture was taken
#MAGA: eat shit and die
#nonvoters: show the fuck up you entitled privileged fuckwits
#centrist spineless #Democrats: shut the fuck up and fall in line
centrist #GOP archeological artifacts: what even the fuck are you, follow the centrist dems and keep your fucking mouth shut
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 05:37:33 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
why don't you trust them
if in terms of "i don't trust any politician", ok
but in terms of "who is the most sincere on the stage of politicians in front of me" you have to admit, AOC and Bernie are the most trustworthy on those terms
centrist dems are impotent pisswater
centrist GOP are an extinct species
and MAGA is radioactive evil
so there's your choice
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 05:37:32 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
i don't really give a shit about these "they're not perfect" takes
you can find dirt on anyone
overall, #aoc and #bernieSanders are way better than any other credible challenge, and that's what matters
#toxicIdealism is a problem in this world
do not fall for it
and plenty of it is just a #socialMedia #psyop by #maga and #geopolitical #trollfarm to incapacitate your #vote
do not fall for it!
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 00:10:04 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
"#AntiVaxx Mom Whose Daughter Died From #Measles Says Disease 'Wasn't That Bad'"
This is the weight of prideful #ignorance
People for whom the death of their child is not as painful as saying "I was wrong" or "I didn't know" or "I'm sorry"
It is weighing on society as well
This will be the death of us
From #climateChange to #bigotry to #cult obedience leading to #fascism
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Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 22:27:00 JST Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆ
now #Turkey
Our turn #USA
#Istanbul's mayor #EkremImamoglu was detained. #socialMedia was blocked
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