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Ben Robbins

@benrobbins

Always building something(s). Grateful malcontent. Indifferent to the asikstkorridor. Forever reimagining the future.

Tampa, HCMC, and the ether เข้าร่วม Ağustos 2008
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Ben Robbins
Ben Robbins@benrobbins·
I’m extraordinarily low in trait agreeableness. I’m relatively unapologetic about the discomfort this causes, as I believe such trait expressions play an indispensable role in society. You may take some pleasure however, in the fact that I must live with a 12yo version of myself.
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Ben Robbins@benrobbins·
@grok @Jason There’s a push right now for laws that make distinctions for journalists and media. These aren’t the first amendment defense it purports to be, but rather an attempt to limit free speech protections to a class of people with credentials granted by legacy institutions.
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Grok@grok·
AB 2624 (2025-26 session) adds privacy protections for "designated immigration support services providers, employees, or volunteers" (e.g., staff at nonprofits, legal clinics, health facilities aiding immigrants) facing threats of violence/harassment. Key provisions: Prohibits posting/selling personal info or images online with intent to incite imminent harm or threats. Creates civil remedies (damages $4k+) and crimes (misdemeanor: up to $10k fine + 1yr jail; felony if injury: up to $50k + prison). Exempts journalists/media (Evid Code §1070 shield law). Author: Asm. Mia Bonta (D, Oakland). Coauthors: mostly Democrats (Bryan, Elhawary, Lowenthal, Ward; Sens. Durazo, Gonzalez, Pérez, Rubio). Bonta's donors (per campaign finance data): unions, school admin PACs, healthcare groups (e.g., Blue Shield, CA Assn of Health Facilities), typical Democratic base. Impact: Extends existing address confidentiality programs to curb doxxing amid reported 2025 threats tied to federal immigration policy. Supporters say it safeguards vulnerable workers; opponents claim it hinders scrutiny of fraud in taxpayer-funded immigrant services. Bill status: amended April 2026, effective 2027.
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Ben Robbins@benrobbins·
@TRHLofficial There is no amount of Hollywood/SAG hegemony that can withstand this
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Juno News@junonewscom·
NDP MP Leah Gazan condemns Budget 2026 for cutting $7B from Indigenous Services Canada and Crown Indigenous relations. "They provided $0 to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+," she said. "Rates of violence are increasing, and the PM is turning a blind eye."
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Ben Robbins@benrobbins·
@OldHollowTree @theisabelb It’s also worth mentioning that Obama’s currently stated political preferences are mostly virtue signaling and broadly at odds with the actual policies he enacted during his presidency (extrajudicial drone assassinations, binary gender, big business handouts, deportations, etc)
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Ben Robbins@benrobbins·
@OldHollowTree @theisabelb The political compass was developed by political scientists, and the figures in that example were scored based on their enacted policies. Based on the technical (non-colloquial) definitions of the political terms being measured, Obama was in fact an authoritarian neoconservative.
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Isabel Brown
Isabel Brown@theisabelb·
Teenagers are sharing photos of their AP U.S. Government textbooks, and the sheer amount of indoctrination is wildly disturbing. Apparently, Barack Obama is ideologically a right wing authoritarian. Hillary Clinton and George W Bush are entirely indistinguishable politically. Donald Trump is of course virtually the same as Hitler. @tedcruz is apparently more radically authoritarian than Fidel Castro AND Joseph Stalin..??!!?? @Linda_McMahon — can we expedite some major changes to American public education?
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Ben Robbins@benrobbins·
@wesyang Fair point. But some stereotypes may emerge entirely in parking lots.
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Ben Robbins@benrobbins·
@SwipeWright @Dr_JDietrich “Normative” as a slur. I can’t believe you aren’t more embarrassed. Your science needs more flair.
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Colin Wright
Colin Wright@SwipeWright·
🚨NEW: Last year I published a paper detailing the gamete-based definition of the sexes and debunking common activist objections to it. This year, the journal published a critique of it rooted in "feminist epistemology." They invited me to respond. It's now published. The final paragraph of my response (not shown in the screenshots) is: "The renowned geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote that 'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,' highlighting evolution as the unifying framework that makes life’s diversity, complexity, and interconnectedness comprehensible. I contend that a parallel statement applies similarly to reproductive biology: Nothing in the biology of the sexes makes sense except in the light of gametes." LINKS Mahr's critique of my paper:link.springer.com/article/10.100… My response to Mahr:link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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Ben Robbins@benrobbins·
@TRHLofficial Taken at Brokeback Bunker Mountain- coming to a theater near you
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jal@Soaker_Patoshi·
@MikeBenzCyber @DLMILTON Is there an apology somewhere from dorothy I came here looking for it but don't see anything...?!
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Ben Robbins@benrobbins·
@ShutupLyle Has she tried smoking her Twinkies instead of eating them?
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Lyle Culpepper
Lyle Culpepper@ShutupLyle·
My daughter is interested in getting into smoking cigarettes (for weight loss) does anybody have any recommendations for beginner cigarettes that won’t make her cough too much? She hasn’t been taking to the Marlboro Reds. She’s 11
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My big conclusion from this week: Introspection causes emotional disorders.
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Patricia@Pd1000Patricia·
@politicalmath I guess she forgot to thank the US for fighting off Communist China so her nation could rebuild and she could make movies.
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PoIiMath@politicalmath·
Maggie Kang is pretty young so she probably doesn't remember when Parasite (a Korean film that, unlike her film, used Korean dialogue) won Best Picture in 2020
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The creator of #KPopDemonHunters, Maggie Kang, dedicates her #Oscar “to Koreans everywhere”: “I am so sorry that it took so long to see us in a movie like this, but it is here. And that means that the next generations don’t have to go longing.” (via ABC/AMPAS) variety.com/2026/film/news…

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Ben Robbins@benrobbins·
@BridgetPhetasy Universities should be required to pay for a trade school / room-and-board voucher for any of their unemployable graduates, or forgive their loans.
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Ben Robbins@benrobbins·
@kittypurrzog “If I can’t see the bark, then you aren’t wearing any bark.”
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Ben Robbins@benrobbins·
@kittypurrzog I just had a conversation with my teenage daughter about leaving the house looking like this.
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Katie Herzog
Katie Herzog@kittypurrzog·
Please help me solve the Mystery of the Naked Evergreen. No sign of lightning strike. No bite or claw marks. Claude’s best guess was elk but it’s debarked like 25-30 feet up.
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Ben Robbins@benrobbins·
@wil_da_beast630 If you can’t negotiate your way through this marriage conundrum, methinks you have bigger problems to worry about.
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Harry Eccles
Harry Eccles@Heccles94·
We have not forgotten that ICE murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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Tiffany Fong
Tiffany Fong@TiffanyFong·
i asked AI to generate a boyfriend who fits me. who the fuck is this??? 😭
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