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Posts by Ben Boquist

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has signed a decree establishing Universal Healthcare for all Mexican citizens.

The United States could’ve had this, but people chose economic collapse, cruelty and death instead. I’ll never regret voting for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

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I genuinely, genuinely HATE that "cope" has become a negative word, and a noun at that. What one syllable am I supposed to use now to mean "handle a bad thing in a healthy way by adjusting my frame of mind and making choices that ameliorate the stress of the situation"?

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Christopher Penn wrote:

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

Christopher Penn wrote: Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

A different perspective.
Always helpful.

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This is Daisy. She helped her human make the bed today. Through moral support. 13/10 (IG: daisyneverhelps)

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If nothing else, seeing how very, very NOT alone you are can give hope and courage.

Hope and courage are not luxuries. They are prerequisites to effective action. Cynicism and apathy masquerade as superiority and righteousness when they are anything but.

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Susan Abbott
American artist,
b 1951
Walking Up from the River, n.d.
oil on linen panel
24 × 24 inches

#Americanart

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Black cat caught a snake.
I'll Tread Wherever I Want

Black cat caught a snake. I'll Tread Wherever I Want

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Blaming ChatGPT for your imbecilic decisions is like blaming the fork for your outlet shock.

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Animation from Giacomo's Secret (canceled), dir. Sergio Pablos, The SPA Studios

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This scrolled by on my screen, and it seemed very appropriate to the moment.

#keepcreating

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This article was more sad than funny tbh

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Paul Cheng.
Artista chino, nacido en 1958.
Primera nieve tras la ventana. 2025.
Acrílico sobre lienzo.

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Electric Kettle Study (2020) by American artist Adam Clague (born in 1984).

Oil painting

13 x 10 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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'Interior, Mrs Mounter.' (1917) With its reflective mood, Harold Gilman’s painting suggests a comparison by Scandinavian artists of the time including Hammershøi; Gilman's influence came from visiting an exhibition of Danish painting at the Guildhall Art Gallery in early 1907.

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Aleksandr Golovin. Retrato M.A.Kuzmina, 1910

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Just getting ready to move apartments and these feel like the aesthetic I want to cultivate at the new place

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I saw the LA production last year. It was fun

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Cat people what up with the word scritches? Every time I read it it claws at my consciousness like a thing that should not exist. The cat pics are mad cute. But scritches?! Idk why but I hate it

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The two most universally powerful, life-changing skills you can learn are:

1) How to enjoy things.
2) How to endure what you cannot enjoy.

If you master those, there is nothing else you cannot learn or do.

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Beautiful mural in Glasgow, one of many, but this is my favourite 😍

#mural #city #streetphotography #Scotland #fyp

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City nights #oilpainting #art

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This is beautiful. Can I buy a print of it somewhere?

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The most common age for a Black person in the USA, is ~27 years old.

The most common age for a white person in the USA, is ~58 years old.

Old people need more healthcare.

So you would think that white people in the US would prefer policies that lead to more nurses and providers?

But no.🤷🏿‍♂️

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i think what people are really circling around in this particular slapfight is two visions of how resistance works

1: we're going to out-tactics the government and create a secure organization that defeats them on the field

2: we're going to create spectacle which mobilizes the masses

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4 horsemen of the apocalypse astride horses in bright yellow, purple, red and green robes explaining to two kids “the whole apocalypse thing got a bit too depressing so we’ve reinvented ourselves as the four horsemen of working together to get us all out of the mess that we’re in”. Their banners say “hope, justice, empathy and just basically not being a dick”.

4 horsemen of the apocalypse astride horses in bright yellow, purple, red and green robes explaining to two kids “the whole apocalypse thing got a bit too depressing so we’ve reinvented ourselves as the four horsemen of working together to get us all out of the mess that we’re in”. Their banners say “hope, justice, empathy and just basically not being a dick”.

Fiona Katauskas’ cartoon for the guardian.

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I feel this! I teach art to kids and they love anime, which I’ve always hated. The narrow range of facial expressions, the copy paste oversized eyes. It’s like a series of symbols that stand in for character and flatten creative choices. But they’re so beloved I feel like a jerk.

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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

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With these algorithms incentivizing rage bait and conspiracies though, it feels like not a fair fight in the market of ideas. I know so many people who got radicalized by algorithms. Anyway, thanks for reading all this. It’s been fun to think through this today 2/2

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