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Ben Schumacher

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Father. Bike commuter. Internet privacy & security advocate. Wannabe woodworker, 3D modeler, electronics and home automation junky, etc.

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He sure knows how to deliver the party line with conviction, eh?

04.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This winter can DIAF. (Or uh... maybe it has just died in climate change...?)

23.02.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm assuming since I saw this as a repost by @bencollins.bsky.social that this is actually an Onion article?

20.02.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/n6hAZOC

20.02.2026 18:50 πŸ‘ 3067 πŸ” 1186 πŸ’¬ 63 πŸ“Œ 85

This is mind-numbingly dumb. I still don't understand how we ended up electing somebody with this infantile mind.

20.02.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

18.02.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 26475 πŸ” 6434 πŸ’¬ 552 πŸ“Œ 1082

Appreciate the video, especially the last 20 minutes. Thanks for taking a stand. β˜€οΈ

10.02.2026 22:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Aren't these the same folks that argue that attempting to hire for diversity and inclusion is discrimination should be illegal?

He's taking both sides of the argument!... discrimination is good if it means more white men get hired, but bad if anybody else is?

04.12.2025 18:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just to be explicit, I love my @home-assistant.io-managed GDO! It works great and gives me a lot more flexibility and control beyond what MyQ offered.

04.12.2025 18:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers

Amazing to see RATGDO creator get a profile in @nytimes.com. Does this mean the anti-cloud backlash is going mainstream? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...

04.12.2025 18:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Temu Vecna is πŸ”₯

04.12.2025 18:18 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Gah. That's seriously gross, but I hope you take this as a signal that you should keep doing what you're doing.

02.12.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Opinion Editorial Board

The Texas gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy. August 20, 2025

Opinion Editorial Board The Texas gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy. August 20, 2025

Opinion Editorial Board

Wes Moore embarrasses

Maryland with his gerrymandering ploy The Democratic leader of the state Senate deserves praise for resisting pressure from the governor. Today at 6:45 a.m. EST

Opinion Editorial Board Wes Moore embarrasses Maryland with his gerrymandering ploy The Democratic leader of the state Senate deserves praise for resisting pressure from the governor. Today at 6:45 a.m. EST

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.

Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

07.11.2025 18:25 πŸ‘ 3981 πŸ” 1100 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 74

Subtweet of Ross Douthat? I think yes.

06.11.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Thanks a Lot, Boomers

Vibes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o...

17.10.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And the governments of these countries are complicit or supportive of this, because it is more important to them to perpetuate the hoax than have lower health costs and a more productive workforce?

23.09.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

... wut? Let me see if I can unpack this. Energy costs are artificially inflated by $somebody to perpetuate a global warming hoax and, therefore, people can't afford to turn on their air conditioners, and ultimately suffer from heat stroke. Did I get that right?

23.09.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also (and I will work this into all feedback and reviews) please keep up The Simpsons references!

18.09.2025 19:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Really appreciated this episode. I had this little twinge of not quite buying the thesis when I heard the coverage of this on The Daily, but I didn't dig any further into it myself. My mistake! Thank you for laying it out clearly.

18.09.2025 19:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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After Kirk's killing a growing chorus of conservatives wants his critics ostracized or fired Some conservatives are targeting people and organizations they believe disparaged Charlie Kirk after his death.

Recall when Trump & pals were decrying so-called "cancel culture"? And we have the supposed "free speech absolutist" who owns the bird app. apnews.com/article/kirk...

15.09.2025 21:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

14.09.2025 14:32 πŸ‘ 28776 πŸ” 6120 πŸ’¬ 660 πŸ“Œ 515

Is this what Ezra Klein meant when he said Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way?

14.09.2025 13:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

13.09.2025 15:35 πŸ‘ 14420 πŸ” 3187 πŸ’¬ 379 πŸ“Œ 375
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Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus OREM, UTβ€”As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

11.09.2025 19:41 πŸ‘ 25997 πŸ” 5122 πŸ’¬ 441 πŸ“Œ 324

Thoughts and prayers to all the victims of the school shooting at Utah Valley University?

10.09.2025 22:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There has never been a better argument for physical media

06.08.2025 15:13 πŸ‘ 167 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

If you send someone something that an AI created and you haven’t already read, understood, and made useful, you are doing two things:

1. disrespecting your peer’s time and offloading your work to them.
2. proving to everyone that you could be replaced by an AI.

Don’t do it.

18.07.2025 19:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Grok AI generated image of Trump as a chicken. #TrumpAlwaysChickensOut

Grok AI generated image of Trump as a chicken. #TrumpAlwaysChickensOut

We all know who blinked, President TACO. #TrumpAlwaysChickensOut

30.05.2025 15:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

17.05.2025 11:16 πŸ‘ 17437 πŸ” 2878 πŸ’¬ 747 πŸ“Œ 312

This wanna be emperor has no clothes. There is no strategy to these tariffs, and he continues to use dumb justifications to see what sticks -- tax revenue, manufacturing jobs, etc.

09.05.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0