Ben Harris

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Resident of the 51st State via Ohio. Lover of 🌶️ 🎸 and 🐕.

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I know this is sweeping water into the ocean, but I think a lot of people would be a whole lot better off if they simply acknowledged that *nobody* knows what will happen in November. People who live and die with every poll and breaking news alert…how are you affording your blood pressure meds?

It’s remarkable how poorly our political media are performing in this moment. The assassination attempt of course does nothing of this sort.

President Joe Biden had just begun to turn the tables in his reelection bid when the attempt on Donald Trump’s life took away his most powerful tool: drawing attention to his opponent’s behavior and second-term agenda

Trump Shooting Changes Biden’s Strategy to Revive 2024 Campaignwww.bloomberg.com President Joe Biden had just begun to turn the tables in his reelection bid when the attempt on Donald Trump’s life took away his most powerful tool: drawing attention to his opponent’s behavior and s...

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All the calls for “everyone” to “cool down the rhetoric” etc feel like how families so often put the burden of keeping the peace on the family members who are already working hardest at that, since the difficult/abusive folks are unfixable/cannot be reasoned with.

My brother with a good take on todays events:

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bluesky tomorrow morning:

We’re all here voluntarily. Nobody owes anyone else their time or attention.

"I was blocked just for personally criticizing them!" LOL of course you were, any account with a substantial amount of interaction will become unusable if they don't aggressively remove people who look like they might be trolls, and you went out of your way to look like one.

Big old gigantic CITATION NEEDED for this:

I took the WaPo’s AI chatbot for a spin. Went about as well as expected.

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He’s doing better than the debate, but I don’t think it matters. These questions make clear that the narrative has been written. We can’t have four months of this. I think I’m ready to move on to Harris.

Repair guy: “Ok, flip the power back on.” Me: BUZZES, SPARKS And I think that’s how our dishwasher just died.

Well I leaned over and my sunglasses fell off and went down a storm drain and if that isn’t just the cherry on this shit sundae of a day…

I broke my leg on a hike and was temporarily disabled for several months and the experience absolutely sucked. I wish people didn’t need to experience a condition firsthand in order to empathize with it.

Because, again: Disability is the only minority anyone can join at any time, & which everyone will join, if they're lucky enough to live that long. A disease, a quirk of genetics, a bus, a bad fall from a curb. Anything. And the only thing we have that could consistently make this fact survivable…

New morning ritual

We made a carrot and goat cheese tart tonight. ‘Twas good!

For anyone wondering: we spent the entire month of July in New Mexico last year, and the heat index never approached 111. F*** humidity.

This sucks.

Pretty nice sunset

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Solve your housing affordability crisis with this one weird trick

Morning coffee with a view

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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

It’s wine o’clock.

Good morning!

Happy 4th, everyone. Here’s hoping we make it another year.

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

Not at all the point of this I know, but it’s amusing to me that “Georgetown East” and “GWU” are listed as neighborhoods while Dupont and Shaw aren’t.

The DC Water and Sewer Authority has just issued a Boil Water Advisory for all customers in DC www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wat...

Ah, Christ.

Thought of the Day: It’s been 15 years—nearly a third of the system’s entire existence—since Metro trains ran in automatic mode.

Something I loathe is how the booking of any mundane medical appt sets off an endless torrent of calls, texts and emails. -Please check in -Please confirm your check in -Please provide your entire medical history which we already have -Please check in again -How did we do? -No really how’d we do?