Ben Stephens
@stephens_ben
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Writer/editor. US/UK. He/him. Born at 331ppm of CO2. Still hanging in there with Twitter, but definitely keeping a clear eye on the exits at all times.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2009
We live in this vital, and narrowing, window of time where (a) we clearly understand the full scope of what we are doing to the planet and see what its consequences will be, and (b) there is still time to do something about it. Get to work. #ExtinctionRebellion
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Like, if I had made this meme, I would have spelled haberdasher correctly.
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Me, contemplating the fact that Trump and ChatGPT are pretty rapidly eliminating all the jobs to which I could apply my 20+ years of professional writing experience.
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The January fires in Los Angeles were basically this on a huge scale.
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The ramifications of this kind of shit are going to be absolutely catastrophic, and not just for higher education.
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Meanwhile Trump's like
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RT @LibyaLiberty: I know you’re saturated, you’ve seen it all, you’ve reposted without watching or reading because it hurts too much. But t….
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Misread as Bill Burr.
@vbbernard @JasonBassler1 @Purple2Bluish @opusdei @AGPamBondi @FBIDirectorKash @Lets_Play_MEOW @JamesFLoveIV @baddogs4343 @BaddCompani @homma2x @TPower2020 @PressSec @karolcummins Bill Barr was part of the Law Firm in Florida that got Epstein the *Sweetheart Deal. & Opus Dei, plus he handled Epstein's case in 2019 as AG.
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RT @greggnunziata: America voted to "drain the swamp" and the White House is celebrating how it's extracting billions from Americans by tar….
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RT @MikeDrucker: Holy crap. The Naked Gun is easily one of my favorite films of the year. It just machine-guns jokes in a way that I missed….
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“I am not afraid of the world. But I am afraid of people who are afraid of the world.”.- Elizabeth Gilbert
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"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.".- Orwell, 1984.
Erasing history. Another characteristic of autocrats and dictators.
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It's a style they're calling Oligarch Kitsch.
Trump's new White House ballroom will be every bit as elegant as his penthouse
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(Which is not at all the same as it being ‘true’, of course.).
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Before modern medicine, a lot of healing practices were heavily faith-based. The placebo effect is real and powerful — many 'cynics' would have just died. We are the descendents of the more credulous members of prior populations. Belief has carried over as a survival strategy.
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Just yesterday had the upsetting thought that Tom Waits will die one day.
Acclaimed Experimental theatre director and playwright Robert Wilson has died at 83. Two of his most known works were collaborations with Philip Glass (Einstein on the Beach) and William S. Burroughs and Tom Waits (The Black Rider). #RIPRobertWilson
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