First2Go

First2Go

@bbenston.bsky.social

Bitter, angry drunk living in the Boston burbs. Former software engineer, former HS ELA/Social Studies teacher, currently an after-school coordinator. Extreme boardgaming nerd. "Woke pornographer". Play a mean classical piano - looking for collabs!

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First2Go
@bbenston.bsky.social

EDMUND To both these sisters have I sworn my love, Each jealous of the other as the stung Are of the adder. Which of them shall I fuck? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed If both remain alive. ...for my state Stands on me to defend, not to debate.

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social

Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.

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The Rude Pundit
@rudepundit.bsky.social

Hey, Gen Z and others, that anxiety you’re feeling about AI or the climate crisis destroying humanity? That’s how us Gen Xers felt about nuclear war. Sorry you’re having to deal with that. For us, it’s like “Hey, there’s the nonstop existential dread I grew up with. I forgot how much this sucks.”

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victoria scott
@victoriascott.bsky.social

As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections

First2Go
@bbenston.bsky.social

Downgrade a movie: Blade Walker Star Trek II: The Annoyance of Khan The Dark Squire The Itch Locker The Moderately Positive, the Slightly Negative and the Visually Unpleasant

Joshua Holland@joshuaholland.bsky.social

Downgrade a movie: Star Police Actions

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@bbenston.bsky.social

Amazing thread. I remember studying Betamax in school and really recognizing that decision for its importance. Hope is on the horizon for our segmented, enshittified age. Really!

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

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@bbenston.bsky.social

Name the best place you've only eaten at once. I'll give you 2: Rudy's BBQ in Austin. Rudy's is the real deal, with a cutter cam. - KASAFOOD 10 Hàng Da, Hanoi, Vietnam. A slight pall of cigarettes in the air, but I was at a long communal table with my wife, locals, and the best pho in my life.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social

Name the best place you’ve only eaten at once.

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@bbenston.bsky.social

Fuck that bitch runnin'. Only concern is that it'd give her more attention.

Boo-sty Shackleford@ginerso.bsky.social

I’m not a fighter but by god, I would throw hands and feet at Nancy Mace. Just BOGO fists in a Waffle House parking lot. She’s a sleep paralysis demon and I’m a chronic insomniac cis woman that’s tired of her hurting people in the name of women.

First2Go
@bbenston.bsky.social

In the addiction cautionary tale that this movie would be, I'd be the toxic friend always coming around with coffee, giant mugs, gift bags of artisanal stuff, triggering people with the sound of an espresso machine from Italy, etc

Boo-sty Shackleford@ginerso.bsky.social

I’ve spent a couple weeks getting the 12oz coffee instead of automatically getting the 24oz, to try and cut back on caffeine. Thus far the main thing I’ve noticed is that it sucks and I hate it.

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David Dayen
@ddayen.bsky.social

The Freedom Fuel stations were put together by a pair of serial grifters who stole $667,000 worth of gas from a distributor five years ago, a private credit sponsor, and an energy trader tied up in multiple Trump schemes and profiting heavily off the war in Iran. prospect.org/2026/07/20/k...

prospect.orgThe Kleptocrat Nesting Dolls Behind Trump’s Potemkin Gas Stations - The American ProspectHow can Freedom Fuel afford to sell gas for $3.47 a gallon? That’s the wrong question to ask.

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Ben Collins
@bencollins.bsky.social

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.