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benwritesthings.bsky.social
writer, historian, bad gay, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social’s boyfriend BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022) FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2026) www.benwritesthings.com www.badgayspod.com
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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day.

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“some of y’all… and it shows” coming home to roost

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Happy Weird Vibes Pride Month ™️

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the best to ever do it

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ah yes the famous tax scandals CumEx and CumCum

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the people posing for family photographs at public lynchings in the American South would like a word with you

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The Guardian has an infinite repository of ladies called names like Arabella or Helena with big London houses that will say something reactionary about transpeople under a thin veneer of leftist feminism.

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How profoundly embarrassing for James Wolcott to have this prim homophobia on the public record

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Good morning to everyone except the two men in my train compartment who did a two man comedy routine of waking up, taking things out of many plastic zippered bags, putting them back in the plastic zippered bags, and having a conversation about it. At 6:30 in the morning.

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The absolutely cooked opinions of some on the left. Honestly.

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idly remembering “being on a budget is diet culture” for no particular reason bsky.app/profile/benw...

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just heard a lefty podcast claim that any scientific study examining diabetes, heart disease or other medical conditions “associated with” poor or fat people is automatically suspect and like - No;

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just a reminder that the dem who ran this campaign unseated a 3x gop incumbent who had never won by less than double digits

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KING

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"I was fortunate that when I wrote The Joy of Gay Sex I collaborated with Dr Charles Silverstein because I think if I wrote it alone it would have been called The Tragedy of Gay Sex. He brought in the warm, cuddly part." RIP Edmund White

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especially the ones who have recently done magazine spreads about their large lovely homes

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the authors doing hinge app literary spon con

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What more can you say

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feeding the republicans delicious lunch in order to … ….. ……… ……………

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Death threats. Islamophobic bigotry. Now a sitting Councilmember calling for my deportation. Enough. This is what Trump and his sycophants have wrought. It’s an assault on the values of our city and our Constitution. Will Cuomo condemn this or will that upset his MAGA donors?

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The radical critique would be “fuck the corporate fair weather friends let’s do without”—and nothing about a club night precludes that critique :)

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hey this guy could be governor of New Jersey instead of a do nothing congressperson

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welcome to Weird Vibes Pride Month™️

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Drag Name: Keisha Lance Bottoms

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j'dead youtu.be/rzxHeSKT2iA

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real

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Come picnic with us in Tempelhofer Feld on June 18th! All are welcome. For the exact location and more information, check out this link: buff.ly/mGSwbGv

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is this “good”

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Rich liberals wouldn’t want to be told that they “voted for” the carpet bombing of Gaza. But they don’t want to be held to the standard to which they’re holding minimum wage waitresses organizing to defend their deported friend and colleague.

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it’s @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social or $19.4 million in your taxpayer money used to attack suburban sex pest Andrew Cuomo’s victims

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Inside Cuomo’s State-Funded Legal War Against the Women Who Accused Him of Sexual Harassment. $19.4 million. That’s how much taxpayers have spent so far to defend Andrew Cuomo and his staff in three lawsuits brought by women who were sexually harassed by Cuomo. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/02/c...

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how much money was spent on the “Brain City Berlin” campaign vs how much could literally support research like this

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in other industries this would be called 'fraud'

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ATTENTION #historians of #historysky: there is a slate of candidates running in the @historians.org elections (voting open til July 15!) to replace our quisling leadership and meet the moment head on. They have earned your vote. They earned mine.

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Streamo, Flunki, Pibmow, Neepee and Skunt

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the extent to which we are getting our asses kicked should inspire a lot more reflection and a lot less confident and self-righteous minoritarianism

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