Benjamin Hendricks

@hndrcks
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Director of IT at a large-ish nonprofit in Washngton DC Metro area. Try to be a competitive runner, but only achieve bare competency
Out on yet another stretch of the #Parenzana 🇮🇹🇸🇮🇭🇷 hiking and cycling trail: today the section between the #Istria|n hilltop towns of #Buje and #Grožnjan. Some vestiges of the old railway line infrastructure are still visible, like the platform edge of #Triban station.

I am very, very worried for what the post-2024 United States will look like.

The GOP is a fully fascist party at this point.

If they win big, there aren't enough constitutional safeguards in the world to contain them.

This shitposter account I follow sums Twitter up so perfectly using this post from @briannawu (on Twitter)
Pull quote:

“reasonable people are vastly outnumbered on Twitter and quite literally algorithmically suppressed in the name of "engagement" even bringing up this topic is basically just firing off a flare gun so the most terminally online people you have ever imagined can zero right in on you”

I bring it up cos I’m curious to see if Open Social web can avoid this.

I’ve been thinking about a way to explain to non-Black folx why what has been happening on Bluesky [and has happened here] related to anti-Blackness is not only harmful to us but ALSO a warning for you & the only thing I can come up with is what I’ve ALWAYS said…the path to targeting “others” BEGINS with anti-Blackness

Went out to the Paladin in Stephens City, VA tonight for dessert and drinks, to see our friend Brian Stutzman play, and to help raise money for suicide awareness.

Had the apple pie with vanilla ice cream, and a caramel macchiato stout.

we the nerd community need to get together and figure out the Rosetta Stone of jailbreaking TV operating systems so we can wipe them and replace them with *literally anything* but what the TV companies put on them
The sun's activity over the past 28 days. #sun #sunspots #science
Folks from BlackFedi have taught me a lot about community safety—and have popped some myths that I’ve long believed.

For one thing, it’s not enough to offer an alternative to an oppressive place on social media because, as oppressive as I may believe a space may be (e.g., Twitter), if there’s not an easy-to-understand way for the community to collectively navigate for safety, you’re not really offering an alternative.

This is something I’ve heard
@mekkaokereke talk about more than once, and it really resonates with me.
My phone started ringing and my first thought was about people having the fucking audacity
Winning an anti-SLAPP is very satisfying.