Ben Saufley

@bensaufley

software engineer and illustrator. soccer fan: #USMNT, #USWNT, #NWSLBoston, Portland #UpTheHearts, QPR, Serbia, Zvezda. anti-racist. anti-terf

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Ben Saufley@bensaufley· 24d

credit @averyedison.com

@aedison on X (March 2023)

I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· 24d

It seems like so many people all around me are absolutely loving the Dungeon Crawler Carl series but every new thing I hear about it makes it seem less appealing than before. Right off the bat, this sounds *insufferable*.

Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1) - Goodreads
Dungeon Crawler Carl is about Carl and Donut, his ex-girlfriend's cat, who are plunged into a sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible.

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· 26d

journalists on X

Garfield looking at Garfield meme that says "YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA":
"Huh. I wonder who that's for."

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jul 13

Noteworthy that not just the Bernie-backed progressive but the DSA-opposed "centrist" are calling for ICE to be dismantled #mepolitics

Jackson, Shah call for ICE to be dismantled

Senate candidates Troy Jackson and Nirav Shah said they support abolishing federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement while attending a protest in Biddeford.

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jul 11

TheStoryGraph reading challenge: "A Young Adult Novel by a Latinx Author". Second book added by users: Book 2 of Southern Reach by Jeff VanderMeer. Why even do the reading challenge if you're just gonna put whatever?

a young adult novel by a Latinx author

Authority by Jeff VanderMeer

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jul 9

Wild that a publication that is constantly stirring up old Red Scare stuff about the left-wing candidates winning all over would argue that the Democratic Party is not "litigat[ing] what the party actually believes" this cycle.

But a big tent is worth pitching only if something is argued inside it, and that is precisely what this midterm cycle has lacked. Handed the chance to litigate what the party actually believes, Democrats have mostly declined.

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jul 8

A lot of the commentary here may be missing that Serrano set the "passing" number to 40 for the test. I think that's not the main focus of the discussion here but it's notable. S22 passed, for example.

In a follow-up message to students, Serrano announced the midterm was void and the final exam would be worth 80 percent of the students’ final grade. Any student that scored a 40 percent or higher on the final earned a passing grade—previously, he set the passing line at 50 percent or higher. In total, 19 students failed the class.

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jul 7

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jul 7

Screencapping because I'm not trying to dunk on the author but it is fascinating to me that the person appears to think the latter statement doesn't sound absolutely bloodcurdling

Do you think that what she said was a warning? That's not how I read it, it's so ambivalent.

"No, he's not safe."

vs

He's charming, smart, and funny and sometimes has trouble with consent sometimes

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jul 6

Yeah honestly if I were a Belgian fan I would be piiiiiiiissed, even more so now.

Royal Belgian FA 5h
RBFA STATEMENT UPDATE
Following its previous statement, the RBFA wishes to publicly explain the events of the past few hours.
After learning through media reports of FIFA’s decision to lift the automatic suspension of player Balogun, the RBFA sent a letter to FIFA requesting a copy of the decision, an explanation of the process that had been followed, and setting out its position regarding the applicable regulations.
As its only response, FIFA sent a letter to the RBFA stating that it considered this correspondence to constitute an appeal, that a judge had been appointed, and that the RBFA had only a few hours to complete that appeal. No information whatsoever was provided by FIFA.
For an appeal to be admissible, FIFA’s own regulations state that the reasoned decision must first have been communicated to the appellant. While the RBFA was merely seeking legitimate explanations, FIFA itself created an appeal and immediately ensured that it would be declared inadmissible.
All of this occurred while FIFA simultaneously refused to respond to the RBFA’s legitimate requests.

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jul 5

tbh this feels a bit too advanced

xkcd
caption: Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.

Character 1: Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars.
Character 2: And quartz, of course
Character 1: Of course

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 27

They're calling it "reverse rainbow" I guess

202 points
Hub first +20
Purple first +15
Reverse rainbow +30
Perfect game +35
2-day streak +2

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 26

Absolutely not. Purple was one of the easiest, green was the most obscure???

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Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 20

Ohhh it turns out there's another level to score! - purple first - hub first - hardest to easiest 🟪🟦🟩🟨

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Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 19

Just when you didn't think they could, they invented a new Type of Guy

hating capitalism even though I'm posting on a computer? buddy, I'm hating capitalism even though | like Al

(Seemingly unrelated Leaflet article link)

and, considering that it's Al that wrote that article, we've reached the point where people gotta decide which one of those they hate more.
kinda fucked up that so many people have decided they hate the Al more than they like the prospect of being ever able to retire, but y'all do you l guess

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 18

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 18

I think I've got the hang of this. www.hankgreen.com/fourbythree#...

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Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 15

you couldn't make this today because woke

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, a urinal signed R. Mutt 1917

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 14

I enjoyed Connections but won't play NYT games for obvious reasons so I'm happy to have found this. www.hankgreen.com/fourbythree

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Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 13

Fellow Mainer: literally zero need to use AI to send this message :(

Batman breaks a rifle:
This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 12

I mean I say run with it

90's style blue-and-yellow Wolverine, claws extended, shoulder thingies sticking up prominently

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 11

Not a counterargument at all bc I'm sure that's true but also Luna is an incredibly popular name right now so "otherwise strange" is just wrong www.behindthename.com/name/luna/to...

Luna on BehindTheName:
Popularity spoiled in the US after 2000 and has held steady in the top 20 since 2019

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 10

ppl logging into X, the White Nationalism Everything Site™: "I know Elon actively manipulating this site to promote murderous ideologies, but I'm built different. I'm immune to the effects."

Tobias & Lindsay Bluth on Arrested Development:
Tobias: Well did it work for those people?
No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but…
…it might work for us.

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 2

lol. "Nearly 40% of signature gatherers for Maine trans athlete ballot question were from out of state" themainemonitor.org/out-of-state...

During a hearing at the Maine State House earlier this month, the secretary of state’s office heard testimony from an unlikely source: a man calling in from an unnamed cargo ship somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.

He was joining remotely to answer questions about his work collecting signatures for the “Protect Girls Sports in Maine” citizen initiative, which petitioners are trying to get on the ballot this November.

“That was a first,” said Tim Woodcock, a Bangor-based attorney representing the committee attempting to get the referendum on the ballot, when asked about the transcontinental call.

The witness involved, a man from Georgia, was being questioned about his time in Maine several months prior when he collected signatures for the aspiring ballot question, which would restrict participation in school sports and access to bathrooms and locker rooms based on biological sex. He and several other out-of-state petition circulators have been at…

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· Jun 1

There … there's actually a very clear, direct, and simple way to answer that question. "No." I think he's thinking of the rhetorical hypothetical of "have you stopped [doing that]?" which is hard to answer clearly with "yes" or "no" but still pretty easy to answer

Rosenbaum would not weigh in on the accuracy of Pangram’s results. In fact, he didn’t want to talk about them at all. “I don’t participate in that conversation,” he said. “It’s like saying, do you beat your wife? It’s one of those accusations that there’s no response to.”

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· May 24

The inverse of the meme

Andrew Lawrence
@ndrew_lawrence
Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

Con: LOL no...no not those views

Me: So....deregulation?

Con: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Con: Oh, you know the ones
10:24 AM · Oct 11, 2018

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· May 21

But never mind that Gen X voted in the largest numbers for Trump, they're also just completely insufferable and solipsistic, while loudly proclaiming themselves to be the opposite. "OG stuff, 80's baby stuff" bro Sesame Street started in 1969 and had celebrity guests in 1970

"Sesame street was so much better when it was just a bunch of regular-degular average, majority POC and elderly … not these celebrities and highly polished actors"
*List of celebrities that have been on the show since the beginning*
"I meant like the OG cast, 80's baby stuff"

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· May 18

I really like TypeScript, but sometimes it (and by it, I mean the external libraries that use it) makes you do silly things

const client = typeof options === 'string' ? postgres(options) : postgres(options);

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· May 14

"Seventeen thirty-eight"

Ben Saufley@bensaufley· May 9

Hey @grahamformaine.bsky.social this is stupid. Our reliance on fossil fuels is crippling and destructive and the solution is not incentivizing an increase in its usage while removing a source of federal revenue at a time it's needed