Ben French

College student and all around geek in the worlds of music, movies, and animation.
Very, VERY left leaning

[𝘼𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙪𝙨𝘽𝙤𝙡𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙠 | ☭/𝙖𝙘𝙘 @AmadeusBolshev]

"The left is back to glorifying John Brown

That's important. It shows what they want to do. He rose to fame by butchering settlers suspected of pro-slavery feelings in front of their families"

Holy aura

[alice hamilton @AliceRHamilton]

my homeschool bestie found out she technically didn’t graduate high school during a job interview. they did a background check and discovered the curriculum her parents taught her was not from an accredited school. Christians WANT their kids too stupid to question authority.

[Dev @sleepy_devo]

Yes this is actually good. A democracy survives only when the people who tried to overthrow it are banned from power and punished to the maximum extent of the law.

Cry more cuck, guess you'll need to find your next paycheck from a different foreign government.

[MegalodonVT | Shark Vtuber 🦈🫧💜 @MegalodonVT]

Who’s gonna tell them lol

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

The older i get, the more i realize that someone making time for you is one of the clearest signs they care. Everyone is busy. Everyone has responsibilities and their own battles to fight. So when someone consistently chooses to spend their time with you, checks on you, and makes space for you in their life, it means something. time is one thing we can never get back, and people don't give it away lightly.

[Patrick Robles @robles4theppl]

When Charlie Kirk was killed, people said he was a father taken who didn’t deserve to be murdered for doing what they love etc.

This week, two unarmed, undocumented fathers were killed by ICE

Where’s that same outrage? Does our humanity end at immigration status?

[UltimateAHP @UltimateAHP]

She's just about McHad it
#zentreya

[Ben French @French1991]

@quotetoponder Hi

[Paladin Ashe @PaladinAshe]

I remember reading the novels in like late elementary school to late highschool and thinking Voldemort lacked sauce because his thing is he goes around casting the death spell at people. The books made the biggest deal about how evil he is, even having a gag about a book in the forbidden section of the library about "evil artifacts" puss out and say, "Horcruxes are too evil for even this evil book of evil things" when it's literally just phylacteries. His whole arsenal of awful is limited to, "lmao he uses the death spell...and phylacteries...and and...and he mind controls people? Can you believe that?"

Meanwhile, Umbridge gets two books to be that two-faced prim and propper old biddy from your neighborhood church group and PTA who nobody really likes, not even the priest or the principal, but everybody suffers because she's agonizingly involved in every bodies business, and than it turns out that it's all just a facade. You find out all the grotesque skeletons in her particular closet, all of them stuffed there in pursuit of clout and that there's really no sin or cruelty she wouldn't descend to if she could get away with it and it furthers her image publicly.

I guess you could summarize it this way.

Voldemort is a Saturday morning cartoon villain, written through the eyes of a school teacher who tacks nonsense on without realizing it just adds to the ridiculousness. Like, he's evil because he's a rape baby and therefore can't know love.

Meanwhile, Umbridge was in the Epstein files.

[𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖓𝖎𝖊✨ @Bennieeexyz]

Jury duty letter came addressed to my cat.

Not a mistake. "Felix Martinez" - that's his full name according to his vet records.

My last name. His first name. Somehow he's a registered voter now.

Called the county clerk.

Me: My cat got summoned for jury duty.

Clerk: Is the name correct on the summons?

Me: Yes, but he's a cat.

Clerk: Is Felix Martinez a legal resident of this county?

Me: He's a legal cat.

Clerk: Sir, if the name matches our records, he needs to appear or file an exemption.

Me: He can't file anything. He has paws.

Clerk: You can file on his behalf.

Me: Under what exemption? There's no box for "is a cat."

Clerk: (pause) Check "unable to serve due to medical reasons."

Me: What's the medical reason?

Clerk: He's a cat.

Me: That's not a medical condition.

Clerk: It is if it prevents him from serving.

Sent in the form. Got rejected two weeks later.

"Insufficient documentation. Please provide medical professional's statement."

Took the letter to my vet.

Me: I need you to write that my cat can't do jury duty.

Vet: Why is your cat summoned for jury duty?

Me: Excellent question. No good answer.

Vet: This is the weirdest request I've gotten.

Me: Can you just write that he's medically unfit to serve?

Vet: On what grounds?

Me: He's a cat.

Vet: (started typing) "Patient is unable to serve due to species-related limitations including inability to speak, read, or comprehend legal proceedings."

Me: Perfect.

Sent it in. Got another rejection.

"Summons is mandatory. Failure to appear will result in contempt of court."

My roommate thought this was hilarious.

Roommate: Felix is going to jail.

Me: This is serious.

Roommate: Bring him to court. See what happens.

Decided that was actually the only option left.

Day of jury duty, put Felix in his carrier. Brought the entire paper trail of rejection letters.

Checked in at the courthouse.

Clerk: Name?

Me: Felix Martinez.

Clerk: (looked at the cat carrier) Is that Felix?

Me: Yes.

Clerk: (long stare) He's a cat.

Me: I've been saying that for six weeks.

Clerk: Why didn't you file an exemption?

Me: I filed three. All rejected.

Showed her the letters. She read through them, expression shifting from confusion to disbelief.

Clerk: Someone rejected the veterinary documentation?

Me: Twice.

Clerk: (called her supervisor over) You need to see this.

Supervisor read everything. Looked at Felix. Looked at me.

Supervisor: How did a cat get registered to vote?

Me: You tell me.

Supervisor: This is a data error.

Me: Took you six weeks to figure that out.

They dismissed Felix immediately. Apologized for the inconvenience.

Supervisor: We'll remove him from the voter registry.

Me: Appreciate it.

Supervisor: (pause) Out of curiosity, how would he have voted?

Me: Probably whatever party supports universal treats.

Got a formal apology letter a week later and a voter registration card.

For me this time. Apparently I wasn't registered, but my cat was.

Roommate: Felix committed voter fraud.

Me: Felix committed nothing. He's innocent.

Roommate: That's what they all say.

Felix is sleeping on the jury summons now.

Fitting end to his legal career.

[Ben French @French1991]

@heyshipz Hi Coco

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Mitch McConnell’s legacy will be that he spent his career trying to destroy democracy by leading the fight to let corporations and special interests buy elections, architecting the right-wing rigging of the Supreme Court that overturned Roe, and trying to rip healthcare away from millions.

And he’s probably looking up at us right now smiling about it.

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

“Socialism is the Republican word for anything that helps the people.”

~Harry Truman

[Polly Pocketknife🌸🔪 @polypocketknife]

no more teenagers online. go outside. no you aren’t allowed anywhere outside either. read a book. no not those books. the good book. get home from school and read your bible. quietly. no interaction outside school and church. we wouldn’t want someone indoctrinating you, would we?

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

I’LL SAY IT AGAIN:

If your job requires a college degree, you should be able to write off your student loan payments as a business expense the way CEOs write off their private jets and yachts for their jobs which require neither.

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

My friend’s dad built a business from nothing.

30 years. Blood and sweat. Turned it into something worth $2,000,000.

Sold it in 2019 to a private equity firm.

They gutted it in 18 months.
Cut 40 jobs.
Raised prices 35%.

Eliminated the pension plan he’d built for his employees.
Squeezed every dollar out and sold the carcass.

He calls it the worst decision he ever made.
Said he thought they’d protect what he built.

Private equity doesn’t buy businesses to run them.

They buy them to harvest them.
And they’re doing it to every industry you depend on daily.

[kiesha @kiesha9i]

"Cats don't actually love you"
A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.
Don't you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it's helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.
Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.