Ensign Benson

Berkeley mom, maven extraordinaire, and generally inappropriate person.

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@mattyglesias as a Northern California resident I am so, so hungry for your LA trashing tweets. Bring them on!

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@berkeleyside That map says “Grove St.” on it. You sure it was revised in 1995?

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@omni_american @mattyglesias I’m a math teacher and I’m actually totally down with this. I actually made up a problem for my students based on what I imagined bee math would be like. It’s in base 6 and is represented by hexagons in various orientations. It was a lot of fun!

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@glowballist @mattyglesias Yeah especially the ‘mathmatx’ thing, which is not actually important but so, so distasteful.

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Is Milvia St. named after a white supremacist or anything like that? If so, we will need to rename it, and I want to suggest we just start calling it “The Blue Street”

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@BerkeleyScanner Pretty low stakes, but have you noticed or heard anything about green/gray paint on streets throughout north Berkeley? Each spot looks like a spill (footprints and tire tracks through it) but seeing it all over.

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@BerkeleyScanner @cliffwilliams @CityofBerkeley It's still really bad and I don't think the rain is likely to clean it up. It looks like it started in front of the Au Coquelet construction site - I can easily imagine a dumpster from the construction or Ace Hardware having paint in it and everything unfolding from there.

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@BerkeleyScanner @cliffwilliams @CityofBerkeley I'm seriously obsessed with this. I'm even experiencing some anxiety that we'll never know what happened 😂

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Happy birthday, @PeteButtigieg! You still have 687 days to become the youngest President in US history. You wont make it in time by winning in ‘24, but it can happen if 13 very specific people die within that time. I’m not saying I hope that happens, but it is a fact.

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@BerkeleyScanner Hero.

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@BerkeleyScanner I rode my bike on Milvia from North Berkeley to downtown and there was what looked like blue paint all spilled over the road, plus up and down several side streets. Any idea what happened? It was too widespread to look like a simple paint spill.

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@BerkeleyScanner @Frannydink I was on a run recently and needed to pee. I went by Cedar Rose park to do so, but when I got there, the building was also off limits to the public and I had to beg a staff member to let me in, which she did. There did not appear to be another option (may have missed it).

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@alfred_twu I’m all for getting rid of them, but could we also consider introducing a population of koalas into the hills so something in the eco system would benefit from them? It would be so cute.

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@CityofBerkeley I ride it to work every day. It’s incredible!!

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@mattyglesias Awwww that’s just how I self identified when I read this yesterday. No wonder I am such a Slow Boring fan

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@mattyglesias Although I also have to admit that I made my husband watch Clueless recently because I couldn’t believe he never saw it.

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@mattyglesias I’m a huge scifi nerd and female and I haven’t seen Blade Runner because I read the book and got big misogynistic vibes from it. If I was dating someone who wanted me to watch that move I would consider it a big red flag. Good advice Matt!

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@mattyglesias Haha, I got it for Mothers Day. So sorry, that bites!!!!!