Benjamin

Benjamin

@schmenjamin.com

Writer with many years of experience doing anything else. Software developer working on a game engine for digital tabletop games. Father to 4 cats. I love my wife. He/Him

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Sheeran avoided politics like Oedipus avoided marrying his mother

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Man, it's a good thing Ed Sheeran decided to steer clear of politics, that worked out well for him

One week until Slow Horses and of course the only marketing I’ve seen is a paid post on Reddit that’s appeared in my feed exactly once

La Luz does a fantastic cover of Time of the Season

The Ken In Yellow@kenlowery.bsky.social

Favorite cover you saw live? Top of mind for me is FIDLAR *opening* their show with a ribcage-rattling cover of Beastie Boys's "Sabotage." Talk about One Weird Trick to make a crowd high-energy from the jump Recently: NIN covering "I'm Afraid of Americans"

Hell yeah Raffi

Raffi_RC@raffic.bsky.social

dying while in office not enough. prison is what his heinous crimes warrant. the nation will need a tribunal to hold him and his maga GOP accountable for contempt of democracy, for undermining the constitution they swore to uphold. and, at long last, the #epstein survivors will deserve justice.

Every watermelon I have purchased this summer (8 maybe?) has been bad. I have not had a good watermelon since 2025. I am cursed

I thought I knew how to pick them. I even do that thing where you hold it up to your ear and slap it while you make a face that looks like you know what you’re listening for

So the NY Times had no push notification on the Iranian missile attack that Trump is raging about, but they’ve sent 2 about Fauci that frame him as scandalized.

I was very fortunate to take a historiography course with Professor Greble during the brief period she taught at @ccnyhistory.bsky.social. It was the most valuable class I took in college, and it’s a joy to stumble upon her work on here.

Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social

New on advance access: "Displaced women, law and competing patriarchies in late Ottoman Serbia" by Emily Greble (@vanderbilt.edu) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

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Shakira's hips cannot lie. Bieber's hips cannot tell the truth. You get to ask them one question to figure out which chalice contains the poison.

Jean Shorts

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

Thank you @nytimes.com for your very important push notification about a Democratic politician's 86 year old husband's history of traffic violations. I am confident you will dedicate just as much time and energy to informing us of the crimes and corruption of this administration

He 100% had a physical where his testosterone level came back on the low end (which is normal for his age!) and that triggered a personal crisis that we all have to suffer through.

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social

Hegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting

“Someone’s personal crisis that we all have to suffer through” pretty much defines what it’s like to be alive on Earth right now

I love that gameplay is continuous, football and baseball games on tv these days can often feel like brief moments of fun between commercial breaks