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Ryan Benk

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Producer/reporter for NPR's Weekend Edition. Horror, punk, pop-punk or anything by Sturgill Simpson. Lift heavy things. Cats are rad. SAGAFTRA. DC is a real place. https://www.npr.org/people/942414025/ryan-benk

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 10h

At 76, cabaret artist Joey Arias’s resume reads like the movie Big Fish. The tales are almost too tall to believe, but he’s really done them all.

What an honor to help tell this legend's story.

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Joey Arias has plenty of art left to give: 'I want to live to be at least 200 years'

Decades of metamorphosis and drag performer Joey Arias is far from his final form.

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 27m

I was looking for a job and then I found a job and heaven knows I'm miserable now -Karl Marx (1867)

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you! Was such a blast putting it together and getting to know Joey!

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SlashFilm @slashfilm.bsky.social · 9h

Quentin Tarantino's comments about Stephen King's It are a lesson in why parroting the opinions of others about something you've never read is a bad look.

Quentin Tarantino's Stephen King Criticisms Literally Don't Make Sense - SlashFilm

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Bradley George @bradleygeorge.bsky.social · 9h

Promoing during my host shift!

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 9h

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 10h

Joey Arias has plenty of art left to give: 'I want to live to be at least 200 years'

Decades of metamorphosis and drag performer Joey Arias is far from his final form.

www.npr.org

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 22h

Vegan to vampire lover:

I would do anything for love but I won't eat bat

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 1d

Just cause they suck now doesn't mean that classic U2 doesn't still absolutely rip

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 1d

This was my first experience with this darling creature of New York. Tomorrow morning on @npr.org you can listen to my profile of him on Weekend Edition Saturday. 850AM ET! Links will follow to the full radio piece and writeup tomorrow. It's a treat!

Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · Jun 5

The legend, Joey Arias at Barrell House in DC for World Pride

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Tal | TAFCON @starplanes.bsky.social · 10d

For every 10% the show gets funded I'll share a behind the scenes fun fact about Re: Drac/Re: Carm/Re: Frank!

Re: Frankenstein | Re: Dracula | Re: Carmilla @redracula.bsky.social · 10d

Re: Frankenstein is an audio adaptation of Frankenstein from the team behind Re: Dracula and Re: Carmilla. It stars @senabryer.com & @dturtleva.bsky.social and is crowdfunding now! Check it out at igg.me/at/refrank and spread the word!

Re: Frankenstein

An audio drama adaptation of your favorite gothic sci-fi novel, from the team behind Re: Dracula! | Check out 'Re: Frankenstein' on Indiegogo.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 1d

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Patrick LaForge @palafo.bsky.social · 2d

We live in Pynchon’s world www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/m...

Thomas Pynchon Saw Where America Was Headed. What Does He See Now?

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 2d

Some people deserve to be bullied

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

wtaf are you talking about

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 2d

Bless the humble character actor, without whom none of the stories you dearly love would have been nearly as rich or cohesive.

Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 2d

RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.

He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t go around upsetting the KKK, can you

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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Clayton Ashley @claytonashley.bsky.social · 3d

tumblr post by barackinaroundthechristmastree which reads:
please. stop praying for my grandpa!!!! you are making him too strong. he broke out of the hosptial and the cops cant get him. he's too powerful

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Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 4d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 3d

I've been working for the better part of a decade at my favorite national radio network because of people I met on social media (and a lot of hard work ofc)

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I eat like 75 percent vegan these days because the hubby went vegan and he likes to do most of the cooking. He finds some of the most delicious recipes and I always feel good after eating it! Eating out places though, I am likely to get something with some kind of fish or poultry.

The worst person you know @postingposter.bsky.social · 3d

Speaking only for myself, the most important selling point for vegan food in my life is that vegan food is delicious. It's interesting. It's often novel. It takes skill to prepare. I still eat meat, but delicious vegan and vegetarian meals abound and I like eating them because I like eating.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

yeah, i actually do eat a lot more vegan food nowadays because i have seen a bunch of recipes for vegan food online that look delicious

this is, IMO, a much more effective sales tactic for veganism

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 3d

Please support independent and nonprofit media. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The 51st @51st.news · 4d

When people in the highest levels of our government are leaning on narratives about D.C. that we know aren’t true — but could influence our political future, our independent journalism is even more vital. Will you support it?

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 3d

with them* but you get it lol

Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 3d

I could agree with someone almost 99/100 times and yet if they approach every discussion like a battle to the death, I'm absolutely not going to want to continue engaging with you

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 3d

Oh god I hate this so much.

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 3d

I'm really not sure how I feel about this

The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 4d

Michael Mann's Heat 2 has been acquired by Amazon MGM, with Leonardo DiCaprio rumored to take Val Kilmer's place in the prequel-sequel:
thefilmstage.com/michael-mann...

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