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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 10h

(to the Xenopus) thank you for your service

Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 1d

there's an incredible baseball playoff game happening rn, which reminds me that my most privileged complaint is that my dad would gladly give me his DirecTV login to watch the game, but he's too much of a boomer to remember his password for anything.

Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 1d

@damonagnos.bsky.social really need you to see one of the greatest caption errors ever in this Dancing Queen timeout segment during the Spurs preseason game

photo of a TV--a blurry picture of a young girl with pom poms in the crowd of a basketball game. the caption reads "the time of your life. Divac girl, watch...", a transcription error of the lyrics of ABBA's "Dancing Queen"

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 1d

he's so good on Monk as a shock jock

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 1d

Spemann-Mangold organizer in newts (though as a cnidarian biologist I must also note that a similar tissue organizer was also discovered by Ethel Browne Harvey in Hydra viridissima)

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 3d

So glad another fan base gets to enjoy The Mamu Experience.

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 3d

choosing to believe the fiction is by NBA journeyman Gerald Green

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 4d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 5d

can't remember if we've had this conversation before but the first time I ever saw this movie was like right before the 2004 election, and the whole time I kept thinking about how David Gale's evil doctor character looked like John Kerry

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 5d

"Every child is a borscht belt comedian. The problem is how to remain a borscht belt comedian once we grow up." - Pablo Picasso

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 5d

Gonna need a @damonagnos.bsky.social investigation into whether Daryl Morey (and/or MacMahon reporting on Morey) stole his "comfortable being uncomfortable" bit from Six Finger Satellite

The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 5d

“We were comfortable with the discomfort”: Six Finger Satellite’s J Ryan

Six Finger Satellite frontman and synth player J Ryan talks to @jjstannard.bsky.social about the making of the Rhode Island group’s newly reissued 1995 Severe Exposure album

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/i...

“We were comfortable with the discomfort”: Six Finger Satellite’s J Ryan - The Wire

Six Finger Satellite frontman and synth player J Ryan talks to Joseph Stannard about the making of the Rhode Island group’s newly reissued 1995 Severe Exposure album

www.thewire.co.uk

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 6d

incredibly menacing dog, too, one of the all-time great animal acting performances

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 7d

yeah my most "fell for it again award" trait is that I'm sick of gimmick stouts but also try almost all of them

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 8d

Watching the WNBA Finals

A California license plate that reads HOOPS. From Society (1989).

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 8d

everyone wants to be here

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 8d

Driving into work I saw a bumper sticker that read "good girls go to heaven, bad girls live in Sacramento."

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 8d

growth!

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 9d

great counterexample of this is Fox Mulder being a Yankees/Knicks fan despite being from Martha's Vineyard--presumably native New Yorker David Duchovny refused to play a Boston sports fan.

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 10d

Tis the season.

LP jacket of Roky Erickson and the Aliens - The Evil One. It depicts a black and white photo of a door with a spooky shadow arm reaching for the doorknob.

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 11d

pulling for A'ja, but the CC-less Fever making the finals would be pretty funny for Discourse purposes

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 11d

you can, in fact, show the world that love is still alive and be brave

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 12d

bonus points to the guy who made a sublist of scientists for the US to target whose name was *almost* Robert Sarver

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 12d

gobsmacked by the idea that Operation Paperclip was enabled by a guy finding a list titled HERE ARE ALL THE BEST NAZI SCIENTISTS in a toilet

screenshot from Brian Crim's book Our Germans. "...Council. During his assignment fulfilling Hitler’s June 1942 decree requiring “leading men of science” to work on military projects, Osenberg compiled a list of approximately fifteen thousand names. 106 In March 1945, a Polish lab technician discovered portions of the list in an unflushed toilet, from which it promptly found its way to the Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS) organized by British and American (Anglo-American for short) intelligence services. Osenberg voluntarily surrendered the complete list along with summaries of the scientists’ expertise and a trove of documents, such as research contracts and the status of “special weapons” like the V-2. 107 US Army major Robert Staver relied on the Osenberg file to create the military’s black list of targets used to direct Project Paperclip recruiting efforts for the next decade. The Osenberg list led Allied forces to von Braun’s..."

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Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 12d

Bobby Boucher lives on the Street of Crocodiles

Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 12d

Benicio del Toro saying "a few small beers" is going to be the thing that saves this country

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