Ben
@benbartlett.bsky.social
Aging nerd, office drone and recovering librarian. TTRPGs, retrofuturism, gushing about Pratchett and increasingly radicalised political takes.
Please ignore my bad posts, unless they made you mad, in which case know that I meant every word.
Please ignore my bad posts, unless they made you mad, in which case know that I meant every word.
I see the Your Party conference is going...
... that's it, that's the end of the sentence.
... that's it, that's the end of the sentence.
November 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I see the Your Party conference is going...
... that's it, that's the end of the sentence.
... that's it, that's the end of the sentence.
Respect to these guys for choosing the most SEO-unfriendly restaurant name imaginable
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Respect to these guys for choosing the most SEO-unfriendly restaurant name imaginable
Nier Automata, of course, should win both
To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Nier Automata, of course, should win both
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Hope is here.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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Gonna be insanely funny if the first American Pope is the one that kicks off the TradCath split
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Gonna be insanely funny if the first American Pope is the one that kicks off the TradCath split
Now listen, I love Indy with all my heart and want nothing but the best for him, but nominating a dog before you nominate a single POC when the entire cast of fucking SINNERS was in contention is insane.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Now listen, I love Indy with all my heart and want nothing but the best for him, but nominating a dog before you nominate a single POC when the entire cast of fucking SINNERS was in contention is insane.
Movie idea: violent revenge thriller about a group of crypto grifters who don't realised they've just rug-pulled Dracula. It's The Beekeeper meets Fright Night.
Working title: Bitecoin
Working title: Bitecoin
you'd think that vampires would be rich from compound interest and things like that but you'd need a pretty complex setup to avoid detection, and what if you predate capitalism and can barely read. just continually building up a small pile of savings and then getting wiped out and/or scammed
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Movie idea: violent revenge thriller about a group of crypto grifters who don't realised they've just rug-pulled Dracula. It's The Beekeeper meets Fright Night.
Working title: Bitecoin
Working title: Bitecoin
This story keeps getting more insane while simultaneously harder to convince people to care about. What do you mean Olivia Nuzzi had a relationship with Keith Olberman at a potentially alarmingly young age after releasing a pop song about being jailbait?
www.popjustice.com/briefing/tha...
www.popjustice.com/briefing/tha...
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This story keeps getting more insane while simultaneously harder to convince people to care about. What do you mean Olivia Nuzzi had a relationship with Keith Olberman at a potentially alarmingly young age after releasing a pop song about being jailbait?
www.popjustice.com/briefing/tha...
www.popjustice.com/briefing/tha...
There's a guy on TikTok doing a bit where he acts like a Disney Channel bully to his fellow students and it's one of the best things I've seen in ages
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
There's a guy on TikTok doing a bit where he acts like a Disney Channel bully to his fellow students and it's one of the best things I've seen in ages
If you'd like to know how utterly and completely Joyce Carol Oates got Musk's ass, he's tweaked Grok to tell everyone how smart and well-read he is
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
If you'd like to know how utterly and completely Joyce Carol Oates got Musk's ass, he's tweaked Grok to tell everyone how smart and well-read he is
"Now listen here Bond, what do you know about Limbo?"
"Limbo, M? Well give me half an hour and three martinis and there's nothing I couldn't find myself underneath"
"Limbo, M? Well give me half an hour and three martinis and there's nothing I couldn't find myself underneath"
There’s a simple solution here: James Bond in Hell. He has sex with the Devil’s wife, kills the Devil by kicking him out of a helicopter, etc.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Now listen here Bond, what do you know about Limbo?"
"Limbo, M? Well give me half an hour and three martinis and there's nothing I couldn't find myself underneath"
"Limbo, M? Well give me half an hour and three martinis and there's nothing I couldn't find myself underneath"
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second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
Fully worth watching just for Tyler the Creator blowing the roof off at the 3-minute mark
youtu.be/LuwI5j0i-v0?...
youtu.be/LuwI5j0i-v0?...
Outkast Medley | Full Performance | Live @ The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 2025
YouTube video by RemasterKingdom4K
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Fully worth watching just for Tyler the Creator blowing the roof off at the 3-minute mark
youtu.be/LuwI5j0i-v0?...
youtu.be/LuwI5j0i-v0?...
Had such a great time running a game of Eat The Reich by @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social and @gshowitt.bsky.social that I've been inspired to write a hack of the system to run the Fast and Furious pastiche game I've always wanted to do.
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Had such a great time running a game of Eat The Reich by @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social and @gshowitt.bsky.social that I've been inspired to write a hack of the system to run the Fast and Furious pastiche game I've always wanted to do.
This level of advanced White Nonsense is only to be expected from a man whose full name is Ryland Brickson Cole Tews. A man named after 4 of Sarah Palin's children at the same time.
Hundreds of Beavers’ Ryland Tews sets his third and final film, Oriental Snatch. Details here bit.ly/3LgUjhH
#film #orientalsnatch #DBCooper #HundredsofBeavers #RylandTews
#film #orientalsnatch #DBCooper #HundredsofBeavers #RylandTews
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This level of advanced White Nonsense is only to be expected from a man whose full name is Ryland Brickson Cole Tews. A man named after 4 of Sarah Palin's children at the same time.
Anyway I hope someone has a moment of temporary insanity and let's Trump speak at the funeral because he'll probably end up saying shit about Cheney that makes me seem measured and respectful in comparison. He dunked on Charlie Kirk for not leaning out of the way like he did and he LIKED Charlie
REST IN PISS YOU WONT BE MISSED BITCH
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Anyway I hope someone has a moment of temporary insanity and let's Trump speak at the funeral because he'll probably end up saying shit about Cheney that makes me seem measured and respectful in comparison. He dunked on Charlie Kirk for not leaning out of the way like he did and he LIKED Charlie
REST IN PISS YOU WONT BE MISSED BITCH
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
REST IN PISS YOU WONT BE MISSED BITCH
Just watched House of Dynamite and am now convinced that Kathryn Bigelow convinced Netflix to spend $50 million or whatever it cost to waste my fucking evening specifically. Jesus Christ fuck that movie
November 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Just watched House of Dynamite and am now convinced that Kathryn Bigelow convinced Netflix to spend $50 million or whatever it cost to waste my fucking evening specifically. Jesus Christ fuck that movie
Increasingly of the opinion that nobody should ever tell me how many years ago something happened because of the stark psychic damage it inflicts. Anyway happy birthday Cow Tools
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Increasingly of the opinion that nobody should ever tell me how many years ago something happened because of the stark psychic damage it inflicts. Anyway happy birthday Cow Tools
I'll give the Saudis this, they may keep announcing insane megaprojects that will never exist, but every single one of them would make for an absolute banger of a disaster movie.
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'll give the Saudis this, they may keep announcing insane megaprojects that will never exist, but every single one of them would make for an absolute banger of a disaster movie.
This is literal cargo cult shit. This tech doofus has imitated the forms and rituals of videogames and is now preying for the arrival of a bounty of amazing new games that cannot exist because what he is doing has none of the underlying mechanics of actually building a game.
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This is literal cargo cult shit. This tech doofus has imitated the forms and rituals of videogames and is now preying for the arrival of a bounty of amazing new games that cannot exist because what he is doing has none of the underlying mechanics of actually building a game.
Fell into an internet hole recently of martial arts frauds and have become obsessed with this guy. Count Dante was a legit early pioneer of Karate in America, one of the first to teach it to African-Americans, a mobbed-up abusive piece of shit and a key figure in the Chicago Dojo Wars of the 60s.
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Fell into an internet hole recently of martial arts frauds and have become obsessed with this guy. Count Dante was a legit early pioneer of Karate in America, one of the first to teach it to African-Americans, a mobbed-up abusive piece of shit and a key figure in the Chicago Dojo Wars of the 60s.
This is incredible, it's a better rip of Wes Anderson than the tiktoks that were explicitly trying to copy him
What if Wes Anderson made the 10th entry in a DTV action series?
The answer is SNIPER G.R.I.T. (2023)
The answer is SNIPER G.R.I.T. (2023)
October 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This is incredible, it's a better rip of Wes Anderson than the tiktoks that were explicitly trying to copy him
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The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."
October 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."