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Ben Can't

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🟪 MBMBaM Wizard Emeritus 🟦 they/he 🟩 ace trans Jew 🟨 Long COVIDer 🟧 wear ur fucking mask 🟥 benkantt.com

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · Nov 16

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Hi I'm Ben. Once upon a time I was a niche internet microcelebrity for sending Yahoos into MBMBaM and earning the nickname "The Wizard"

I'm an ace trans Jew with a wonderful spouse and two precious cats

I post a lot about Baltimore and maybe one day I'll make art again and post it

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 1d

what legal recourse do artists and museums have against international militaries stealing and using our work to commit warcrimes, since apparently that's a conversation we need to have now.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 14h

wtaf are you talking about

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Jude "BE NOT AFRAID #4 Out Now" Doyle @judedoyle.bsky.social · 12h

I'm glad that the world is embracing my enlightened Taylor Swift opinions, but I do need to point out that this came out on September 13, and that people were mad jude-doyle.ghost.io/po/

But it is not Taylor Swift’s job to liberate girls from patriarchy. It is not even her job to make music. It is her job to appeal to the largest possible number of people, so that she can make the biggest possible heap of money, and that job necessitates playing along with the demands of a patriarchal culture.

“Taylor Swift,” as you and I experience her, is not a person, but a billion-dollar corporation; the songs are not ends in themselves, they are content, dropped at regular intervals, to generate a new round of merchandising and licensing opportunities. That corporation is highly profitable, and working under an obligation to protect its bottom line; as such, it cannot take risks. Taylor Swift cannot self-express, she cannot innovate, she cannot stretch the limits of the form – she cannot do anything that a capital-A Artist might need or want to do – because that interferes with her job, which is to be universally likable, or at least inoffensive, and thereby attract the broadest possible base of consumers.

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AC Slayter @bogeymachine.bsky.social · 12h

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BOOgeltechno (FSU 3-2) @bageltechno.bsky.social · 12h

drake's lawyer, i got a great way for you to break this order and opinion down for your client: they not libel us

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 1d

I'm raising for my friend who lived down the street from us at our old place. She's been in a shitty living situation for a while now and I'm hoping this will finally be able to help her have a fresh start!

Our neighbor needs your help! Miss Debra is a disabled Black elder who is hoping to move to North $ Carolina to be with her extended family. But first, she needs our help!
We need to raise $4,200 to help her pay her remaining bills before she can leave. Any extra will go towards her moving expenses. V3nmo: @BeKa211. Include "Miss Debra" in the memo

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · Oct 9

[forest]
ME: omg there’s a wolf
WIFE: where?
ME: no the regular kind

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15h

happy 20th birthday to the internets

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

Oh shit, ANTIFA is suiting up

From the sound of music. Seven children stand in a line inside a grand house, wearing identical light blue sailor-style uniforms with dark collars, neckties, and knee socks. They are arranged from tallest to shortest, standing at attention on a patterned rug with a staircase and ornate wall paneling behind them.

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 20h

But we stay silly

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 23h

4 panel comic

P1: a cartoon me, sat at a table --with a blank sheet of paper and a pencil on its surface-- grimacing in pain as he clutches his right wrist. Thinking to himself, he says "AUGH! My drawing hand hurts! Don't think I'll be able to draw a comic toda--"

P2: APPEAR! Suddenly, a larger and far more crudely drawn version of my cartoon self appears on the right. He has a big doofy grin onhis face. Original cartoon me, in shock, says "GASP! W-who --WHAT-- are you?"

P3: Via an equally crudely drawn (and written) speech bubble and text, crude cartoon me says "I'm you when you stop giving a shite about drawing well"

P4: Suddenly, original cartoon me gets transformed into a crudely drawn form. The other crude self finishes on "in my imperfection I am perfect in every way"

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 21h

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 22h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 1d

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 1d

Marginally related to lrp I just watched Hester Street for the first time and immediately clocked that the guy playing the rabbi also played the rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 1d

Do the children know that one of the major characters in Fiddler on the Roof is named "Lazar Wolf"

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

i don’t actually think the epstein shit is why johnson is delaying swearing her in but i am fine perpetuating the rumor that he is

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 1d

TIRED: Teaching the sand to think was a mistake.

WIRED: Convincing people that we taught the sand to think was a mistake.

The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 5d

i think it’s actually completely okay to say an algorithm is not a real person

hailey @hailey.at
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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RyyBOOdo @ Vacation Oct 8-22 @ryyudo.bsky.social · 1d

My dad drove us in a loaner Tesla this morning where Grok AI:
Turned itself on
Would not turn off
Instructed how to tell it to stop (did not stop)
Instructed how to tell it to play music (did not music)

After setting the volume to 0 and sitting in silence, an advertisement forced the volume back on

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haunted mentions @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 1d

antiwoke guy who wants to change the recycle bin on his computer back to the trash can

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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