Ben Can't
@bencant.bsky.social
🟪 MBMBaM Wizard Emeritus
🟦 they/he
🟩 ace trans Jew
🟨 Long COVIDer
🟧 wear ur fucking mask
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Ben Can't
@bencant.bsky.social
· Nov 16
(Re)intro post
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
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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Non-Baltimore folks: David Smith & his family own businesses across MD as well as VA beach and in parts of PA. Worth checking out just to make sure!
Behold! A list of Atlas/Sinclair/David Smith related businesses.
(I just unwittingly gave David Smith money getting my car fixed last week - stay vigilant out there folks!)
www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/...
(I just unwittingly gave David Smith money getting my car fixed last week - stay vigilant out there folks!)
www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/...
From the baltimore community on Reddit: Behold! A list of Atlas/Sinclair/David Smith related businesses.
Explore this post and more from the baltimore community
www.reddit.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Non-Baltimore folks: David Smith & his family own businesses across MD as well as VA beach and in parts of PA. Worth checking out just to make sure!
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)
![Wikipedia entry describing the story arc of “99 Luftballons”:
The lyrics of the original German version tell a story:
99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, causing a military general to send pilots to investigate. Finding nothing but balloons, the pilots put on a large show of firepower. The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the defence ministers on each side encourage conflict to grab power for themselves.
In the end, a cataclysmic war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons and causes devastation on all sides without a victor, as indicated in the denouement of the song: "99 Jahre Krieg ließen keinen Platz für Sieger," which means "99 years of war left no room for victors." The anti-war song finishes with the singer walking through the devastated ruins of the world and finding a single balloon. The description of what happens in the final line of the piece is the same in German and English:
'''Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen," or "Think of you and let it go."[11]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4dp4culto5csbqs5m6ge22fw/bafkreie4ga5vudhvz4e25t5oducxifde6sf2zgal7wugci2bv5ee2qfcoe@jpeg)
February 11, 2026 at 9:20 PM
I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Took the bus for the first time in a few weeks. Had to carry my rollator over patches of unshoveled sidewalk because the alternative was walking in the street on Greenmount 🫠
February 11, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Took the bus for the first time in a few weeks. Had to carry my rollator over patches of unshoveled sidewalk because the alternative was walking in the street on Greenmount 🫠
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anyway, i drew this for the nib in march 2023 lol
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
anyway, i drew this for the nib in march 2023 lol
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i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.
February 11, 2026 at 6:22 PM
i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.
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Dirty secret, this is not terribly different from what House reps - particularly Republicans - have done in hearings on far more mundane topics
holy shit -- Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes
February 11, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Dirty secret, this is not terribly different from what House reps - particularly Republicans - have done in hearings on far more mundane topics
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And the really consistent one, prison
Post: “The USA now has concentration camps”
Me: Been had them. They were just called internment camps and plantations
Me: Been had them. They were just called internment camps and plantations
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
And the really consistent one, prison
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On iPhones, do not use the Patreon App. Use a browser, otherwise Apple charges a 30% fee to the creator.
www.patreon.com/posts/please...
www.patreon.com/posts/please...
February 11, 2026 at 7:26 PM
On iPhones, do not use the Patreon App. Use a browser, otherwise Apple charges a 30% fee to the creator.
www.patreon.com/posts/please...
www.patreon.com/posts/please...
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Gallup follows orders from child rapists.
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Gallup follows orders from child rapists.
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I love when people try to argue they're not being antisemitic by literally doing antisemitic tropes
February 11, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I love when people try to argue they're not being antisemitic by literally doing antisemitic tropes
Free alts to Wordle, Connections, Strands, Pips, and Numberle: strandsgame.me
it's shit like this that made me stop doing Wordle and stop supporting NYT Cooking. Until some major cleanup at the top, I don't want to support the NYT in any way.
February 11, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Free alts to Wordle, Connections, Strands, Pips, and Numberle: strandsgame.me
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my politics
February 11, 2026 at 9:39 AM
my politics
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seeing the NYT PR team in the comments of this post
February 11, 2026 at 2:23 PM
seeing the NYT PR team in the comments of this post
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like 90% of the time when someone is crowing about "antisemitism on the left" it means "i saw a post i didn't like." ok. i see posts i don't like all the time
February 11, 2026 at 2:50 PM
like 90% of the time when someone is crowing about "antisemitism on the left" it means "i saw a post i didn't like." ok. i see posts i don't like all the time
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"Ebba Andersson wasn’t so lucky. Swedish media reported that her silver medal for skiathlon fell off its strap and disappeared under the snow, prompting a frantic search. The medal was recovered, but she gave up trying to find the clasp that had failed to keep it connected to the ribbon."
The Olympics Have Just Begun. Olympic Medals Are Already Falling Apart.
Only days into the Games, athletes say their prizes are defective. Italian officials have promised to investigate “with maximum attention.”
www.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"Ebba Andersson wasn’t so lucky. Swedish media reported that her silver medal for skiathlon fell off its strap and disappeared under the snow, prompting a frantic search. The medal was recovered, but she gave up trying to find the clasp that had failed to keep it connected to the ribbon."
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Not even Laura Loomer could watch Kid Rock over Bad Bunny
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Not even Laura Loomer could watch Kid Rock over Bad Bunny
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masking is not an extreme measure; it’s like, level zero of measures. it’s the easiest possible option
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
n.pr
February 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM
masking is not an extreme measure; it’s like, level zero of measures. it’s the easiest possible option
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new most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped
Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back
www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...
Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back
www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...
February 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
new most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped
Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back
www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...
Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back
www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...
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Rep. LaMonica McIver, for New Jersey’s 10th.
Yielded back just after saying, “and that’s why I support abolishing ICE.”
Yielded back just after saying, “and that’s why I support abolishing ICE.”
McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
February 10, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Rep. LaMonica McIver, for New Jersey’s 10th.
Yielded back just after saying, “and that’s why I support abolishing ICE.”
Yielded back just after saying, “and that’s why I support abolishing ICE.”
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We're SO excited to announce Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff will be the guest bad guys on the fourth and final show of this run. In addition to that, Trace and Frank will be cowriting this episode along with the RiffTrax gang. We're over the moon!
February 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
We're SO excited to announce Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff will be the guest bad guys on the fourth and final show of this run. In addition to that, Trace and Frank will be cowriting this episode along with the RiffTrax gang. We're over the moon!
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Dinosaur Convention out here with higher moral standards than the Cabinet.
February 10, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Dinosaur Convention out here with higher moral standards than the Cabinet.