Ben Kline
@benkline.bsky.social
Writer, tall, clumsy, wired, Gemini.
IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE from Variant Lit.
TWANG from ELJ Editions.
STIFF WRIST from 14 Poems.
Some of my work: https://benklineonline.wordpress.com/publications/
Podcaster at https://www.youtube.com/@mlvcpodcast
IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE from Variant Lit.
TWANG from ELJ Editions.
STIFF WRIST from 14 Poems.
Some of my work: https://benklineonline.wordpress.com/publications/
Podcaster at https://www.youtube.com/@mlvcpodcast
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To hell with a Joe Rogan for the left. Can I have a Mitch McConnell for Democrats, please? Imagine having someone who would go as hard in the paint for civil rights as McConnell did for antiblackness.
February 13, 2026 at 9:48 PM
To hell with a Joe Rogan for the left. Can I have a Mitch McConnell for Democrats, please? Imagine having someone who would go as hard in the paint for civil rights as McConnell did for antiblackness.
The studios and the actors should be suing the hell out of Bytedance AND the Tiktok users who made those AI fight scenes.
Enough of this nonsense.
Enough of this nonsense.
February 13, 2026 at 9:31 PM
The studios and the actors should be suing the hell out of Bytedance AND the Tiktok users who made those AI fight scenes.
Enough of this nonsense.
Enough of this nonsense.
We might not be thinking/talking enough about the admin's obsessions with crazy weapons. Many of which they've been having the IDF test in Gaza and followed up with tests in Venezuela and now El Paso.
February 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
We might not be thinking/talking enough about the admin's obsessions with crazy weapons. Many of which they've been having the IDF test in Gaza and followed up with tests in Venezuela and now El Paso.
The guillotines need to drop so so so so so slowly.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:35 PM
The guillotines need to drop so so so so so slowly.
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
All you have to do to know you shouldn't trust or use AI:
look who's programming and promoting it.
(Side note of note: note how many of that same group are in the Epstein emails.)
look who's programming and promoting it.
(Side note of note: note how many of that same group are in the Epstein emails.)
this may be a radical take BUT I think we should proceed cautiously with the rushed integration of half-cooked automation into problematic business sectors in a broadly-corrupt country without functional regulatory oversight
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 PM
All you have to do to know you shouldn't trust or use AI:
look who's programming and promoting it.
(Side note of note: note how many of that same group are in the Epstein emails.)
look who's programming and promoting it.
(Side note of note: note how many of that same group are in the Epstein emails.)
Fantastic article!
I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
www.theverge.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Fantastic article!
Another fun episode of @mlvcpodcast.bsky.social where we dive into the recent social media resurgence of the song THIEF OF HEARTS from Mafonna's 1992 masterpiece EROTICA.
youtube.com/live/1g48tGs...
youtube.com/live/1g48tGs...
Madonna’s Thief of Hearts
YouTube video by MLVC: the Madonna podcast
youtube.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Another fun episode of @mlvcpodcast.bsky.social where we dive into the recent social media resurgence of the song THIEF OF HEARTS from Mafonna's 1992 masterpiece EROTICA.
youtube.com/live/1g48tGs...
youtube.com/live/1g48tGs...
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
If only there were Dem leaders capable of leading. They all seem too afraid to piss off some oligarch or interest group or social media pocket. At this point, save democracy or go home.
in terms of the 'voters trust Rs to handle immigration over Ds' line, 2 points:
1. R advantage has been cut by half/two-thirds since 2024.
2. Public clearly disagrees with Trump on enforcement. Task for Dems is giving voters a coherent alt,
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
1. R advantage has been cut by half/two-thirds since 2024.
2. Public clearly disagrees with Trump on enforcement. Task for Dems is giving voters a coherent alt,
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
February 7, 2026 at 3:37 PM
If only there were Dem leaders capable of leading. They all seem too afraid to piss off some oligarch or interest group or social media pocket. At this point, save democracy or go home.
Didn't believe I could dislike him more. He proved me wrong.
Vance: There was a moment in the Oval Office, I wasn't even in there, but Trump was talking to Kaitlan Collins. Trump says, 'Why don't you ever smile?' And it's actually, like, so perceptive. Have some fun.
February 5, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Didn't believe I could dislike him more. He proved me wrong.
Unwinding with the new Muppet Show one-off after having to call 911 for the smoke and multiple alarms going off in the building. (Someone downstairs left their dinner on the stove and it caught fire.)
February 5, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Unwinding with the new Muppet Show one-off after having to call 911 for the smoke and multiple alarms going off in the building. (Someone downstairs left their dinner on the stove and it caught fire.)
What the.....
a Republican witness in the GOP's "Somali Scammers" hearing details how he drives by childcare centers and looks at how many footprints in the snow there are to determine how many kids are there. Psycho stuff.
February 5, 2026 at 2:32 AM
What the.....
Schumer and Jefferies are either fools or listening to the worst consultants ever. Like, what? We want no masks on any cop! Close the detention camps! Abolish ICE. Break up DHS back to pre-Patroit Act. Hell, repeal the stupid ass Patriot Act while we're at it and reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.
February 5, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Schumer and Jefferies are either fools or listening to the worst consultants ever. Like, what? We want no masks on any cop! Close the detention camps! Abolish ICE. Break up DHS back to pre-Patroit Act. Hell, repeal the stupid ass Patriot Act while we're at it and reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.
How has Steve Bannon not [ ] already?
Between him and T666p it's a toss up for who is the most rotted!
Between him and T666p it's a toss up for who is the most rotted!
February 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM
How has Steve Bannon not [ ] already?
Between him and T666p it's a toss up for who is the most rotted!
Between him and T666p it's a toss up for who is the most rotted!
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
February 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
Yoga face selfie chased by...the apartment ghost opening the cabinet door...even after boo thought he'd fixed it...and 5 minutes later, the ghost CLOSED THE CABINET.
I was ok with it swooshing me if I do dishes during daylight hours, but this?
I will be procuring holy water this weekend.
I was ok with it swooshing me if I do dishes during daylight hours, but this?
I will be procuring holy water this weekend.
February 4, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Yoga face selfie chased by...the apartment ghost opening the cabinet door...even after boo thought he'd fixed it...and 5 minutes later, the ghost CLOSED THE CABINET.
I was ok with it swooshing me if I do dishes during daylight hours, but this?
I will be procuring holy water this weekend.
I was ok with it swooshing me if I do dishes during daylight hours, but this?
I will be procuring holy water this weekend.
Bubblegutsman in a bubble
Q: “On the Epstein files…Elon Musk was also in there, and so was your Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick…Did you read those new files?”
Trump: “I didn't…I'm sure they're fine. Otherwise, there would have been major headlines.”
Trump: “I didn't…I'm sure they're fine. Otherwise, there would have been major headlines.”
February 3, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Bubblegutsman in a bubble
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my grandma’s rural AI doctor diagnosed her with missing fingers
February 3, 2026 at 5:51 AM
my grandma’s rural AI doctor diagnosed her with missing fingers
Thank goodness I have poets coming over for workshop tonight! Catching up on the news has ruined my spirit.
February 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Thank goodness I have poets coming over for workshop tonight! Catching up on the news has ruined my spirit.
Good grief go read this thread. Epstein as terf isn't surprising but also, jeez how much awful can one person contain. (rhetoical)
It's as if, post arrest + into his re-emergence, Epstein decided to just become satan on earth, and pulled/pushed in numerous venue to spread ...evil upon humanity.
It's as if, post arrest + into his re-emergence, Epstein decided to just become satan on earth, and pulled/pushed in numerous venue to spread ...evil upon humanity.
don't mind me, just finding lots of bread crumbs showing Epstein and the League of Pederasts were a driving force in pushing transphobic hate.
This email was sent in October 2014, at the start of the current anti trans political campaign and astroturphing.
This email was sent in October 2014, at the start of the current anti trans political campaign and astroturphing.
February 2, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Good grief go read this thread. Epstein as terf isn't surprising but also, jeez how much awful can one person contain. (rhetoical)
It's as if, post arrest + into his re-emergence, Epstein decided to just become satan on earth, and pulled/pushed in numerous venue to spread ...evil upon humanity.
It's as if, post arrest + into his re-emergence, Epstein decided to just become satan on earth, and pulled/pushed in numerous venue to spread ...evil upon humanity.
"as funding is available" meaning never
Congrats to Hakeem Jeffries. He’s worked so hard for this victory.
February 2, 2026 at 10:23 PM
"as funding is available" meaning never
Weaving the story beats to steal the election in November.
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
February 2, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Weaving the story beats to steal the election in November.
Um, can they come take ours? We still have nearly a foot on the ground in some places 10 days post storm wtf I'm over it!
A snow drought of historic proportions is hobbling many ski areas, leading mountain towns to face economic uncertainty, and sparking fears of water shortages and wildfires come summer.
Snow Drought, Political Shifts and Strikes Batter Ski Industry in Western U.S.
Little snowpack, strikes by mountain staff and Trump administration policies that are keeping international visitors away have made this a difficult season in the Rockies and beyond.
nyti.ms
February 2, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Um, can they come take ours? We still have nearly a foot on the ground in some places 10 days post storm wtf I'm over it!