Ben Loory
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Ben Loory
@benloory.bsky.social
· Jan 12
Well, my year-end wrap-up (What I Did in 2025) is finally done! Only 11 days late, not bad! You can check it out on my website, benloory.com, if you're interested, but here's the important part: my favorite books I read this year! I mean last year
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To meet a flatterer tells you a good deal about where you stand in the world.
—Elizabeth Hardwick, “Faye Dunaway”
—Elizabeth Hardwick, “Faye Dunaway”
February 12, 2026 at 3:53 AM
To meet a flatterer tells you a good deal about where you stand in the world.
—Elizabeth Hardwick, “Faye Dunaway”
—Elizabeth Hardwick, “Faye Dunaway”
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Jacek Yerka
Susan, Sen nocy letniej
Poland, 1984
Susan, Sen nocy letniej
Poland, 1984
February 12, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Jacek Yerka
Susan, Sen nocy letniej
Poland, 1984
Susan, Sen nocy letniej
Poland, 1984
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Věra Chytilová (with scenes form her film "Daisies") - BOTD
February 2, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Věra Chytilová (with scenes form her film "Daisies") - BOTD
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Say what you will about my vices, they get me out of the house
February 11, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Say what you will about my vices, they get me out of the house
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Been saying "uh oh" a worrying amount lately
February 11, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Been saying "uh oh" a worrying amount lately
Is there some new kind of music? I suddenly hate all the music I know about
February 11, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Is there some new kind of music? I suddenly hate all the music I know about
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they should corrugate more stuff
February 11, 2026 at 6:25 AM
they should corrugate more stuff
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What are the 3 branches of government again?
I know it's pedophiles and corporations but what's the third one?
I know it's pedophiles and corporations but what's the third one?
February 10, 2026 at 11:12 PM
What are the 3 branches of government again?
I know it's pedophiles and corporations but what's the third one?
I know it's pedophiles and corporations but what's the third one?
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Just finished booking flights for a trip to Korea. It’s my partner’s first time and I’m sure it’s gonna blow her mind. The food. The walkable neighborhoods. The excellent public transit. The single-payer healthcare. The immediate impeachment and arrest of a president after a coup attempt.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Just finished booking flights for a trip to Korea. It’s my partner’s first time and I’m sure it’s gonna blow her mind. The food. The walkable neighborhoods. The excellent public transit. The single-payer healthcare. The immediate impeachment and arrest of a president after a coup attempt.
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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Joan Crawford dancing up a storm in OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS (1928)
Directed by Harry Beaumont - BOTD in 1888
Directed by Harry Beaumont - BOTD in 1888
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Joan Crawford dancing up a storm in OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS (1928)
Directed by Harry Beaumont - BOTD in 1888
Directed by Harry Beaumont - BOTD in 1888
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sleeping dragon
October 20, 2024 at 3:24 PM
sleeping dragon
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Girl with bicycle, The Coombe, Dublin, 1966, photo by Evelyn Hofer, German-American photographer.
February 9, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Girl with bicycle, The Coombe, Dublin, 1966, photo by Evelyn Hofer, German-American photographer.
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“and then this motherfucker puts a FEATHER in his CAP, and you are not gonna believe what he called that shit. guess. just fuckin guess.”
February 10, 2026 at 10:48 PM
“and then this motherfucker puts a FEATHER in his CAP, and you are not gonna believe what he called that shit. guess. just fuckin guess.”
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I have QVC on in the background and they're selling a ring with three pink stones in it and they just said, "Past, present, and future, in color. Me, myself, and I. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There's so many meanings behind the trilogy."
February 10, 2026 at 10:40 PM
I have QVC on in the background and they're selling a ring with three pink stones in it and they just said, "Past, present, and future, in color. Me, myself, and I. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There's so many meanings behind the trilogy."
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Still Life with Red Cushion, Black Jacket and Trainers
February 10, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Still Life with Red Cushion, Black Jacket and Trainers
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(wakes up sweating in the middle of the night) holy shit… grok was that real
September 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
(wakes up sweating in the middle of the night) holy shit… grok was that real
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Can't.
Busy filling the drafts folder with gnomic phrases that'll make no sense in the morning.
Busy filling the drafts folder with gnomic phrases that'll make no sense in the morning.
February 10, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Can't.
Busy filling the drafts folder with gnomic phrases that'll make no sense in the morning.
Busy filling the drafts folder with gnomic phrases that'll make no sense in the morning.
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I'm not good at math, is a million a lot
NEW: Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin tells Axios in an interview.
www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...
www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...
Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin alleges
One document recounts that Trump said he "never" asked Epstein to leave Mar-a-Lago.
www.axios.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I'm not good at math, is a million a lot
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Saying “um” is like using duct tape for conversations.
February 9, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Saying “um” is like using duct tape for conversations.
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I'm not a big fan of streakers at public sporting events but I'm a huge fan of watching security guards huffing and puffing as they pathetically attempt to catch them.
February 10, 2026 at 1:06 AM
I'm not a big fan of streakers at public sporting events but I'm a huge fan of watching security guards huffing and puffing as they pathetically attempt to catch them.
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I have never read a more useful footnote. (From Michael D.C. Drout’s The Tower and the Ruin.)
February 10, 2026 at 5:06 AM
I have never read a more useful footnote. (From Michael D.C. Drout’s The Tower and the Ruin.)
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HOOOOOO boy.
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
February 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
HOOOOOO boy.
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
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Hedy Lamarr by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1941.
February 10, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Hedy Lamarr by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1941.