Ben Miller
@benwritesthings.bsky.social
writer, historian, @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2027)
www.benwritesthings.com
www.badgayspod.com
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2027)
www.benwritesthings.com
www.badgayspod.com
Pinned
I offer manuscript reviews and consulting on both fiction and non-fiction projects at competitive rates, and have some time in my schedule in the next few months: please feel free to reach out and share with people you know who might need this kind of work. benwritesthings.com/workshops-re...
signora dubbiofuoco 🤌🤌
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
signora dubbiofuoco 🤌🤌
Reposted by Ben Miller
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
cocktail d'amore... iykyk
some of y’all have internalized bigotry against sexy Sicilians who look like they were just told they have an STD and it shows 🥑
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
cocktail d'amore... iykyk
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November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
give the gift of bad gays this holiday season;
Reposted by Ben Miller
attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
February 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
I offer manuscript reviews and consulting on both fiction and non-fiction projects at competitive rates, and have some time in my schedule in the next few months: please feel free to reach out and share with people you know who might need this kind of work. benwritesthings.com/workshops-re...
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I offer manuscript reviews and consulting on both fiction and non-fiction projects at competitive rates, and have some time in my schedule in the next few months: please feel free to reach out and share with people you know who might need this kind of work. benwritesthings.com/workshops-re...
Zurück, Tochter Babylons!
Komm dem Erwählten des Herrn nicht nahe!
Deine Mutter hat die Erde erfülltmit
dem Wein ihrer Sünden schreit zu Gott!
Komm dem Erwählten des Herrn nicht nahe!
Deine Mutter hat die Erde erfülltmit
dem Wein ihrer Sünden schreit zu Gott!
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him even though you can
Please don't take him even though you can
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Zurück, Tochter Babylons!
Komm dem Erwählten des Herrn nicht nahe!
Deine Mutter hat die Erde erfülltmit
dem Wein ihrer Sünden schreit zu Gott!
Komm dem Erwählten des Herrn nicht nahe!
Deine Mutter hat die Erde erfülltmit
dem Wein ihrer Sünden schreit zu Gott!
Reposted by Ben Miller
After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
Reposted by Ben Miller
left- & right-populism are very similar in that left-populism correctly identifies the power-brokers of the world who have simple, understandable goals (protecting their obscene wealth) & right-populism makes up trans-homo-jewish conspiracy theories to obfuscate the kleptocracy of the above.
If the lads are finally asked whether they’d rather put the boot into Farage or Polanski, I wouldn’t be confident that it’ll the former they’ll find truly unacceptable.
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
left- & right-populism are very similar in that left-populism correctly identifies the power-brokers of the world who have simple, understandable goals (protecting their obscene wealth) & right-populism makes up trans-homo-jewish conspiracy theories to obfuscate the kleptocracy of the above.
Reposted by Ben Miller
*hust* Gegenwart?
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
*hust* Gegenwart?
not sure if even the weimar masculinists went this far
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
not sure if even the weimar masculinists went this far
a clinical trial designed "to build..evidence" for a ban decided on without evidence
Even Hilary Cass - who disgracefully called parents terrified that their trans kids would take their own lives if they were denied healthcare "shroud wavers" - didn't go so far as to call for a ban on puberty blockers.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
a clinical trial designed "to build..evidence" for a ban decided on without evidence
sorry to milkshake duck miss Norway and her salmon costume but her father is a prominent neo-nazi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_J%...
Hans Jørgen Lysglimt Johansen - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Jørgen_Lysglimt_Johansen
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
sorry to milkshake duck miss Norway and her salmon costume but her father is a prominent neo-nazi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_J%...
worth sharing here
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
worth sharing here
Salome, dir. Evgeny Titov, at Komische Oper was genuinely disturbing and anchored by a demented Nicole Chevalier
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Salome, dir. Evgeny Titov, at Komische Oper was genuinely disturbing and anchored by a demented Nicole Chevalier
"Is it possible that we default to a view of straight open marriage as a husband’s imposition on a passive wife in part because we are, as a culture, still threatened by a mother’s extramarital desire?" www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11...
Postscript to an Open Marriage: On Lily Allen’s West End Girl by Jean Garnett
November 20, 2025 – “Whatever else it is (frequently delightful, well crafted, et cetera), West End Girl strikes me as a rather neat, crowd-pleasing, bias-confirming presentation of nonmonogamy that c...
www.theparisreview.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Is it possible that we default to a view of straight open marriage as a husband’s imposition on a passive wife in part because we are, as a culture, still threatened by a mother’s extramarital desire?" www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11...
We love you Brazil
Far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro arrested in Brazil
Far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro arrested in Brazil
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from the capital
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We love you Brazil
Just finished listening to Miss Fassbaender sing the living shit out of the Judgement Scene and the applauders at the end get SHUSHED! German audiences, man. They will always boo an interesting director but God forbid you applaud a diva for serving cunt. m.youtube.com/watch?v=uj7L...
Aida, Act IV: Act IV Scene 1: Ohime! Morir mi sento (Amneris, Chorus)
YouTube video by Anna Tomowa-Sintow - Topic
m.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Just finished listening to Miss Fassbaender sing the living shit out of the Judgement Scene and the applauders at the end get SHUSHED! German audiences, man. They will always boo an interesting director but God forbid you applaud a diva for serving cunt. m.youtube.com/watch?v=uj7L...
do Not click on a link to the Lizza article do Not be comforted by the existence of the paywall there are things before the paywall you will Never be able to unsee
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
do Not click on a link to the Lizza article do Not be comforted by the existence of the paywall there are things before the paywall you will Never be able to unsee
This one goes out to all the people who said Trump would steamroll Zohran lmao
Trump has said a number of times that you'd be surprised how much he and Mamdani agree on. (Talks again about building housing, lowering rents.)
Trump: "I expect to be helping him, not hurting him."
Trump: "I expect to be helping him, not hurting him."
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This one goes out to all the people who said Trump would steamroll Zohran lmao
the gift of prophesy:
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
the gift of prophesy:
donald trump is VERY scared of him lmfao (mamdani said yes after this)
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
donald trump is VERY scared of him lmfao (mamdani said yes after this)
trump is scared :)
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
trump is scared :)
Reposted by Ben Miller
“Madonna is the Pat Boone of vogueing” @benwritesthings.bsky.social
This is from the @badgayspod.bsky.social episode about Paris Is Burning but also go listen to the episode on Little Richard
This is from the @badgayspod.bsky.social episode about Paris Is Burning but also go listen to the episode on Little Richard
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“Madonna is the Pat Boone of vogueing” @benwritesthings.bsky.social
This is from the @badgayspod.bsky.social episode about Paris Is Burning but also go listen to the episode on Little Richard
This is from the @badgayspod.bsky.social episode about Paris Is Burning but also go listen to the episode on Little Richard
he’s correct about much of this and also correct that your outrage at her comeback is priced into her carefully calibrated plan, and rageposting about her and anyone who says anything particularly nice about her writing in the past or present tense is helping that plan.
"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
he’s correct about much of this and also correct that your outrage at her comeback is priced into her carefully calibrated plan, and rageposting about her and anyone who says anything particularly nice about her writing in the past or present tense is helping that plan.