j west bennett
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Writer, fiction enjoyer
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🌴HI → 🐀NYC
jwestbennett.com
🌴HI → 🐀NYC
comfort AND joy? in THIS economy??
December 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
comfort AND joy? in THIS economy??
bro… I heard you were making your Yuletide gay?
December 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
bro… I heard you were making your Yuletide gay?
and just think, Rudolph was a DEI hire
December 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
and just think, Rudolph was a DEI hire
Spirted Away (2001)
December 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Spirted Away (2001)
like, rest ye merry gentlemen already. god!
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
like, rest ye merry gentlemen already. god!
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I’d guess I’m not entirely alone in having assumed it would continue to mean Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics…
December 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I’d guess I’m not entirely alone in having assumed it would continue to mean Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics…
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"Did you do any dancing at your bar mitzvah, Col. Kurtz?"
"The hora... the hora..."
"The hora... the hora..."
December 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"Did you do any dancing at your bar mitzvah, Col. Kurtz?"
"The hora... the hora..."
"The hora... the hora..."
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rip gainax, you ended in a weird convoluted way that pissed a lot of people off
Hideaki Anno just announced via the khara website that Gainax is officially dead and gone as a corporate entity as of December 10th: www.khara.co.jp/2025/12/11/2...
「株式会社ガイナックス」について
2025年12月10日の官報掲載にありますように、アニメーション制作スタジオだった「株式会社ガイナックス」の破産整理が終わり、法人として消滅し、その42年弱の歴史を終えました。 創設期から20年以上籍を置き、今日まで株主として関わっていたものとして誠に残念な最後ですが、静かに受け止めています。 まず、2019年、当時の代表取締役社長巻智博氏の逮捕を受け、弊社と共にガイナックス社の再建、後に整...
www.khara.co.jp
December 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
rip gainax, you ended in a weird convoluted way that pissed a lot of people off
if a rich person gets hit their money should fly out everywhere like in Sonic
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
if a rich person gets hit their money should fly out everywhere like in Sonic
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Someone made a mod for Elden Ring featuring Zohran Mamdani, AOC, Cuomo, Hasan Piker, and more
we are living in an explosion of culture and media with no historical precedent
we are living in an explosion of culture and media with no historical precedent
December 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Someone made a mod for Elden Ring featuring Zohran Mamdani, AOC, Cuomo, Hasan Piker, and more
we are living in an explosion of culture and media with no historical precedent
we are living in an explosion of culture and media with no historical precedent
you mess with one of us, you mess with all 200 billion of us
no one would mess with me if they knew how many probiotics i have ingested
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
you mess with one of us, you mess with all 200 billion of us
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are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
My inexpert take: “Slop” can be used to describe those products whose features have been optimized down to the bare minimum viability, most often in service of profit motive…
1/8
1/8
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My inexpert take: “Slop” can be used to describe those products whose features have been optimized down to the bare minimum viability, most often in service of profit motive…
1/8
1/8
Moss
Marlow Moss, Composition in Black and White Number 4, 1949
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135948
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135948
December 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Moss
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call that a shower leer
steam library but it’s when you read a book in the shower (i don’t recommend it)
December 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
call that a shower leer
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“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
― William Gibson, Count Zero
― William Gibson, Count Zero
they aren't normal human beings. they grew up with a concept of entitlement so pervasive that they never figured out what they might be good at contributing to human society, and it twisted their brains so badly, their synapses into misfiring so often that they're basically powerful slime molds
December 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
― William Gibson, Count Zero
― William Gibson, Count Zero
“it’s a wonderful life,” huh? wow. maybe check your privilege? life isn’t so wonderful for everyone, you know
December 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“it’s a wonderful life,” huh? wow. maybe check your privilege? life isn’t so wonderful for everyone, you know
finally we can don us now our gay apparel in peace
December 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
finally we can don us now our gay apparel in peace
as good a representation of the typical Millennial political arc as any
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
as good a representation of the typical Millennial political arc as any
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity
December 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity
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Netscape Navigator
December 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Netscape Navigator
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hey check this out youtu.be/CuOd_mTABn8?...
Shop 'til You Drop - No One Can Stop Mr. Domino
YouTube video by SomeMusicLayingAround
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
hey check this out youtu.be/CuOd_mTABn8?...
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I’ll never forget waking up at 2AM to someone blasting “Between the Bars” on a Friday
hope they’re doing well
hope they’re doing well
December 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I’ll never forget waking up at 2AM to someone blasting “Between the Bars” on a Friday
hope they’re doing well
hope they’re doing well
the crazy part is that I don’t think of “John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt” as a very common name at all
December 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
the crazy part is that I don’t think of “John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt” as a very common name at all