Ben Klug
@silkandstone.itch.io
I'm not mad, this is actually an opportunity to experience amor fati for me
he/him
SF studies podcast: https://www.abnormalmapping.com/starboard
TTRPG: https://silk-stone.itch.io/detect-or-die
Contact: [email protected]
he/him
SF studies podcast: https://www.abnormalmapping.com/starboard
TTRPG: https://silk-stone.itch.io/detect-or-die
Contact: [email protected]
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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It appears the Trump administration is planning to bring Maduro to Manhattan to try him just down the road from UN Headquarters. Maybe during the World Cup; who knows? bsky.app/profile/lawr...
January 3, 2026 at 12:56 PM
It appears the Trump administration is planning to bring Maduro to Manhattan to try him just down the road from UN Headquarters. Maybe during the World Cup; who knows? bsky.app/profile/lawr...
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So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago.
And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
January 3, 2026 at 12:44 PM
So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago.
And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
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This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
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Ink-oming. Thought I’d sea what’s going on in here.
January 2, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Ink-oming. Thought I’d sea what’s going on in here.
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Hey man, saw your profile, super hot pics. Umm... quick question though. I couldn't help but notice in the background of one of your selfies there's a 19th century portrait that looks A LOT like you if you were a one hundred year old, desiccated husk...
January 3, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Hey man, saw your profile, super hot pics. Umm... quick question though. I couldn't help but notice in the background of one of your selfies there's a 19th century portrait that looks A LOT like you if you were a one hundred year old, desiccated husk...
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Having only ever lived in Ohio and Maine, it didn’t occur to me until just now that there are so many states without a single lighthouse. Kansas must be littered with crashed boats on its shores.
here’s a lighthouse map for reference
(via u/visualgeomatics)
(via u/visualgeomatics)
January 2, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Having only ever lived in Ohio and Maine, it didn’t occur to me until just now that there are so many states without a single lighthouse. Kansas must be littered with crashed boats on its shores.
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I recently had a conversation online with someone that you’d probably consider to be suffering from some form of “LLM induced psychosis” and I believe that his day to day experience looked in many ways like this
If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
January 3, 2026 at 6:25 AM
I recently had a conversation online with someone that you’d probably consider to be suffering from some form of “LLM induced psychosis” and I believe that his day to day experience looked in many ways like this
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Simple as
Everyone in DoD who participated in planning and executing this needs to face charges
Yes I know the scope/scale of what I'm saying; either laws mean things or they don't
Everyone in DoD who participated in planning and executing this needs to face charges
Yes I know the scope/scale of what I'm saying; either laws mean things or they don't
Disgusting violation of basic sovereignty and I hope everyone who hedges even one bit on this has their careers ruined in the end
January 3, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Simple as
Everyone in DoD who participated in planning and executing this needs to face charges
Yes I know the scope/scale of what I'm saying; either laws mean things or they don't
Everyone in DoD who participated in planning and executing this needs to face charges
Yes I know the scope/scale of what I'm saying; either laws mean things or they don't
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Months of extrajudicial murder unpunished and now the drunk in charge of the Pentagon and the corpse in the White House are getting their feast of blood
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Months of extrajudicial murder unpunished and now the drunk in charge of the Pentagon and the corpse in the White House are getting their feast of blood
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Invasion by helicopter means we're going an Operation Eagle Claw speedrun and if anything goes wrong it's going to get so stupid it'll make Carter look like a military genius
January 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Invasion by helicopter means we're going an Operation Eagle Claw speedrun and if anything goes wrong it's going to get so stupid it'll make Carter look like a military genius
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They don't even try to sell this Congress let alone get an AUMF let alone start selling it to the public let alone actually get any buy-in. Fucking insanity
January 3, 2026 at 7:11 AM
They don't even try to sell this Congress let alone get an AUMF let alone start selling it to the public let alone actually get any buy-in. Fucking insanity
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some of y’all have internalized transphobia against papist sapiosexuals who look like they were inspired by clowns and it shows 💤
January 2, 2026 at 5:36 AM
some of y’all have internalized transphobia against papist sapiosexuals who look like they were inspired by clowns and it shows 💤
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The house will survive despite her handiwork. Its memory will reappear when she least expects it, in the pages of a book, in a painting in a gallery.
January 2, 2026 at 9:43 AM
The house will survive despite her handiwork. Its memory will reappear when she least expects it, in the pages of a book, in a painting in a gallery.
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Fun fact, while in the Lord Of The Rings movies frodo looked like this, in the books he actually looks like this!
January 2, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Fun fact, while in the Lord Of The Rings movies frodo looked like this, in the books he actually looks like this!
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what’s happening with grok and nudity spam requests should be a global wake up call about AI image gen and instead very few media outlets have even covered it yet
January 2, 2026 at 12:48 AM
what’s happening with grok and nudity spam requests should be a global wake up call about AI image gen and instead very few media outlets have even covered it yet
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One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.
January 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM
One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.
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Don't take our word for it! The illustrious mayor thought so highly of the Wide Awakes' gift to him - a twist on a genuine, celebratory flyer upon 1860 Lincoln's election - that he included it in not one, but of his videos!
This, and SO MUCH MORE at wideawakes.army 👁
This, and SO MUCH MORE at wideawakes.army 👁
January 2, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Don't take our word for it! The illustrious mayor thought so highly of the Wide Awakes' gift to him - a twist on a genuine, celebratory flyer upon 1860 Lincoln's election - that he included it in not one, but of his videos!
This, and SO MUCH MORE at wideawakes.army 👁
This, and SO MUCH MORE at wideawakes.army 👁
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Nine Delights 2026
January 1, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Nine Delights 2026
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pretty funny in american boy when estelle (from london) goes like fuck yeah dude i want to see the subway and a cafe
January 1, 2026 at 11:33 PM
pretty funny in american boy when estelle (from london) goes like fuck yeah dude i want to see the subway and a cafe
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zohran mamdani speaks to the dream of every goofy nerd that they, too, can land a mind-shatteringly beautiful woman who's just a little mean but in a cool way
January 2, 2026 at 5:07 AM
zohran mamdani speaks to the dream of every goofy nerd that they, too, can land a mind-shatteringly beautiful woman who's just a little mean but in a cool way
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i am still furious about how the entire elite media has been ramming trump's political commisar at CBS and all of her ideological fellow travellers down my throat as "centrists with some reasonable concerns, just like you."
people who have been warning about these folks being disgusting vile Nazis have been dismissed and ridiculed, while every reasonable centrist pundit counts Stone as a worthy interlocutor. just irredeemable pos.
I was wondering why their is so much random racist discourse on Somalis on the TL rn but oh it’s election season for governor rn lol
January 2, 2026 at 6:15 AM
i am still furious about how the entire elite media has been ramming trump's political commisar at CBS and all of her ideological fellow travellers down my throat as "centrists with some reasonable concerns, just like you."
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A LOT of our current idiotic Discourse situation is downstream of the NYT throwing in--and in a ham-handed and oft frankly stupid way--with one faction after another, switching its targets and favored subjects according to what its leadership deemed most prestigious, always trying to stay Relevant.
January 1, 2026 at 7:32 PM
A LOT of our current idiotic Discourse situation is downstream of the NYT throwing in--and in a ham-handed and oft frankly stupid way--with one faction after another, switching its targets and favored subjects according to what its leadership deemed most prestigious, always trying to stay Relevant.
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It's worth reading the whole interview in full. It basically verifies that the NYT has spent the past decade-plus doubling down on top-down narratives for coverage, getting more intense over time.
Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.
Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM
It's worth reading the whole interview in full. It basically verifies that the NYT has spent the past decade-plus doubling down on top-down narratives for coverage, getting more intense over time.
Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.
Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.
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People will be basically the same as today
January 1, 2026 at 6:15 PM
People will be basically the same as today