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Ben Templesmith

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Australo-American. Grumpy rabble rouser. Co-created 30 Days of Night, you know, that became that film. Writer, artist, cephalopod, cat & horror enthusiast. Annoyingly for you, still here.

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · Nov 14

Going forward, thanks to AI tech bros & their billionaire parasites, I show far less art on the platforms. ( Gonna Nightshade the crap out of things too ) But I show all my process & a lot more stuff over on thesquidarmy.com patreon.

Here's a little free bit.

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 3h

What does your tattooist make you hold when they’re tattooing a painful part of your body?

Look, it worked. It worked.

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 3h

We may be too lazy for a 15 min drive 😂

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 3h

Exactly my point.

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 10h

*ledge-leave, thanks autocorrect??

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 18h

So St Louis is the first city I’ve had the locals warn not to go walking downtown at night?

I looked it up & it’s a virtual tie with Memphis on being the violet crime cities the mango Mussolini actually rants about.

So maybe ledge Portland & Chicago alone? Always felt safe there.

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 1d

You know that thing where you’ll miss your connection by just 20 mins, so you rebook & will now be 5 hours late?

I checked the old flight connection. It too was late. I’d have made it. & just got in 45 mins late.

The universe just put it’s dick in my ear. Thanks universe! 😂

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I think I’ve done it again & absent mindedly forgotten my art case for the con in the hall. Doubt I’ll be getting it back. No art in it, just some con gear, but a good reminder if it doesn’t have straps, I shouldn’t bring 5 pieces of luggage anymore. Time to put it all in a suitcase instead.

a bald man is wearing a red sweater with a star trek logo on the front .

ALT: a bald man is wearing a red sweater with a star trek logo on the front .

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TrevorAMueller 🔜 GalaxyCon St Louis @trevoramueller.bsky.social · 2d

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tre...

Los Ojos vol 1: The Eyes of the Dead

Los Ojos is a supernatural action story for mature readers about a hitman who battles demons. Think John Wick meets John Constantine.

www.kickstarter.com

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 2d

From all over I imagine!

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 2d

The sleeve progresses.

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 3d

These… these are real national guard members?

Is there like *any* fitness criteria?

Leon Thomas @renegadecut.bsky.social · 3d

the texas national guard is showing up in chicago to let everyone see what the most unfucked dudes look like.

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 3d

DFW

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 3d

Ahahahaha. That thing where you might actually catch up with a friend even though you forgot to tell them you’d be in town for a few hours, weeks ago, & just after your plane lands you remember to text them & they’ll be around your hotel at exactly the right time… probably. 😂

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 3d

A gallery opening, a Hindu multi day wedding, a little Garden of the Gods, a side trip to DFW for a tattoo today, one day home with the cats, then 5 days out doing GalaxyCon Saint Louis.

I’m already rather tired, but such memories.

Then… crowdfunding a thingie?

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 7d

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 8d

Was taped right next to the entrance of the plane.

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 8d

Also: this is real nice. Never seen it pointed out before as we boarded the flight.

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 8d

Finally, I land in Denver 3 hours late. Thanks American.

Those 3 hours were meant to get me some time to stash stuff, put on a suit, grab a little food. Now I’m just dashing to the gallery where I’ll probably get changed in public as some sort of art piece.

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 8d

😂

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 8d

None of this is real, innit, since there’s still so many unknowns & the crisis of cosmology etc etc.

But I like a Big Crunch please.

as.cornell.edu/news/physici...

Physicist: After 33 billon years, universe ‘will end in a big crunch’

After expanding to its peak size about 11 billion years from now, the universe will begin to contract – snapping back like a rubber band to a single point at the end, according to a Cornell physicist.

as.cornell.edu

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 8d

"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we will mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that, if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

-Valery Legasov, Chernobyl Miniseries

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 8d

I prefer to be a little more optimistic that more people are like me, & have lines they won’t cross & some sense of true honour, rather than be a spiral of negativity giving up all hope that what’s meant to be the bastion of protection of the constitution is just like all the rest, hollow & rancid!

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 8d

Yup. Yuuuup.

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 8d

Pete Davidson back stage at Riyadh making small talk.

"Yeah, my dad died on 9/11."
"Really? Mine too."
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