The Benj!
@thebenj.bsky.social
Parent, game person, library person. He/him.
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When it comes to trans rights, the BBC has been reversing through the marketplace of ideas, smashing into fruit carts. But it's interesting that its conservative critics still regard the broadcaster as a font of pro-trans propaganda. How odd! Perhaps a few more concessions will win them over?
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
When it comes to trans rights, the BBC has been reversing through the marketplace of ideas, smashing into fruit carts. But it's interesting that its conservative critics still regard the broadcaster as a font of pro-trans propaganda. How odd! Perhaps a few more concessions will win them over?
It feels weird having William Fichtner and Will Arnett in the same movie as unrelated characters when they seem like they could very credibly be cast as brothers.
December 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
It feels weird having William Fichtner and Will Arnett in the same movie as unrelated characters when they seem like they could very credibly be cast as brothers.
I wonder if this opening training montage in the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is an intentional reference to Fruit Ninja?
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I wonder if this opening training montage in the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is an intentional reference to Fruit Ninja?
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TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
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Hey Millennials, you should congratulate Gen Alpha on their first successful kill
December 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Hey Millennials, you should congratulate Gen Alpha on their first successful kill
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THEY DID THE MEME
THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME
THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME
December 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
THEY DID THE MEME
THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME
THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME
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WHO REMEMBERS WHEN THE BEING MURDERED MAN WOULD BRING ROUND BEING MURDERED. WE LOVED IT
The number of murders in the capital in the first nine months (1st January to 30th September) of 2025 is the lowest since monthly records began and represents a fall of almost 60 per cent compared to 2003.
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
London records fewest homicides this year since monthly records began
The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than any year since monthly homicide records began in 2003, according to new analysis from the Mayor’s Office for Policing ...
www.london.gov.uk
December 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
WHO REMEMBERS WHEN THE BEING MURDERED MAN WOULD BRING ROUND BEING MURDERED. WE LOVED IT
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I hate how much I enjoyed this
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I hate how much I enjoyed this
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
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If I was a nativist you couldn't drag that out of me. Severely embarrassing ideology. Announcing that you're a loser with no personal accomplishments so you have to ride the coattails of ancestors you imagine yourself having. Might as well proudly claim that your dad is spider man
December 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If I was a nativist you couldn't drag that out of me. Severely embarrassing ideology. Announcing that you're a loser with no personal accomplishments so you have to ride the coattails of ancestors you imagine yourself having. Might as well proudly claim that your dad is spider man
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if mike judge married judge reinhold his name would be mike reinhold
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
if mike judge married judge reinhold his name would be mike reinhold
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"We shouldn't spend 30% of our budget on foreign aid! It should be like 3%!"
(this would be roughly a tripling of the foreign aid budget)
"It should take at least 5 years to immigrate legally!" (for most people it takes 10 years to never)
(this would be roughly a tripling of the foreign aid budget)
"It should take at least 5 years to immigrate legally!" (for most people it takes 10 years to never)
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"We shouldn't spend 30% of our budget on foreign aid! It should be like 3%!"
(this would be roughly a tripling of the foreign aid budget)
"It should take at least 5 years to immigrate legally!" (for most people it takes 10 years to never)
(this would be roughly a tripling of the foreign aid budget)
"It should take at least 5 years to immigrate legally!" (for most people it takes 10 years to never)
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one frustrating thing about our Current Era (TM) is that people are supposedly against things like immigration or foreign aid but when asked to describe their ideal version of both they describe something *way* more liberal than what actually is
bc they imagine we're currently way more generous
bc they imagine we're currently way more generous
December 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
one frustrating thing about our Current Era (TM) is that people are supposedly against things like immigration or foreign aid but when asked to describe their ideal version of both they describe something *way* more liberal than what actually is
bc they imagine we're currently way more generous
bc they imagine we're currently way more generous
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“One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor and invisible labor. To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. […] To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing.”
[Hugo, Les Miserables VII.8]
[Hugo, Les Miserables VII.8]
December 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
“One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor and invisible labor. To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. […] To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing.”
[Hugo, Les Miserables VII.8]
[Hugo, Les Miserables VII.8]
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I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)
“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)
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Sorry I think using AI for placeholders is also bad
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I know you only care about finished art but placeholder art also needs to be made by a human being who also needs to be paid for that
But placeholder midjourney slop cuts that artist out
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I know you only care about finished art but placeholder art also needs to be made by a human being who also needs to be paid for that
But placeholder midjourney slop cuts that artist out
December 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Sorry I think using AI for placeholders is also bad
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know you only care about finished art but placeholder art also needs to be made by a human being who also needs to be paid for that
But placeholder midjourney slop cuts that artist out
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know you only care about finished art but placeholder art also needs to be made by a human being who also needs to be paid for that
But placeholder midjourney slop cuts that artist out
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one of the most fascinating things about LLMs is that if you want it to sound coherent, helpful, and knowledgeable, you have to train it on sources which are those things, and ib biases them to mirror their fundamental normal-ness
that pisses off the weird fascists making and deploying them so much
that pisses off the weird fascists making and deploying them so much
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
one of the most fascinating things about LLMs is that if you want it to sound coherent, helpful, and knowledgeable, you have to train it on sources which are those things, and ib biases them to mirror their fundamental normal-ness
that pisses off the weird fascists making and deploying them so much
that pisses off the weird fascists making and deploying them so much
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behold, the platonic ideal of social media
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
behold, the platonic ideal of social media
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
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i stand by this statement every year
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
i stand by this statement every year
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Some experts expressed disagreement about whether the President can fly by flapping his arms very fast
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Some experts expressed disagreement about whether the President can fly by flapping his arms very fast