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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 14h

I said it in a reply, but yes, this cabinet meeting is now, in my brain, the Inept Clown Posse.

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 14h

I keep asking myself, Are these huge corporations that afraid of this inept clown posse?

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 14h

When someone (here, the interviewer) doesn't understand that "content" is not Art.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 15h

Right? I still wouldn't trust her with a penny, but it's for sure a plot device of some sort.

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 16h

Bondi: "President Trump -- my lawyers are in court right now as we speak for you, arguing in Chicago and Portland to keep them safe to bring in the Guard. The government doesn't want it there, but we do."

"the government" - LOL, great Freudian slip there, Pammy!

Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 16h

I just can't watch the clips of him rambling - he's clearly bonkers and those toadies just sit there shitgrinning because they know it's facilitating them all getting filthy rich while the 2-4 ideologues destroy the country!

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 16h

"even as that spotlight" - see, baked without smoke! LOL

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 16h

Many thanks to @ellenaustinli.bsky.social for her literary citizenship and hosting a great evening. I had a blast, under as that spotlight cooked me! 🥵 It was also a treat to share/test my new "gay wedding poems" with a live audience!

Ellen Austin-Li @ellenaustinli.bsky.social · 16h

Cincy/ NKY: Such an outstanding opening event for Poetry at Artifact this past Tuesday! Poets @benkline.bsky.social & Michael C. Peterson rocked the house!! Thank you to Urban Artifact & our co-hosts Radio Artifact for the cool new digs! Were the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m.—come on in!

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 16h

Great read about a terrible person.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 19h

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 18h

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18h

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 18h

It's weird to watch her Gemini energy manifest itself in this manner lately. I wonder if she's been frozen out by T666p/Miller or has a new rich backer with a slightly adjacent agenda or she stepped back for big picture...but the recent pivot, while no step toward redeemable, is noteworthy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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NPR @npr.org · 18h

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them. n.pr/48ihZvq

Need a laptop? This retiree refurbishes laptops, gives them away to those in need

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 19h

It's the same every time you see lil Stevie Miller on TV....he so loathes how much EVERYONE dislikes him. Like, it's motivating him to full nazi!

what a strange time

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 19h

than they are:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/a...

Kristi Noem Attacks Zach Bryan’s New Lyrics About ICE

www.nytimes.com

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 19h

I couldn't tell you one song by this country singer, but that fact that government officials have time to waste on trolling him and making videos about an unreleased song reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally reveal their persistent insecurities and desperate desire to be liked, be cool, be seen as so much more

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 1d

which the day job ate me alive, engage audiences and readers with the work and the stories behind it.

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 1d

Sooooo, I'm not really complaining about the journal drought, because it causes me to reflect on 12 years of writing and revising captured in these three volumes and shared with the world in the same six months. It's wild! I'm so grateful, and it's been added fun to finally, after a spring/summer in

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 1d

After which, the fantastic @fourteenpoems.bsky.social sent STIFF WRIST across the sea this summer. With poems and narratives and motifs about the body and aging and polyamory, Stiff Wrist enjoys being funny and morose, often simultaneously!

www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/stiff-w...

Stiff Wrist by Ben Kline — fourteen poems

about Stiff Wrist Stiff Wrist is the latest pamphlet from US based poet Ben Kline, looking at how we age in a gay world based around youth. The poems in the book celebrate our forefathers and recog...

www.fourteenpoems.com

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 1d

Then, late spring, @emergejournal.bsky.social plucked TWANG [my collection of Appalachian upbringing poems] into being:

elj-editions.com/twang/

Twang | ELJ Editions

Set inside a crumbling rural landscape where preachers don’t do as they say and men die by violence, neglect and strange new viruses, the poems in Twang revisit and reconfigure narratives about Appala...

elj-editions.com

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 1d

First, I kicked off 2025 with the publication of IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE from the cool kids at @variantlit.bsky.social

variantlit.com/product/iwns...

It Was Never Supposed To Be

It Was Never Supposed to Be contains multitudes: of desires, of risks, of fears, of fluids, of loves, of assignations, of histories. “I’m in a doom generation,” Ben Kline writes early in the collec…

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 1d

Eating lunch, just realized I've not had a byline in a journal in almost 6 months! It's been Rejection City in my Submittable all spring and summer, lol.

Mind you, [common sense acknowledgement,] I published three books this year!

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my I just learned who Joel Webb*n is and honestly humanity is done as a species. Like...stuck in the Dark Ages and just mad he's not handed everything he wants because he's an ugly pale. So gross.

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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrate the launch of Moon as Salted Lemon with @clayrebenz.bsky.social and friends at Books & Books in Coral Gables, FL! Use the link in our bio to RSVP for the October 12th event. #booklaunch #poetryreading

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 1d

We also shared that hot spotlight! LOL

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 2d

If the orange lump outlasts Dolly Parton...why are we even

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