Ben Paley
@benpaley.bsky.social
Fiddle player, UK/US, dad granddad and husband, socialist, he/him.
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We had one of those when I was a kid. It did 11 miles a gallon.
Eleven.
Eleven.
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
We had one of those when I was a kid. It did 11 miles a gallon.
Eleven.
Eleven.
Yes! It almost writes itself 🤣
December 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Yes! It almost writes itself 🤣
I couldn't look in a mirror for... actually maybe that book is responsible for my subsequent lifelong dishevelment.
August 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I couldn't look in a mirror for... actually maybe that book is responsible for my subsequent lifelong dishevelment.
I cannot begin to express how much I hate this piece of shit book and its smug sexual predator justifications. And obviously Starship Troopers is just a big dumb fascist romp. However... The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag is a really great and disturbing work of fantasy.
August 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I cannot begin to express how much I hate this piece of shit book and its smug sexual predator justifications. And obviously Starship Troopers is just a big dumb fascist romp. However... The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag is a really great and disturbing work of fantasy.
I never saw it on telly but I loved the books.
July 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I never saw it on telly but I loved the books.
Yes that's exactly what I mean 🤖
June 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Yes that's exactly what I mean 🤖
I hope this didn't come across as glib or flippant. At its best, sci-fi is where we evaluate ideas while they're still on the horizon, and now it feels like the work of those visionary thinkers has been reduced to admiration for Star Wars' stormtroopers.
June 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I hope this didn't come across as glib or flippant. At its best, sci-fi is where we evaluate ideas while they're still on the horizon, and now it feels like the work of those visionary thinkers has been reduced to admiration for Star Wars' stormtroopers.
They love AI, don't they? As if we didn't have decades, very nearly centuries, of science-fiction warning us about this.
June 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
They love AI, don't they? As if we didn't have decades, very nearly centuries, of science-fiction warning us about this.
Johan Cruijff refused to play in Argentina in 1978, and he's a hero.
June 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Johan Cruijff refused to play in Argentina in 1978, and he's a hero.
Yes. It's great and strange and it's short, so even if you hate it you've only wasted twenty minutes (or something, I haven't timed it). I suspect that nobody who thinks spiderwebs are poems will hate it, though.
June 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Yes. It's great and strange and it's short, so even if you hate it you've only wasted twenty minutes (or something, I haven't timed it). I suspect that nobody who thinks spiderwebs are poems will hate it, though.
Have you read Ursula Le Guin's "The Author of the Acacia Seeds"?
June 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Have you read Ursula Le Guin's "The Author of the Acacia Seeds"?
"Heiß dass es läuft oder es kommt bald?"
June 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Heiß dass es läuft oder es kommt bald?"
The outcome continually in balance...
June 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The outcome continually in balance...
This is a very sensible strategy.
June 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is a very sensible strategy.
To be fair, it does feel like engaging a foe, sometimes.
June 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
To be fair, it does feel like engaging a foe, sometimes.
I was thinking apricot danish.
June 17, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I was thinking apricot danish.