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Ben Ward
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Web developer. @bffdotfm radio. Music nerd. Brit in San Francisco. he/him.
If only it weren't for those cursed bone spurs he'd have been the best to ever do it, I'm sure.
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
What other prizes could Trump get? The Us Weekly Medal of Freedom? An IHOP Purple Heart? Wine Enthusiast Monthly's Award for Literature?
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Given how UEFA institutionally hates FIFA though, I think the best thing to do would be for them to now issue their own Peace Prize to Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Or, Barack Obama.
December 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Ah! I so appreciate seeing this. Ours is 16 months now, so will definitely be cribbing from this come Christmas planning.
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Selecting and cutting large/scrolled blocks of text in iMessage appears to be actually impossible now. Focus blips in and out, keyboard comes and goes, position gets reset.

Has really fucked my habit of breaking overlong messages into separate posts.
September 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I was pulling for him to be paraded in on a palanquin by bearers in Brendan Carr masks, then delivering his monologue from an effigy of the president as a bearskin rug.

But this was probably the better move.
September 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I’m reading through the quotes and the number of versions of “CouchGPT” have me nodding “yeah, I see why he disables comments.” (Just to stay sane in notifications, not because it’s a bad joke.)
September 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
It’s the Stargate/Dukes of Hazzard reboot we desperately didn’t want.
September 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Also; “Godspeed You! Snack Emperor”
August 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
…and the perfectly poached solo offshoot: Jammy eggs eggs.
August 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM