Bargain Ben
@betterlazy.bsky.social
Hi! I’m Ben, and I also write things other places. Here’s one: www.betterlazy.com
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Note: I never use LLM or generative AI to create any content. That’s a guarantee.
Nothing here represents the opinions of any employer, entity, or person.
Note: I never use LLM or generative AI to create any content. That’s a guarantee.
I forgot to post it this morning, but here’s a story for this week!
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Both Is Both Is And Are - Better Lazy
“Hey, how come both isn’t singular? Aren't singular?” Davie scratched the back of his head in momentary—if ephemeral—deep thought.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I forgot to post it this morning, but here’s a story for this week!
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Reposted by Bargain Ben
Join @markfinn.bsky.social @selfwinding.bsky.social Eric, and Thom as we discuss #daredevilbornagain 42cast.com/index.php/20... #ESOnetwork #mcu #scifi #disneyplus @vincentdonofrio.bsky.social
The 42cast Episode 260: Fiskal Policies
This week Mark, Alli, Eric, and Thom join the show to discuss Daredevil: Born Again.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Join @markfinn.bsky.social @selfwinding.bsky.social Eric, and Thom as we discuss #daredevilbornagain 42cast.com/index.php/20... #ESOnetwork #mcu #scifi #disneyplus @vincentdonofrio.bsky.social
Half way through, the video threw an error that I wasn’t the intended audience, then charged my credit card twice.
Oh, well. Maybe next year.
Oh, well. Maybe next year.
we made it to the end. or the beginning. depends how you alphabet. secret lair: an encyclopedia of magic is Available now!
Timelapse taken in downtown Renton, WA.
Card Artist - ampreh
Muralist - weirdocult
Timelapse taken in downtown Renton, WA.
Card Artist - ampreh
Muralist - weirdocult
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Half way through, the video threw an error that I wasn’t the intended audience, then charged my credit card twice.
Oh, well. Maybe next year.
Oh, well. Maybe next year.
SecretLair has been delayed another half hour. Phillipe is standing on the internet.
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
SecretLair has been delayed another half hour. Phillipe is standing on the internet.
I know I’m fifty years behind the times on this, but #mtg ATLA, Secret Tunnel is really inspired design. A+. No notes.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I know I’m fifty years behind the times on this, but #mtg ATLA, Secret Tunnel is really inspired design. A+. No notes.
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In the end, the moon hangs in the sky, the very picture of honest innocence.
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When the Sturgeon Bloom - Better Lazy
This is not a story of witches in the switchgrass or midnight curses whispered into empty seas from punts skulled to long-forgotten piers. Their tales need told as well, but not today. This tale runs ...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
In the end, the moon hangs in the sky, the very picture of honest innocence.
betterlazy.com/when-the-stu...
betterlazy.com/when-the-stu...
This was a lot of fun to put together. I dig it when Ruth gets to voice a character Of A Certain Age, and Ms. Spencer is a pip.
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American Shibboleth - Better Lazy
OrCheckov’s Herring Part I: The Interview He made the appointment because she happened to call his desk when he was expecting another, more important call. She asked him if he could see her for fiftee...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This was a lot of fun to put together. I dig it when Ruth gets to voice a character Of A Certain Age, and Ms. Spencer is a pip.
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Part of growing up in America is when a senior dev tells you AI was always just your CEO in a Santa mask.
October 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Part of growing up in America is when a senior dev tells you AI was always just your CEO in a Santa mask.
Hey! There was a nee single from The Grove, and I completely whiffed on posting it. It’s lots of fun!
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Ceiling Tile - Album by The Grove
Listen to Ceiling Tile by The Grove on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hey! There was a nee single from The Grove, and I completely whiffed on posting it. It’s lots of fun!
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It must be exhausting spending so much time and energy to be afraid of perfectly lovely people.
October 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
It must be exhausting spending so much time and energy to be afraid of perfectly lovely people.
A fun little story about humanity’s relationship with itself. Don’t let your hammers make decisions about your nails.
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Space Shrimps - Better Lazy
In the airlock, the act of closing a helmet is self-care. In the void beyond or the bubble of life behind, perhaps less so. A moment of self-care is important to maintain morale in dark and airless ti...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A fun little story about humanity’s relationship with itself. Don’t let your hammers make decisions about your nails.
betterlazy.com/space-shrimps/
betterlazy.com/space-shrimps/
Another with some cusses, but they’re deliberate ones. Also, be warned, food is called “salty” in this one.
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His Patent Leather Mustache - Better Lazy
Saint Anthony, martyr to the infinite self-indulgence machine, exhaled a plume of salty smoke into the kitchen. “Fuck,” he thought. “This food is a little salty.” The embarassed steam rose and tried ...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Another with some cusses, but they’re deliberate ones. Also, be warned, food is called “salty” in this one.
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Anybody else’s Word grammar-check tool just absolutely out to lunch lately? It just keeps suggesting random sputum under the banner of “It would be better…”
Nah, dude. It would be better if the sentence made sense.
Nah, dude. It would be better if the sentence made sense.
October 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Anybody else’s Word grammar-check tool just absolutely out to lunch lately? It just keeps suggesting random sputum under the banner of “It would be better…”
Nah, dude. It would be better if the sentence made sense.
Nah, dude. It would be better if the sentence made sense.
“I ain’t been called arrestin’ since my runway days in gay par-ees,” said the seated officer.
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The Trouble With It - Better Lazy
I beheld the Pipsisewah and Skeezicks, rent physical and massive, blatant and organic, before me. They occupied the entirety of the back office in the warren of Sheriff’s facilities attached to the co...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“I ain’t been called arrestin’ since my runway days in gay par-ees,” said the seated officer.
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Men will literally shut down the government instead of going to therapy.
October 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Men will literally shut down the government instead of going to therapy.
I wrote a mystery! It’s also a pastiche! Can you solve it?
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The Alicia Curry Mysteries - The Firebug - Better Lazy
Lefty Griswold had been known, from time to time, to pull a fast one. In a town as small as Ruston, though, his options for suckers were painfully limited. Especially with that rotten Alicia Curry aro...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I wrote a mystery! It’s also a pastiche! Can you solve it?
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Remember: Jesus says nobody who ever ate a shrimp gets raptured. Pass it on.
September 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Remember: Jesus says nobody who ever ate a shrimp gets raptured. Pass it on.
Production number this week. This one was a lot of fun and came out plenty silly. Please, enjoy.
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Ah. Gallantry. How Prosaic. - Better Lazy
Hanging from the ceiling, tied back-to-back with her, Wink pressed his advantage and turned to Lily in his moment of need! “Quick, Lily! Extemporize an expository monologue while I cut these ropes!” “...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Production number this week. This one was a lot of fun and came out plenty silly. Please, enjoy.
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Does anybody else get the feeling that a lot of the #mtg #Spider-Man cards were designed around a very different flavor, with Spider-Man stuff slapped over them? Like, the flavor feels a few degrees off?
September 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Does anybody else get the feeling that a lot of the #mtg #Spider-Man cards were designed around a very different flavor, with Spider-Man stuff slapped over them? Like, the flavor feels a few degrees off?
New one today. Meditation on a relationship. The days sure do get short sometimes.
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Memories and Anchors - Better Lazy
Greatness is a monstrous thing. Many of us will be blessed to know greatness. All of us are condemned to be weighed against greatness. It is comfort to think that greatness is available to everyone, a...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
New one today. Meditation on a relationship. The days sure do get short sometimes.
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Today, it is what it is, and what it is is a melange of meandering malarky and mumps.
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The Triumph and the Tragedy - Better Lazy
[begin transcript] Hello to all my long-time fans, hello to all my new fans, and hello to everybody Measles brought here. Our vibe is pretty chill, but you’re all very welcome. Mumps, here. I just wa...
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August 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Today, it is what it is, and what it is is a melange of meandering malarky and mumps.
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Goddam, Dead Milkmen. Some days it’s just overwhelming.
August 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Goddam, Dead Milkmen. Some days it’s just overwhelming.
They say “do what you love and you’ll never work another day here in your life,” and heck, I think I am fired.
August 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
They say “do what you love and you’ll never work another day here in your life,” and heck, I think I am fired.
Sometimes, satire doesn’t go far enough and so comes off as mealy-mouthed endorsement or tacit complicity. Things are bad right now for a lot of people in a lot of places.
Anger is anger. Kindness is available. Platitudes are abound.
Anger is anger. Kindness is available. Platitudes are abound.
August 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Sometimes, satire doesn’t go far enough and so comes off as mealy-mouthed endorsement or tacit complicity. Things are bad right now for a lot of people in a lot of places.
Anger is anger. Kindness is available. Platitudes are abound.
Anger is anger. Kindness is available. Platitudes are abound.
This week, I dug a hole in the back yard and shouted into it for half an hour, because sometimes it’s nice to be heard.
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Digs at the Flesh - Better Lazy
“I feel for the poorest and the richest alike,” began, at four minutes after the clock on the square rattled out the chains of 6:30, the sermon on the mound of trash in the vacant and patchy lot betw...
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August 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This week, I dug a hole in the back yard and shouted into it for half an hour, because sometimes it’s nice to be heard.
betterlazy.com/digs-at-the-...
betterlazy.com/digs-at-the-...