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Ben

@aceofbens.com

1.5K followers 817 following 9K posts

Mostly here to talk about the Phillies, Flyers, and whatever team I'm bandwagoning. No pronouns, do not refer to me ever.

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Ben @aceofbens.com · 18/09/2026

Watching the WPBL for the first time... there's already so much lore to catch up on

Photo of the WPBL Championship broadcast on the TV. It's currently showing the sideline reporter posing next to the stands with a fan's lawn goose dressed in the same outfit as her, hair extensions and all

Ben @aceofbens.com · 13/09/2026

as I said

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Ben @aceofbens.com · 13/09/2026

You are literally not that important

Screenshot of the settings panel showing the the screen brightness is turned up all the way. There's a system alert under it that says "Can't adjust brightness because it's being controlled by Wawa"

Ben @aceofbens.com · 09/09/2026

"I like the manual zamboni action they got going on" - @manicmothman.bsky.social

Photo of the guys with the rake things on the baseball field making the infield dirt all smooth again

Ben @aceofbens.com · 06/09/2026

Laid down on the couch with a brand new sketchbook, but why have hobbies when you have cats?

Selfie of me, a trans guy with glasses and headphones on, laying on a couch. You can't see many other details about me because I have a blank sketchbook in hand, held against my forehead because there's also a fluffy white cat on my chest sticking her face in mine.

Ben @aceofbens.com · 04/09/2026

won bingo on my birthday :)

Photo of a bingo card with a lot of squares marked off because the way to win the round was to get a plus sign or an X. There's a fifteen dollar gift card for Queen & Rook next to the bingo card because that's what I won

Ben @aceofbens.com · 01/09/2026

Hell yeah, I heard he "absolutely walloped" that baseball

MLB push notification

Demolished
Bryson Stott absolutely wallops a ball 464 feet to give the Phillies an early lead in the desert

Ben @aceofbens.com · 10/08/2026

guys, just look at her

Bathroom mirror selfie with me awkwardly holding a fluffy white cat. She is staring wide-eyed into the mirror and her big fuzzy pink belly is visible. She recently got a lion's cut so she's not as fluffy as usual but there's a big floof at the end of her tail.

Ben @aceofbens.com · 08/08/2026

Do you think she's killing me in her mind because I gave her ear drops?

Photo of a fluffy white cat laying along the back cushion of the couch with her chin resting on the more stable backing of the couch. She's looking a little grumpily into the camera. She just has resting bitch face. There's a Phillies game on the TV behind her.

Ben @aceofbens.com · 06/08/2026

photo of a white cat yawning but she looks like she's screaming loudly with her ears back, eyes squinting, and jaw practically unhinged

Ben @aceofbens.com · 17/07/2026

that Philly sky 😍

Photo of the sky in Center City. It's like, grey-ish brown-ish yellow and the sun is a glowing red circle next to one of the sky scrapers. The whole picture kind of looks like it's in a sepia filter.

Ben @aceofbens.com · 13/07/2026

Why would they order it like this?

Screenshot from the MLB app. At the top of the homepage, it shows the game schedule for the Phillies (my default team of course) but the calendar squares are orders as follows:

Sunday the 12th @ Detroit
Tuesday the 14th - All-Star Game
Monday the 13th - Home Run Derby

Ben @aceofbens.com · 28/06/2026

no... you're kidding......

Push notification from the MLB app.

Phils add Pham
Phillies sign veteran outfielder Tommy Pham to Minor League deal.

Ben @aceofbens.com · 26/06/2026

Thank you, Chiitan

Screenshot showing that Chiitan liked the above post

Ben @aceofbens.com · 24/06/2026

Not the "CYCLE ALERT" on the scorebug 😭

Screenshot from the Phillies broadcast, showing a red banner that says "CYCLE ALERT" above the Phillies' score on the scorebug while Brandon Marsh is up to bat

Ben @aceofbens.com · 23/06/2026

LinkedIn is truly a wasteland of ghost jobs

Screenshot of a job posting on LinkedIn.

Philadelphia, PA
Posted one hour ago
9 applicants
Remote, Part-time

No longer accepting applications

Ben @aceofbens.com · 22/06/2026

These freeloaders sure have audacity

Photo of a fluffy white cat stealing chex mix cereal from a human food bowl

Ben @aceofbens.com · 15/06/2026

cats are so dumb (affectionate)

fluffy white cat making a weird face

Ben @aceofbens.com · 05/06/2026

UPDATE: Luckily he didn't wander as far as I was scared he might! Pogo is home now :)

Grey and white cat ferally chomping at treats on the floor

Grey and white cat licking his chops after chomping on treats

Ben @aceofbens.com · 05/06/2026

If anyone sees this dumb lil guy in West Philly lmk Pogo got out yesterday. He's a former street cat and has been known to follow people several blocks and try to invite himself inside so we're not ruling out that someone brought him in, but most likely he's wandering around looking for shade

Grey and white cat with wide-open green eyes loafing on a cat tree

Grey and white cat with a bent tail from a former injury stretched out on the floor

Grey and white cat sitting on the couch. Yes he has an air tag collar, but my roommate said it has fallen out of the collar since this photo was taken so we don't have his location

Ben @aceofbens.com · 27/05/2026

never forget kyle's bi headband

Screenshot from the NBCSP broadcast showing Kyle Schwarber in the dugout wearing a headband that looks like the bi pride flag.

Ben @aceofbens.com · 27/05/2026

he just had to go on TikTok again

Screenshot from the Phillies broadcast showing the jumbotron at the Padres' stadium. It's showing a "fun fact" about Bryce Harper which says, "squirts toothpaste into his mouth instead of onto his toothbrush when brushing teeth"

Ben @aceofbens.com · 23/05/2026

It got worse

Photo of the fluffy white cat slouched over my knee, asleep. On the TV in the background, one of the Guardians is hitting a home run

Ben @aceofbens.com · 23/05/2026

Azira said "wake me up when the phils' bats wake up"

Photo of a fluffy white cat sleeping while sitting up. The Phillies game is on the TV in the background.

Ben @aceofbens.com · 19/05/2026

Photo of a sheet cake with the words, "Congration you done it" written poorly in red frosting on it

Ben @aceofbens.com · 12/05/2026

Oops, I forgot all jobs are AI now! My plans to off myself have been expedited

Screenshot of an email from Handshake that I just got at midnight. It says:

Nicole just messaged you about a job

Hi Ben,

I'm Nicole, a recruiter at Handshake Al. I came across your background and thought you might be a great fit for a couple upcoming Al training projects.

Handshake Al gives students and professionals like you the opportunity to earn extra income by working on flexible, fully remote Al-based projects that help train and evaluate Al systems.

Ben @aceofbens.com · 03/05/2026

distracting the other guy so he won't start a fight

photo of a grey and white cat sitting next to me on the couch getting head scratches so he won't bite the orange cat whose butt is in the bottom of the photo

Ben @aceofbens.com · 03/05/2026

howdy

photo of me laying on the couch with a giant orange cat sitting on my chest. not pictured but he is purring louder than a lawnmower.

Ben @aceofbens.com · 17/04/2026

phylli cheesesteak

Photo of the side of a food truck in Manhattan. There's a photo of a cheesesteak labeled "philly cheesesteak" but it's spelled p-h-y-l-l-i

Ben @aceofbens.com · 05/04/2026

Phillies are winning and there's a cat snoring on my lap, so personally, so am I

Sleepy white cat on my lap

Ben @aceofbens.com · 30/03/2026

no food in this house is safe

Fluffy white cat poking her head up over a a bowl of oatmeal

Another photo of the white cat sticking her face between the bowl and my wrist. One of her eyes is covered, and her mouth is slightly open making her look goofy

Ben @aceofbens.com · 26/03/2026

have we made fun yet of the fact this Game Note makes it sound like ABS is the star of the game?

Screenshot from the MLB app of the game summary for the Yankees vs Giants game about to start. There's a game note thay says "ABS makes its regular season debut as Judge takes on Webb, only on Netflix"

Ben @aceofbens.com · 22/03/2026

went to check it out myself, saw the sponsor for today, and thought "ahh, that explains it"

Screenshot of the opening page of the MLB app. At the bottom, it says "presented by Adobe"

Ben @aceofbens.com · 18/03/2026

GOOD JOB KYLE

Ben @aceofbens.com · 17/03/2026

surely this is normal

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Ben @aceofbens.com · 06/03/2026

I just think she's so perfect

photo of a very sleepy, very fluffy white cat named Zira cuddled up against my legs

Ben @aceofbens.com · 24/02/2026

a goofy-looking grey and white cat sitting in a box that is nested in another box which is nested in a third box. he is box-maxxing.

Ben @aceofbens.com · 21/02/2026

Thank you, Life360, for letting me know my roommate is circling the block looking for street parking

Screenshot showing 10 notifications from Life360 flipping between "Left Home" and "Arrived at Home"

Ben @aceofbens.com · 21/02/2026

when my roommate says "Idk what I'm gonna do when the Olympics are all over and I don't have that to put on all day!"

Ben @aceofbens.com · 20/02/2026

So I bought strawberry poptarts and I guess I should've known since the box had that goofy mascot on it but what is this?? Where tf are my sprinkles?

Close up photo of a strawberry poptart but instead of the rainbow sprinkles on the frosting like a typical strawberry poptart would have, there's an image of a personified strawberry poptart with a huge toothless smile and giant wide eyes right above its mouth. The poptart is sitting in a toaster on a football field and it's holding (yes holding, because it has arms) a sign that says EAT ME! in all caps with an exclamation point and a little heart underneath it.

Ben @aceofbens.com · 16/02/2026

the meowing cloud followed me back to bed

Ben @aceofbens.com · 12/02/2026

RIP

Push notifications from my email app and from the Github app telling me that the Phillies mirror bot failed to run like ten minutes ago

Ben @aceofbens.com · 08/02/2026

personal update: we finally cleared out the living room enough to set up the tv

photo of a big ass tv showing the winter olympic games

Ben @aceofbens.com · 25/01/2026

Zohran Mamdani said stay home and read Heated Rivalry on Libby and Hoopla through your public library

Ben @aceofbens.com · 24/01/2026

help there's a weird lil guy trying to break into my room

photo of a white cat paw grabbing the underside of my bedroom door like he's trying to pull it open

Ben @aceofbens.com · 22/01/2026

Day 5 of trying to keep the cats (mostly the orange one) out of my room

Ben @aceofbens.com · 21/01/2026

related throwback

Ben @aceofbens.com · 21/01/2026

truly

same grey and white cat napping on my lap

Ben @aceofbens.com · 21/01/2026

I haven't given up hope on keeping them out of my room, but I have given up on other boundaries. My food is their food.

Photo of a grey and white cat licking my tub of potato salad

Ben @aceofbens.com · 17/01/2026

Do I remember buying this? Not in the slightest. But it's incredibly on brand.

Photo of me holding up a copy of "Slide!" by Carl Wolfson in front of half-filled bookshelves. The subtitle on the front cover says, "The Baseball Tragicomedy That Defined Me, My Family, and the City of Philadelphia—And How it All Could Have Been Avoided Had Someone Just Listened to My Lesbian Great Aunt." Above the author name, it says "1964 Phillies"