Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Imo the way to come to terms with the fact that you will die and be forgotten, and that that is not only fine but actually good, is to do what I did: read Middlemarch while you're unemployed. 110
Reposted by Benthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers 4161821289
Reposted by Benthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'll say this for the "Choosin' Texas" article, I am VERY GOOD at not doing the "we're all gonna be mad about the same article" thing but the chatter around it drew me in, so, point scored. anyhow, I, too, am choosing Texas, specifically Houston's own Rusted Shut www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfBM...youtube.comRusted Shut - Rehab (Full Album)YouTube video by Irresponsableful 1011613
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026they're going to play a double-header after climbing El Capitan 020
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026running for President on a platform of "all sports should be streaming on Tubi" and winning 500 electoral votes 020
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Urging my fellow straight men to take the Homer Simpson approach to all stories involving lesbian bars: as long as they're observing appropriate fire safety, it's none of your business. 020
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Great Moments in Progressive Rock History September 1, 1974: Caravan vocalist/guitarist Pye Hastings implores a live audience to clap out a solo in 7/8 time. 010
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 13/09/2026[to the tune of Big Boys' cover of Kool and the Gang's "Hollywood Swinging"] Hollywoooooood Hollywood Smothers 041
Reposted by Benhorse chestnut @natehousley.com · 11/09/2026I hope 5 or 6 more companies start leaving scooters and e-bikes all over the sidewalk 1242
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026From what I know firsthand of the traffic and highways and am hearing of the humidity, LA is just Houston now. 130
Reposted by Benjeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Marion Brown was born in Atlanta, Georgia on this day in 1931 📸 Larry Fink 1417
Reposted by BenRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Horrifying. UT is a jewel of the public sphere, and racist politicians are dismantling it. And they want this for every university. Yeah yours too 321545
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 03/09/2026the Trump administration will be undone by its unwillingness to follow heterodox economist @eliyudin.com's proposal: $1 is now $2 020
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Heard Justin Bieber's "Love Yourself" at the store today which means I'm going to have the @roundrockpod.bsky.social parody "Kevin Love Yourself" stuck in my head for days now. 000
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"The president has a tenuous grasp on reality and can't survive without his blonde assistant Natalie who takes care of all his life tasks for him" would be a lot cooler if it was happening because Adrian Monk was president. 040
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Thinking very strongly about the phrase "a sort of Soviet Texas" 160
Reposted by BenJacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Man with a Movie Camera is a 1929 Soviet experimental documentary that posits that the purest form of cinema - real cinema- is basketball footage 538659
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I enjoyed Rose of Nevada and am granting it a place in the annex wing of the Spooky Coastal Town archive, but now I can only think of Callum Turner as the guy from the Sex Purge (which I did not see). 000
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Understand some of the reservations about Camp Miasma but also don't care. The pitch "Gillian Anderson as final girl of a slasher franchise" is enough on its own to make me fork over my (meager) life savings to a filmmaker. 010
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026just sitting here like a dunce waiting four more days for Camp Miasma to come to town 110
Reposted by BenSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026That’s it and that’s all, and journalists who do this are willing accomplices. 152170349
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Had an absolute blast at my first Valkyries game on Tuesday. 030
Reposted by Benthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/08/2026And so begins a global movement, one which will spread across the globe and come to define our time, our era, our moment. Cast Jon Wurster as James Bond. 2435729
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 06/08/2026[Soft Cell "Sex Dwarf" voice] Sex Purge Sex Purge Sex Purge Mmm, Sex Purge 010
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 03/08/2026one of my X-Files posts is getting re-posted again, which just reinforces my belief that you could post literally anything about Brad Dourif on here and go semi-viral. 171
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I know a lot of the bands from the era were explicitly apolitical, but has there every been a book or PhD dissertation or whatever about how The Troubles produced some of the greatest English language pop music ever. 100
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I hovered over a Sophie Cunningham-related post on Instagram for probably half a second two weeks ago, and now 90% of my suggested posts are about her. (I barely even follow sports on there, mostly just people I actually know in person.) 020
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Rocket to Russia on the turntable now. There are very few things I was right about when I was 13, but the Ramones really were That Good. 020
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Felt an enormous amount of Sacramento pride welling up when I saw that my barber's new location has a signed photo of Tyreke Evans. 130
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026saw some Ramones posting today and also had a lot of apartment cleaning to do, which reminded me that the Ramones are far and away the GOAT cleaning/chores band. 210
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 30/07/2026needle gesticulating wildly in the "Nolan fanboys" section of my "who is annoying me more, Nolan fanboys or Nolan haters" meter 010
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 20/07/2026ok great flick but really Zouks should've been in it for like 11 seconds as a pervy suitor who gets his shit rocked by Odysseus 020
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 19/07/2026About to go see the Odyssey, ready to get mad about what I'm assuming everyone else is mad about (Jason Mantzoukas isn't in the movie) 050
Reposted by BenRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Anyway, the university administration is now appealing to Donald Trump's anti-labor federal labor board to overturn a legitimate democratic election. You should care about this! 014913
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026England is being punished for pushing Oasis on us a second time. 010
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I tried to show my six year-old niece the Jackass "High Five" bit, and she didn't think it was funny. This is the worst thing that's ever happened to me. 030
Reposted by BenRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 19/11/2024this is probably the most important thing i have ever madeyoutube.comHello BabyYouTube video by Rory Blank 619759
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Going on a decade or so of thinking to myself during every summer league game: [Calvin Johnson voice] we'll come back for NBA summer/and go our separate ways 231
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The epilogue to The Making of the Atomic Bomb feels like a spiritual companion to "Children of the Grave" (complimentary). 010
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 07/07/2026sitting down to make an American Indie Rock songs list like everyone else, immediately getting bored and just listing Underdogs of Nipomo 15 times 000
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 07/07/2026England played Oasis when they won, so I hope Belgium plays like Hubble Bubble. 110
Ben @beeeencox.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I don't blame players for flopping. I would also like to lie down on the pitch on a warm summer afternoon. 030
Reposted by BenMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/07/202645 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...nytimes.comRARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS (Published 1981) 9443131477
Reposted by BenGef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Happy Return of the Living Dead day to all who celebrate 121126365