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AEW's tribute shows are moving, beautiful and frequently some of the best pieces of television they do and I hope they never do another one again.

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The person who wished the Covid-conscious Massachusetts lesbian bar would get firebombed just had their husband answer the door to the Dominos guy with a gun" is a sentance I should not understand. It should remain a lacuna of forbidden knowledge. It should be a crime to tell me these things.

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One time somebody tried to tell Dril he'd never make it on BlueSky if he didn't reply to people's posts and follow them back

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jesus, there's a GenAI Fanta ad playing in the cinemas and it's absolute dogshit slop. Wild that even actual brands are trying to make this a thing now

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok they know exactly what they're doing at this point

poster displaying Zohran Mamdani looking into camera captioned '200,000 holes filled in new york city under Zohran Mamdani'

Post of Zohran Mamdani smiling into camera captioned 'If you are in heat cooling centres are open across NYC'

Poster of Zohran Mamdani looking just off-camera with a woman and man in sunglasses stood behind him. The poster is captioned 'Every street across all 5 boroughs plowed in new york city as of Feb 24'

Poster of Zohran Mamdani looking just off-camera in a green windbreaker and a man in a suit stood just behind him with the head of a person in a beanie out of focus. The poster is captioned '16 inches of snowfall in new york city as of Feb 23'

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The last guy to use this Airbnb left himself logged in to the Smart TV and his YouTube algorithm is fucking atrocious so me and @adamclegg.bsky.social are fixing it for him

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: The Stingers will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

Screenshot from the cartoon Jem and Holograms of the fictional band The Stingers. Image depicts 3 people, two women and a man in the centre, dressed in glam rock fashion in cheetah-print colours.

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Despite leaving an extra 50 minutes travel time for a 1 hour journey TfL have somehow still managed to make me late for my grandmothers funeral and I am absolutely incandescent

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP Tim Curry, you're beyond the corrupting reach of capitalism now :(

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just seen the most Vote-Restore-looking motherfucker you've ever met shouting his travails to the security guard at Tesco: That he violated his ex's restraining order against him and the judge ("I reckon she was a lesbian") put him away for 2 weeks. I can't believe immigrants would do this to him.

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jesus Christ that emergency alert just scared the piss out of me

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Ouch, this one's a little close to the (very sore) bone, Chuck

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Once went to a bao place while blind drunk that served me a pretty simple side dish of rice, egg, onion and small cubes of jellied bone marrow and it was an almost religious experience. Dragged a friend back there when I was sober and it was just... ok. I was distraught.

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Fuck yes I love it when Robert Pattinson is a weird little guy www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fHX...

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Primetime | Official Trailer HD | A24

YouTube video by A24

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Not a direct quote, but shut down my attempt to talk to him about the possible bacterial pneumonia I'd come in for (my housemate had it and I'd developed a worrying cough) to instead talk to me about losing weight.

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Running a D&D murder mystery is a nightmare because at any second your players can do some absolute bullshit like 'I transform into a bloodhound and pick up the scent' or 'I cast Speak With Dead on the murder victim' and you now have to improvise why they don't just find out whodunnit immediately

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

@adamgcb.wtf reaching out to you as someone who can sympathise as D&D is now also getting it's own Universes Beyond lines 😭

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Just listened to @trashfuture.bsky.social talk about how Lord Maurice Glasman wrote a mournful Bossa Nova track about the deposed Crown Prince of Iran called The Shah is Back. Listening to it has permanently altered my brain and folks, you can listen to it too www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Lord Glasman Wrote A Song For The Exiled Crown Prince Of Iran And Played It To Him

Exclusive: Labour peer Maurice Glasman wrote and recorded a song dedicated to Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah of Iran, in support of his exi...

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I'm such a sucker for the 'leaving Prime in x days' schtick that I'm currently watching Masters of the Universe. No. Not the new one.

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I love naming my restaurant exactly halfway through designing the menu

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"The Diary of a Polarising Figure HAS to be a reference to something because it's so fucking sauceless if not. It's like if you took an unused Taylor Swift B-side and translated it to a foreign language and back again

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You simply must watch this

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

England Vs Argentina (2026)

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

One of these days I'm going to work on my TTRPG white whale and write that cyberpunk game about how the future isn't a grim noir dystopia with neon everywhere and LED collars but is, in fact, incredibly fucking stupid. Not the app, I should be clear the app is great. Just all the rest of this BS

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Such a shame to hear about Sam Neill's passing. Just the absolute platonic ideal of Guy I Love To See In A Movie. Insanely prolific filmography packed with straight bangers, always a delight when he turns up on screen and one of the rare few to avoid having a 'Controversies' section on his Wikipedia

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Theres a new Ghost in the Shell that's more faithful to the original manga and has a 90s anime aesthetic. I'm watching it and the vibes are immaculate, but then in the final 30 seconds the Major tells an abused orphan to stop leeching off welfare and get a job and it hits me like a flashbang

Anime image of a young woman with gray-blue hair, a large grey visor resting on her forehead and a light tan jacket with angular shoulders standing in front of a red object with police written across it

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Eric Ansley Díaz 🏳️‍🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I went on holiday to San Francisco back in 2005 and it was a beautiful city full of fascinating, awesome people. Genuinely horrifying to see tech rot out it's soul so now it's where 'founders' go into the AI psychosis confessional booth after being told to get a real job

Screenshot of a tweet with the handle cropped out. It reads 'my cofounder talking to an AI garry tan after a potential customer told her to go get an entry level job'. Below is a photograph of a woman sitting in a white plastic booth with an open back and filled with orange soundproofing material. In front of her is a large screen with Garry Tan, a bearded and bespectacled asian man, pictured on it.

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"I will make a statement on my future in public life at 2pm"

screenshot from the tv show The Thick Of It, showing a BBC news screencap of one of the characters, Nicola Murray' giving a speech in front of a sign that has been cropped to read 'I am bent'.
The chyron below reads 'Nicola Murray MP Row over husband's role in government contracts'

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This might actually be the funniest possible outcome of the Balogun situation, they even got a fourth in injury time to rub salt in the wound

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Wonderwalls will, of course, be a tense, balls-to-the-wall military sci-fi spectacle compared to the claustrophobic horror of the original

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

youtu.be/Avky8dVaqAI?... Just saw this and, if you have the chance, and you enjoy watching dudes go absolutely ham on each other, you should too. Kind of insane how one of the first first big fight scenes features a dude getting punched out the side of a truck but it keeps escalating from there

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The Furious (2026) Official Trailer - Xie Miao, Joe Taslim

YouTube video by Lionsgate Movies

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is incredible but I want to add that I've been aware of the GarfieldEats guy for a while and the funniest thing about it is that it was a pizza restaurant. Easiest layup in the world and he fucks it up.

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This feels like he thinks there's a gap for him to be the escape hatch for techbros in 2028 who feel embarrassed by Trump, probably because he lives in a California bubble and so doesn't realise how much it hurts him with anyone normal.

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Happened two more times overnight. This has to be the new spambot meta, right?

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Anyone else getting something weird happening with a bunch of random accounts that don't seem to be spambots liking exactly 3 of your old posts out of the blue?

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Counting on all you Americans to let me know if Danhausen makes an appearance at the game tonight

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Feeling almost guilty as me and @stephengraves.co.uk just had a great conversation about how nostalgia-driven franchise blockbusters finally seem to be yielding to something new, then immediately went to see Masters of the Universe and absolutely enjoyed the shit out of it

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Hugely sad. We've lost John Blanche. It's hard to know where to begin. He set fire to a generation's imagination, and those fires show no sign of stopping burning. His work very much illuminated the darkness.

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Just finished a Session 0 for this Mage: The Ascension campaign I'll be playing and my word, you can really taste the 90s on it. You wanna make a Mage? Fuck you, here's 4304 proper nouns you need to know the meaning of. And 532 different skill choices that all do the same thing SLIGHTLY differently

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Genuinely interesting thought experiment to consider what happens if Trump gets hit by lightning at a UFC event on the white house lawn on 4 July. How does American Evangelism successfully absorb an event so obviously portentous? Do the Republicans start a congressional hearing into HAARP?

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Very important to let my fellow aging millennials know that it looks like there's a Darkness song on the Masters of the Universe soundtrack

Screenshot of a tweet by Daniel Pemberton reading "tomorrow we have the power" below that is an image showing the logos for Masters of the Universe and The Darkness

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Depressingly portentous to welcome students into the next stage of their lives with an AI taking a human's job and completely fucking it up

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Lol, just saw that the Gina Carano/Ronda Rousey fight went a grand total of 17 seconds which is an incredibly funny joke on everyone who thought that was going to be anything other than two washed-up arseholes collecting a paycheck

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

If they're fighting for a triangle then you are playing Zelda

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Just going to do some shameless self-promotion again to note that my Fast and Furious pastiche TTRPG was chosen as one of the judge's personal recommendations from the Havoc Engine Game Jam. You can find what they had to say here: rowanrookanddecard.com/havoc-jam-wi...

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Havoc Jam WINNERS - Rowan, Rook and Decard

We ran the Havoc Engine Jam last month. I’ll be fully honest with you: I wasn’t expecting to see 52 entries, given that the task was to design an entire, fully-fledged roleplaying game (and probably a...

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I am going to start drinking.

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