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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jackson Chourio's base hit walks off the Padres, Brewers lead the series 2-0

Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 03/10/2026

Me: why am I suddenly seeing Rumbleverse posts online? Internet: *vibecoded private server project* Oh. I see. Hmm. Well maybe if it's hype enough we get a non-vibecoded official update? But I will wait until I see the IG folks make a decision. Yeah I want Rumbleverse back but not like that.

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🌈miski🌦️ @miski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

hi if you also think the new firefox update is ugly and space inefficient: type about:config to address bar, enter, hit yes search "nova" set browser.nova.enabled to false it doesn't revert everything, but it gets rid of the space wasting Round

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 02/10/2026

Tonight, internet strangers, I would like to tell you a tale about "Just Do The Thing". Whether you have ADHD, a short attention span, a lack of drive, or something else, if The Thing takes a few minutes, it's probably time to Just Do The Thing. I am extremely guilty of this, and here's a story:

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 01/10/2026

It's time, everyone. Sucks that AEW has to do another tribute show, but they're damn good at it. I'm going to hear a lot of positive things about a man also named Ben, and I can't promise a tear-free night.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 01/10/2026

Remembered to download almost everything I got through previous Kickstarters for @mst3kofficial.bsky.social on the Gizmoplex before it shut down, except for Season 13. Thanks for the memories Joel but selling the rights (and getting new Rifftrax episodes) was probably for the best, in the end.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 29/09/2026

People will see this and say Hell Yeah. I'm people. Hell Yeah. Now just fucking legalize it everywhere, you bloated turds we call "leaders". (THC/CBD drinks and gummies feel like a revolution, they even make mints now)

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 28/09/2026

My wife: "I don't get emotional like you do with wrestlers." Okay but they are entertainers, just like you celebrate the lives of Hayden, Paul Walker, Robin Williams... "I just don't get it, is all" That's how much I care about wrestling, I suppose. Sigh. RIP fellow Benjamin, and thank you.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 26/09/2026

I don't typically engage with Substack, for reasons related to their ownership and promotion, but I implore people to read this post. So many problems in our society run parallel to what happened to this family.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 25/09/2026

I can't believe we get to say it. The Brewers have one hundred wins this year. Best Brewers team in history. Time to get the ring!

Milwaukee Brewers, 100-59 in 2026 with three regular season games to go

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 23/09/2026

I missed the time in this time zone so in 45 minutes celebrate in Mountain Time

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 21/09/2026

Things that get me through this dreadful daily toil: Imagining @quest64official.bsky.social driving around with mail bins full of Quest 64 cartridges, spreading the good word. "Sir, please, can you spare some bytes?" "Good news citizen, it's your lucky day!"

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 20/09/2026

Every day is a great day for TWRP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK2a...

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TWRP - Body Image (Audio)

YouTube video by TWRPtube

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 16/09/2026

If one has decided to talk out of both sides of their mouth, it's really just lying for personal gain. And I'm out of patience for people with no morals in 2026. This world is already fucked enough, man. Thank you for the info Lizz, and consider me a former follower of DJ Cutman. Just disappointed.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 16/09/2026

In 2008, the Brewers *finally* made the playoffs and I started jumping on the couch. Years and years of Bob Uecker getting us fans through woeful seasons. Today? I'm pumped of course, but the Brewers making the playoffs is darn near the baseline now. It's time for this team to hit it big. Go Crew!

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 15/09/2026

Jeffrey Epstein's friend Mall Handjob Robert Kraft, and milquetoast dorkwad "Neutral" Ed Sheeran, sure did show all of us! Wow we really got got by the genocide-supporting white guys!

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han @hansoeii.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

fuck Ed Sheeran, fuck Pink and every single "neutral" person out there. you cannot be "neutral" during an active genocide. Have some balls and speak the fuck up. Free Palestine, always!

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 14/09/2026

I am willing to sacrifice the Green Bay Packers season if it means the Milwaukee Brewers finally bring home the ring. It's September, it's still baseball season.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 11/09/2026

25 years ago, the same bigots who ramped up their anti-Muslim rhetoric after 9/11 are now celebrating our drugged up president for being bonesaw buds with the country that trained the hijackers. "We Will Never Forget" was just marketing.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 07/09/2026

Me + @celestialsofa.bsky.social + daughter. First AEW live show for the little one! Well this is pretty darn cool news

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

thank you lesbian tractor witch

image with swirling green background of the lesbian tractor witch it says: congratulations if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the lesbian tractor witch, she has removed all curses have a wonderful day

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 30/08/2026

Once upon a time, Malakai Black's unexpected debut was my loudest pop in my living room for an AEW appearance. Today, The New Level was so highly anticipated in my mind that I dreamed about it two nights ago. Austin and Kofi, am I happy to see you All Elite! @swerveconfident.bsky.social king shit.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 27/08/2026

I don't think I'm allowed to admit to people I know and/or work with regularly that Crash (1996) is my favorite movie of all time. I often relinquish that choice to Michael Clayton, another excellent dialogue heavy film. Crash is so weird and so dirty and so so good at telling its story.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

David Cronenberg seems to always bring out the best in me, and it is always a joy to come back to his work. I wrote about CRASH for my reader's choice series. It might be my favorite film of his. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

Prose stylist of the modern avant-garde, J.G. Ballard began writing “Crash” in 1969 after staging an exhibition of three wrecked automobiles at the New Arts Laboratory. These vehicles were presented without context in order to test his hypothesis that a repressed fascination lay behind conventional attitudes of technological death and violence. He believed that this fascination was obsessive, and must have contained a sexual charge. As an additional element to the exhibition, a topless woman interviewed visitors on a closed-circuit television broadcast, and the event reportedly devolved into barbaric drunken chaos. Ballard believed this was evidence enough to prove that his hypothesis was true. Ballard came back to the motor-vehicle as a source of truth throughout the years of the late 60s and well into the 70s, for essays that became the foundation of “The Atrocity Exhibition”, his collection of prose experiments in pursuit of a language of modern ills, and taboo excitements. In one essay, from 1971, “The Car is the Future”, Ballard wrote, “We spend a large part of our lives in the car, and the experience of driving involves many of the experiences of being a human being in the 1970s. The 20th century reaches almost its purest expression on the highway. Here we see, all too clearly, the speed and violence of our age.”. He goes on to call it a strange love affair with the machine, and, conceivably, with our own death and destruction. He suggests that if anyone actually feared the crash, then most of us would be unable to look at a car, let alone drive one. When David Cronenberg became interested in adapting another unfilmable source (he adapted William S. Burroughs’s “Naked Lunch” in 1991), he was warned by his agent at CAA that it would end his career. Cronenberg found a new agent, and went on to make what might be his greatest film.

a still image from David Cronenberg's CRASH of Rosanna Arquette in a backbrace, draped over the interior of a new car

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 27/08/2026

Buy Crazy Tazi on steam when it's on sale for like a dollar Download the mod that ports the original music back into the game Tell AI to fuck off forever "Fans" with morals won't have a hard choice to make. (Also watch the GDQ run where a live band played the music during a gameplay, it rocks)

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 25/08/2026

My wife: why are you obsessed with these videos [on youtube of people doing DJ sets in cozy/unusual places]? You can't even understand these lyrics! Me: for one, because it's authentic. It's not some AI genre bend, it's a real person playing real music. And [as I listen to a jazz set] it's comfy.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 18/08/2026

Seeing this reply to Bluesky's newest DDoS (was this one self made too? Who knows!) was pretty funny. Once it came out that the owner of the mentioned account was messaging kids, he fled. This is a different scandal from the animal name whitewashing that was revealed years ago.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 18/08/2026

Casually winding down for the night by listening to... Vanessa Williams. My music interests are vast, and "The Comfort Zone" is absolutely my jam. And if anyone pours more fuel on the fire, Toni Braxton will be next up. 🎶

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 13/08/2026

I think it's about time to figure out how @stream.place works. And yes, I know that I follow a few dozen creators on Twitch/Youtube/etc that use it as a job (primary or otherwise), but they're trying to make your lives worse at every turn. I don't know what the future holds, but... good luck. 🫡

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 12/08/2026

My account turns 19 soon (thanks JTV) and I wonder if the Amazonization of this site is us approaching rock bottom. Large corporations demanding endless resources, most of which they intend to steal from us. Where is the finish line? Because I hope it's not with a ruined, uninhabitable planet...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Let's show the country just how radical we can get. Wisconsin: Vote for Francesca Hong on or before August 11.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 25/07/2026

Engaging the two halves of my brain in combat: One half wants nothing to do with large crowds, especially being anywhere near the middle One half wants to attend a future Tomorrowland show and have my entire soul absorbed by the crowd and the music and the good vibes

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 25/07/2026

Maybe one day Bluesky will be something other than the Twitter Secondhand Hot Take Machine, but some of its userbase seems determined to not evolve. "Look at this bad take on the Other Site" look at my balls how about that

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 25/07/2026

I wonder if LeBron James got confused and wanted to sign with Philly because D. Wade was on the team...

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Keith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.com · 23/07/2026

It's impressive how many ethical quandaries can be solved by asking yourself, "Would Weird Al be cool with this?"

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 23/07/2026

N.W.A. wrote a song that will endure for all time, until we nut up in this country and actually do something about the unrestricted rampage that police and ICE and our genocidal government have caused on us. Every fucking day... FTP

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

People have been talking up the new newsletter Worse on Purpose, which exposes corporate consolidation and enshittification. It's very appealing, but as I write at Cup of Coffee today, the vibes are way off and I think people should be wary. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

This is the sort of thing that's right the hell up my alley. But it's so up my alley that it made me wonder why such a beast is just emerging right now, from a person no one has ever heard of, as opposed to a few years ago from a better-known anti-corporate crusader or institution. And, more to the point, it made me wonder how Sapp was putting out articles that clearly required a lot of research every week or two weeks when such exposés are normally the sort of thing that can take journalists with resources several weeks to research and write.

So I did some searching to figure out Sapp and his whole deal.

The first thing that raised a red flag was his LinkedIn page, which reveals that, until just last month – three months after he began Worse on Purpose – Sapp worked for Palantir, which is Peter Theil's AI company. Before that Sapp was a co-founder of the AI chatbot company Indigo. Which is, to say the least, a curious path for a guy who wants to blow the lid off of corporate and financial excesses and who cares about everyday consumers like you and me.

So I searched some more and found a post on Y Combinator's news page in which people are asserting that Worse on Purpose is an AI-written project that is cynically leveraging anti-corporate topics with big populist appeal as a means of inuring people – especially otherwise skeptical people like me – to AI "journalism."

That ultimate conclusion skews a bit conspiracy theorist for my tastes, but (a) Sapp does not state his own AI credentials on his site nor are there any disclaimers such as "article partially composed by AI" that you are increasingly seeing (he does have a button connecting his LinkedIn page); (b) there are a lot of unsourced anecdotes and pieces of information in his articles for which you'd normally expect to find at least some sort of sourcing; and (c) most notably, I ran a couple of articles through multiple AI-detection apps and they all light up as highly probable for AI composition.

To be sure, those detectors are, themselves, often unreliable, so I spent a little time early this morning doublechecking facts on one of the articles – the mattress one – to see if Sapp, or his AI bot, were playing super fast and loose with either his facts or characterizations. I obviously did not have the time to be super exhaustive or anything, but most of the broad claims (i.e. who bought which company and when, etc.) check out. Which I think they'd have to because if they didn't he'd be sued into oblivion by the deep-pocketed companies his bots are writing about. That said, the lack of sourcing gives me pause and I am highly, highly skeptical of this whole project.

Maybe Sapp is someone who simply got disillusioned with the world of hypercapitalism, cashed out, and created Worse on Purpose as a soul-cleansing passion project. But if that were the case I doubt he'd start it while still employed by Palantir. And I doubt he'd farm it out to AI to write, which I strongly suspect he did. And even if he did, I'd hope he'd say so. I'll leave the allegations that the site is just some grand psyop aimed at suckering the populace into trusting AI slop to people who are better able to figure such things out, but for now I'll leave it at "this gives me really bad vibes" and suggest that people either steer away from it or treat it with extreme caution.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is why I won’t read your Substack, people.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 18/07/2026

"When are you going to grow up?" Well a bunch of assholes in suits try to take our rights every week, enriching themselves, so if that's "growing up" I'll never do it. Got my video games, got my Spaghettios, got my big bed that I sleep in with my wife.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 17/07/2026

I don't want @gamesdonequick.com live anymore, but I try to catch some of the fun, record breaking, and silly runs on the youtube releases. Thank you @authorblu.es for the Dr. Bees reference during DOS Mega Man.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 17/07/2026

Rumbleverse was so perfectly cursed, wasn't it? A battle royale made by people who care about video games... made exclusively for the Fortnite slop owner now embracing AI. I hate Epic Games, and you should too.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 15/07/2026

I watch QueenBee (and MidnightSumo) on Twitch for sumo content, including the ongoing July tourney, but sometimes I need to tune her out. She gets excited about vibecoding and using AI to make things, but it's all fake. And, as proven many times, STOLEN. Crap future filled with crap.

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Ben Casual @bencasual.org · 15/07/2026

Hint for dating: don't be a fascist. If you are, jump off a bridge. Do us all a favor. Fix your heart or die.

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👺💀The Masque of the Reding Death 💀 👺 @jayreding.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Happy Bastille Day to everyone, especially all my fellow guillotine enthusiasts!

A guillotine drawn in the style of 1980s neon vapor wave art with a sun and digital-style mountains in the background.

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