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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Every time I listen to Street Legal I'm like man I forgot how great this album is, and then I immediately forget about it again for two years, leading me to wonder if Bob Dylan's 18th studio album is in fact an anti-memetic artefact.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Just started reading Lord of The Rings to my six year old. My six year old:

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I will never leave the comments section of the NYT Crossword.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

BJ Novak you have made a fool out of me with your little book for the last time

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I have a really clear memory of being six and driving down the freeway with my dad and saying “I reckon I can run this fast” and him, weirdly annoyed, saying “no you can’t”. I always wondered why that pissed him off so much but now that I have a six year old I get it. I get it, Dad.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

This is fucking insane. I know we have other stuff on but I feel like this is something the UN could sort out if they put their minds to it.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Slow Horses gripe: I don’t think Roddy Ho is a fan of Shadow of the Colossus.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Exciting news: I have given myself a tummy ache from eating too many chicken crimpies from the snack table.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

- Hey there’s a really smart guy at the New Yorker who only interviews people he’s pissed off with and everyone who does it comes out looking like a bozo. He wants to talk to you, I figured you wouldn’t - - My God yes can he do 2pm

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Well this is extremely fucken exciting. Insanely blessed with this cast and team. Going to set every day not quite believing it, trying not to knock anything over. au.variety.com/2025/tv/news...

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Stan Announces New Series 'The Killings: Parrish Station'

Production has begun on a new Stan Original cold case crime series, 'The Killings: Parrish Station', due to premiere next year.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I only recently learned that John Wilkes Booth wasn’t just an actor but a reasonably famous one from a famous acting family. Having run the numbers, I’ve decided it’s like if Bill Skarsgard or maybe Liam Hemsworth shot the president today during a screening of one of the Conjuring films.

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TOM @tomwalker.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

originally tweeted this when the thing happened. reposting it here because i remembered the phrase and it made me laugh

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Just tried to listen to an audiobook while not doing anything else. Not cleaning or walking or driving, just sitting there. Feels absolutely demented.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I am thrilled to announce that I am the the guest (not counting the other guest) for the first episode of this bananers show hosted by the wonderful @demilardner.bsky.social. Watch and see my invention, Creature, serve as my body #SYWTWAPP

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Demi Lardner Made The Most Unhinged Game Show 🤯 Ft Paul F. Tompkins, Alexei Toliopoulos [SYWWAPP]

YouTube video by Grouse House

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

My 6 year old asked me this morning what ID stood for and I got so excited to do the Norm joke that I absolutely fumbled it. 😒

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I’ve only seen the trailer but is the plot of the new i know what you did last summer that a different group of teens run over the same fisherman three decades later? Because if so that’s incredibly funny.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

lol all the characters in paw patrol on paramount+ have English accents for some reason instead of the original Canadian, and Moses just looked at the tv in disgust and said “there is something wrong with our speakers”

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I will find, and kill, the villainous mayor from Paw Patrol. This has gone on long enough.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

One of the interesting things about animated kids tv now is that I guess animating large numbers of people is expensive so they all take place in these towns full of lovely buildings but with haunting, empty streets and like six residents, giving the whole thing a post apocalyptic feel.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

If you think about it hard enough, all nouns are proper nouns

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I worry that recommendation algorithms may be getting too good.

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dr mo and mr normal @redactedquirk.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I am drowning/There is no sign of land/You are coming down with me/Hand in unlovable hand

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This bed is on fire / with passionate love / the neighbours complain / about the bed that's on fire

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This has pissed me off for close to two years now. Why would the bread dream of a field of *corn*? It wouldn’t, it would dream of a field of wheat, which is exactly what the illustrator has drawn, possibly in an act of open defiance.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... This is grim. (Full disclosure: This street kitchen is run by my sister. Carly is an incredibly decent person. Does that make *me* an incredibly decent person? By association?? Possibly even better than her??? Ha ha well that’s not for me to say but yeah maybe!)

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‘Such a clear message’: homeless community kitchen told to move last-minute during Sydney’s Vivid festival

Exclusive: Organisers say alternative sites proposed by City of Sydney are unsuitable, leaving them nowhere else to go

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Hamish Linklater. Now there's a guy, if he turns up in something, I'm always going to do the Leonardo DiCaprio Pointing At The TV Thing. Love seeing that guy in stuff.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

95% of making television is this, but without the whimsical doodads.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

We need to update the record here.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

For Americans following our election: our system is similar to yours except we don’t have a President, we have a Prime Minister, and they’re whoever can throw a pig over the National Barn first go.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Broken Hill photo dump. Someone really oughta consider filming stuff here just once.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This is a good slogan. Positive, but not committing the sin of pridefulness.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

At the risk of saying something controversial here, Broken Hill is a place that is dry.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Come to the inside of a Sidney Nolan painting in 15 minutes if you want an ass kicking.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Do you think any of this woman’s friends ever took her aside and were like “hey babe you still seeing this guy? Nice okay listen there is something seriously wrong with his brain.”

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I think Spelling Bee is running out of Normal Words.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

My son made this this morning. We would all do well to remember its powerful message.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I used to scoff at scenes where someone is trying to explain something scientific and they pick up objects from the desk as props, but now that I am writing a scene were such an explanation is required...the temptation to go 'this-stapler-here?This-stapler-is-the-sun-mode' is almost unbearable.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Apparently season 2 of The Pitt is going to be 15 hours in the life of Doug Driscoll??? Just him getting into altercations with various frontline workers and an entire episode where he's asleep??? Don't see how that'll work but here's hoping!

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Thinking about this some more, Harold Lauder in The Stand was a really prescient rendering of a Certain Type of Guy who is now pretty much everywhere.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I don’t think Stephen King gets enough credit for being able to write incredibly nasty pricks really well. Horror and spooky stuff aside, he just writes a really loathsome type of person perfectly.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It’s unsettling to be living through an event with the bone deep certainty that it’s going to be patronisingly explained to you by Judd Apatow in five to six years.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

What's everyone's favourite chewy dragee? Mine's gotta be Mentos.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

THE SEER: [32 minutes later] Oh, one more thing... Nah just yanking your chain, Swans, have a sick one.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

In many ways, I see myself as the Dr Robby of this website (very tired, currently covered in blood)

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My six year old has started saying Skibidi and all I can do in response is make that sort of Hank Hill noise he does when Bobby does something unsettling.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I saw a review of The Pitt that said the problem with it is that it straddles procedural and prestige TV. Wrong!!! That’s why it rules!!! It’s a lot better than a network medical drama BUT I never have to worry that there’ll be a departure episode from the perspective of a stethoscope or whatever.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

How wrong he was. Then, how tragically right.

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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I believe I would bring some much needed levity and humour to The Pitt with my various antics.

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