Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Six years with my perfect angel @davidjxcarter.bsky.social xx 1170
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Spent an hour on reddit looking for a fix for my PC's audio issues and I found one and it worked and isn't that just the best feeling 021
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026i saved thousands on my car insurance by returning to the sea 91234292
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Dawntrail OST is finally on streaming, and it's a reminder that it really isn't Soken's best work... A few standout tracks like the Heritage Found zone themes and the the night themes for Yak T'el and Urqopacha, but so much of it is annoying or forgettable after a run of absolute bangers 120
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Shout out to all the wonderful little sweeties in my life, thank you for counter-balancing my misanthropic tendencies xx 050
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Strange New Worlds started out so strong but it has absolutely flatlined in quality. Last season started really strong and just got steadily worse throughout. Rough when something diminishes in quality not because of specific choices but because everything about the execution generally gets worse. 140
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The lore drops in the latest chapter of Firmament in Fallen London are **so cool** and I have no one to talk to about them. Of all my favourite things Fallen London is the toughest sell to other people, in part because part of the joy of it is having spent many years in its living, changing world. 340
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Do I know anyone in Sydney with some sourdough starter? Think I'm gonna get back on my bread baking bullshit, haven't done it since before COVID and I need a nice thing 000
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸UrineInTeapot @demilardner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026WELL. HERE IT IS youtu.be/uLFVQhip93k?...youtu.beDates and Apes | Broden Kelly and Tom WalkerYouTube video by Grouse House 21579113
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸Dave Breens @baldbreens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026You'd be pretentious sometimes too if you ever had any interesting thoughts or perspectives 1276
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026My best friend has started dating a nerd so now I'm getting texts from her like 2182
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton on trans rights. God I loved her. 82096561
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Fremantle tomorrow (flight too early), Canberra next week, Wodonga the week after then Melbourne the week after that, too much travel this month 140
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026On Thursday 29 July, I launched my report 'From Re Carla to an Emerging 'Australian Model': How NSW should legislate to protect the bodily integrity of children born with variations of sex characteristics'. #auslaw #aushealth 🧵1/ Report available here: lawfoundation.net.au/wp-content/u...lawfoundation.net.au 274
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Phenomenal thread, and a real nostalgia trip for me. I was an obsessive comics reader in my 20s (from roughly 2007-2017) and read a lot of big 2 events in that time! The thing I have always loved about comics is how high the threshold for weirdness is in the most mainstream examples of the form. 120
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Going to Fremantle this week for work, WA sure is very far away 140
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I desperately need to go out and do gay shit, between work stress and extracurricular writing deadlines and being sick it has been MONTHS since I've been on a dance floor 1100
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸Susan Pennington @spennington.bsky.social · 08/08/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/w...nytimes.comSeized on Their Way to Gaza, Activists Tell of Abuse in Israeli Custody (Gift Article)In interviews, more than 20 people who tried to break an Israeli blockade described beatings, electric shocks and other abuse after being captured. Israel denied the accusations. 055
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I've been having "headaches" for 20 years that I recently started trying migraine meds for... The drugs work, turns out they were migraines the whole time 🫠 230
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Quotes disabled for the previous repost but it's so great, especially on the fact that a tiny minority of "successful" AI users drive unsustainable and destabilising uptake by most others. (1/2) 120
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...thenerve.newsCory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingIt has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t... 361312417
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026ooohhh finally listening to confessions ii... why did I put this off 020
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026Finally, there's an *economic* coin-trick: "AI will destroy jobs." Sure, yes, AI is destroying jobs. But there's a vast difference between "You got fired because an AI can do your job" and "You got fired because your boss was convinced that the AI can do your job, even though it *cannot*." 45/ 239088
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced" 1556570765
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸🎃🦇 Call from daycare to pick up your kid 🔪👻 @mnurkic.online · 02/08/2026It’s bad enough that with a warrant NSW cops can currently compel you to unlock your phone under pain of 5 years jail. Now they want to make that power more broadly available 1135
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Watching the four seasons and while like most dramedies it is not very funny, unlike most dramedies it is a surprisingly good drama 110
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I have been stuck inside with COVID for three days and I cannot remember the last time I was this desperate for someone to **** on my **** until I **** 190
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work?? 672043383
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Finished my draft, holy shit, why do I do this to myself, I have a full-time job 080
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Ok week's done off to the GM mines (my friend's house) to do my second job (have a wonderful time playing Pathfinder with my friends) 030
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026After trying and failing to get into it for about a year now oh no I think I'm on the verge of being critical role-pilled 121
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸disgruntled lesbian of Minneapolis @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 16/07/2026really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours 3161022358
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Hmmm you don't expect a car full of men to yell homophobic abuse at you on the street in *Chippendale* 🤔 130
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026A queer group hosting an event in a church is less against the teachings of Christ than a church having a landlord 1227
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026A friend said the other day I looked good naked and it was a) kind of him, and b) a reminder that the past 18 months of injuries and chronic pain have made it hard to feel good in my skin. Frustrating too because before all this I was the fittest I've ever been. Bodies! Wonderful, grotesque things. 1140
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Part of why it's been so annoying to write is that first it was bits of my thesis then it was a half-written journal article in another discipline then a symposium paper then a conference paper in yet another discipline so I'm trying to synthesise four drafts and several years of thinking 160
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I have been chained to my desk for weeks trying to get this chapter written, someone come distract me 1130
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Holy shit, was just on the phone to my 7yo nephew who was playing Wonder Boy 3 The Dragon's Trap, he asked me if I remembered a cheat code to skip to the end of the game and I fucking did (WE5TONE), for a game I haven't played in over 30 years. Greatest uncle of all time. 190
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I don't think I spend enough time being grateful to the pornographers 030
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026My aspiration to be more horny on main when bluesky first launched has never really panned out, but when we finally get images in DMs it is all over 070
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Just rolled credits on Pokopia, is it... a masterpiece??? Fully crying at the narrative understatement of this adorable game. 240
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 25/06/2026This season of dimension 20 has been so fantastic, obviously a playground for the antics of the intrepid heroes, but it’s a magic trick every time to watch Brennan aikido the silliness into genuinely moving stakes (which the intrepid heroes always rise to) 030
Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Every now and again at work I’m like, fuck, is my resistance to AI screwing me in the job market? Should I be working harder to restructure my brain to incorporate daily AI use? But no, nice to be reminded that I’m doing the right thing. 1103
Reposted by Ben 🇵🇸Maz @mazistyping.bsky.social · 24/06/2026maybe it's the heat exhaustion but I decided to create a helpful guide 2123777
