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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Does anyone have a Framework laptop? Do you like it?

Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That Funny Feeling honestly changed something in my brain chemistry. I've had a riff/rewrite/addition/homage to it cooking for ages but I'm not quite confident enough to record it.

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Amazing! Break Your Heart is one of my faves. I saw them in 2004, which I'm super grateful for. I lost all interest once Steve left.

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Time to finish the last edits on my story, I suppose... 👀

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I genuinely read this as the skull was the *possession* of a local teenager, and was like 'yeah that tracks'

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Me: this person is so right. People should start things without needing them to be good right away My brain: except you :) Me: except me :)

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Sentient Bee Colony @beehive.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Any machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Weird accomplishment: I was heavily involved in the naming of two (2.5) characters who ended up in Super Smash Bros.

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

When I lived in Japan, my colleague Scott and his Japanese wife were looking to buy a house. They found one that was insanely cheap for the size, and when they asked the estate agent why it was so cheap, they said 'oh, because it's haunted'.

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In the history of video games, "laziness" has never been and never will be the reason behind a choice made during development.

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Binface wins the election. He takes off the bin. It's Theresa May. Everyone is disappointed. But wait. There's more. Theresa May removes her face. It's Banksy

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Sisyphus: [doomed to push a boulder up a hill for all eternity] Me: [first time the boulder rolls back down] well fuck this

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Can't wait for FIFA to invent something called the World Cup of Hosting the World Cup and give the USA the inaugural cup

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

In football, when you do something bad you get a yellow card, which is a warning, or a red card, which gets you sent off. When you do something good, you should get a blue card, which gives a 5% speed increase, or a green card, which provides a flat bonus to crit damage

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Alex: We asked our contestants to bring in their 'most disruptive item.' Eris: so I've brought an apple Greg: Good news, Odysseus, your completely normal wooden horse is saved from getting 1 point

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The silhouette they chose to use for the human makes it look like she's desperately trying to put the spark back in their marriage while he heads off to the pub again

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

People in BBC articles: what it means to be English is a deeply contentious debate that threatens to tear the country apart People in real life: these microwave sticky toffee puddings say 90 seconds but really they take 2 minutes

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

No rest for the wicked - made it through the second round of the Short Story, so I'll have another story to write this weekend. Round 3 is where I fell last year (with a not-very-good ghost story), so hopefully I can make it through this time!

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Did this over the weekend. It was a great example of the magic of the prompt system - at first, I had no idea how I was going to use the prompts I got, but I just relaxed, let my mind wander, and ended up with a story I never would have written otherwise. I'm quite proud of it. Fingers crossed!

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I never played Warhammer, but I painted a lot of miniatures and owned a lot of sourcebooks. John Blanche was one of those artists where every painting was a signature - absolutely unmistakeable. As a kid I was in awe, as an adult even moreso.

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Is there a word for constructions like '-ception' and '-gate' that have an agreed-upon meaning that is not what they originally meant?

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Whetstone Games / OFFBEAT out now! @whetstone.games · 29/05/2026

aaa!! PLAY OUR DEMO on itch!!! pantaloon-io.itch.io/offbeat all music you make in the game is exportable to wav!! send us your tunes on discord: discord.gg/9he97xJEaw #OFFBEAT #indiegame #indiedev #musicproduction #synth #chiptune

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Used to be Ben Kaestner-Frenchman, but I've gone back to Ben Frenchman :)

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

In 1872, the Chicago Evening Post published an absolutely brutal editorial mocking people who objected to sharing public spaces with Black people. Still some dated language but a remarkable piece. “Hire a carriage and you can sit all alone by your own sweet self for $2 an hour.”

1872 article reading, in part: “AYou do not like, reader, to sit by the side of a well-behaved negro in a theatre's dress circle? Very well; take a box. If your antipathies are not worth $5 extra, they are not very important.
You do not like, fastidious madam, to sit by the side of "some offensive creature" in the car? Very well; hire a carriage, and you can sit all alone with your own sweet self for $2 an hour. But you cannot expect to charter and monopolize a Persian heaven on wheels for five cents, you know. You object, dear sir, to risk the chance of meeting… Fred. Douglass, Alexander Dumas, Minister Bassett, John Jones, or Jared Grey? Very well; you have an inalienable and God-given right to object. You can avoid these people by having your meals served in your room. Isn't your pet aversion worth a dollar to you? ... To insult people because of their color is bad enough; but it is mean and cowardly to make them pay the expenses of their own crucifixion. “. Likely by George Mclellan or his brother.

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Started sketching out a picture of Harrow and Gideon exploring the secret study in Gideon the Ninth, but as if it was a Disco Elysium screenshot. I am enamoured with the concept but pulling it off to the standard my imagination requires would be... let's face it, impossible.

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Luna Abyss - WISHLIST NOW! @lunaabyssgame.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

“I’m waiting for you at the Cathedral. There’s something here you really need to see…” Luna Abyss is OUT NOW! Available on PC & Consoles! Enjoy a 20% discount to celebrate the launch!

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

oh no, i don't use the ai for <thing that i am paid to do> it's terrible at that. it's great for <thing you are paid to do> though.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time about things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 18/05/2026

Replacing FPTP is *urgent*. Next election is going to a be a wild lottery, with a government formed largely at random, because our voting system is going to arbitrarily discard the vast majority of people's voting preferences.

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Luna Abyss - WISHLIST NOW! @lunaabyssgame.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

‼️3 DAYS TO GO ‼️ Don’t be afraid, little wanderer. All we need is the key. All we need... is you.

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Getting past Elaine's dogs in Secret of Monkey Island. I used to have *dreams" about what might be in that mansion.

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Bit the bullet and booked to go to Develop this year for the first time. Who do I know who's going?

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Never met Tony Peters, don’t know who he is, but a million years ago on Facebook he posted this and I don’t think anyone’s ever put it better.

A summation of the situation where people are directed to focus their ire at fraudulent benefit claimants rather than at the rich who are the cause of all poverty.

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Snuck into 10th place in this one! My second time making the finals of an NYCM and my second time placing in the money 😎

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I have a question for a thing I'm working on. What is your favourite DINOSAUR and WHY

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I would grind the bones of my feet into powder and drink them like hot chocolate for a chance to work on a video game based on Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series.

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I have a question for a thing I'm working on. What is your favourite DINOSAUR and WHY

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

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taxiderby verified @taxiderby.coven.cafe · 09/04/2026

I make video game because I want to make story that is also toy

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The sentiment is abhorrent, of course, but so is the naked LLM writing. At least write your own disgusting tweets

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Bench (Ben Frenchman) @benfrenchman.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Just realised "The Snyder Cut" is an example of nominative determinism

Etymology of the surname Snyder, from the Dutch snijden, meaning "cut"

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