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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 25/09/2026

Ah, yes, Jared Harris, famously the lead actor in the six original Resident Evil movies...

Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 17/09/2026

Sometimes I wonder what medical professionals think of me... At Costco getting my flu and COVID shots. The woman administering the doses checking my intake form: "you're getting both together? And in the same arm?" Me: "yeah, make 'em fight it out!"

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 16/09/2026

Got mine both scheduled for tomorrow!

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 10/09/2026

Reminded of two guys I studied Kung Fu with in the 80s/90s, who had degrees in Philosophy and English respectively…

The cover of a book, with an image of a clenched fist. The book’s title is “Smart Ways to Use Poetry in a Street Fight.”

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 08/09/2026

“The primary purpose is to have fun.”? What kinda hippy nonsense is this? Don’t they know RPGs are Serious Business?!

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 07/09/2026

Go home algorithm. You’re drunk.

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 23/08/2026

A sword has never leaked ink all over my hand, though. Just saying…

An open hand, with ink stains all over the fingers.

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 18/08/2026

Reading the ILM 50th anniversary book got me feeling wistful and nostalgic for the brief time I was there in the fall of ‘93. Took a drive up to San Rafael and poked around the abandoned campus a little. Photos are of the front door to the D building, the building I worked in for the most part.

Front door to an abandoned, nondescript office building. A few trees and bushes in the foreground.

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 17/08/2026

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 14/08/2026

post a meme made by you

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 25/07/2026

Tangentially, a pal of mine does a neighborhood screening of Jaws in his back yard every July 3rd. This year, someone brought cupcakes…

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 22/07/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie released the year you turned 18? I still believe.

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 17/07/2026

Farm kid leaves home and gets an award.

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 16/07/2026

Discovered today that my local public library carries a copy of my novel “the Seething.” That’s pretty cool.

Hands holding a book titled “the Seething” by author Ben Monroe. The cover of the book shows a mountain lake at sunset, there’s a raven in a tree cawing at something indistinct and sinister beneath the lake’s surface.

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 01/07/2026

Today is (according to the lore) the birthday of one Professor Henry Jones, Jr. Celebrate accordingly. Wear a hat. Punch a Nazi.

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 25/06/2026

Greatest tagline ever.

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 21/06/2026

I was just thinking about what a gift this reflecting pool fiasco is. Memes about the Iran war would be gross, because there’s nothing funny about it at all. But this pool is just such a disaster, and yet also relatively harmless. It’s giving people a well needed laugh at his expense.

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 21/06/2026

I think I may have finally perfected the Julia Childs scone recipe. I skipped the dusting of granulated sugar on top, and did an orange glaze instead (orange juice, powdered sugar, butter). Holy crap these are good. (My dad loves cranberry/orange scones, so I made him a bunch for Father's Day).

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 10/05/2026

Good old autocorrect…

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 28/04/2026

Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 23/04/2026

One of my awesome kids turned my book cover into a spooky Halloween decoration.

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 22/04/2026

I’ve been working on these little hills/rocky outcrops for gaming scenery lately. Just got them painted tonight, and I can’t help but notice they look like a bunch of horse turds.

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 20/04/2026

Wading through the shitshow which is the state of the world, trying to go into work with a good attitude…

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 17/04/2026

Well, go back to the 80s, and Reagan ditching the fairness doctrine, and initiating the GOP’s decades-long attack on the public education system and it starts to make sense…

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 15/04/2026

What's an all-time favourite line in a movie?

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 13/04/2026

Every time he says something will take two weeks, and a reporter doesn’t call him out on it, a Journalism professor takes up day drinking.

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 10/04/2026

Thank God. Kyle Reese finally showed up to fix this shitty timeline…

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 09/04/2026

Before and after. My coworkers are all impressed with how good I am at cleaning particle board. Wonder how long it’ll take until they realized I just flipped all the shelves upside down. 😂 #WorkSmarterNotHarder

A wooden particle board shelf covered in gross stains.

A wooden particle board shelf but much cleaner than the one in the other photo.

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