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Ben Wrex

@benwrex.bsky.social
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Cartoonist, portrait artist, painter. PNW. They/Them.

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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 13m
fibro and tendonitis decided to flare up real bad at the same time and I can’t sleep. this will threaten my constantly sunny and delightful disposition.
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 3h
I think after the bat stickers arrive and I get them all sent out I might delete my account here. I keep wanting a level of connection and also to be known for my art and I don’t think I deserve friendship or connection. I don’t deserve success of any form. I need to live a quiet obscure life.
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 5h
dyed my hair and it didn’t make me look like a completely different person so I’m mad now
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Inkling @printinkling.bsky.social · 7h
Thinking about this, it can sound like I'm bashing the guys who are actively trying to be better people. Not at all. If you're willing to do the work to be a better human, I want to help you see your blind spots. Please do the same for me. We're all in this together.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 10h
Here is my personal/official prompt list for Drawtober. Everyone is welcome to use it however they like!
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Mask Bloc Eugene/Springfield @maskbloceug.bsky.social · 7h
It’s Wastewater Wednesday! How are COVID levels? We’re using two sources to help us keep track of the country and our state of Oregon. Thank you to @michael-hoerger.bsky.social for the map and graph, and OHA for continuing to track data coming from our wastewater treatment centers!
Two screenshots against a photo of a pile of orange and yellow striped pumpkins. The first is a map of the US showing COVID transmission, with states colored light blue to berry pink depending on severity. Lane County & most of the other counties in Oregon are in the very high ranges. Text notes that this data was last updated on September 19. The second screenshot is text that reads, “92% of Oregon community wastewater treatment centers were positive for SARS-CoV-2 on the most recent sample.” Note: OHA hasn’t updated their website this week. Oregon numbers are from their last update on 9/24/26.
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 10h
who is she
A small orange pumpkin with a very glamorous face made from magazine cutout eyes and lips.
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Silly dollthing (Alison!)🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @sillydollthing.bsky.social · 12h
It's peak
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 14h
as a chronically single pisces...I felt this
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JLP @jlp.systems · 14h
Pimp My Consciousness
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Think I’m gonna make this into a sticker but as long as it’s for personal use (or better yet, defacing Ai promotion/pollution 😈) I’m cool if anyone wants to print it out for that.
Illustration of a hydra like creature that is a hand with too many fingers. Pencils are piercing through its body. Text says “ death to ai” “ kill it with human hands”
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 15h
It’s coming… 🎃
A marker drawing of the “Dancing Pumpkin Guy” in a small Moleskine sketchbook. To the right are two Copic markers.
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Released 49 years ago today Oh Bondage Up Yours! - The debut single by X-Ray Spex X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours! (Twndish 1978) #punk #punks #punkrock #xrayspex #ohbondageupyours #punkrockhistory
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
fuck yeah
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We all need this right now
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don’t wanna post about Cornell, I wanna post about how much I love snails, but the patriarchy WON’T LET ME
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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I like making zine-y badges, here are my big (58mm) ones, to really shout ZINES!! at people 🔵🟡 penfightdistro.com/shop/?format... #diyzines
badges that read: zines here! gets your zines here!, read queer zines, keep zines anti-capitalist, de-gentrify the zine scene, fuck AI make zines, trade zines with me!
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Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's the crux of it, huh? Men benefit from rape culture. The looming threat of sexual violence, even when some don't personally perpetrate it, still advantages men by making women a permanent underclass. It's not enough to not hurt us. It is men's moral imperative to destroy the patriarchy.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's a system set up to funnel young women into enemy territory, where this stuff happens over and over.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
p.s. "The National Panhellenic Conference, which governs the country’s 26 major sororities, maintains that sisters can’t swig booze in sorority houses — even as the fraternity down the street throws a keg party," sending the women into enemy territory to drink. Prohibition should be on frat houses.
washingtonpost.com
Why frat bros can throw parties but sorority sisters aren’t allowed to
The new Seth Rogen film explores why Greek men and women don't have the same rights
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
men are bad, actually
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026
it's also an incredibly, unreasonably charitable alternative to burning down the university.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Posted this in 2018. Still remember the night that prompted it. Still so relevant today. 🐝 🐝 🐝
Tweet by me saying “Every woman I know has been storing anger for years in her body and it’s starting to feel like bees are going to pour out of all of our mouths at the same time.”
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
so, I joined Bumble
A dating bio with just lyrics from Once In A Lifetime by The Talking Heads
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you wanna get incredibly angry watch the documentary The Hunting Ground, about SA in college campuses
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is ferocious and empathetic piece. “In every study I have conducted with survivors, the participants whose parents told them “not to drink too much” or “not to use Tinder” were…the least willing to tell their parents about their assaults—and the tips did nothing to keep them safe anyway.”
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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
in lieu of “close friends”-type social media features you should be able to choose a hundred people who will simply get a telepathic Vibe whenever you feel sad, need attention, &c
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It really is that simple
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
missing my baby today
a picture of a sleeping tuxedo cat
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
sorry netflix is doing a *straight* hockey romance to get on the heated rivarly train? there's like 4 seconds of actual hockey in that show lmao
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I need to write some poetry
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Corinne Halbert @ NYCC Artist Alley H06 📚🔮🌞 @corinnehalbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A page from my book, ACID NUN 👁️💀💀😡🩸💀👁️
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Samantha Puc 🍉 @theverbalthing.com · 29/09/2026
We said goodbye to the family dog last night and today I discovered my bank account is $200 in the red. Bad week I guess. I don’t have much emotional capacity for anything other than grief at the moment, but if you want/can spare anything, I’d be so grateful. 💛 Venmo $theverbalthing
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Buy Samantha Puc a Coffee
Buy Samantha Puc a coffee!
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MORGUES @mxmorgan.com · 29/09/2026
fear and anger ink and watercolor, 5.5" x 8" prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo...
a snarlign white dog covered in blood
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I gotta say, if you want to read some fiction that is very emotional and cathartic in regards to very bad men getting what they deserve, A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder trilogy is very good. JUST SAYING.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's multiple good threads going around today about how to speak up when you see something wrong. I'd like to recommend "gentle parenting other adults". Examples: "no thank you, we use kind words, please" or "listening ears on! Our friend said 'no'" Condescending? Yes, and that's the point.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
average man harasses 0 women per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & harasses over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That’s fucking demented. “Hey did you broads think about getting a little group together and doing something?”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.

Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.

Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.
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Evan Sky Arts 🌸 shop open! @evanskyarts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pigeon Doodles!! I really, really want my art to be more playful, fun, and loose, which is hard when you’re coming back from an over-rendering phase 🫠 but I’m working hard on it!! #art #doodle #pigeon #birds #TraditionalArt #cute #artist #pigeons #sketchbook #BirdSky
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"what do you expect to happen? have every rapist fired from their job and ruin their life?" uh yeah that'd be a good start
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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