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Benjamin Recchie

@brecchie.bsky.social
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Chicagoan, dad, intermittent essayist (medium.com/@brecchie).

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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So, couple of things. First:
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SCHMITT: Are you aware we have credit card records indicating you dined and gambled with a notorious gangster? SMITH: I...what? What gangster? SCHMITT [brandishing game tickets]: The man they call "The Rat," one Charles Entertainment Cheese?
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not just in America, either. The French used to have an airline just for intersex individuals.
A Sud SE-210 Caravelle III airliner in Air Inter livery.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Look at this diagram from p. 136. You're not a real Chicagoan until you know which railroads serve which stations!
A diagram from the 1951 textbook Chicago, naming the downtown train stations and what railroads serve them.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.
The cover of the 1998 Wilco album Summerteeth.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It amazes me that they can fit a gas station into a sidewalk space in France or Italy but in South Korea gas stations are two-story edifices. And neither typology is seen in the US.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Title card for a hypothetical Star Trek: Voyager episode called "Harry Kim Gets Promoted (Psych!)"
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Toyota ProBox. It's the dullest little car in the universe, and that makes it special.
A silver station wagon seen in quarter view.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is a lot funnier if you imagine Tuberville not as a racist and xenophobe but as an inspirational speaker hired by the Borg Collective.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.
In an image from the cartoon Futurama, alien lobster Dr. Zoidberg holds a flag of Earth in front of the grinning head of Richard M. Nixon.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
What, no love for George McGovern?
US Senator George McGovern holds a copy of a newspaper announcing the resignation of President Richard Nixon, while giving an "I told you so" look to the camera.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I prefer the original Crow.
A cartoon-style image of the Crow T. Robot, a gold puppet designed to resemble a robot, from Mystery Science Theater 3000. The word "Croooooow!" is written across the backdrop of the picture.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Attempted assassination of US president apparently Page 20 news.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Via @theoatmeal.bsky.social
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
An overhead picture of an Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, shown on the tarmac of an airport surrounded by spectators.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
My friend summarizes describes my own thoughts well.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Fun fact: the lawn sculpture prevents Allied landing craft from approaching the house at high tide, making their embarked troops vulnerable to machine-gun fire from the house.
A soldier stands facing the Atlantic Ocean near two examples of Czech hedgehogs, deployed on the Atlantic Wall in the vicinity of Calais.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My mom's reaction to Caleb Williams' incredible game-tying touchdown pass:
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Logo designers have a nasty tendency to update logos by making them more generic. I don't think anyone will get mad at the FLWBC in the way they did at Cracker Barrel, but compare their old, unmistakably Wrightian logo (red, below) with their new, could-be-anything one.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Is that better or worse than when the White Sox had an all-Garcia outfield?
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
You're welcome.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“I just thought of a name for where we’re going--New England!” “Oh that’s real creative. What do you call your foot, New Hand?”
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Check out this head-scratching figure that's supposed to describe boiling--excuse me, "boiting"--water on the stove. (This is not the bad writing example; it's going to be used to show how not to use a figure. But I thought I'd have some fun with the figure itself, too.)
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The most out-of-left-field thing I learned from the Trump-Epstein news coverage is that Donald Trump might actually be a not-terrible artist. Like, look at this sketch of the George Washington Bridge. That's better than I could do! Ugh.
An ink sketch of a suspension bridge, signed by Donald Trump.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Great Falls of Tinker's Creek, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, June 2025. #nationalparks
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In a still from the movie Syriana, a bearded George Clooney calmly walks away from a car bomb explosion. The explosion is labeled "Entire universe of social media." Clooney is labeled "Paul Krugman," since his character somewhat resembles him.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
If you see this, post a beach photo from your phone.
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Winter birding hike at Devils Lake State Park, Wisconsin. A much needed hiking weekend getaway.
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