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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 02/09/2026

Adobe: Chat with your documents. Me: I can think of nothing I want less.

Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 27/08/2026

Plan a horror fest using only your first name: ExistenZ (1999) Vanishing, The (1988) Annihilation (2018) Night House, The (2020)

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 17/08/2026

My Imposter Syndrome stands no chance today.

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 11/08/2026

Five whole minutes of difference between the severe weather alerts on my personal and work phones has me feeling extra good about T-Mobile today.

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 09/08/2026

Broccoli on a frozen cheese pizza (Jack's, usually). So easy and cheap, yet so overlooked!

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Sorry, my product randomly breaks the law sometimes" is not something we would tolerate from other industries. Maybe we shouldn't tolerate it with AI

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 05/08/2026

Anyone find a post-party number two behind any curtains lately? The reason may now be clear...

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 03/08/2026

Got that "booked the first seat in the theater on opening day" feeling. 🍿

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 25/07/2026

Overheard at Post. Festival: "We havent spoken all day. How you guys doing?" "We arent goin to speak now either." I love being a post-rock fan.

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 14/07/2026

Justice for Birds of Prey!

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I don't think you'll find a better example of what GenAI is *really* being used for than this. It sums the whole deplorable heist up perfectly.

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Andrew Hinton 😷🧡 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/05/2026

In chemistry, a supersaturated solution is one where you've kept adding a solute to a liquid beyond where the liquid can dissolve everything. All it takes is a nucleation site / seed crystal for the solution to rapidly (sometimes violently) crystalize. Unrelatedly, the US has more guns than people.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

At this point, generative AI has to go the way of the dinosaur. It literally has to be rooted out and the companies associated with it driven out of business. The idea that it continue in its current form is intolerable and a complete disaster at a time when we have no margin for error as a species.

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 21/05/2026

WTF is up with all these masturbAItory commencement speakers? You had one damn job: celebrate the grads' big accomplishment.

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 12/05/2026

My unhinged comfort movies: Tetsuo (duh!) Opera Paprika Annihilation

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 06/05/2026

Screaming! Crying! Throwing up!

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 21/04/2026

Uneasy around graveyards? EVIL DEAD CONCERN.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/04/2026

All the transphobic pick me gays will have it coming when they're done with us. We told you so.

A screenshot of a thread on X (formerly Twitter).
The original post is by Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) and reads: "Gay surrogacy and gay adoption are predicated on the idea that gay men (or women) have a 'right' to become parents. This idea is not only morally insane but also logically incoherent. It’s exactly like jumping off a building and claiming that you have the right to fly. Nobody has the right to defy the laws of nature. Where would such a right even originate? Two men cannot be parents. It’s impossible. Doesn’t matter how they feel or what they want. It cannot be. The only 'right' at issue here is the right of the child. And the child has a right to be raised by a mother and a father, not two men masquerading as mother and father."
Jenna Ellis (@realJennaEllis) replies: "This same logic is the reason Obergefell should be overturned. Two men do not have a 'right' to be married either."
Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) replies to Jenna Ellis: "Absolutely"
The bottom of the screenshot shows the timestamp: 1:28 PM · Apr 19, 2026.

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Cressa Maeve Áine @beeragon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Hi! I don't think Toho has a bsky so I'll post it - my first commissioned work for all the official Godzilla channels and I handmade everything that isn't a toy. Enjoy xo

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/03/2026

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids." That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

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bob @huntthesnark.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Anyone who says trans issues aren't kitchen table issues is erasing a fuckload of kitchen tables.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by
@micarosenberg
et al for ProPublica:

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 08/02/2026

Y'all, I'm TRYING MY BEST.

Breakdown of my concert attendance since 2022:
2025 – 29 shows, 2024 – 39 shows, 2023 – 30 shows, 2022 – 39 shows.

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

"I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd Army--came onto what you might call a detention center just outside the village of Ohrdruf, Germany.

The US Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A US Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes, without muttering a word, that they were to blame.

One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was (quote) 'done by a few people, and you cannot blame us all.' And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said, 'this was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.'

The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough.

I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought, 'how is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'this site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?'

But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew--as we do--that we are all responsible for what happens in our community.

I urge the council to take action to stop, or stall, or at the barest minimum to think creatively about how to exercise oversight over this proposed ICE facility. Thank you."

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Noem: We're putting cameras on the gestapo Me: How about no gestapo Noem: We're putting reflectors on the gestapo Me: I said no— Noem: We're putting bells on the gestapo

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maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.

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Access:Horror @accesshorror.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The next movie that should be on your must-watch list is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. The fourth installment of the 28 Days Later film series, it’s even bloodier and more brutal than the preceding films. However, it is the human element woven throughout the story that makes it so striking. 🦴💀

A VHS tv with gray static and a red "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” title. "Monday Movie Must-Watch" is in red text below. A white background with gray scraggly trees frame the center image.

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Trace Thurman @tracedthurman.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It's your last chance! Get your votes in today for the best horror of 2025 before voting closes!

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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I love X-CROSS so so so much. Please watch X-CROSS. You certainly won't have a bad time watching X-CROSS.

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 12/01/2026

Congrats @unlockaudio.bsky.social on the launch of the #UnlockAudioCollective! 6 specialty studios with elite artists, organized under the Unlock Audio umbrella. Wondering where the audio talent is? Look no further. Game devs? This news is for you: unlockaudio.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

We need to get it lodged more firmly in the discourse that Trump and Stephen Miller are prioritizing removing nonviolent immigrants over public safety. They are sinking so many resources into their ethnic purification project that they're putting us in more danger. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 24/12/2025

May need to find a new grocery store. Being likened to Mr.Beast twice in as many weeks by patrons and personnel alike has made my neighborhood go-to a hostile environment. /cwh

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 23/12/2025

Time sure flies! Yesterday marked three years since Frazer Brown aka #RedCabinComics pretended to ship nonexistent #TFTQ charity anthologies still owed to 75% of his £37k Kickstarter backers to this day. He last pretended news was still nigh this Nov. 7. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

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Tales from the Quarantine

EVERYBODY HAS A TALE TO TELL. THESE ARE THEIRS. 400 Artists and Writers from 60 countries create THE ANTHOLOGY OF THE DECADE.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 26/11/2025

Placebo in a Versace ad within a Macy's ad? Consider me twice taken aback.

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 17/11/2025

Babe, wake up. It's time to play Infernal Bop-it.

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Philip Montoro @pmontoro.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Not that it is OK to arrest people for having criminal records.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/11/2025

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

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Rich Tate 🎃 @richtate.com · 09/11/2025

Smile 3 (2026) Directed by Parker Finn. 🩸

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Bovino is a huge dork who posts like a tryhard uncle who forces drinks on his siblings’ underage kids in a desperate attempt to look cool. Just mind-boggling that this loser is responsible for so much pain around here.

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