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Captain "Ben" Trips

@famousblue.bsky.social
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Movie lover (especially horror, scifi, etc), auto racing fanatic, avid reader and part-time poet, novice retrogaming enthusiast, indie rock nerd, true crime junkie, Communist Party of Virginia, nonbinary they/them, aro-ace, pal to all.

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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 4h
Jeb going to Sieg is a move I like. It gives them a second funded ride where they can use their best equipment and are getting back high quality data and feedback from a decent veteran driver instead of Kyle being their 2nd car in mediocre equipment. And Ryan has showed the speed those cars CAN have
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 5h
I went to buy Books of Blood, Vol 1 by Clive Barker with an audiobook credit I had only to realize I've had this thought before and in fact already own it. Wonderful feeling.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 5h
The Tom Morello thing is funny, people getting upset that a man voted for his interests and beliefs rather than a candidate and party that was fully permissive of funding genocide in that election. I sleep a lot better knowing I, too, voted third party in 2024.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 6h
Parents used to just tie a bow on their child and address a card to "Dear Mr. Pedophile". People lament that children don't have the freedom they used to but uh...it was a little too much freedom.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 6h
I mostly just use Netflix as an avenue to watch 48 Hours because the Paramount+ app is broken half the time. The Kmart Dateline.
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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 12h
A guy in pokémon who constantly refers to his balls as his geodudes
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 10h
Xanax would be a great name for an alien planet
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 8h
the D Trip has upgraded the Congressional race here, VA-6, to "in play" status and for the first time in my adult life are actually going to help out with staffing and funding some get-out-the-vote efforts in this district I'm not sure they even knew existed until recently.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 8h
Look, I'd like to help you, but I'm watching videos online of my favorite raccoons and that's really gonna take most of my afternoon.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 9h
Wow, apparently the owner of Northwest Roanoke's own weekly paper the Roanoke Tribune is really excited to meet with me after my guidance counselor reached out to him seeing if they could get me an internship or something. He tried to the other day but I had already left for the day.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 13h
This term at school, with only having two electives that weren't very difficult, has gone so fast that I was stunned to realize this is effectively the last real week. Next week is just finals, and I should only have one final test that I don't even have to come to school to do.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 05/10/2026
discourse got me thinking about one of the best and most useful lessons I learned in therapy: you don't have to forgive shit Deciding some things are totally unacceptable is fine and you can just proceed from there
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 14h
I never like when people talk about a shitty person going to hell, because I don't believe in any afterlife and don't like promoting Christian ideals of morality in any form. I know most of them are just being snarky, but it is stuff like that which lead to the Christian dominance in our culture.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 14h
My friend Manda is a big fan of Hello Kitty, so knowing I love wearing pins/buttons every day, she gave me a nice enamel pin of Hello Kitty in a chef's hat that I've regularly been using in my rotation lately.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 14h
Jim Bakker was such a rancid piece of shit, I really dislike the man and it makes me angry he lived until 86. Tammy Faye kind of embraced her big following of gay men so I'll forgive her a bit for everything, but seriously: fuck Jim Bakker.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 14h
It is gonna be in the 60s for most of the day, so I think this is a good opportunity to finally wear my longsleeved Star Trek shirt that my stepmom found for me while thrifting. It has the Enterprise on it and says "Boldly Go NCC-1701"
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 14h
My science teacher at school teases me about being an overachiever cause I'm the first person done with every assignment and am often only there for like half the class I finish so early. Yesterday I had time to kill before class and finished that day's work before we even started for the day.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 14h
For some reason, I felt like Jane's Addiction for my morning album today. I really like classic JA stuff despite personally disliking several of the core members.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 15h
Defending Blink 182's self-titled album this morning as a record where they actually tried to make music more for grownups which is full of (catchy) downer songs and experiments with different genres like new wave, emo, goth, etc.
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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Debra Messing is the new Kevin Sorbo in that I don't know why anyone would give two shits about what either of them thinks
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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
evil billy joel: i started the fire
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It really took me until recent years to get into 2nd wave British Metal as more than a casual listener, but now I'm super into the like of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest and could happily listen to them whenever. I was always just interested mostly in extreme or doom metal.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Somebody's out there sprucing up the neighborhood
A pole with a panty liner stuck on it.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Batman really did not stick with me at all. I couldn't recount a single full scene in that film or larges swaths of the plot. So I need to watch it again to truly have an opinion, but the forgettable nature probably says a lot about how it spoke to me the first time.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My school's newsletter has some openings cause some people have conflicts and can't do stuff this week, and I really want to pitch a review of Disney's classic 60s Halloween sound effects album which is a favorite of mine even though it is very mild on the scariness.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Always hilarious when Democrats realize that they too are a machine to be raged against and that the RATM folks are not, in fact, Vote Blue No Matter Who Dems happy to have incremental change jammed down their throats.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pumpkin Spice Season means that I'm spending money on donuts or donut holes every single time I go to the grocery store. It is becoming a major element of my diet.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 05/10/2026
the traditional structure of #spooktober is a film a day, which I've had trouble with the past few years for various reasons, so this year I'm defining my own rules: watching as many horror movies as I can before October 31st
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
On days I don't want my pins to distract from a good t-shirt, I will cut back to just my Core Trio: Nonbinary Pride, AroAce Pride, and Baphomet. The three that more define me. I'm also wearing my black stone necklace to school for the first time and want it to shine as well as my Jason shirt.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So many of my nightmares involve flooding or bodies of water or overflowing water collecting in pills indoors. If I had to guess I'm gonna die a water death is this is nature's way of alerting me.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The first thing I remember scaring me was a scary-themed Garfield book I read and re-read many times as a kid. It wasn't long before I became a horror junkie in elementary school though.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Starting my day by blasting Third by Big Star is certainly a choice. This album really runs an emotional course hitting a number of highs and lows. One of the most perfect records ever committed to tape.
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Drewcifer Rising 🎃😈 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've said it before and I'll post it again: we should embrace and deify TREMORS as much as we do JAWS.
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'Tremors' Kicked Off the 1990s With the Decade's Own 'Jaws' [We Love '90s Horror]
The ‘90s often get a bad rap with horror fans. After the numerous successful slashers and creature effects films of the ’80s, the ‘90s offered a different
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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Zonked
Sleepy Macready
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I will be sucking down water endlessly for the rest of the night cause I just ate an entire bag of my favorite candy: Double Salt Licorice.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Listening to a 2005 episode of The Watt from Pedro Show which has become one of my new special interests after my best friend played it to and from Martinsville.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm not a Larson fan, but dude was absolutely nowhere at the beginning of the race, him being up to the top 3 at the end of the race is exactly why he's the leader in points. He can adjust so well throughout a race. Hilarious that Denny sucked today, good splitter.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think a lot of Grateful Dead studio albums get really underrated because people are constantly comparing them to their superior live versions more than any other band out there. Even their kind of mid-ranked records have a lot of great songs on them.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I love Fugazi but I will admit that, while it is thankfully floating, sometimes some of their songs will briefly sound like arthouse RHCP.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Defending Neil Young's "just trying to get out of this contract" years making albums like Trans and Everybody's Rockin. Both albums are very interesting and sound like Neil having some dumb fun so I kind of like them.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My "dumb" TV is missing its remote right now, so I'm lucky that I'm going to be on the same channel until like 6:30 this evening. NFL Game (Chargers-Eagles) and then NHRA playoff event right after the game.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Started to have to like design my day around when I will have to inevitably have to do an errand for my ailing neighbor Frankie every other day or so while he's recovering from a major sickness that had him hallucinating ghosts and stuff.
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gary’s anatomy @sablaah.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
hate when coaches chew gum on the sidelines. grow up and smoke a cigarette
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today, and my friend has joined me, I am discovering that the debut album by Ice T's super anti-cop, anti-racist heavy metal band Body Count is actually a really cool ass album that I'm enjoying a whole lot. I've known of this album for decades but had only listened to Cop Killer.
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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Kolchak The Night Stalker (TV Series 1974–1975) Starring Darren McGavin Theme music composed by Gil Mellé.
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the people yearn for physical media
Hellraiser Cenobite CD. They are holding a CD and have discs lodged into their head.
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Captain "Ben" Trips @famousblue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I needed to get out of my Prince rut, so I shifted as slightly as possible into listening to P-Funk instead, specifically Cosmic Slop by Funkadelic.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Autumn is essentially a gothic spring.
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Dagoth Urlon Musk @maruhkati.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
charles in charge, of who lives, and who dies
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Elizabeth Blackstock @elizablackstock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I love you Petit Le Mans
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