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maxbenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Humans should be able to eat acorns like corn nuts.

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maxbenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

speedcubing the Lament Configuration

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

These days the main act of self care I afford myself is watching the Scouse Pinhead clip fifty or sixty times a day.

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Hellraiser in a Liverpool Accent Is an Entirely Different Movie

YouTube video by YMH Studios

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draculaderonda @scanningtwo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

UP AND AT THEM

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 27/09/2026

D469.2 Transformation: smoke to bridge.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

RIP Mighty Sparrow. A great calypso of his on 1979, "the rule of the tyrants decline..so they corrupt, so they vile". "Gairy! is a wanted man! Idi Amin! is a wanted man! Shah of Iran found it hard to survive!" one day, there will be other names to sing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHIJ...

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Mighty Sparrow - Dead Or Alive

YouTube video by Edward Spencer

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draculaderonda @scanningtwo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

2020 www.draculaderonda.com/2021/08/sep-...

drawing: a duck-rabbit guy approaches some structures at night

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maxbenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Me: [sputtering] I'm not just some "type of guy." You can't just pick one thing and say it defines me. My feet:

Black sock with "Sock Guy" in yellow script across the toes.

Black sock with "unamused" emoji stitched on the ankle

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mothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

...welcome to Day 1 at Skunk Works: this is our pride and joy, the SR-71, which is fast enough for our pilots to escape both toxic operating thetans and Class V demons up to and including Ba'al himself. go on, laugh; a lot of smarter people disagree!

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dhendrick.bsky.social @dhendrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dey poiple me in woims!

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/09/2026

Talisman Heinz Hajek-Halke, c. 1930

a cat outline of wet and fogged up glass, behind long exposure light trails of vehicles in a night time street scene

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maxbenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Inventing a sandwich called Da Bust-a-Gut Non Disputandum Est

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

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maxbenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jones Island Mysteries: Salt Pyramid; Orb with train and sky

Industrial landscape with front end loader, mound of white salt, pyramid of gray salt, and cement silo. Enormous blue sky and cumulus clouds overhead.

Enormous blue sky with a few scraps of cloud. Puffy cumulus in the bottom third of the photo. Along the very bottom edge of the photo a few distant trees, and closer the tops of freight train cars. At the left of the image is the cropped, cement gray curve of a large domed building, a salt barn.

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dwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

[0009255] Resident poet had a Strange Mood

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows

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maxbenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A Ba-a-a-a-a-a-laze in the Northern Sky

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new favourite Smaug dropped

the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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maxbenign @maxbenign.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Played Today: Necks Flesh Flash Hands (Necks) Mouth Open Eye C

Stacked CD playlist in afternoon sun, resting on a book featuring cover image of a nude woman kneeling on one knee amongst reeds, pouring water from a golden vessel in each on her hands (La Stelle / The Star from an antique tarot deck).

In order played, bottom to top:
The Necks CHEMIST
Kip Hanrahan ALL ROADS ARE MADE OF THE FLESH
Jon Hassell/Farafina FLASH OF THE SPIRIT
Mimeo/John Tillbury THE HANDS OF CARAVAGGIO
The Necks TRAVEL
Larsen (featuring Little Annie) COOL CRUEL MOUTH
The Necks OPEN
Robyn Hitchcock EYE
Terry Riley (The Styrenes) IN C

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As far as I can tell, Effective Altruists are Utilitarians who are relieved that in the Trolley Problem, saving 5 people justifies their innate desire to kill the one guy

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