Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 13/04/2023you are, therefore maybe, something like the glue, the ambassador archetype, the invaluable in-between… you’re priceless and we’re all lucky for it! can feel unsettling in-between, sometimes, belonging everywhere. Leo dining ❤️🔥✨ 220
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 13/04/2023beautiful story. There’s a sweet spot for sure, I think, in which you can experience the growthy personal expansion of ‘bigger and better’ even within a seemingly narrow field or purview. 010
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 13/04/2023trying to reconcile, or middle-out, disparate notes. Trying to determine the ‘correct’ note for the environment, etc. 000
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 13/04/2023imagining emotions as keys on a piano was a watershed insight/shift for me (via IFS). It’s just fine to play two keys at once. Maybe it’s harmonious or not, momentarily… until another key etc. That’s music. Previously, I think I spent a lot of bandwidth… 100
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 12/04/2023thanks fly. I was 9 I guess? and grateful I didn’t witness it, have the image to carry 020
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 12/04/2023my pet rabbit, a grey fluffball called misty, was taken by an eagle 1110
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 12/04/2023I’m into literature, civics, urban design, collective wellbeing, games, swing music, community and polemics. 🙏❤️🔥 010
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 12/04/2023I made these, for kids and parents to write stories together onceuponapancake.comonceuponapancake.comOnce upon a Pancake — creative writing activity booksThese books aren't finished. It's up to you and your kids to imagine what happens next. A fun, screen-free way to help children fall in love with storytelling. 100
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 12/04/2023here’s our squad bloomcollective.xyzbloomcollective.xyzBloom Collective 110
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 12/04/2023I care about and work on social fabric stuff — squad life with my collective, third places, and the art of gathering. Links and more info on all that here: rickbenger.comrickbenger.com 120
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 12/04/2023👋 I’m Rick, living in Berlin with my 4-yo son. Australian, born in Sydney. I once play-wrestled Sean Connery. I can throw things very far. I’ve lived in London, Buenos Aires, NYC, Bay Area. 120
Reposted by Rick BengerJay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 12/04/2023from my bluesky proposal presented to twitter back in 2021. graphic design is my passion 37535124
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 12/04/2023and part of creation is subversion… which can be prosocial (playful), or chaotic (destructive). the joyful little rush of last few days has felt to me like a density of conscious pro-social players. Feels good! 020
Reposted by Rick Bengercam forever @sincerely.cam · 10/04/2023posting environment matters, just like being in a homey, beautiful kitchen will help your cooking. cultivating the vibe here will be very important i think. i wonder if federation will make it easier for different vibes to co-exist 2222
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 11/04/2023hmm nice. echoes “It’s the notes you don’t play” — Miles Davis 000
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 11/04/2023still need ways for cool non-rich to join later, and ways to kick out anyone (whether cashed or not) haven’t read up on fwb and similar recently, but I wonder how the vibes have gone? 010
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 11/04/2023hmm good prompt… how to capture the $ wave of cool, without status side effects, and funnel it to regen/long term ops 110
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 09/04/2023here for it. Made me reflect that I’ve always felt a ‘platform-ugh’ flinch with this… like the medium choices force audience splitting de facto. my last bet/hope was migrating newsletter to revue (bought by twitter). Oops. We can dream? 010
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 09/04/2023fleet. In the park I come to for liminal moments in my life 030
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 09/04/2023I, likewise. was about to thread… absence of ‘+’ jacked me up like 040
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 09/04/2023Google domains search is good for checking ‘all endings’ 😊 120
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 09/04/2023there are plenty of fun endings avail now… ashcroft.studio 20/yr, e.g 110
Rick Benger @rickbenger.com · 09/04/2023hello, Bluesky. Feels like the start of a road trip, picking up old friends, meeting at the gas station to convoy. 1181