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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 04/09/2026

I love that someone wrote a detailed synopsis of the Find a Way music video for the song's wikipedia page

The video starts to Alicante, Spain in outer space, with a wide view of Earth that is later revealed to be a decoration in Ali Shaheed Muhammad's car. Ali spots three girls, and Q-Tip decides to flirt with all three. A scene of Alicante appears and shows the group walking on the beach while Phife Dawg is rapping. Next, the scene changes to a party, showing Q-Tip experiencing a romantic moment. From there, the video shifts to an art museum where Q-Tip is talking to his girl. The video then returns to Phife Dawg on the beach, telling a girl that he will do what she wants. The video ends with the group in a club, dancing with women and having fun. During the final chorus, the video pans once again to outer space, then shows the group sleeping in Ali's car. There is an iconic sing-along style bouncing ball each time the chorus plays.

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 19/08/2026

New profile picture to commemorate my umpteenth rewatch of Smiley's People

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 16/08/2026

Do you think this is pronounced Ass Cracko

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 04/08/2026

The last 3 songs on Warm are perfect August night music

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 14/07/2026

Cries in PG&E’s $0.36757 / kWh off-peak rate

PG&E bill showing a rate that is double that of NY/NJ

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 04/07/2026

Drunk guy struggling to describe a bumblebee

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 03/07/2026

There's another Ben with the same last name who's an electrical engineer at an aviation company / defense contractor, and I get emails like this maybe twice a month

Hi Benjamin,
Hope you're well. I'm working with Sceye, a company developing high-altitude aircraft that operate in the stratosphere, delivering capabilities traditionally
associated with satellites, but with the flexibility and recoverability of an aircraft. It's a genuinely new category of aerospace platform.
Pretty Cool... They're hiring an Avionics Lead / Hands on Manager to lead the architecture and integration of flight-critical systems for this vehicle. The role sits at the intersection of aerospace, autonomy, and national security applications, with programs supporting areas like critical
nfrastructure protection and maritime/border awareness. What makes this particularly compelling is the scope, this isn't incremental avionics work. It's defining the avionics backbone for a new
class of aircraft.
Would you be interested in exploring this opportunity if you're not necessarily looking? It could potentially be a good fit...

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 03/07/2026

I love how BlueSky collapses threads and I hope they never change it

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 02/07/2026

Trump trying to communicate with the celebrities at Madame Tussaud’s

Amy Adams in Arrival, holding a whiteboard that says “human”

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 26/06/2026

Yea, I remember this day well, when Aaron Lewis, Center of the Known Universe and frontman of Staind, a band whose members’ names we all absolutely knew this whole time, bravely released an album into the zeitgeist despite knowing it would lead to his cancellation and cultural exile…

"There was an all-out call for my cancelation when I put out 'Am I The Only One," Lewis said on The Devin Nunes Podcast in 2024. "I'm very blessed in the sense
that even though my label president Scott Borchetta does not agree with us at all, he believes in the freedom of speech and the freedom of expression and he's a president of a record label - that is creativity, that's freedom of expression."

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 23/06/2026

The photo undersells it but here’s a galette I made last week with cherry tomatoes, red onion, zucchini, and corn. I maybe could have taken it out a few minutes earlier but it was delicious nonetheless. Roughly followed this recipe: smittenkitchen.com/2013/08/burs...

Photo of a galette on a countertop with a corn, tomato, zucchini, and onion filling. Crust has an egg wash and the entire thing is covered in too much Parmesan before being baked at 400 for 35 minutes

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 17/06/2026

Skycards is interesting because here in the Bay Area the sky is always busy, even at night there are maybe a dozen aircraft flying around, but then you look at Europe and there is just one plane over all of Ireland right now. I know it’s the middle of the night, but still…

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 07/06/2026

I found what can only be described as a cursed book at the used bookstore

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 06/06/2026

You can’t fool me, I know the Little House when I see it

Cover of The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 02/06/2026

*Stephen Malkmus voice*

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 02/06/2026

The life of the artist is inherently sensual

A Far Side single panel depicting an artist painting a very silly picture

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 28/05/2026

They look like they could be long lost litter mates with my girls

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 15/05/2026

It’s an honor to be considered

AI generated scam job post for Amazon that o was texted this morning

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 07/05/2026

“Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?”

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 23/04/2026

I started this very good Halsey biography over the weekend and boy did I choose a weird time to start reading about the US Navy.

Admiral Bill Halsey, a Naval Life, by Thomas Alexander Hughes

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 23/04/2026

Ok I swear when I was posting that the image preview looked like this

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 23/04/2026

You mean don't like screenshotting text and it looking like this?

Text that says, "select where image previews crop"

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 16/04/2026

lol I had completely forgotten about that. Side note: I can't quite express how it feels rereading coverage from that period. www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/u...

NY Times article By Michael D. Shear and Katie Rogers
Published June 3, 2020
Updated Sept. 1, 2020

WASHINGTON — President Trump and his aides spent much of Wednesday trying to rewrite history, claiming that Mr. Trump was merely “inspecting” a bunker last week during riots over the death of George Floyd and insisting falsely that peaceful protesters near the White House were attacking the police when the authorities used chemical agents to make them move so that Mr. Trump could have his picture taken at a nearby church.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/politics/trump-protests.html

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Benjamin @schmenjamin.com · 14/04/2026

I know it’s a bit out of scope for @unclearpod.bsky.social but I would love to hear @jamellebouie.net’s and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social’s take on The Gallant Hours.