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Ben Templesmith

@templesmith.bsky.social
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Australo-American. Grumpy rabble rouser. Co-created 30 Days of Night, you know, that became that film. Writer, artist, cephalopod, cat & horror enthusiast. Annoyingly for you, still here.

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One more for the road. Sam Altman is some sort of cognitively stunted non human, who appears to hate humans & wants us all gone.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Who is insuring the Pittsburgh naked handyman??
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It still makes me chuckle that some Americans find it hard to round up or down, or are so addicted to expensive digital payment devices that such a simple thing becomes impossible. What, as a civilization, have we done?!? Every other country got rid of theirs, & functions just fine in commerce?
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Boston might have had a little rebellion, what with some tea in a harbor, but I live where the first real American rebellion took place. ( The Whiskey Rebellion! ) Thus I’m blending average clam chowder with proper whiskey to celebrate the refusal to follow all rules & masters.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yup yup. Explains a looooot of people, & why this putrid tech needs to be regulated like class A drugs. Ai is so harmful to *everything & everyone*, all so a few bloated parasites can get rich off delusional morons. /end daily anti ai rant.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The best flight delays are where they tell you 12 hours in advance & you get 2 hours extra sleep & still keep your upgrade with a new connection. Flights to Boston seem cursed to me. I had to cancel last Wickedcon thanks to the airline. Let’s see if I actually make it today. Come say hi tomorrow!
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That thing everyone else in the regular world already knows, as their lived experiences generally, but many Americans refuse to believe, instead it’s “dark socialist devil magic”. Maybe someone will explain it enough so morons understand how much they’re being fleeced for misery? I can dream.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All Democratic candidates should now be measured in Jon Ossoffs. Kamala Harris? 2 Ossoffs. AOC? 10 Ossoffs. Fetterman? -5 Ossoffs.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Beware. Thankfully I’m never updating my version of Photoshop… if I can help it. It’s pre-Ai junk infused. I still need to learn an alternative & swap away from rancid Abobe “products”. All they can do is lie to boost their fantasy “ai”stats & keep the “ai dream” alive & the expense of us.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dignity. Self respect. Social cues. Charisma. A body not built like a bloated toad. The love of his children once they’re old enough to realize much about him. A country’s true soul that will thankfully outlive him as a parasite on its host.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And once again, we are here.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m always trying to figure out what’s going on with my Mac & scripts sometimes. It default opens in LibreOffice. I assumed it was all good as parts of it are fine, but then other bits come out as complete hilarious gibberish or some lost language. ( I always print out me scripts. )
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's a vaguely reputable poll... if Florida is actually in play... it's Republican apocalypse time. ( I hope )
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Truth.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Aaaahahahaha. This just gets better. How hard is it to avoid working with people cheerfully connected with this guy??
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Got the little bastard. I expect I’ll bitch & moan about the pain once the numb stuff wears off a little, like a typical man. ( but hey, we don’t get those pain endorphins that kick in, since we never have to deal with child birth! )
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s too bad bluesky prefer to bow to the pedophile fan party instead of just paying for some lawyers to wait out Texas conservatives infantilisation of their population in the courts. I’m not giving my info just to use social media, sorry. “To protect kids” my arse.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Painting skulls for the thing, & I really should be packing for Dallas. ( no not the idiotic Republican convention, but FanExpo this weekend. )
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Increasingly upset to realize I won’t outlive some of the worst people on the planet. It was always a refuge to the chaos & horror that “oh, well at least I’ll outlive that miserable fuck” except that now I can see my time drawing to a close & some of the little shits are younger than me.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One sixth of all Americans live in this Northeast megalopolis. It’s just 2% of US land area. And not a single high speed rail line.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
She always makes everything ok. Even if she never listens to me, constantly bosses me around, makes unreasonable demands all the time & treats me like the fucking furniture.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A little thing of beauty, coming soon from @ignitionpress.bsky.social @hackintimseeley.bsky.social @aaroncampbellarts.com & for some idiotic reason, me. Forgot how cute little ashcans can be.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As an Australian with a West Aussie, general accent, it's at least good to know I live much closer to my American peeps right now. Always felt New Yorkers & Bostontonians spoke more proper than the other riffraff!
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Based on *current* polling, ( a lot can & will change ) from my favourite election stats website since the Bush vs Kerry election, www.Electoral-vote.com that I check almost daily. They average out all the polls.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hmm. Never heard it reversed like that! At least not growing up. Peas always come first! Usually over here it’s just “split pea with ham” on cans of it. Otherwise, they call it my way… just saying. 😇
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
All I want to know is, is this fuckwit responsible for them *not* paying for their own power in the first place?? He’s gonna run for president too. Ungh.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I did like Threads, I’ll admit. But I became a demon anti ai shitposter there. So gone now. Always amused Zuckerturd named it after the “best” nuclear holocaust film ever made though.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A couple of these points I find dubious. The rest, completely frightening. We could already just search for info on the web. Now apparently we need this crap for dotards to be spoon fed the exact same thing except being wrong half the time. explodingtopics.com/blog/ai-envi...
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Oh good news everyone! One of the scummiest people on the planet has just made up something again. Now we’ll all be even busier.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I must’ve missed the memo where I get grapes peeled for me & being able to use people as footstools while marrying my cousin, instead of living on ramen & making sure I can pay my rent each month.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“No humans were asked to think here”
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Also, if it’s international cat day, here’s the platonic love of my life, Io.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I still eat ramen. But I work in comics.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Oh it gets better. Even if this is all fake, it’s quite glorious.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Ai parasite, Sam Altman, on Grindr.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Can you hear me groan from here?
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Sometimes I really love the country of my birth. Deranged selfish American christian trying to inflict his views on everyone on the train & he’s heckled, laughed at, & told to shut the fuck up. You can have your beliefs, but no one else needs to hear them unless requested.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I’d thought they stopped making this years ago? Then I spied it on Amazon, since I always keep a little Ribena in the house. Americans are sadly less familiar with the joys of blackcurrants due to stupid old agriculture rules… but this should be glorious. Fizzy Ribena!
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Very fair point.
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s just exactly how Lindsay would have wanted it and how he lived: shitting on everyone. “He never saw a war he didn’t like”
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
33% 😓
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