iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If a book is published with a GenAI cover, I'll assume it's AI-written too. I don't want to wonder if it comes via the agony of creation or if they just had a machine shit it out. After all, why would I bother to read something nobody bothered to write? The shared humanity is the deliverable.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It should be illegal to need to buy a USB A-B cable. I may need to drop by a store today for one and it feels like a crime is being done because I have had so many and where did they go

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I’ve adopted a hobby of driving at exactly the speed limit in the super conservative rural MAGA belt around my town. Some awful upset folks with 'I suppose the police' or thin blue line stickers fly past me, sometimes even honking when they do it. It's like meditation.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Finally, an end to the stranglehold Egg McMuffins have held on breakfast for so long.

A Dairy Queen menu titled ‘Breakfast Collection’ featuring a fruity pebbles milkshake, chocolate frosted donut blizzard, and a Cinnamon Toast Crunch dipped ice cream cone.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

iPhones have this feature where it will make guesses about where you’re going and I just got this when I turned my car on. Rude. And no, that’s NOT where I’m going. Yet…

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Combining the condiments and drink station forces me to consider the optimal number of salsa packets to put in my coffee. I assume it’s zero, but…

Picture of a mixed condiment and coffee sweeter/creamer station

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

[me plugging wires into backstab terminals terminals on an outlet] Haha fuck yeah!! Yes!! [me trying to get wires loose from a backstab terminal to switch an outlet] Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you absolutely can yell ‘parkour!’ when hopping over a curb or ducking under a railing in public. There’s no law against it, it’s allowed, I’ve tested it.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Hay is grass skeletons There, I said it

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

“(…) phenomenal,” says the customer on the conference call. “Doo dooo do dodo,” I sing in response like a Muppet automatically. Adrenaline spiking, I verify I’m muted…. I am. This time. It will happen again, I know it will. Hopefully the same will be true for the mute status.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/02/2025

"From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against the mayor who promised to blow up the city and those who voted for the mayor who promised to blow up the city."

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Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City

It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

For Valentine’s, I made a little love garden. (KD are initials)

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

My 2020 sign (top), like me, has been getting a little ragged around the edges lately. Girl, same. Made a replacement in my shop, hope we both last long enough to see these values return to places where weak, bullying people have banished them. #webelieve

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Shut down my Twitter space bots and the folks still over there are dropping all kinds of wild slurs at me in their quote-tweets. 235,000 people have seen my @bocaroad quit notice so far which is wild, I’ll never have that big of an audience again. Ugh. But staying would be way worse. Fuck Nazis.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 ML-2 mobile launcher $2,700,000,000 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my agency is dying

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

When I honk at someone in traffic who just did something aggressively stupid (as in unlikely to be a mistake) it’s not because I think they will care what I, a stranger, thinks. I do it because if they have a passenger, it might embarrass them in front of someone whose opinion they care about.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Hardware clerk: “Would you like a bag for this little stuff for five cents” Me: “No need, I have cargo shorts.” Hardware clerk: [no expression but obviously impressed, their poker face is incredible though] Me: [proudly waddles out the door, clanking] My wife is gonna feel SO silly for doubting.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Just passed what I thought was a mime gardening before realizing it was just someone wearing a horizontal black & white striped shirt. Have they done to fashion what Kaiser Wilhelm did to comically twirly mustaches? (certainly the worst thing a German or Austrian has done to mustache fashion)

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Hot take: Aftershave and perfume are just different types of Main Character Syndrome spray

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

AI ain't bad at anatomy when it creates these grim 'art' horrors, it's telling us directly what horrors await us post-singularity when it has the reins.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Idea: 'Hey Boy Hey Girl' by Chemical Brothers except all the "Here we go!" parts are replaced by Charles Martinet as Mario

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

You can tell a lot about a person from whether they seem to hear an un-written 'Black Lives Matter 𝑡𝑜𝑜' or '𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 Black Lives Matter'. Bigots project their own weakness of character and assume everyone else thinks the way they do.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

GRANDFATHER: whhyyyy have yooou summoned meee from beyonnd the veil of deeaaath? ME: I wish to tell you, there is a chance Ireland may finally be reunified. GRANDFATHER: Hooww is this blessed thiinnng to haaapen? *an hour later* GRANDFATHER: ... whaaat the fuuuuck ... ME: Nope. Not finished.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Life stage: quietly celebrating standing up from chair without making strain noises or needing to use arm rests for support partway up. By the standards of my late 40s, I think this basically makes me a gymnast.

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

The left are wrong to claim these rings will “corrupt” us, and it’s time we finally stood up to critical wraith theory | my latest for the New Orc Times

Nine human kings with nine of Sauron’s rings, ripe and ready to get absolutely fucking shafted by their new boss

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but 12 minutes at 250° in my air fryer makes perfect ‘soft boiled’ eggs as a one-step, easier-than-boiling process. In this case, it was chicken-class duck eggs so the numbers should be 1:1.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Search your camera roll for “art”

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Pictured: Old Man Yells At Cloud The clouds covered enough of the light at points where the eclipse glasses couldn’t make out anything but at the same time, weren’t blocking enough light that it felt safe to really stare at it. But we saw something, I’ll take it.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

I just made yogurt at home for the first time with my Instant Pot and it feels like breaking the law

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

‘Right Now’ by Van Halen is playing over the speakers at this store and now I have an overwhelming urge to drink Crystal Pepsi what

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Is there a specific amount of gravy spilled on shorts that would require changing them? If not volume, then maybe surface area? Asking for a friend. *Sausage gravy

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

I don’t think people have clocked just how much trans people are under attack right now. You *hope* this stuff doesn’t stand up in court. But even if it doesn’t, a bunch of good people have to spend years in court—or worse. And a hundred times as many hide because they can’t face that.

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💜 Cyn ✨ @obicynkenobi.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

The creator of the ‘Oh No’ webcomic needs help in raising funds so he can continue his legal battle against a shady as fuck board game company trying to claim ownership of all his artwork. Don’t know how these assholes sleep at night. Plz contribute to this if you can, & re-skeet #HelpSmallArtists

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Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics, organized by Alex Norris

I am Alex Norris, creator of the webcomic Webcomic Name. I am here to ask for h… Alex Norris needs your support for Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics

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Swim Jeans 👖 @shortsleevesuit.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

INVENTOR OF ELECTRIC BICYCLES: what if an eleven year old could go as fast as cars

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

one of the only things i miss about living in the city is posting on nextdoor

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker

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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Reminder that the Speaker of the House does not have to be a Member of Congress

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

One discourse I really enjoy is when Republicans do something crazy and Very Sober conservative pundits write takes about how it’s the Dems fault for not stopping them.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Sure, Kevin McCarthy may have humiliated himself for Trump. Yes, it took him 15 tries to become Speaker. And, of course, he had to beg the dumbest, most racist people in Congress to vote for him. But on the bright side, he ended up with absolutely nothing.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

when everyones phone buzzes tomorrow thats how you know Lawnmower Man made it inside the system

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Lady Lilith @ladylilithlavay.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

"It'll be different this time" - people that don't learn from history

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Trans rights are human rights, but conversely human rights are trans rights, because if you allow them to dismantle trans people's human rights you let them set out a clear pathway for them to dismantle other people's human rights, and that's a genie that can't be put back in the toothpaste tube

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Congrats to Marina Koren for receiving the Eberhart Prize (the journalism prize) at #DPSEPSC2023!!

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

It’s October 3rd, how will YOU celebrate Mean Girls day? I enjoy sneaking this shirt into memorable family photos to give my wife image-cropping challenges. Going in for a procedure today so if things go upside down, the news will have the best possible photo to use. Bonus: It looks quite fetch.

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