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 · 30/03/2026

This is a techbro “if you don’t want to be harassed, just work somewhere else” Additionally, conflating data centers and AI (implying that all DCs are LLM farms) is a dishonest framing meant to ridicule those who disagree and it’s disappointing to see.

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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 · 14/02/2025

It represents a high point in a design era, that style, and it’s delicious to look at.

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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 · 29/01/2025

> but I can't blame anyone who couldn't. Considering the outcome, I personally feel comfortable holding this group accountable. The president of the most powerful country in the world wants to completely 'clean out' disputed areas and it's important to recognize just how much worse this is.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

What I'm getting is that I'm running out of excuses and maybe it's time to really buckle down and learn Python

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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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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

At what point in being a fan/enthusiast of someone named ‘cat turd’ is someone expected to have a “are we the baddies?” moment, exactly?

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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 · 24/10/2023

First they kill the pebble watch now the microblog too? Damn, Ambassador Kosh wasn’t wrong.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

It wasn’t…BAD… but somehow it felt a little empty. Maybe it’s impossible to capture the emotions and experience of reading that book for the first time as a yute, but it still wasn’t the experience I’d wished for. Not the fault of sfx or acting, they did well. Just some missing, ineffable quality.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

I wish making up new words was funnier because ‘machochism’ is just sitting RIGHT THERE.

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!“

Simpsons, Flanders’ parents shrugging/giving up

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

I simply instruct my reader to feel joy in the first paragraph then proceed to provide supporting evidence for why that is the correct emotion. Certainly that should be all that is required, yes? Reader, feel joy. Now pathos. Now joy again, but more so. Welcome aboard my emotional rollercoaster!

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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

> 25 years This comment is a hate crime, there’s no way that film is that- Oh…. oh my god

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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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Ben Hallert @thunderscreech.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Truth, this is a candid photo of me explaining the advantages of common bulkheads to my wife

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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 · 16/10/2023

Old: Flipping someone the bird Mrs. Maisel: “Chin up, tits out!”

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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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