Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroWhat a week, huh? all Wednesdays @whataweekhuh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026 1197118
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapirolunari 🌙 @309x.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Happy Netrunner Worlds to all who celebrate 1324
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 56586198
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's the fall, sub-70 degrees, and raining, which means it's once again @ghostcopnyc.bsky.social season for work music 011
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One year during undergrad, I found HPMoR about a week before finals, and instead of writing good papers, I read all of HPMoR. Not because I liked the rationalist ideas, but because I liked Harry Potter fanfiction when I was stressed. I fucking hate that this worked out in the long run. 180
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapirovictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This isn’t funny. Commodities traders only do this when they’re in extreme distress 231101160
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroHunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Roko’s basilisk isn’t real but the people who think it is are very real & will hurt you 1127877
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroAlan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It’s so true though  27020
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Take it up with the writers that “what we owe to each other” is the most memorable text of the 20th century for the show. Season two could have used a whole-ass banality of evil episode, à la the trolley problem. 010
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Well yeah, because if you have two copies you don't need to fight over who rereads Scanlon's "What we owe to each other" first. 120
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land. 8476702173
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapirobinp @binp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026understandable 4482701960
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroAndrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 31/08/2026Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.alilleybrinker.com1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded. 541521623
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The Oklahoma City Bombing, setting the tone for the rest of my life in several ways. 000
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 25/08/2026When I was 9, I broke my arm. In my room pre-op, there was a (very bad) superhero joke book. I can only remember one. Which heroes do lawn care? Only the Shadow mows. Ever since then, I’m a sucker for a good Shadow tagline joke, and the character, in that order. 000
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Less true with every year that the monoculture dissolves though. I’m watching Animaniacs with the kiddo, and it’s definitely incorporating lots of 90s vibes, while also keeping standard cultural references alive and well, but I struggle to think of current stuff (since 2015) doing the same work. 010
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 24/08/2026There’s a phrase I picked up from a book a while ago, the carrier wave for culture. That book was mostly using it to discuss mythology. I mostly use it to discuss cartoons from the 1950s and 1960s. 130
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is ECONOMICS' Achiles heel, and it's infected other social sciences, but it's far from universal. 010
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 17/08/2026There’s a reasonable chance that one of the phonogram issues is the most important 25 pages I’ve ever read in my life. And while that wasn’t 20 years ago, it was half a lifetime ago, now. So here’s to where it all began. 010
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroKieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026It's only now I remember today is the 20th anniversary of this coming out. There's not really words, though I'm sure I'll find a few thousand for the newsletter. "We are twice as far from Rue Britannia as Rue Britannia was from Britpop" is certainly a thought. The other is: thank you, McK. 2548368
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroWhat a week, huh? all Wednesdays @whataweekhuh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026 0222111
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro🅱️oofessor Killosk 👻🔪 @professorkiosk.wtf · 22/07/2026who do we want? the funk soul brother when do we want him? right about now 363083817
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroJohn Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 06/07/2026Let’s see what kind of clout the King of England has. 201115116
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroSpooky Big Dad @spicybigdad.bsky.social · 21/06/2026SJÄMSÅRA 2544621112
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Fear and Loathing in Miss Piggy 000
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Goddambit we got our wires crossed 110
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 20/06/2026hear me out, but Watchmen 000
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Ok but Crying of Lot 49 would actually be better. Or Inherent Vice. 000
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 20/06/2026If I said the Great Gatsby would you be less upset? 000
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 18/06/2026It sure seems like @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social’s desires for “the Pitt, but in DC comics” are coming true with Gotham General. Hopefully that’s gonna be real fun. 000
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 16/05/2026SHOWER THOUGHTS: the existence of a Ryan North implies a Ryan South who's from Mexico and once got stuck on a hill 1444555
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroLevi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Man, two all-timers in the space of a month. Nice job, New Yorker cartoon editors. The idea of this one is brilliant, but the execution is maybe even more so—getting the figure in the coffin to read both ways like it’s supposed to is something. 101392425
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroLevi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I have been thinking about how happy this fish is for four days. 143281
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroJosephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 11/05/2026James Joyce's ALLYSSES: "...and first I put my finger and my thumb in an L on my forehead hey now and looked kinda dumb so he could feel my hole in the satellite picture all star hey now and the years started coming like mad and they didn't stop coming hey now I said hey now I will Hey Now." 0275
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Yeah, it's pretty pure Wachowski, in that it's about people who want to make things and also corporate interests crushing your ability to make things. 010
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 28/11/2025truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind 2254701668
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Several people have said this is gender. It's also parenting. And buying things when you travel. 1252
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroRusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 15/04/2026Wow I guess we should call it Santa… con www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr... 2534
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" SchapiroChris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026🚨 For nearly two years - and even now, depending on the day and model - AI models could tell you all about bixonimania, a totally made-up disease in a paper funded by “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation". My @nature.com story on AI's fallibility in medicine www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comScientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was realBixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness? 513861
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 02/04/2026One has to wonder - would this have sold more with a gorilla on it? 000
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 11/03/2026What's My JND? 0.0041 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...keithcirkel.co.ukWhat's My JND?Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see? 010
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapirodead deeri @deerea.rs · 11/03/2026okay okay okay so Neopets has a partnership with a company called Geekify for all physical merch. Geekify ran a kickstarter a while ago for a Neopets TTRPG and raised around 425K to ship a unique noncombat focused TTRPG centering around the existing Neopets world and lore. 8426146
Reposted by Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapirolauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/03/2026cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...theverge.comHasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling.We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f... 12790612511
Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Working with my 2022 and 24 data, about 31% of Millennials born between 1981 and 1989 have no religious affiliation. Within that group, about 17% identify as atheist, 22% agnostic, 12% something else, and 49% nothing in particular. But that's just the label of religion, not faith, e.g. belief in God 010
