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Ben Blythe

@visitingwriter.bsky.social
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Jewish SpecFic writer, currently working on a novel. University instructor. Editor. Wrestling fan. Chicago Manual of Style enthusiast.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 32m
The money pit restaurant I would open as a billionaire would be the opposite of farm to table. What are the most unnatural flavors possible? Hiring top food scientists, giving a blank check and telling them to really explore the dark corners of the flavor latent space. I want to taste eternity.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 11h
Not to be confused with HilleLLM, which tells you "You have asked an important question, my child" even if your question was "baby powder made of babies?"
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 11h
Try our new service, Shamm-AI. The only LLM that generates two answers per prompt and asks you to say which one is more helpful, but then vehemently disagrees with your choice and starts arguing with you about it
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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 14h
What is there to say on the third anniversary of October 7th, except that it did not have to be this way?
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 18h
Oct 7th as a Jew outside Israel, was a uniquely bizarre and traumatizing thing because you were just glued to watching it happen, and so were all the Jews in your life, and all your Goyish friends had no idea or worse were unmasked invasion of the body snatchers style as Jew haters
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 19h
I'm sure at least 1/4 will still defend him regardless.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 21h
When your only contribution to the American project is Slipknot I'm pretty sure we should be allowed to deprive you of statehood
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This kind of maladministration is a crime in and of itself.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 06/10/2026
This was cruel and unusual punishment on the part of Tennessee and is more than sufficient reason to prohibit executions.
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Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is do to a combo of pundits and legacy media being beaten into Pavlovian submission to lift up Republicans for “balance,” the reporters not wanting to disappoint their GOP sources (who are also their meal tickets & cocktail buddies), and many of them agreeing in secret with the GOP on stuff.
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Arcturus SaDiablo @asadiablo.me · 06/10/2026
THIS is the inflection point. This should be where we make the actual move to EVs as primary choices for cars. I've held off for a very long time because of exactly this sort of thing.
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Back in my day, shitty mass printed generic revolutionary imagery meant something!
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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The thing to remember about how the media reacts to a win in November is they spent months after Democrats won the biggest landslide in 30 years, a victory that gave them a filibuster proof majority & gave the nation its first black president, telling people "this is still a center-right nation".
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Now that's bravery.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Republicans are not good at national defense, full stop. Republicans retreat in the face of danger.
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
God, this is the kind of non-story I want to be bitterly sarcastic about but I know any comment I make (possibly including this one) would be subject to total context collapse.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Into the abyss they go.
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Wardlow's Powerbomb Symphony in Steel Cage
ALT: Wardlow's Powerbomb Symphony in Steel Cage
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
May he never change
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 05/10/2026
good thing we don't live in a country too corrupt to pass a modern internet privacy law or regulate data brokers
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 05/10/2026
ok i did what needed to be done for this situation
black and white map of brazil with a face on it. the face is anguished. the nation of brazil is stabbing itself with two knives. oh and the southern tip is wearing a speedo
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank you for your sacrifice.
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CT Yankee @connecticut-yankee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Average Republican congressman dies
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"
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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The final members of the Greatest Generation dying off and the resurgence of international fascism coinciding at the same time isn't a coincidence
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I feel this in my bones. Which I also feel. Especially when the ones in my foot do that popping thing.
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Boo H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Also, life is increasingly confusing, overwhelming and finding true info to make choices more challenging; seems like just being told what to do is a relief to (way too) many folks
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 05/10/2026
“Why is there a correlation between population density and Democratic vote share?”
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It really feels like 45% of the world wishes to watch it all burn to the ground
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At the moment, Canada and Mexico are the only two major countries in the Western Hemisphere holding the line against fascism.
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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mary Shithead United States, Census, 1950
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Intense Cat Stare Meme
ALT: Intense Cat Stare Meme
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Trying" being the operative word, admittedly, 'cos my brain is friggin' sludge the last couple years. It's that whole Everything Is On Fire All The Time And We're All Gonna Die thing. Makes it hard to lock in on leisure reading.
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good thread. While I'm not a romance writer myself, I do consider it to be one of the most valuable genres in existence, and I make it a point of trying to read at least one romance per year just to step outside my own genre and see how the pros do it in another one.
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The "on" is saving your life in this sentence, and we All need to acknowledge its heroic labor.
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I will never stop hating Rage Against the Machine, and I will always be right to do so.
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This man is gonna be a world champion one day
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Bastard Path is now the canonical name for entering through the crowd.
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Ross Payton @rosspayton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I used to think it was dumb that every corporation in horror fiction tried to build the 'ultimate predator' or organism, as though that were a viable business model. All those engineered monsters are just going to destroy everything! Today, I get it. It's the most realistic part of those stories.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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cloud @nbayaoi.net · 03/10/2026
rest easy ace combat 7 dog, ace combat 8 sheep have the watch now
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 03/10/2026
"...retreating from DEI has not produced a clear financial advantage."
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Companies That Dropped DEI Have Nothing To Show For It
Corporate America has spent the last year and a half pulling back from DEI programs. But retreating from DEI has not produced a clear financial advantage.
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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
WITNESS MEEEEE!!!
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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 03/10/2026
Bryan Danielson is a true psychopath and I love him for that.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
...in all fairness, who doesn't?
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Turns out the Final Girl is Final because she killed everybody else
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I just wonder which one romance scammed her.
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