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Ben Blythe

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Jewish SciFi/Fantasy/Horror author. Developmental editor. University instructor. Chicago Manual of Style enthusiast.

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This dude was clearly grown in a lab.

01.03.2026 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The one guy where it's not a typo.

01.03.2026 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The thing is, reposting an antisemitic joke is still doing antisemitism. β€œIt was just a joke” is the classic defense of bigots and retelling a joke is, again, doing antisemitism. The real alarming thing is that there’s so much ambient antisemitism on X, The Everything App that people can’t tell.

01.03.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 239    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Bluesky: lol Dems don’t have any message if it was me I would have a winning message

Dems: *a message*

Bluesky: lol look at this sternly worded letter DO SOMETHING

Dems: *do something*

Bluesky: lol any halfway competent opposition party would have been able to STOP ALL THIS ALREADY

etc.

28.02.2026 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I couldn't help but laugh at the genie-breaking-his-chains meme he posted. Dude's gonna bomb out in a couple months if he's super lucky.

01.03.2026 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks straight out of Ghost in the Shell, tbh.

01.03.2026 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hear me out now: Don Callis Family vs. Death Riders.

Anarchy in the Arena.

Just for whacky bullshit like this, but with Wild Things blaring on repeat.

01.03.2026 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BALD. #AEWCollision

01.03.2026 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 18

so. much. fedposting.

01.03.2026 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I get that we're all losing our shit, but please try not to Fedpost.

01.03.2026 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You had one job

01.03.2026 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
28.02.2026 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 8140    πŸ” 2509    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 10

Can you link to the original? I'd like to laugh at them.

28.02.2026 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty hard for them to rebuild when their government was insanely stupid, corrupt, nepotistic, and had crashed the economy into a black hole so deep that one USD is worth something like 1.314 million Iranian Rials.

28.02.2026 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

so you want to emulate a slave/petro state... without slaves or petroleum

28.02.2026 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 130    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Yeah baby, we're debugging web scraping work flows

28.02.2026 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

not for nothing, but every damnable fool who told us On Here and elsewhere that Kamala Harris would be the one to send our sons & daughters to die in a useless war across the world should be ruthlessly hounded away for good reason from any discussion about any of thisβ€”or politics generally, tbh.

28.02.2026 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

A lot of people seem to want heavy US/Israeli casualties because they see war as a morality play and they need their priors vindicated.

28.02.2026 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

we are achieving levels of welp that have never before been welped.

we're in blue jean overalls, straw hat, staring at a tractor in a ditch and the ditch is on fire and the tractor's tires are about to explode levels of welp.

28.02.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WELP.

28.02.2026 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

haha he fuckin got our ass

28.02.2026 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 875    πŸ” 163    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

it failed for all those other guys, but etc. etc.

28.02.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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welp.

28.02.2026 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a snow leopard with a national geographic logo behind it ALT: a close up of a snow leopard with a national geographic logo behind it

The leopards do be feasting these days.

28.02.2026 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you want to understand why Schumer and other Democrats are engaging in hair-splitting in their denunciations, the answer is that they are aware that for the crucial older demographic, Iran has been an intractable enemy of the USA for 47 years and being pro-Iran would thus be politically fatal.

28.02.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 332    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 6

I'm a professional aid worker with active operations in the Middle East. I am absolutely not watching atrocity videos, they give me no useful information only vicarious trauma. There are far more useful sources of information that are far less traumatic.

28.02.2026 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
A ladybird walking on some wooden bark. On of the black dot on her red shell  has the shape of a heart.

A ladybird walking on some wooden bark. On of the black dot on her red shell has the shape of a heart.

Found this ladybird with a heart-shaped spot in the garden this morning. A nice break from the doomscrolling.

28.02.2026 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 299    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Hideo Kojima is currently writing reality and that man views subtlety with nothing less than righteous disdain.

28.02.2026 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.

28.02.2026 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5150    πŸ” 945    πŸ’¬ 164    πŸ“Œ 64