Ben Cotton (he/him)

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

The NFL should stop doing halftime shows at the Super Bowl. Nothing is ever going to be as magnificent as that one was.

Simply on a live performance stagecraft-design-camerawork-logistics-direction level, this is ASTOUNDING.

Bad Bunny and Green Day going to form a new group called Bad Hare Day.

Remember that passive voice can only be prevented by you.

The Olympics said don't boo Vance but as Vance is incredibly boo-able, it had to happen

You love to see it.

"We can't give a self-consistent reason why it's not bad this time, so we're going to distract you with some technobabble that would make the Star Trek writers room blush."

sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed

You can't spell "HRT" without "HR"

hello

we're running a conference in a few months. we'd love it if you thought about speaking

submissions are due in a week or so: pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2026/cfp

Sabrina Carpenter apresentando ‘Manchild’ durante sua participação especial em “The Muppet Show”.🤍

It's not too late!

Everyone who has ever talked to Tony Hawk, now's your time.

You're Taylor Swift, you do it.

With apologies to Miley, 🎶I updated my record wallllll🎶

Y'all, as sad as Elon Musk is right now, remember: we can make him sadder!

"To Kill a Mockingbird"

Madison Layden-Zay’s two steals allow her to join former Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark as the only Big Ten players with 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 300 assists, 200 steals, 200 3-pointers, and 50 blocks.

Luigi Mangione surrounded by flames grinning with the text Repent or Perish

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

little item for the Senate Dems to ponder: which of the reforms you’re currently floating is going to stop this?

I know we like to joke about recipe blogs, but I have a soup recipe open in a tab that's apparently using 8GB of memory and I am just so damn impressed right now.

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

Sometimes saying less is more If you can cut a word or phrase without losing clarity, do it.

Sometimes saying less is more

If you can cut a word or phrase without losing clarity, do it.

Guys, it’s fine. It’s probably DNS. Or BGP. Or us-east-1

Frankly, the entire Internet is made of duct tape and popsicle sticks held together by bubble gum and string and it’s amazing that anything ever works at all

I had a moment this morning when I realized that all these evil men would just have been depraved internet trolls if we actually taxed the rich.

I started doing that a few years ago and it is life changing

if you ever worked at Palantir you owe the trans people and POC in your life apologies and probably reparations

They might also be a Mooninite.