Ben Gleason

#MedfordChessClub has added a new weekly meeting time and place! Drop by Mrs. Murphy's pub near Medford Square Wednesday at 7pm for "Pawns and Pints" #chess #chessClub #MedfordMA www.medfordchessclub.com www.mrsmurphs.com

Ben Gleason (@BenGleason@mastodon.online) 2.18K Posts, 1.39K Following, 628 Followers · I live in #SomervilleMA in the #Boston area. I'm married and we have a #dog. I work in #publishing, ride a #bike, play #chess and #VideoGames, listen to ...

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The Pete Principle. Newsday.com/matt

When governments have cowed the press and flooded social platforms with viral propaganda, Wikipedia has become the next target, and a more stubborn one.

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So, I noticed a new evolution in the way comics are displayed in book stores today. I found a shop that placed comics in the comics section, but also on a single shelf at the end of each genre section. So if you are browsing fantasy, the books beyond Z are all fantasy comics.

More colours for Patrons! Recognising commitment!

I admire @lichess.org's commitment to offering all features to all users for free, but also I'm grateful they came up with something to offer to those of us who are paying, to feed our smug sense of superiority. lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...

Here's an interview on the #PathsOfPractice podcast with the charming and erudite Howard Lazzarini, who translated THE SOUND THAT PERCEIVES THE WORLD by the great Zen master Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, published by wisdom.org
#buddhism #zen #WisdomPublications

youtube.com/watch?v=PX_w...

Andor: A Spaceship Story | The Spaceshipper Get more from The Spaceshipper on Patreon

To celebrate Andor's third anniversary, my nerdy long article on spaceships is open to everyone.

With everything I've learned since then, I should take the time to update it. 🤫

Hulu/Disney cancelation page saying "Your subscription will be canceled"

#Hulu and #Disney who own #ABC have gone the way of #WashingtonPost - canceled due to their coddling of #fascism. How many more of our media outlets will become #propaganda for the #Trump regime?

I could say I was boycotting ABC but the fact of the matter is I literally cannot remember the last time I actually watched an ABC show over the air

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: If Charlie Kirk wasn’t a right-wing extremist, right-wing extremist groups wouldn’t be marching to honor him.

Hannah Einbinder at the Emmys backstage:

"It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Image of a female collosis in old Greek style staring into a phone shaped object that shoots knives through her head: “Clickthrough rate” (2024), mixed media, 24 x 15 x 15 centimeters.

Important reminder

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

I’m so impressed by the survivors and I’m behind their efforts to get validation, conviction for those involved ! Enough is enough! #jeffreyEpstein

Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done."

Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"

An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts.

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.

He's pissin his pants about this...

California stepping up.

Street art sticker of the character E.T. placed on a stone wall, cleverly aligned with a red metal fire hose fixture so that the two circular outlets resemble E.T.’s large eyes. The setup transforms the fixture into the alien’s head, while the drawn body shows his wrinkled skin, long arms, and glowing finger.

Urban walls, sidewalks, and even utility meters are the unlikely canvases behind this clever collection of genius street art. From an illusion of a zebra being striped to a sidewalk creature with a real rock for a head, these eight works turn... 👇

Fuck social media read books

Four panel cartoon. First panel has female presenting white person with long dark hair, glasses and a green shirt saying “today we are going to learn about insurance!” Second panel has woman talking to the edge of a brown desk, with bubble that reads “hey insurance, I am injured and I need some of that money I give you for in case I get injured.” Third panels is the woman sitting at a desk with a nameplate reading “insurance.” She wears a black top hat and a gold necklace with a dollar sign, and piles of bags with dollar signs on them are behind her. The bubble above her head says “no.” The fourth panel has the woman back to regular dress saying “and that is how insurance works!”

Ouch…

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey is a fucking masterpiece and I will fight you about it

The Latest Casualty of Social Media Hype Is Your Matcha Supply The powdered Japanese green tea is increasingly hard to find. Experts say its popularity on the internet is straining Japan’s tea industry.

Demand for matcha has reached dizzying levels, making life difficult for suppliers of the powdered Japanese green tea.