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thebenj.bsky.social

Parent, game person, library person. He/him.

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taps mic Hey Millenials! You know what we're not gonna do? We're not gonna fucking watch that new HBO Harry Potter show because Rowling is a reprehensible human/transphobe/acephobe and we're not giving her money. Okay? OKAY?! Yes, I mean you. Also read a different book. Hell, write* one.

submitted 16 hours ago • 21 comments

I've seen Americans on here say "I'm no JD supporter but his position on trade would at least make sense" and, America, you DO need rid of Trump but don't start sensible-ing true believer JD Vance. You need to get rid of the fucking lot of em.

submitted 5 hours ago • 16 comments

i never understand how people take orders that are pure evil and rationalize it. how do these people live with themselves. if i forget to say goodbye to a friend at a function before leaving i feel like a monster and these people simply shrug off crimes against humanity lol

submitted 5 hours ago • 66 comments

You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

submitted 22 hours ago • 353 comments

Bukele doesn't "have something" on Trump. Trump isn't afraid to fight for Garcia's return. He doesn't want him returned. Trump and Bukele are engaged in a mutually-beneficial authoritarian partnership designed to profit off the destruction of legal protections. That's it. It isn't that hard.

submitted 16 hours ago • 68 comments

Man 1 walking behind me in Tottenham: Feels end of days. Man 2: Yes. Man 1: So I might as well tell you. Man 2: What? Man 1: (inhales) That I love you. Long pause. Man 1: You don’t feel the same. Man 2: Of course I do you silly sausage I’m just trying not to cry.

submitted 17 hours ago • 22 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1272 comments

Louis CK still goes on comedy tours, Johnny Depp was forgiven by the vast majority of people, Bill Cosby got out of prison on a technicality, Cuomo is running for mayor of NYC, Trump is president for a second term, Jonathan Majors is being welcomed back into Hollywood, etc. And this was WITH MeToo

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

It boils my piss that the news stories are continuously 'are we over-diagnosing mental health problems?' rather than 'oh my God what have we DONE to ourselves that SO many people are SO profoundly unhappy and anxious and unwell?'

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

heads up horror devs, i bothered to look up the eternal darkness sanity system patent and apparently it expired in 2021 go wild patents.google.com/patent/US693...

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

People keep sharing this as a win but this is just NEW podcasts. Until the curve dips into negative numbers, until we see mass acoustic blanket burnings and microphone amnesties, until we see every single short form video clip of two dudes chatting breeze expunged from the internet, we are not free

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔 Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked… 🧵1/22 (1/1)

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

game scholars and industry types alike continue to argue over the origins and definition of the word videogame but it's fairly simple when you break it into its root words "video" (Latin for metroid) and "game" (Greek for vania) revealing that hey cmon give me back my phone

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Goodness, they have NOT hit their target audience. I hate everything about this.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

THIS PART So much of my childhood was people going "well sure that's wrong but why do you care so much?" And child me trying to explain to a bunch of adults who had the agency to intervene that they should maybe try caring MORE

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if other people worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

submitted 1 day ago • 250 comments

Exiling people beyond the protection of US law without due process is not only unconstitutional, it's a rejection of the entire American revolutionary project. Sending people "beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" is one of the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario

submitted 2 days ago • 350 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 182 comments

I have a PhD in copyright. I hate the current state of copyright law. We should burn it to the ground and start from scratch. This is not an uncommon view. But the "start from scratch" matters - what we have is broken, but nothing would be worse. Because of parasites like Jack and Elon.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

y'all have to go to this article and look at the "rendering". no really. you have to see it. they raised a million dollars for this

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I wish everyone working in games could all have stable good paying jobs with benefits. I feel like in an industry that makes hundreds of billions of dollars that isn't so much to ask.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments