Ben
@benbartlett.bsky.social
Aging nerd, office drone and recovering librarian. TTRPGs, retrofuturism, gushing about Pratchett and increasingly radicalised political takes.
Please ignore my bad posts, unless they made you mad, in which case know that I meant every word.
Please ignore my bad posts, unless they made you mad, in which case know that I meant every word.
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My local bookshop understands their audience.
January 22, 2026 at 4:13 PM
My local bookshop understands their audience.
Well this was a horrifying ride of a post. Much like it's subject, really.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Well this was a horrifying ride of a post. Much like it's subject, really.
RIP Scott Adams. You wrote Dilbert, you made a Dilbert-shaped house, invented a line of Dilbert-themed vegan microwave burritos for programmers, experimented with erotic hypnosis, then got really into right-wing politics and Trump and got REALLY insane.
January 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
RIP Scott Adams. You wrote Dilbert, you made a Dilbert-shaped house, invented a line of Dilbert-themed vegan microwave burritos for programmers, experimented with erotic hypnosis, then got really into right-wing politics and Trump and got REALLY insane.
Funniest possible thing to happen tonight is a secret Episode 9 of Stranger Things to air tonight after all and it's shite
January 7, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Funniest possible thing to happen tonight is a secret Episode 9 of Stranger Things to air tonight after all and it's shite
I need to make you all aware that there is currently a second season of the best cooking competition show ever made airing on Netflix and it is just as good as the first season
Currently watching Culinary Class War and it is the most anime-ass bullshit imaginable, it rules. The schtick is there are 100 contestants but 20 of them are michelin-tier chefs who skip the early rounds and literally look down on the rest as they compete.
January 6, 2026 at 12:39 PM
I need to make you all aware that there is currently a second season of the best cooking competition show ever made airing on Netflix and it is just as good as the first season
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Love what you do and you'll never work a day in your life
January 3, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Love what you do and you'll never work a day in your life
Watched Stranger Things last night then made the mistake of looking up the Stranger Things discourse. A portion of the fandom is so upset that they didn't get the trigger pulled on a gay ship that they're convinced the finale was bad on purpose and that there's a second, secret finale about to drop
January 2, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Watched Stranger Things last night then made the mistake of looking up the Stranger Things discourse. A portion of the fandom is so upset that they didn't get the trigger pulled on a gay ship that they're convinced the finale was bad on purpose and that there's a second, secret finale about to drop
You can hack almost any TTRPG to make combat more high-stakes, exciting and dangerous by removing all combat mechanics. When a fight breaks out, a FIGHT breaks out. Put down the D20 and pick up a chair, nerd, the GMs about to make you pay for splitting the party again
I need everyone to make a shitpost game that fits into at most 3 posts on here before the end of the year otherwise thr sun will not rise again
Not enough shitpost games though
December 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
You can hack almost any TTRPG to make combat more high-stakes, exciting and dangerous by removing all combat mechanics. When a fight breaks out, a FIGHT breaks out. Put down the D20 and pick up a chair, nerd, the GMs about to make you pay for splitting the party again
This was an absolutely lovely watch
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...
youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...
I Talked To 50 Dads at the Taylor Swift Eras Tour
YouTube video by DARK WEB | Paul Scheer & Rob Huebel
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This was an absolutely lovely watch
And to Tiny Tim, who DID NOT die hard
December 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
And to Tiny Tim, who DID NOT die hard
I've been gone about 4 hours and my parents are already trying to play me right wing AI parody songs about Greta Thunberg and complaining about the lyric change to Fairytale of New York, not all of us are going to survive this fucking Christmas.
December 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I've been gone about 4 hours and my parents are already trying to play me right wing AI parody songs about Greta Thunberg and complaining about the lyric change to Fairytale of New York, not all of us are going to survive this fucking Christmas.
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All I want for Christmas is a $32K spaceship recliner pod from Neiman Marcus, 1982.
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
All I want for Christmas is a $32K spaceship recliner pod from Neiman Marcus, 1982.
A warning in case anyone was thinking of perusing them
Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
December 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A warning in case anyone was thinking of perusing them
If you ever doubt the value of class solidarity, just remember that not one single newspaper will run the article "NYT PUBLISHED COLUMNIST DOWNPLAYING EPSTEIN FILES 1 MONTH BEFORE BEING FOUND PICTURED WITH EPSTEIN"
A photo of David Brooks palling around with Epstein in the latest Epstein files drop three weeks after he wrote a column chiding America for caring about the Epstein story is some serious Rafael Palmeiro shit.
December 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If you ever doubt the value of class solidarity, just remember that not one single newspaper will run the article "NYT PUBLISHED COLUMNIST DOWNPLAYING EPSTEIN FILES 1 MONTH BEFORE BEING FOUND PICTURED WITH EPSTEIN"
You, a philistine, upon watching the Street Fighter trailer: This looks like cheap goofy trash 😡
Me, an enlightened being, upon watching the trailer: This looks like cheap goofy trash 😀
Me, an enlightened being, upon watching the trailer: This looks like cheap goofy trash 😀
December 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You, a philistine, upon watching the Street Fighter trailer: This looks like cheap goofy trash 😡
Me, an enlightened being, upon watching the trailer: This looks like cheap goofy trash 😀
Me, an enlightened being, upon watching the trailer: This looks like cheap goofy trash 😀
Giving up on my plans to revisit NYC because I spent too much time posting that his full name is Jorkin DaPeanus Vance
Want to travel to the US? You might have to give the Trump administration the last five years of your social media history.
US wants five years of some tourists' social media to enter the country
Digital rights advocates say it’s an affront to civil liberties.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Giving up on my plans to revisit NYC because I spent too much time posting that his full name is Jorkin DaPeanus Vance
Just saw Wake Up Dead Man and that movie fucks. Full recommend. Just something about watching these movies feels like a sensuous little treat, I'm savouring the dialogue and the jokes and the performances like I'm slipping into a hot bath with a glass of wine.
December 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Just saw Wake Up Dead Man and that movie fucks. Full recommend. Just something about watching these movies feels like a sensuous little treat, I'm savouring the dialogue and the jokes and the performances like I'm slipping into a hot bath with a glass of wine.
Rumour is Cavaziel prepped for the role by Googling 'How to have tummy implode and explode and catch COVID all at same time'
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Jim Caviezel to play Jair Bolsonaro in ‘heroic’ biopic
Actor, who starred in The Passion of the Christ, will play the disgraced ex-Brazilian president in film written by his one-time secretary of culture
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Rumour is Cavaziel prepped for the role by Googling 'How to have tummy implode and explode and catch COVID all at same time'
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Funniest possible outcome to me is if 50 Cent took an earnest and sincere interest in the filmmaking process, learning a lot about pacing, storyboarding, editing and everything else, maybe even kickstarts a new career, all in service of being a more effective P Diddy Hater
The release of the documentary series “Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” produced by 50 Cent, marks an escalation in what was once a low-stakes beef between two hip-hop luminaries.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Had a Camera Follow Him. 50 Cent Has the Footage.
The mogul’s spokesman said he was “deeply concerned” that video shot days before Mr. Combs’s 2024 arrest appears in a new documentary series produced by his rival.
nyti.ms
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Funniest possible outcome to me is if 50 Cent took an earnest and sincere interest in the filmmaking process, learning a lot about pacing, storyboarding, editing and everything else, maybe even kickstarts a new career, all in service of being a more effective P Diddy Hater
I see the Your Party conference is going...
... that's it, that's the end of the sentence.
... that's it, that's the end of the sentence.
November 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I see the Your Party conference is going...
... that's it, that's the end of the sentence.
... that's it, that's the end of the sentence.
Respect to these guys for choosing the most SEO-unfriendly restaurant name imaginable
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Respect to these guys for choosing the most SEO-unfriendly restaurant name imaginable
Nier Automata, of course, should win both
To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Nier Automata, of course, should win both