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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second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
Fully worth watching just for Tyler the Creator blowing the roof off at the 3-minute mark
youtu.be/LuwI5j0i-v0?...
youtu.be/LuwI5j0i-v0?...
Outkast Medley | Full Performance | Live @ The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 2025
YouTube video by RemasterKingdom4K
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Fully worth watching just for Tyler the Creator blowing the roof off at the 3-minute mark
youtu.be/LuwI5j0i-v0?...
youtu.be/LuwI5j0i-v0?...
Had such a great time running a game of Eat The Reich by @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social and @gshowitt.bsky.social that I've been inspired to write a hack of the system to run the Fast and Furious pastiche game I've always wanted to do.
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Had such a great time running a game of Eat The Reich by @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social and @gshowitt.bsky.social that I've been inspired to write a hack of the system to run the Fast and Furious pastiche game I've always wanted to do.
This level of advanced White Nonsense is only to be expected from a man whose full name is Ryland Brickson Cole Tews. A man named after 4 of Sarah Palin's children at the same time.
Hundreds of Beavers’ Ryland Tews sets his third and final film, Oriental Snatch. Details here bit.ly/3LgUjhH
#film #orientalsnatch #DBCooper #HundredsofBeavers #RylandTews
#film #orientalsnatch #DBCooper #HundredsofBeavers #RylandTews
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This level of advanced White Nonsense is only to be expected from a man whose full name is Ryland Brickson Cole Tews. A man named after 4 of Sarah Palin's children at the same time.
Anyway I hope someone has a moment of temporary insanity and let's Trump speak at the funeral because he'll probably end up saying shit about Cheney that makes me seem measured and respectful in comparison. He dunked on Charlie Kirk for not leaning out of the way like he did and he LIKED Charlie
REST IN PISS YOU WONT BE MISSED BITCH
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Anyway I hope someone has a moment of temporary insanity and let's Trump speak at the funeral because he'll probably end up saying shit about Cheney that makes me seem measured and respectful in comparison. He dunked on Charlie Kirk for not leaning out of the way like he did and he LIKED Charlie
REST IN PISS YOU WONT BE MISSED BITCH
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
REST IN PISS YOU WONT BE MISSED BITCH
Just watched House of Dynamite and am now convinced that Kathryn Bigelow convinced Netflix to spend $50 million or whatever it cost to waste my fucking evening specifically. Jesus Christ fuck that movie
November 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Just watched House of Dynamite and am now convinced that Kathryn Bigelow convinced Netflix to spend $50 million or whatever it cost to waste my fucking evening specifically. Jesus Christ fuck that movie
Increasingly of the opinion that nobody should ever tell me how many years ago something happened because of the stark psychic damage it inflicts. Anyway happy birthday Cow Tools
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Increasingly of the opinion that nobody should ever tell me how many years ago something happened because of the stark psychic damage it inflicts. Anyway happy birthday Cow Tools
I'll give the Saudis this, they may keep announcing insane megaprojects that will never exist, but every single one of them would make for an absolute banger of a disaster movie.
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'll give the Saudis this, they may keep announcing insane megaprojects that will never exist, but every single one of them would make for an absolute banger of a disaster movie.
This is literal cargo cult shit. This tech doofus has imitated the forms and rituals of videogames and is now preying for the arrival of a bounty of amazing new games that cannot exist because what he is doing has none of the underlying mechanics of actually building a game.
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This is literal cargo cult shit. This tech doofus has imitated the forms and rituals of videogames and is now preying for the arrival of a bounty of amazing new games that cannot exist because what he is doing has none of the underlying mechanics of actually building a game.
Fell into an internet hole recently of martial arts frauds and have become obsessed with this guy. Count Dante was a legit early pioneer of Karate in America, one of the first to teach it to African-Americans, a mobbed-up abusive piece of shit and a key figure in the Chicago Dojo Wars of the 60s.
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Fell into an internet hole recently of martial arts frauds and have become obsessed with this guy. Count Dante was a legit early pioneer of Karate in America, one of the first to teach it to African-Americans, a mobbed-up abusive piece of shit and a key figure in the Chicago Dojo Wars of the 60s.
This is incredible, it's a better rip of Wes Anderson than the tiktoks that were explicitly trying to copy him
What if Wes Anderson made the 10th entry in a DTV action series?
The answer is SNIPER G.R.I.T. (2023)
The answer is SNIPER G.R.I.T. (2023)
October 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This is incredible, it's a better rip of Wes Anderson than the tiktoks that were explicitly trying to copy him
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The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."
October 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."
Which idiot showed him a Zumwalt?
Trump: I'm not a fan of some of the ships you do. I'm a very aesthetic person and I don't like some of the ships you're doing, aesthetically.
September 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Which idiot showed him a Zumwalt?
Starting to suspect that MrBeast might actually be a long-running gag being perpetrated on us by Charlie Brooker
September 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Starting to suspect that MrBeast might actually be a long-running gag being perpetrated on us by Charlie Brooker
I am devastated that we will no longer get to enjoy this Very Special Boy doing what he does best: attempting to trick communities leaders into attending political rallies and dressing up for various ethnic and national events with such enthusiasm it comes off a little racist.
BREAKING: Mayor Eric Adams is dropping out of New York City's mayoral race. nypost.com/2025/09/28/u...
Exclusive | Eric Adams drops out of NYC mayoral race amid increasing pressure: ‘I know I cannot continue my campaign’
Adams — who repeatedly vowed to stay in the race despite being in a distant fourth place in the polls — dropping out now gives Cuomo a boost against his socialist rival.
nypost.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I am devastated that we will no longer get to enjoy this Very Special Boy doing what he does best: attempting to trick communities leaders into attending political rallies and dressing up for various ethnic and national events with such enthusiasm it comes off a little racist.
Oh yeah, great. Give a Brit the mandate to decide what happens to Palestine again. That should do the job.
Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority, BBC understands
Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority, BBC understands
The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.
www.bbc.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Oh yeah, great. Give a Brit the mandate to decide what happens to Palestine again. That should do the job.
Hey do you guys wanna see the most cursed fucking thing you've ever seen in your life? No? Well fuck you look at this anyway
September 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Hey do you guys wanna see the most cursed fucking thing you've ever seen in your life? No? Well fuck you look at this anyway
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hey, Bluesky is this anything
September 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
hey, Bluesky is this anything
Finding out I can look up my BlueSky gamerscore is going to be absolutely atrocious for my mental health
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Finding out I can look up my BlueSky gamerscore is going to be absolutely atrocious for my mental health
Feels like I'm tempting fate by saying this, but I'm not super scared of an ascendant right-wing debate bro who, at any moment, may have to leave to go accompany Merry and Pippin to Isengard
September 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Feels like I'm tempting fate by saying this, but I'm not super scared of an ascendant right-wing debate bro who, at any moment, may have to leave to go accompany Merry and Pippin to Isengard
Had a white South African flatmate at one point and he paid for a cleaner himself rather than contribute to the cleaning, kept talking longingly about all the 'domestics' he used to have when he was younger and eventually left to go back.
See also: White Afrikaaner 'refugees' struggling to adjust to life in the States because they're expected to actually work for a living and are struggling to a domestic life without an underclass of housemaids and manservants.
September 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Had a white South African flatmate at one point and he paid for a cleaner himself rather than contribute to the cleaning, kept talking longingly about all the 'domestics' he used to have when he was younger and eventually left to go back.
Jesus fucking Christ alive help me. My manager has asked me to produce a line graph and is now concerned that the line is confusing because if one month is 4 and the next is 3, the line has to go down, somehow implying the presence of infinite data points between showing a perfect downward slope?
September 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Jesus fucking Christ alive help me. My manager has asked me to produce a line graph and is now concerned that the line is confusing because if one month is 4 and the next is 3, the line has to go down, somehow implying the presence of infinite data points between showing a perfect downward slope?
He's so bad at his job that I'm worried that him finally trying to oppose Farage is just going to make it worse. Like he's going to move from "We will do everything Reform say they will but more effectively" to "We oppose Reform because we're terrified of Farage's incredible sexual charisma"
'The speech this week will be the first time Starmer will publicly take on the arguments of Farage since Reform ramped up its policy announcements and visibility over the summer' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer to launch progressive fightback against ‘decline and division’ fuelled by far right
Prime minister expected to warn UK is ‘at a crossroads’ as he sets out plan to counter Nigel Farage and Reform
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
He's so bad at his job that I'm worried that him finally trying to oppose Farage is just going to make it worse. Like he's going to move from "We will do everything Reform say they will but more effectively" to "We oppose Reform because we're terrified of Farage's incredible sexual charisma"
Reliving my internet troll days by telling the people who thought The Rapture was today that I'm currently being Raptured up into heaven and asking for advice for when I meet Jesus
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Reliving my internet troll days by telling the people who thought The Rapture was today that I'm currently being Raptured up into heaven and asking for advice for when I meet Jesus