Ben Bengtson
@benbengtson.bsky.social
PhD(c), The University of British Columbia 📚.
Modernism, theories of scale, Science and Technology Studies 📖.
Mainly sharing news items and other online ephemera 📰 💭. Also on Letterboxd 🎬: https://boxd.it/9oCZr.
Modernism, theories of scale, Science and Technology Studies 📖.
Mainly sharing news items and other online ephemera 📰 💭. Also on Letterboxd 🎬: https://boxd.it/9oCZr.
Reposted by Ben Bengtson
Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...
🥲Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux dies at 78 www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux dies at 78
Donna Jean Godchaux, whose gospel-infused harmonies helped shape the Grateful Dead’s sound and whose voice graced hits by Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge, has died at 78.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🥲Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux dies at 78 www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
This was a delightful read.
That ‘Friday the 13th’ When Jason Takes the SkyTrain | The Tyee
It may be the most scorned sequel in the horror series. Don’t blame Vancouver!
thetyee.ca
October 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This was a delightful read.
Sad to hear Jack DeJohnette—for my money, the best jazz drummer to ever do it—has died.
Jack DeJohnette, versatile jazz drummer known for Miles Davis fusion recordings, dies aged 83
Drummer played on Bitches Brew and other landmark recordings, as well as making numerous albums as a bandleader
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Sad to hear Jack DeJohnette—for my money, the best jazz drummer to ever do it—has died.
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"Way back in 2012, the internet wasn’t yet the angry, shrieking wasteland it has become. A simple story about a no-nonsense lady in North Dakota could break through the noise." www.wsj.com/us-news/mari...
Marilyn Hagerty, Whose Column on Olive Garden Went Viral in 2012, Dies at 99
It was a simpler time online, her son recalls—and his no-nonsense mother broke through the noise for all the right reasons
www.wsj.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"Way back in 2012, the internet wasn’t yet the angry, shrieking wasteland it has become. A simple story about a no-nonsense lady in North Dakota could break through the noise." www.wsj.com/us-news/mari...
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The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.
Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department
The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.
www.npr.org
May 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.
Reposted by Ben Bengtson
My uncle took this pic of a house he’s photographed often in Alberta. I love this house and don’t want it to ever fall down.
April 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
My uncle took this pic of a house he’s photographed often in Alberta. I love this house and don’t want it to ever fall down.
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The rise of end times fascism. An essay by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The rise of end times fascism. An essay by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
I think there's a Seinfeld episode about this.
Donald Trump signs order to 'make America's showers great again'
The US president says he wants to "take care of my beautiful hair" as he eases water flow rules.
bbc.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I think there's a Seinfeld episode about this.