Brennan Bestwick
@yrfrenbren.bsky.social
Poet. Birder. Prom king. He/Him.
https://awetheater.substack.com/
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Spending more time here, so a brief reintroduction. I’m a poet, reader, hobby photographer, proud Kansan. Albums I love from this year are mui zyu’s “nothing or something to die for” And Brittany Howard’s “What Now”
Here’s some of my #poetry from an issue of Prairie Schooner a few years back.
Here’s some of my #poetry from an issue of Prairie Schooner a few years back.
We’ve always been very private in the past, but we introduced ourselves to our neighbor when we moved and it’s been great. We keep an eye on each other and the neighborhood. We check in frequently. No cameras. She’s a kind old lady, but she’ll absolutely take no shit.
we don’t have a Ring camera, we have a guy down the block named Frank who caught and threatened to stab our local package thief. get yourself a Frank
February 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
We’ve always been very private in the past, but we introduced ourselves to our neighbor when we moved and it’s been great. We keep an eye on each other and the neighborhood. We check in frequently. No cameras. She’s a kind old lady, but she’ll absolutely take no shit.
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Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
I have a LinkedIn account mostly as a practice in restraint. Scroll and DON’T say what I’m actually thinking.
February 10, 2026 at 4:03 PM
I have a LinkedIn account mostly as a practice in restraint. Scroll and DON’T say what I’m actually thinking.
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Okay so a thing I LOVED about that is how, whereas so many halftime shows kind of elevate the star above the other dancers/extras—often literally—that was like the exact opposite, he was *with and among* the people around him
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Okay so a thing I LOVED about that is how, whereas so many halftime shows kind of elevate the star above the other dancers/extras—often literally—that was like the exact opposite, he was *with and among* the people around him
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I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.
February 9, 2026 at 2:29 AM
I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
Every year the ads are more dystopian and sinister. An endless carousel of supplements and bots, truly dark.
February 9, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Every year the ads are more dystopian and sinister. An endless carousel of supplements and bots, truly dark.
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February 9, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Needed an exceptional halftime show full of human joy to briefly forget about the deluge of lifeless Ai ads you’d be subjected to all night
February 9, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Needed an exceptional halftime show full of human joy to briefly forget about the deluge of lifeless Ai ads you’d be subjected to all night
Big game AI ads encouraging you to build like the geniuses that came before you by using their technology. Proceeds to show a montage of humans doing smart and creative things without once touching said tech.
It's almost as if the miraculous human brain is the tool and not a slop machine.
It's almost as if the miraculous human brain is the tool and not a slop machine.
February 9, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Big game AI ads encouraging you to build like the geniuses that came before you by using their technology. Proceeds to show a montage of humans doing smart and creative things without once touching said tech.
It's almost as if the miraculous human brain is the tool and not a slop machine.
It's almost as if the miraculous human brain is the tool and not a slop machine.
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McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.
February 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.
As a Kansan, I’m so sick of this silly little game. Esteemed journalist shocked to find that the people who live here are generous, curious and thoughtful!
New York Times columnist visit somewhere in the the midwest without acting like you reenlisted for a third tour in 'nam challenge.
Bonus points: guess the columnist.
Bonus points: guess the columnist.
February 2, 2026 at 10:47 PM
As a Kansan, I’m so sick of this silly little game. Esteemed journalist shocked to find that the people who live here are generous, curious and thoughtful!
I got into mechanical watches last year and have a habit of slipping them off all over the house. Sometimes while I’m lying down in a dark room, I hear the faint clicking of a watch’s second hand from god knows where and it starts to drive me mad. I understand The Tell-Tale Heart like never before.
February 1, 2026 at 4:45 AM
I got into mechanical watches last year and have a habit of slipping them off all over the house. Sometimes while I’m lying down in a dark room, I hear the faint clicking of a watch’s second hand from god knows where and it starts to drive me mad. I understand The Tell-Tale Heart like never before.
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There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
January 30, 2026 at 3:44 AM
There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
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Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
January 30, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
I’m not like other poets, I’m actually incapable of getting better at titling poems.
January 29, 2026 at 8:53 PM
I’m not like other poets, I’m actually incapable of getting better at titling poems.
Trying to explain to my wife why the Blake Griffin highlights I watch on my phone make me so emotional.
I yearn for Lob City.
I yearn for Lob City.
January 29, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Trying to explain to my wife why the Blake Griffin highlights I watch on my phone make me so emotional.
I yearn for Lob City.
I yearn for Lob City.
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you cannot reform or retrain an utterly sociopathic contempt for human life like this
abolish and prosecute ICE
abolish and prosecute ICE
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
January 28, 2026 at 5:23 PM
you cannot reform or retrain an utterly sociopathic contempt for human life like this
abolish and prosecute ICE
abolish and prosecute ICE
As a child of the 90’s, there is a Savage Garden song stuck deep in the back of my head. Every few years it jolts awake to fly me to the moon and back once more.
January 27, 2026 at 7:58 PM
As a child of the 90’s, there is a Savage Garden song stuck deep in the back of my head. Every few years it jolts awake to fly me to the moon and back once more.
Poem title “They’ll Name The First Snow of Winter After a Sports Betting App If You Let Them”
January 27, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Poem title “They’ll Name The First Snow of Winter After a Sports Betting App If You Let Them”
Hoping this makes me shovel snow faster.
January 25, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Hoping this makes me shovel snow faster.
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This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
Whenever I’m sad, I think about that Bob’s Burgers episode where the pear people get peeled and say “don’t look at my bartlett buttlet.”
January 22, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Whenever I’m sad, I think about that Bob’s Burgers episode where the pear people get peeled and say “don’t look at my bartlett buttlet.”
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Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
January 21, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.