Ben Green
@bengreen.bsky.social
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Board game and TTRPG designer. US tax advisor for creative weirdos @ Brass Taxes. Outdoorsy. Anti-Zionist Jew. The lives, needs, and dreams of historically colonized, queer, and trans people are vital to humanity. Panpsychic post-anarcho-socialist.
Board game and TTRPG designer. US tax advisor for creative weirdos @ Brass Taxes. Outdoorsy. Anti-Zionist Jew. The lives, needs, and dreams of historically colonized, queer, and trans people are vital to humanity. Panpsychic post-anarcho-socialist.
December 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
The Earth has so many absolutely bizarre looking places.
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Earth has so many absolutely bizarre looking places.
Feeling unknown
And you're all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer
And you're all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer
November 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Feeling unknown
And you're all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer
And you're all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer
The way the word "ceasefire" has been redefined to mean "continued war" is down right orwellian.
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The way the word "ceasefire" has been redefined to mean "continued war" is down right orwellian.
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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The person who got my grandma into hiding and saved her life was a 15-year-old girl. She had a job in the factory where my grandma worked and was using the job as a front to rescue Jews employed there. She was a normal, working-class Dutch gentile teenager. There are ways you can be like her.
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The person who got my grandma into hiding and saved her life was a 15-year-old girl. She had a job in the factory where my grandma worked and was using the job as a front to rescue Jews employed there. She was a normal, working-class Dutch gentile teenager. There are ways you can be like her.
There is only one possible interpretation that what's happened in Gaza has resulted in something "very close to being perfected": Genocide.
The only other way a reasonable person could interpret this is that he's totally lost his mind and has no idea what's going on.
The only other way a reasonable person could interpret this is that he's totally lost his mind and has no idea what's going on.
Trump: "Gaza -- while it looks a little bit messy, it has for many many years, decades, but it's getting very close to being perfected."
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
There is only one possible interpretation that what's happened in Gaza has resulted in something "very close to being perfected": Genocide.
The only other way a reasonable person could interpret this is that he's totally lost his mind and has no idea what's going on.
The only other way a reasonable person could interpret this is that he's totally lost his mind and has no idea what's going on.
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Today I investigate three more indie games, all of which are ambitious and explorative of what games can accomplish. These are good'uns. spacebiff.com/2025/11/18/h...
Nebulae, Medusae… Crownae?
Yesterday on BlueSky, Marceline Leiman asked a great question. Using only one or two extremely vague words, how would I describe the titles on offer at this year’s Indie Games Night Market? N…
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November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Today I investigate three more indie games, all of which are ambitious and explorative of what games can accomplish. These are good'uns. spacebiff.com/2025/11/18/h...
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
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Remember how Trump said ICE targets “violent criminals?”
Trump’s own DOJ now reports that ONLY 2.5% of the people ICE arrested in Chicago have any criminal history.
That means 97.5% have ZERO criminal record. They were targeted because they were of Latino ethnicity. This is what fascism looks like
Trump’s own DOJ now reports that ONLY 2.5% of the people ICE arrested in Chicago have any criminal history.
That means 97.5% have ZERO criminal record. They were targeted because they were of Latino ethnicity. This is what fascism looks like
November 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Remember how Trump said ICE targets “violent criminals?”
Trump’s own DOJ now reports that ONLY 2.5% of the people ICE arrested in Chicago have any criminal history.
That means 97.5% have ZERO criminal record. They were targeted because they were of Latino ethnicity. This is what fascism looks like
Trump’s own DOJ now reports that ONLY 2.5% of the people ICE arrested in Chicago have any criminal history.
That means 97.5% have ZERO criminal record. They were targeted because they were of Latino ethnicity. This is what fascism looks like
It's only a matter of time before a researcher builds an LLM out of mycelium, and once that's done, some enterprising person is going to figure out how to plant it in the ground.
November 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It's only a matter of time before a researcher builds an LLM out of mycelium, and once that's done, some enterprising person is going to figure out how to plant it in the ground.
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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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
Every one of those traitor Dems in the Senate can choke on a bundle of medical bills.
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every one of those traitor Dems in the Senate can choke on a bundle of medical bills.
This post and the responses to it are important for cis folks to read and sit with.
A lot of well meaning cis allies will still be under the impression that your average trans girl grew up just like the boys around her. I don't think many actually understand just how frequently people picked up on how we are different and considered hurting as a victimless action
www.tumblr.com/biblicallyac...
Related: I remember telling stories about my childhood to my therapist and her just staring at me through the Zoom call with a thousand yard look in her eyes and then just slowly shaking her head when I said I had a typical childhood
Related: I remember telling stories about my childhood to my therapist and her just staring at me through the Zoom call with a thousand yard look in her eyes and then just slowly shaking her head when I said I had a typical childhood
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This post and the responses to it are important for cis folks to read and sit with.
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It took me a long, long time to realise that it actually wasn't possible for my experience to be normal, because of the sheer number of boys involved in the bullying. They couldn't all be experiencing the other side when I wasn't around.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It took me a long, long time to realise that it actually wasn't possible for my experience to be normal, because of the sheer number of boys involved in the bullying. They couldn't all be experiencing the other side when I wasn't around.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
It seems wildly irresponsible to me to proceed with #mining #polymetallicnodules despite a growing body of evidence showing their involvement in deep #sea food chains, #climate, and global oxygen supply.
We've already been finding out, but profit drivers can't stop fucking around.
We've already been finding out, but profit drivers can't stop fucking around.
Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs - Nature Communications
Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. This study finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic l...
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
It seems wildly irresponsible to me to proceed with #mining #polymetallicnodules despite a growing body of evidence showing their involvement in deep #sea food chains, #climate, and global oxygen supply.
We've already been finding out, but profit drivers can't stop fucking around.
We've already been finding out, but profit drivers can't stop fucking around.
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quick work
November 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
quick work
Your backstory only exists insofar as it is expressed through the choices your character makes and the actions they take. You can write pages of beautiful prose, but if it doesn't meaningfully affect your character in the game, then it doesn't matter. 1/*
How much backstory is too much for a TTRPG player?
Too much backstory in D&D?
YouTube video by Dice Company
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November 2, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Your backstory only exists insofar as it is expressed through the choices your character makes and the actions they take. You can write pages of beautiful prose, but if it doesn't meaningfully affect your character in the game, then it doesn't matter. 1/*
Holy crap. I had no idea that since March 2020, the reserve requirement for bank loans has been 0%. I wonder how overleveraged banks are at this point, because that's literally infinite free money. I don't understand how this could've possibly been responsible
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Holy crap. I had no idea that since March 2020, the reserve requirement for bank loans has been 0%. I wonder how overleveraged banks are at this point, because that's literally infinite free money. I don't understand how this could've possibly been responsible
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
The fact that years later, Trump is still boasting about passing cognitive tests that are designed to evaluate people for dementia because he still thinks that was an IQ test is passed beyond irony and satire and even absurdity. It's surrealistic.
Trump: "They have Jasmine Crockett -- a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. Have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. They're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. The first couple questions are easy -- a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe ... "
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The fact that years later, Trump is still boasting about passing cognitive tests that are designed to evaluate people for dementia because he still thinks that was an IQ test is passed beyond irony and satire and even absurdity. It's surrealistic.