Benjamin
@benjaming.bsky.social
26 He/him 🏳️🌈 AuDHD Interested in languages, psychology, nature, and philosophy.
Reposted by Benjamin
Reposted by Benjamin
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3
Reposted by Benjamin
90s 3D rendering. I've had this rendering on my hard drive for 28 years.
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
90s 3D rendering. I've had this rendering on my hard drive for 28 years.
Reposted by Benjamin
I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
Reposted by Benjamin
look how beautifully these trousers hang
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
look how beautifully these trousers hang
Reposted by Benjamin
We found this handsome blue tarantula just wandering down a trail in the Andes Mountains of Colombia. This genus of tarantula is popular in the pet trade, which may put pressure on wild populations. #Arachtober
(Pamphobeteus sp.)Tatama National Park, Colombia, 2023
(Pamphobeteus sp.)Tatama National Park, Colombia, 2023
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
We found this handsome blue tarantula just wandering down a trail in the Andes Mountains of Colombia. This genus of tarantula is popular in the pet trade, which may put pressure on wild populations. #Arachtober
(Pamphobeteus sp.)Tatama National Park, Colombia, 2023
(Pamphobeteus sp.)Tatama National Park, Colombia, 2023
Reposted by Benjamin
Windows 98 Plus: Mystery
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Windows 98 Plus: Mystery
Reposted by Benjamin
Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻
Reposted by Benjamin
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 12:23 PM
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.
Reposted by Benjamin
Reposted by Benjamin
I'm always very open about the fact that I received SNAP benefits and Medicaid for a bit after I fled my abusive husband with my little kid in tow. I used it to help me start over in a new state and go back to school to get my BA. I now have a PhD.
SNAP benefits saved my life.
SNAP benefits saved my life.
October 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'm always very open about the fact that I received SNAP benefits and Medicaid for a bit after I fled my abusive husband with my little kid in tow. I used it to help me start over in a new state and go back to school to get my BA. I now have a PhD.
SNAP benefits saved my life.
SNAP benefits saved my life.
Reposted by Benjamin
I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
October 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
Reposted by Benjamin
Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”
Reposted by Benjamin
FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM
FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible
Reposted by Benjamin
October 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Reposted by Benjamin
This week I'm using the prompts for #stilltober and painting in watercolor!
Here is a Nicobar pigeon in #watercolor for #stilltober25 prompt "iridescent". Fun fact, this fancy guy is the closest living relative of the dodo.
#artyear #birdart
Here is a Nicobar pigeon in #watercolor for #stilltober25 prompt "iridescent". Fun fact, this fancy guy is the closest living relative of the dodo.
#artyear #birdart
October 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This week I'm using the prompts for #stilltober and painting in watercolor!
Here is a Nicobar pigeon in #watercolor for #stilltober25 prompt "iridescent". Fun fact, this fancy guy is the closest living relative of the dodo.
#artyear #birdart
Here is a Nicobar pigeon in #watercolor for #stilltober25 prompt "iridescent". Fun fact, this fancy guy is the closest living relative of the dodo.
#artyear #birdart
Reposted by Benjamin
Windows 98 Plus! - Underwater
October 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Windows 98 Plus! - Underwater
Reposted by Benjamin
I tell people that the problem is not coming up with ideas, I think of a couple dozen of them a day. The real problem is knowing which of the damn things is any good for writing up. Most of them are junk. I have to let them roll around in my brain a while to find out which is which.
Do you have a clever/pithy/useful answer when people ask where you get your ideas? If so, can I steal it?
September 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I tell people that the problem is not coming up with ideas, I think of a couple dozen of them a day. The real problem is knowing which of the damn things is any good for writing up. Most of them are junk. I have to let them roll around in my brain a while to find out which is which.
Reposted by Benjamin
I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.
The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."
September 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.
Reposted by Benjamin
I’ve been training my whole life for this moment
September 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I’ve been training my whole life for this moment
Reposted by Benjamin
trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people
September 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people
This seems like a joke they would do with Crabtree in Murdoch Mysteries. He would describe a cell phone without using that term and the other characters would dismiss it as ridiculous.
If your novel is set in the recent, pre-cellphone past and your plot depends on a dilemma that would now be resolved with a simple phone call, make sure the reader understands that by having a character say, "Too bad cellphones don't exist yet."
September 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This seems like a joke they would do with Crabtree in Murdoch Mysteries. He would describe a cell phone without using that term and the other characters would dismiss it as ridiculous.
Reposted by Benjamin
one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up
every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy
September 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up