Ben Kline
@benkline.bsky.social
Writer, tall, clumsy, wired, Gemini.
IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE from Variant Lit.
TWANG from ELJ Editions.
STIFF WRIST from 14 Poems.
Some of my work: https://benklineonline.wordpress.com/publications/
Podcaster at https://www.youtube.com/@mlvcpodcast
IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE from Variant Lit.
TWANG from ELJ Editions.
STIFF WRIST from 14 Poems.
Some of my work: https://benklineonline.wordpress.com/publications/
Podcaster at https://www.youtube.com/@mlvcpodcast
challenge is taking society back from this hellscape brink, and I don't have any answers. I'm old enough that all the systems I have known or could imagine have failed. And hoping for elections to prevail feels naïve.
I dream of MAGA's implosion, but worry it will "fall of Rome" the country.
I dream of MAGA's implosion, but worry it will "fall of Rome" the country.
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
challenge is taking society back from this hellscape brink, and I don't have any answers. I'm old enough that all the systems I have known or could imagine have failed. And hoping for elections to prevail feels naïve.
I dream of MAGA's implosion, but worry it will "fall of Rome" the country.
I dream of MAGA's implosion, but worry it will "fall of Rome" the country.
100%
She's run the con as far as she thinks it can go and moves on to the next one!
She's run the con as far as she thinks it can go and moves on to the next one!
November 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
100%
She's run the con as far as she thinks it can go and moves on to the next one!
She's run the con as far as she thinks it can go and moves on to the next one!
Great article! Working in higher ed, lots of young adults, I see them all glued to their phones all day long! Capitalism is indeed the culprit, and inadvertently, parents who, being beholden to capitalism, don't have the time/resource to help kids touch grass!
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Great article! Working in higher ed, lots of young adults, I see them all glued to their phones all day long! Capitalism is indeed the culprit, and inadvertently, parents who, being beholden to capitalism, don't have the time/resource to help kids touch grass!
I feel that's my brain and my body telling me to let it go.
Second time this has happened in the past decade. Younger me would've protested, but me now is all "too tired, less worry please."
Maybe that's wisdom, maybe it's maybe-line.
Second time this has happened in the past decade. Younger me would've protested, but me now is all "too tired, less worry please."
Maybe that's wisdom, maybe it's maybe-line.
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I feel that's my brain and my body telling me to let it go.
Second time this has happened in the past decade. Younger me would've protested, but me now is all "too tired, less worry please."
Maybe that's wisdom, maybe it's maybe-line.
Second time this has happened in the past decade. Younger me would've protested, but me now is all "too tired, less worry please."
Maybe that's wisdom, maybe it's maybe-line.
LOL like he's never heard of Blackstone and didn't comment on this very issue previously:
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
Here's what happens when private equity buys homes in your neighborhood
What makes rents go down and neighborhood diversity go up? Corporate landlords. But they also make it harder to own for yourself.
www.npr.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
LOL like he's never heard of Blackstone and didn't comment on this very issue previously:
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
men want to be part of cabal than are willing to admit it. But you can see their intentions in their actions. Not their protest too much words, just their actions.
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
men want to be part of cabal than are willing to admit it. But you can see their intentions in their actions. Not their protest too much words, just their actions.
She's good at playing herself. I was trying to remember characters from the novel she could portray, one of the singers maybe, I dunno.
November 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
She's good at playing herself. I was trying to remember characters from the novel she could portray, one of the singers maybe, I dunno.