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@benmakes.cool
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he/him. creator, engineer, movie enjoyer, leftist, magic artist. aka ben makes stuff.
I mostly post photos of my cats
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bus drivers here are braver than any soldier in any army on earth
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brb going to India yall need anything?
November 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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brb going to India yall need anything?
November 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Presenting my tribute to the late Drew Struzan, creator of my favorite poster of all time: THE THING
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
benmakes.cool
it’s been a minute since we’ve had a wrennsday. she wants attention.
tortoiseshell cat laying on a bed with a sphinx-like pose looking directly into camera
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
benmakes.cool
if you didn’t know, my Patreon is still going if you’d like to support my current project. I just put out my first dev log post and I’m working on a write up for a side project I was working on earlier this month.

www.patreon.com/posts/devlog...
Devlog #0 | Ben Makes Stuff
Get more from Ben Makes Stuff on Patreon
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October 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I wanted to keep this concept art quiet but it’s just too cool. New profile pic from the one and only @legdotegg.bsky.social
Art depicting a forlorn and exhausted anthropomorphized spider worker at a computer.
October 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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@benmakes.cool Mountain on coverage!
October 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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The Day To Shape The Days Upon
24”x36” oil on canvas
🦀 🌊
New work for my Myth America personal series
Painting of a girl standing in the shallow waters of a bay, fishing net in hand with a barrel around her chest. Some crabs are in the barrel. The sky swirls behind her.
October 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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On Lt Columbo Day never let us forget the episode where Columbo explains to a fitness guru how Mrs Columbo is thick, that he likes her thick, and how he will do anything within his power to keep her thick
Screenshot from Columbo where Peter falk explains to Robert Conrad he likes his wife thick
October 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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In some ways this is the government now
r/Lollapalooza 3 yr. ago DaL 028 Join [deleted] I'm excited for Limp Bizkit, but I'm a little worried about Antifa... Question I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city
October 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
benmakes.cool
I got the chance to make art for magic the gathering
conradhackett.bsky.social Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Oct 8
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
October 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
benmakes.cool
she stubbed her toe
Mabel, a tabby cat, with her mouth wide open; caught mid-yawn.
October 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
benmakes.cool
I think we should bring shame back
September 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The video is an uncomfortable watch, but an important one nonetheless.

Hearing Cathy tell the story of what happened to her is an important part of Magic: The Gathering's history, one that needs to be known about and acknowledged: youtu.be/-WVnrKRsuqI?...

#MagicTheGathering
The Story of Ghazban Ogress - with Cathy Nicoloff
YouTube video by The Tranquil Domain
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...
The War on Science
YouTube video by Shaun
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
benmakes.cool
Rewatched the Shining and I hit my goal for 100 movies for the year
a letterboxd profile with a row of favorites left to right: Michael Mann’s Heat, Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, and Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant. The profile has a list of recent activity showing from left to right: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (User rating 4.5), Francis Lawrence’s The Long Walk (User Rating 3.5), Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship (User Rating 4), and Andrew Niccol’s In Time (User Rating 3). Screenshot of a letterboxd profile. It shows a row describing the number of films watched as 602 total, 100 this year. Another row shows the diary with 556 entries and 100 this year.
September 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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mailchi.mp/6d076212527a...

Thanks to every person who helped out. Some timely matching from Trevor Project got our grand impact total over $100,000!!!

How will we break this next year? The best way you can help right now is the ol' "like follow share!"
Commander Sealed 2025 Raises over $104,000
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September 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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volts.wtf
I think I would take reactionary centrists more seriously if they could cite one (1) example of progressives pushing for social change the *right* way -- using just the right slogans, supporting just the right policies, protesting in just the right fashion.
September 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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We are cooked
jbenmenachem.com jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Sep 3
Lord save us:

"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
The Bari Market
With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.
puck.news
September 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
benmakes.cool
wow they already revealed the batman secret lair
magic the gathering card Murder magic the gathering card Supportive Parents
September 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I can’t believe a magic the gathering card reminded me to pay my rent
amtebbel.bsky.social Art Martinez-Tebbel @amtebbel.bsky.social · Sep 1
Even in Magic: the Gathering it takes two incomes to pay the rent. What happened to escapism?
September 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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there’s a new addition
a screenshot of a letterboxd list called “my cats’ favorite movies” with the description “movies that one or more of my cats has watched attentively for at least ~20min”. It contains 3 movies, Flow (2024), The Iron Claw (2023), and Come and See (1985)
August 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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With a significant number of creators dropping sponsorships today bc of UGs decision to continually make immoral choices, I’m no longer afraid to state that this same company brought me into a call and requested I refrain from using the verbiage “genocide” when referring to Palestine

Free Palestine
carlomtg.bsky.social CarloMTG @carlomtg.bsky.social · Aug 29
Effective immediately, I will no longer be affiliated or a member of Team Ultimate Guard.

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August 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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i’m on cloud[land] nine; I am the proud owner of a @hausofdecline.bsky.social original :D
photograph of a Haus of Decline 4-panel comic. The panels depict two individuals in a cloud landscape. In the first panel the first individual asks “wow, is this the afterlife?”. In the second panel, the second individual responds “no, your soul, which is a tangible substance has crossed into a concurrent plane of reality”. The third contains the first individual retorting “why are we in the clouds?”. To which the second individual responds in the fourth panel “this is cloud land. Our major export is clouds. The comic is next to a note by the author which reads “To Ben, my smile is stuck! I cannot return to your cloud land” which is signed Alex Hood (Haus of Decline) Packaging of the original with a drawing depicting with eyes and a mouth in a neural expression The full packaging showing a drawing of eyes and a grin showing lots of teeth
August 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM