Brianne Benness
@bennessb.bsky.social
currently: sick / haunted in Western Mass, host of No End In Sight - a podcast about life with chronic illness, creator of #NEISVoid | previously: Stories We Don’t Tell in Toronto | she / her
I was able to go to a local No Kings rally this weekend and I’m glad I went because the energy really is contagious and the opposite of doom scrolling. we wore N95s.
next time I want to buy & bring these cards to start connecting with other masked folks.
www.mollymcleod.com/shop/p/mask-...
next time I want to buy & bring these cards to start connecting with other masked folks.
www.mollymcleod.com/shop/p/mask-...
October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I was able to go to a local No Kings rally this weekend and I’m glad I went because the energy really is contagious and the opposite of doom scrolling. we wore N95s.
next time I want to buy & bring these cards to start connecting with other masked folks.
www.mollymcleod.com/shop/p/mask-...
next time I want to buy & bring these cards to start connecting with other masked folks.
www.mollymcleod.com/shop/p/mask-...
were taking the dogs to my family cabin next week so spouse bought them life jackets. they are skeptical.
July 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
were taking the dogs to my family cabin next week so spouse bought them life jackets. they are skeptical.
backing away from the discourse to gaze upon this little flatty.
(she is a tall dog who likes to get real flat.)
(she is a tall dog who likes to get real flat.)
July 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
backing away from the discourse to gaze upon this little flatty.
(she is a tall dog who likes to get real flat.)
(she is a tall dog who likes to get real flat.)
I’m also recently very captivated by this idea of death eyes as a way of thinking about grief and sorrow, quoted from this article: orionmagazine.org/article/what...
July 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I’m also recently very captivated by this idea of death eyes as a way of thinking about grief and sorrow, quoted from this article: orionmagazine.org/article/what...
12. this guy is lucky he’s so cute because he’s incorrigibly rude when demanding non-stop pets.
July 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
12. this guy is lucky he’s so cute because he’s incorrigibly rude when demanding non-stop pets.
hello, don’t be this person.
it’s almost like… we are different people who benefit from different tools and that’s part of being human?
it’s almost like… we are different people who benefit from different tools and that’s part of being human?
July 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
hello, don’t be this person.
it’s almost like… we are different people who benefit from different tools and that’s part of being human?
it’s almost like… we are different people who benefit from different tools and that’s part of being human?
it took a long time but I made this small basket more or less from scratch!
July 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
it took a long time but I made this small basket more or less from scratch!
weird day on fb, somebody stole an old photo of mine for likes in a cross stitch group. why?
(the photo is great btw. I posted it on reddit at the time which is where I assume it was stolen from. still tho, why.)
(the photo is great btw. I posted it on reddit at the time which is where I assume it was stolen from. still tho, why.)
July 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
weird day on fb, somebody stole an old photo of mine for likes in a cross stitch group. why?
(the photo is great btw. I posted it on reddit at the time which is where I assume it was stolen from. still tho, why.)
(the photo is great btw. I posted it on reddit at the time which is where I assume it was stolen from. still tho, why.)
I have gotten to the side and pattern of my basket though so that’s progress baby.
July 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have gotten to the side and pattern of my basket though so that’s progress baby.
been learning to make a tiny basket from scratch
June 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
been learning to make a tiny basket from scratch
a dear friend of mine is in labor today so I’m making some sage shortbread with the last of my @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social sage.
plus, my mom gave me an old tin biscuit cutter of my grandmother’s over the holidays, so I particularly feel like I’m opening an ancestral portal today.
plus, my mom gave me an old tin biscuit cutter of my grandmother’s over the holidays, so I particularly feel like I’m opening an ancestral portal today.
January 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
a dear friend of mine is in labor today so I’m making some sage shortbread with the last of my @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social sage.
plus, my mom gave me an old tin biscuit cutter of my grandmother’s over the holidays, so I particularly feel like I’m opening an ancestral portal today.
plus, my mom gave me an old tin biscuit cutter of my grandmother’s over the holidays, so I particularly feel like I’m opening an ancestral portal today.
[food]
for me, part of getting back to serious work has been relearning how to cook, so here is the (gluten-free, sugar-free, very delicious) tulsi shortbread I made yesterday. 🌱
we didn’t have a working oven from 2021 until last week so it’s a big deal for me to have the option of stress baking.
for me, part of getting back to serious work has been relearning how to cook, so here is the (gluten-free, sugar-free, very delicious) tulsi shortbread I made yesterday. 🌱
we didn’t have a working oven from 2021 until last week so it’s a big deal for me to have the option of stress baking.
November 7, 2024 at 2:41 PM
[food]
for me, part of getting back to serious work has been relearning how to cook, so here is the (gluten-free, sugar-free, very delicious) tulsi shortbread I made yesterday. 🌱
we didn’t have a working oven from 2021 until last week so it’s a big deal for me to have the option of stress baking.
for me, part of getting back to serious work has been relearning how to cook, so here is the (gluten-free, sugar-free, very delicious) tulsi shortbread I made yesterday. 🌱
we didn’t have a working oven from 2021 until last week so it’s a big deal for me to have the option of stress baking.
in case anybody else is looking for a space like this today, I’m definitely planning to attend.
more details & registration link via ig: www.instagram.com/p/DBub6hmM4xr/
more details & registration link via ig: www.instagram.com/p/DBub6hmM4xr/
November 6, 2024 at 11:43 AM
in case anybody else is looking for a space like this today, I’m definitely planning to attend.
more details & registration link via ig: www.instagram.com/p/DBub6hmM4xr/
more details & registration link via ig: www.instagram.com/p/DBub6hmM4xr/
portrait of a pair of croc thieves
October 16, 2024 at 10:28 PM
portrait of a pair of croc thieves
September 24, 2024 at 4:03 PM
my fitness tracker suggests that I may have gone horseback riding today, which, fascinating.
possibly I was dodging a rambunctious puppy, very similar kinetically.
possibly I was dodging a rambunctious puppy, very similar kinetically.
August 9, 2024 at 6:10 PM
my fitness tracker suggests that I may have gone horseback riding today, which, fascinating.
possibly I was dodging a rambunctious puppy, very similar kinetically.
possibly I was dodging a rambunctious puppy, very similar kinetically.
[medical diets]
after my most recent GI/vasovagal dustup, I am once again thinking about food sensitivity and how much I hate elimination diets because they kick my brain into hypervigilance in a big way.
I just found this model and I’m v intrigued. (she does NOT say all reactions are conditioned)
after my most recent GI/vasovagal dustup, I am once again thinking about food sensitivity and how much I hate elimination diets because they kick my brain into hypervigilance in a big way.
I just found this model and I’m v intrigued. (she does NOT say all reactions are conditioned)
July 26, 2024 at 8:00 PM
[medical diets]
after my most recent GI/vasovagal dustup, I am once again thinking about food sensitivity and how much I hate elimination diets because they kick my brain into hypervigilance in a big way.
I just found this model and I’m v intrigued. (she does NOT say all reactions are conditioned)
after my most recent GI/vasovagal dustup, I am once again thinking about food sensitivity and how much I hate elimination diets because they kick my brain into hypervigilance in a big way.
I just found this model and I’m v intrigued. (she does NOT say all reactions are conditioned)
my brain basically melted in late 2022 and I haven’t recovered enough to Engage In Discourse yet, but I CAN engage in DOGscourse, which is where I tell you that we got a second dog this year.
June 26, 2024 at 5:38 PM
my brain basically melted in late 2022 and I haven’t recovered enough to Engage In Discourse yet, but I CAN engage in DOGscourse, which is where I tell you that we got a second dog this year.
this very rude boy stole my seat and shows no signs of remorse
November 1, 2023 at 10:22 AM
this very rude boy stole my seat and shows no signs of remorse
I’ve been confronting a lot of ableism in my life this year, and it’s become pretty clear to me that oppression & white supremacy self-replicate interpersonally via abusive conflict regardless of which axis of oppression is at play.
in August I briefly had the brain juice to explain it in an email:
in August I briefly had the brain juice to explain it in an email:
October 22, 2023 at 1:58 PM
I’ve been confronting a lot of ableism in my life this year, and it’s become pretty clear to me that oppression & white supremacy self-replicate interpersonally via abusive conflict regardless of which axis of oppression is at play.
in August I briefly had the brain juice to explain it in an email:
in August I briefly had the brain juice to explain it in an email:
