Benson Cook
@bensonhcook.bsky.social
I won an Emmy, which is neat | 🏡 Chicago
I think the photo of me on my Brazilian tourist visa might be the worst anyone has ever taken of me. I look like JD Vance
December 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I think the photo of me on my Brazilian tourist visa might be the worst anyone has ever taken of me. I look like JD Vance
The line to get into the River North Trader Joe’s is somehow nearly an entire city block long at 8:58 a.m. — what is this, Covid?
October 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The line to get into the River North Trader Joe’s is somehow nearly an entire city block long at 8:58 a.m. — what is this, Covid?
Sorry but when your campus looks like this and tuition costs more than a new Toyota Corolla *each year* I think it isn’t unreasonable to expect your ten-year to be catered
October 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Sorry but when your campus looks like this and tuition costs more than a new Toyota Corolla *each year* I think it isn’t unreasonable to expect your ten-year to be catered
obsessed with the term “jamboree of autocrats”. Gotta be up there with “parliament of owls” as one of my favorites.
September 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
obsessed with the term “jamboree of autocrats”. Gotta be up there with “parliament of owls” as one of my favorites.
I mean sure, that’s definitely something the Russians have lots of experience with
July 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I mean sure, that’s definitely something the Russians have lots of experience with
I can’t wait for Europeans to be even more insufferable about how their festivals are “rEaLLy AbOuT tHe MuSiC” than they already were now that they have this to use as an example
July 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I can’t wait for Europeans to be even more insufferable about how their festivals are “rEaLLy AbOuT tHe MuSiC” than they already were now that they have this to use as an example
I’m sorry for my language, but what the fuck is this push notification? The @nytimes.com is acting like it is on a personal crusade to turn off every remaining reader it has lately
June 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I’m sorry for my language, but what the fuck is this push notification? The @nytimes.com is acting like it is on a personal crusade to turn off every remaining reader it has lately
Ranked-choice voting is an enormously consequential reform to the way we vote, and I’m convinced Americans would be more on-board with it if we didn’t go out of our way to make it more confusing than is at all necessary. See also: ballot design (you tell me which looks more confusing!)
June 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Ranked-choice voting is an enormously consequential reform to the way we vote, and I’m convinced Americans would be more on-board with it if we didn’t go out of our way to make it more confusing than is at all necessary. See also: ballot design (you tell me which looks more confusing!)
My new (unserious) theory about the war
June 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
My new (unserious) theory about the war
Sorry but it’s kind of giving Canada’s Economic Action Plan but with less substance
June 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Sorry but it’s kind of giving Canada’s Economic Action Plan but with less substance
Apparently I pretty much look one of one ways when I don’t know my picture is being taken
June 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Apparently I pretty much look one of one ways when I don’t know my picture is being taken
Uber getting a little liberal with the use of the word “huge”, I see (the tax is a dollar and it’s needed to keep our public transit agencies solvent)
May 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Uber getting a little liberal with the use of the word “huge”, I see (the tax is a dollar and it’s needed to keep our public transit agencies solvent)
Another day of my underexposed gym selfies
May 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Another day of my underexposed gym selfies
GTA VI is delayed until next year but the male protagonist is really, really hot, so it’s okay
May 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
GTA VI is delayed until next year but the male protagonist is really, really hot, so it’s okay
Felt compelled to take a bunch of pictures of myself when I got home from my walk about town. Was this mostly to show off the new art that I hung up last night? Honestly, even I don’t know
April 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Felt compelled to take a bunch of pictures of myself when I got home from my walk about town. Was this mostly to show off the new art that I hung up last night? Honestly, even I don’t know
I’ve taken a thousand pictures at this mirror and was like wait, if I turned the exposure down I bet I’d look so much hotter
and I do
and I do
April 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I’ve taken a thousand pictures at this mirror and was like wait, if I turned the exposure down I bet I’d look so much hotter
and I do
and I do
Good news, everyone. I asked Claude the AI chatbot and it reassured me that tariffs did *not*, as some of the haters have been suggesting, cause the Great Depression. They just made it *much* worse. So we can rest easy!
April 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Good news, everyone. I asked Claude the AI chatbot and it reassured me that tariffs did *not*, as some of the haters have been suggesting, cause the Great Depression. They just made it *much* worse. So we can rest easy!
Today the CTA made me nearly an hour late to work!
March 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Today the CTA made me nearly an hour late to work!
Lol, we noticed, @grindr.bsky.social, and we hate it
March 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Lol, we noticed, @grindr.bsky.social, and we hate it
I hate to break it to my apartment building but this already happened like ten hours ago
March 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I hate to break it to my apartment building but this already happened like ten hours ago
Friends, my new rule at work is that on days I wear my new Janet Reno glasses, there is to be no drama. She was a very no-drama Attorney General, so it’s only fair.
February 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Friends, my new rule at work is that on days I wear my new Janet Reno glasses, there is to be no drama. She was a very no-drama Attorney General, so it’s only fair.
Dying at CNN Newsource supering Jagmeet Singh, the leader of a party that won 3 million votes in the last election, as a “Canadian parliament member”
This is why people make fun of the American press
This is why people make fun of the American press
February 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Dying at CNN Newsource supering Jagmeet Singh, the leader of a party that won 3 million votes in the last election, as a “Canadian parliament member”
This is why people make fun of the American press
This is why people make fun of the American press
The non-French-speaking European far right’s complete indifference to the global dominance of the English language is *fascinating* to me
January 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The non-French-speaking European far right’s complete indifference to the global dominance of the English language is *fascinating* to me