Ben Vore
@benvore.bsky.social
English teacher married to an English teacher who tries very hard not to make his students hate reading. he/him
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Look I know that “diversity is our strength” is cringe but: diversity is our strength. People who come from distinct cultural practices actively serving in community with one another. What a blessing to live in a world where that happens.
The thing about all these people they hate — the Somalis, the Haitians — are some of the most generous people you’ve ever met. Whose cultures are predicated on hospitality, whose kindness is entirely unmatched.
January 12, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Look I know that “diversity is our strength” is cringe but: diversity is our strength. People who come from distinct cultural practices actively serving in community with one another. What a blessing to live in a world where that happens.
Halfway through the decade! What are your favorite films each year so far?
2020: Another Round
2021: C’mom, C’mon
2022: The Northman
2023: The Holdovers
2024: Challengers
2025: Wake Up Dead Man
2020: Another Round
2021: C’mom, C’mon
2022: The Northman
2023: The Holdovers
2024: Challengers
2025: Wake Up Dead Man
Halfway through the decade! What are your favorite films each year so far?
2020: Small Axe
2021: Memoria
2022: The Fabelmans
2023: Killers of the Flower Moon
2024: Anora
2025: One Battle After Another
2020: Small Axe
2021: Memoria
2022: The Fabelmans
2023: Killers of the Flower Moon
2024: Anora
2025: One Battle After Another
Halfway through the decade! What are your favorite films each year so far?
2020: David Byrne's American Utopia
2021: West Side Story
2022: Decision to Leave
2023: The Zone of Interest
2024: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2025: Sinners
2020: David Byrne's American Utopia
2021: West Side Story
2022: Decision to Leave
2023: The Zone of Interest
2024: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2025: Sinners
January 2, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Halfway through the decade! What are your favorite films each year so far?
2020: Another Round
2021: C’mom, C’mon
2022: The Northman
2023: The Holdovers
2024: Challengers
2025: Wake Up Dead Man
2020: Another Round
2021: C’mom, C’mon
2022: The Northman
2023: The Holdovers
2024: Challengers
2025: Wake Up Dead Man
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31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
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Don’t read this if you haven’t watched the new Knives Out movie but I wrote about how the series only works because Blanc doesn’t treat the mysteries like a game but is always protecting the most vulnerable individual in the case
open.substack.com/pub/somethin...
open.substack.com/pub/somethin...
Benoit Blanc’s road to Damascus
There’s several tensions at work in the new Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man — religious belief vs nonbelief / atheism, innocence vs guilt, love vs hate, what a community looks like, what is the tru...
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Don’t read this if you haven’t watched the new Knives Out movie but I wrote about how the series only works because Blanc doesn’t treat the mysteries like a game but is always protecting the most vulnerable individual in the case
open.substack.com/pub/somethin...
open.substack.com/pub/somethin...
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"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."
Happy Lottery day to you and yours.
Happy Lottery day to you and yours.
June 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."
Happy Lottery day to you and yours.
Happy Lottery day to you and yours.
As others have said, at least half this list could change given the day.
June 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
As others have said, at least half this list could change given the day.
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This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
I told my seniors that Toni Morrison's first three novels chart an artistic and thematic trajectory that parallels Radiohead's first three albums and none of them could appreciate that this is correct.
February 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I told my seniors that Toni Morrison's first three novels chart an artistic and thematic trajectory that parallels Radiohead's first three albums and none of them could appreciate that this is correct.
20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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February 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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January 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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January 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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January 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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January 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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