Michael Bench-Capon
@mikebenchcapon.bsky.social
I have a PhD in philosophy and now I work in a library. He/him.
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If your post is liked by just one wise person it is as though it had been liked by the whole world
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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Previously: Wow, Noam Chomsky exchanges emails with anyone! 😀😁🤩
Now: wow, noam chomsky exchanges email with anyone ☹️🤮😭
Now: wow, noam chomsky exchanges email with anyone ☹️🤮😭
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Previously: Wow, Noam Chomsky exchanges emails with anyone! 😀😁🤩
Now: wow, noam chomsky exchanges email with anyone ☹️🤮😭
Now: wow, noam chomsky exchanges email with anyone ☹️🤮😭
Film vlogger Thomas Flight stares into the abyss www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Why AI "Art" Feels So Wrong
YouTube video by Thomas Flight
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Film vlogger Thomas Flight stares into the abyss www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Not me, I'm built different (unemployable)
I guess it’s everywhere but I gotta say academia is RIFE with people who feel mistreated by the system but don't realize as they accrue power that at some point they started punching down.
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Not me, I'm built different (unemployable)
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KPop* Demon Hunters
*Karl Popper's
*Karl Popper's
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
KPop* Demon Hunters
*Karl Popper's
*Karl Popper's
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A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
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I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me.
I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me.
I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
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no more pennies? that's just non-cents
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
no more pennies? that's just non-cents
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Further to this, it is disappointing that most of the news coverage of the $1bn threat letter did not critically engage with its content.
Instead, most coverage accepted the content of the letter at face value.
Instead, most coverage accepted the content of the letter at face value.
My post yesterday on the $Ibn Trump legal threat against the BBC has been picked up by newspapers around the world. It would appear few had gone through the letter and spotted that, well, it contained no evidence in support of its claims of damage.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Further to this, it is disappointing that most of the news coverage of the $1bn threat letter did not critically engage with its content.
Instead, most coverage accepted the content of the letter at face value.
Instead, most coverage accepted the content of the letter at face value.
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To the cashier who left me absolutely speechless – I salute you | Adrian Chiles
To the cashier who left me absolutely speechless – I salute you | Adrian Chiles
Ours was a highly unusual interaction, and it made me question the way that British people speak to one another
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
To the cashier who left me absolutely speechless – I salute you | Adrian Chiles
It occurred to me that Chiwetel Ejiofor might be a good Bond because he's British and I remember being impressed by his gun-handling in Children of Men, so I checked his odds and apparently you can get 66-1 for him; probably about right
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It occurred to me that Chiwetel Ejiofor might be a good Bond because he's British and I remember being impressed by his gun-handling in Children of Men, so I checked his odds and apparently you can get 66-1 for him; probably about right
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Defacing the Rothko was bad, but eating the gaffer-taped banana was good. Why? Is it because bananas are yellow
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Defacing the Rothko was bad, but eating the gaffer-taped banana was good. Why? Is it because bananas are yellow
"Jane, my father, William, and I" Oxford comma bros in shambles
For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae:
“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"Jane, my father, William, and I" Oxford comma bros in shambles
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When you need an example of a really disjunctive definition for your paper, remember this one:
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
When you need an example of a really disjunctive definition for your paper, remember this one:
Yellowism doesn't have a Wikipedia page, but it does have a manifesto www.thisisyellowism.com
Yellowism
www.thisisyellowism.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Yellowism doesn't have a Wikipedia page, but it does have a manifesto www.thisisyellowism.com
Why are we still digging fossil fuels out of the ground when we've got loads of fossils just sitting there in the Natural History Museum
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Why are we still digging fossil fuels out of the ground when we've got loads of fossils just sitting there in the Natural History Museum
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Reading is not performative! Some of us simply enjoy books without any self-consciousness at all.
Now, let me outline for you the books that shaped my childhood. I must begin with Aristophanes, of course, but *which* Aristophanes?...
Now, let me outline for you the books that shaped my childhood. I must begin with Aristophanes, of course, but *which* Aristophanes?...
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Reading is not performative! Some of us simply enjoy books without any self-consciousness at all.
Now, let me outline for you the books that shaped my childhood. I must begin with Aristophanes, of course, but *which* Aristophanes?...
Now, let me outline for you the books that shaped my childhood. I must begin with Aristophanes, of course, but *which* Aristophanes?...
Saw this one out of the context on the TL and thought it was about comedians whose brand is having been cancelled for problematic sets they did years ago
personally I suspect the success of many people who have branded themselves in this way has less to do with the problem sets they did years ago and more to do with the contemporary intellectual labor of the people who they force to work life consuming hours for minimal recognition
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Saw this one out of the context on the TL and thought it was about comedians whose brand is having been cancelled for problematic sets they did years ago
"that doesn’t necessarily mean the Epstein files will be released, as the bill would still have to pass the Senate and be signed into law by President Donald Trump" well OK then
Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is expected to become the key signature needed for a petition on releasing the Epstein files when she’s sworn in this week.
Government Shutdown Ends Soon—What That Means For Epstein Files Being Released
Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is expected to become the key signature needed for a petition on releasing the Epstein files when she’s sworn in this week.
www.forbes.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
"that doesn’t necessarily mean the Epstein files will be released, as the bill would still have to pass the Senate and be signed into law by President Donald Trump" well OK then
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so now we're maybe going to ask every student about their homework answers during our oral exams, which i guess is fine.
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 AM
so now we're maybe going to ask every student about their homework answers during our oral exams, which i guess is fine.
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I get that if you like reading then the articles hyping a performative reading trend come over as wildly offensive but they're just journalists trying to make a living and we mustn't let them upset us
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I get that if you like reading then the articles hyping a performative reading trend come over as wildly offensive but they're just journalists trying to make a living and we mustn't let them upset us