Benjamin Hall
@rippersspot.bsky.social
Autistic writer for comicon.com and others including Sequart. Turning my old blog posts into possible books. I suffer from Vasculitis GPA. Love comic books. Creator/writer/publisher of the comic series Time Trio. No to A.I. and CG.
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Review I wrote on The Author Immortal #3 (2025) for @thecomicon.bsky.social
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I was at a con earlier this year and there were hours-long lines for folks who spent ten seconds drawing a little doodle next to a signature and an inscription, often for hundreds of dollars. Nobody wanted a “better” remarque, they wanted to say they’d met Kyle Baker or Jerry Ordway or Peach Momoko
December 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I was at a con earlier this year and there were hours-long lines for folks who spent ten seconds drawing a little doodle next to a signature and an inscription, often for hundreds of dollars. Nobody wanted a “better” remarque, they wanted to say they’d met Kyle Baker or Jerry Ordway or Peach Momoko
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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I'm starting to feel like I'm hosting an episode of "Jeopardy!" because I'm asking almost every player "Can you please be more specific?" on the theme guesses.
It's time to play "What's the Score?" for 20 December 2025!
Listen to the 5 music clips and guess the movie titles (1 point each) and the composer (2 points)
Guess the connection between all 5 movies and earn a 5-point bonus!
Send your answers to my DM!
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#filmsky #moviesky #games #fun
Listen to the 5 music clips and guess the movie titles (1 point each) and the composer (2 points)
Guess the connection between all 5 movies and earn a 5-point bonus!
Send your answers to my DM!
(more)
1/2
#filmsky #moviesky #games #fun
"What's the Score?" December 20, 2025
How to play: Listen to the 5 music clips in the video. Your job is to guess the title of each movie the music is from, and the name of the composer for each one. You…
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December 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I'm starting to feel like I'm hosting an episode of "Jeopardy!" because I'm asking almost every player "Can you please be more specific?" on the theme guesses.
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I think I realized what my issue is with these IT adaptations: Pennywise is just scarier as text on a page. the second you render him as a physical, visual presence, it’s like…this is just a guy in a clown costume. I guess what I’m saying is the idea of IT is far more disturbing than the image.
December 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I think I realized what my issue is with these IT adaptations: Pennywise is just scarier as text on a page. the second you render him as a physical, visual presence, it’s like…this is just a guy in a clown costume. I guess what I’m saying is the idea of IT is far more disturbing than the image.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
December 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mitt Romney, Nazi tattoo guy, Gavin Newsom, and the Cheneys walk into a bar…
…and the bar is apparently the new Democratic Party and you’re all high fiving and giving a standing ovation while chanting “perfect is the enemy of good!”
…and the bar is apparently the new Democratic Party and you’re all high fiving and giving a standing ovation while chanting “perfect is the enemy of good!”
You do not in fact gotta hand it to Mitt Binders Full of Women Romney!!!
December 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mitt Romney, Nazi tattoo guy, Gavin Newsom, and the Cheneys walk into a bar…
…and the bar is apparently the new Democratic Party and you’re all high fiving and giving a standing ovation while chanting “perfect is the enemy of good!”
…and the bar is apparently the new Democratic Party and you’re all high fiving and giving a standing ovation while chanting “perfect is the enemy of good!”
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"I wanna leave twitter, but bluesky isn't good either so I don't know where else to post!"
just... leave then, you don't need to have an identical place to go? Like am I nuts for thinking it's not an either or situation?
just... leave then, you don't need to have an identical place to go? Like am I nuts for thinking it's not an either or situation?
December 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"I wanna leave twitter, but bluesky isn't good either so I don't know where else to post!"
just... leave then, you don't need to have an identical place to go? Like am I nuts for thinking it's not an either or situation?
just... leave then, you don't need to have an identical place to go? Like am I nuts for thinking it's not an either or situation?
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The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines.
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bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust
The absence of equipoise can turn research into harm
bktitanji.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines.
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
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The Tuskegee experiment continued after penicillin was available because "scientists insisted that it was all the more urgent for the experiment to continue—it had become a never-again-to-be-repeated opportunity." Sadly, the same argument from the Danish group. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Fiftieth Anniversary of Uncovering the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The Story and Timeless Lessons
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the uncovering of the Tuskegee syphilis study, when the public learned that the Public Health Service (precursor of the CDC) for 40 years intentionally withheld effective therapy against a life-threatening ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The Tuskegee experiment continued after penicillin was available because "scientists insisted that it was all the more urgent for the experiment to continue—it had become a never-again-to-be-repeated opportunity." Sadly, the same argument from the Danish group. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Looks like they're right.
Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.
Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.
December 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Looks like they're right.
Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.
Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.
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Wintertide is available over at my Big Cartel shop. I designed and hand-sewed her. A sale would be a big help.
jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Wintertide is available over at my Big Cartel shop. I designed and hand-sewed her. A sale would be a big help.
jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
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This is why Johnson sent the Congress home during the Shutdown for 54 days, nearly 8 weeks, so the FBI would have time to redact Trumps name from the Epstein files.
What a joke !
What a joke !
December 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is why Johnson sent the Congress home during the Shutdown for 54 days, nearly 8 weeks, so the FBI would have time to redact Trumps name from the Epstein files.
What a joke !
What a joke !
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25 years ago tonight, Angel locked a bunch of evil lawyers from Wolfman & Hart in a wine cellar with two evil vampires. As his enemies pleaded that they’d be killed if he didn’t save them, he responded, “And somehow… I just can’t seem to care.” Then he bolted the door.
youtu.be/IcH0kVNuDBs?...
youtu.be/IcH0kVNuDBs?...
Angel locks wolfram and hart in with darla (vampires)
YouTube video by Kythra the suntamer
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December 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
25 years ago tonight, Angel locked a bunch of evil lawyers from Wolfman & Hart in a wine cellar with two evil vampires. As his enemies pleaded that they’d be killed if he didn’t save them, he responded, “And somehow… I just can’t seem to care.” Then he bolted the door.
youtu.be/IcH0kVNuDBs?...
youtu.be/IcH0kVNuDBs?...
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December 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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The lawyer who has represented the Arkansas Board of Corrections in lawsuits over who controls the state’s prison system still hasn’t been paid despite a judge’s order, the board learned Tuesday. #arpx #arleg
Arkansas corrections board attorney still not paid; board votes again | Arkansas Advocate
The lawyer who has represented the Arkansas Board of Corrections in lawsuits over who controls the state’s prison system still hasn’t been paid despite a judge’s order, the board learned Tuesday.
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December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The U.S. House on Thursday passed, 211-204, a bill to remove Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf outside Alaska ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/19/r...
US House passes bill to remove gray wolf from Endangered Species Act list • Ohio Capital Journal
The U.S. House on Thursday passed, 211-204, a bill to remove Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf outside Alaska. The bill, sponsored by Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert, would…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The U.S. House on Thursday passed, 211-204, a bill to remove Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf outside Alaska ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/19/r...
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Who will be the John E. Olson of the AI bubble?
Or has America sunk too far into authoritarian kleptocratic oligarchy, that this is no longer possible?
Or has America sunk too far into authoritarian kleptocratic oligarchy, that this is no longer possible?
"'You know that I’m old and I’m worthless,” Mr. Olson recalled telling Mr. Sanders, in an interview with The New York Times. “But at least I can spell ‘consistent.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
John E. Olson, Analyst Fired for Enron Skepticism, Dies at 83
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Who will be the John E. Olson of the AI bubble?
Or has America sunk too far into authoritarian kleptocratic oligarchy, that this is no longer possible?
Or has America sunk too far into authoritarian kleptocratic oligarchy, that this is no longer possible?
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I'm dead inside... so I fill the empty space with coffee.
a man in a suit is drinking from a cup that says ' mrs. pepper ' on it
ALT: a man in a suit is drinking from a cup that says ' mrs. pepper ' on it
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December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I'm dead inside... so I fill the empty space with coffee.
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4 slots still available !
Hi #PortfolioDay !
My name is Saly, I'm an Afro Caribbean comics artist. I made work for clients like DC comics, Image comics, Dauntless Stories, Boom! Studios and more!
I'm available for cover gigs.
email: lasalomee@gmail.com
Portfolio link: salomeeluceantoinette.carrd.co
My name is Saly, I'm an Afro Caribbean comics artist. I made work for clients like DC comics, Image comics, Dauntless Stories, Boom! Studios and more!
I'm available for cover gigs.
email: lasalomee@gmail.com
Portfolio link: salomeeluceantoinette.carrd.co
December 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
4 slots still available !
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Once again, writing a book about the head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division in the 1960s, when it was *not* working on behalf of racist shitweasels in defense of white supremacy, is giving me whiplash more and more these days.
Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?
December 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Once again, writing a book about the head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division in the 1960s, when it was *not* working on behalf of racist shitweasels in defense of white supremacy, is giving me whiplash more and more these days.
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IIRC, this is the first time something I've written for comics has sold out and gone back to press. I want to say thank you again for the support, especially during what's been an absolutely miserable year in so many ways. Some special things coming up in Bat/Stat, and maybe a small surprise or two.
Good news if you missed the first issue of Batman/Static: Beyond #1... 2nd printing of the debut issue hits on February 4. Issue #2 is out next week on 12/24! (Makes a schway last-minute stocking stuffer, just saying)
The dogs and I thank you.
The dogs and I thank you.
December 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
IIRC, this is the first time something I've written for comics has sold out and gone back to press. I want to say thank you again for the support, especially during what's been an absolutely miserable year in so many ways. Some special things coming up in Bat/Stat, and maybe a small surprise or two.
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Guess Legacy media is complicit in the Epstein files cover up. Why isn't it wall to wall coverage that the DoJ is deliberately deleting files they put out that implicate Trump, to help him?
December 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Guess Legacy media is complicit in the Epstein files cover up. Why isn't it wall to wall coverage that the DoJ is deliberately deleting files they put out that implicate Trump, to help him?
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Fuck it.
Send me your favorite Skeletor macros/memes
Send me your favorite Skeletor macros/memes
December 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Fuck it.
Send me your favorite Skeletor macros/memes
Send me your favorite Skeletor macros/memes
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One of the pleasures in my life right now is these postcards.
There have been some hard times this year, and this is a consistent bright spot I’m incredibly grateful for.
Always delightful to pull them out of the mail, and I’m glad to support such a rad artist.
There have been some hard times this year, and this is a consistent bright spot I’m incredibly grateful for.
Always delightful to pull them out of the mail, and I’m glad to support such a rad artist.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
One of the pleasures in my life right now is these postcards.
There have been some hard times this year, and this is a consistent bright spot I’m incredibly grateful for.
Always delightful to pull them out of the mail, and I’m glad to support such a rad artist.
There have been some hard times this year, and this is a consistent bright spot I’m incredibly grateful for.
Always delightful to pull them out of the mail, and I’m glad to support such a rad artist.