Ben Ortega
@substars.bsky.social
Never noticed before the Macy's parade this morning that Smokey the Bear wears jeans but not a shirt, which is the opposite of every other semi-clothed cartoon bear I can think of
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Never noticed before the Macy's parade this morning that Smokey the Bear wears jeans but not a shirt, which is the opposite of every other semi-clothed cartoon bear I can think of
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
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Just talked with my wife, we are cancelling our Disney+ subscription. If you have one, I encourage you to do the same.
September 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Just talked with my wife, we are cancelling our Disney+ subscription. If you have one, I encourage you to do the same.
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Yup. The ultra-wealthy are explicitly trained from a young age to recruit middle class people to do their work for them. bsky.app/profile/astr...
and that same social access gives them a pool of extremely good engineering talent to exploit, from which they build their own reputation on
May 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Yup. The ultra-wealthy are explicitly trained from a young age to recruit middle class people to do their work for them. bsky.app/profile/astr...
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gotta be the first pope who conceivably has tried malort
May 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
gotta be the first pope who conceivably has tried malort
It's a trashy mezcal Paloma kind of night
May 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
It's a trashy mezcal Paloma kind of night
Was it all a dream? No, I think I really did loudly pledge at #minnebar19 to do a lightning talk about the Commodore Amiga graphics chipset architecture at #minnebar20
May 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Was it all a dream? No, I think I really did loudly pledge at #minnebar19 to do a lightning talk about the Commodore Amiga graphics chipset architecture at #minnebar20
Well, just committed to starting a webring #minnebar19
May 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Well, just committed to starting a webring #minnebar19
Hopefully there's a Circus Atari cartridge floating around at #minnebar19 🤞
May 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hopefully there's a Circus Atari cartridge floating around at #minnebar19 🤞