ben a.
@benjamimmmmm.bsky.social
Love music and sports, hate markets and capitalism, have never read a book
In May we reported on the abduction by ICE of an asylum seeker in Worcester. @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social, a city councilor at the time, was absurdly and unjustly convicted last week of assaulting a police officer that day in what she says was a politically motivated trial. We talked about it.
A crisis that needed my attention
In May of last year Bill Shaner reported for Hell World on the abduction of a Worcester, MA asylum-seeker named Rosane Ferreira-De Oliveira by the federal government. It was an early look at how horri...
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You can pick your cat, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your cat's nose. But I didn't pick my cat, and she's very congested, so this is a really annoying adage.
This looks exactly how I would look trying to hammer in a nail with my left hand, but I'm not left handed.
Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 11mo agoTrue comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
Listening to Cursive's Domestica for the first time in decades and trying to figure out how I got so into this album when I was 16.
Absolutely wild how many full grown adults at the "no filming, the lights are going to be fully off" autechure show still insisted on filming.
I can directly measure the amount of "sports are back" by how much I'm absolutely yelling at my tv.
The drummer on the Mario Kart World soundtrack absolutely went off. It's like 3+ continuous hours of a guy going "yeah, I've heard this before, but let me try something" and pulling it off every time. It's just very very good.
The thing about Joey Chestnut is that, even by the standards of the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, he simply doesn't have to do all that.
Is Robert De Niro a good actor, or does he just have an interesting face?
The bad kid in middle school told me Ronald McDonald had his bottom two McRibs surgically removed.
Wait, the femputer from Futurama was Bea Arthur? How am I just finding this out?
I'm now officially 400 pages into The Power Broker, and my opinion is still "guy's kind of an asshole, but I'm kind of rooting for him to do better." Like I'm not going to become a Robert Moses guy, I know where this goes, it's just a testament to how good the book is.
"He was obviously very ill, I can't stress enough that he was very ill, you all saw it!"
Finally got to the part of the book where Robert Moses says his catchphrase "I'm da power broker, baby!"
Love finding a very long Zelda geography video by a guy who seems extremely normal enough, and also encourages you to fall asleep watching the video. Also loves saying "very deep lore".
I will probably never figure this out. I keep watching it so maybe. It's got a lot of good things going for it. But like... Is it good?
ben a.@benjamimmmmm.bsky.social · 2y agoGun to my head, I couldn't tell you if Westworld is a good TV show or not.
Gun to my head, I couldn't tell you if Westworld is a good TV show or not.
The fact that, to the best of my knowledge, Toshiro Mifune doesn't have "like a whole deal" is just one more reason why Yojimbo is better than A Fistful of Dollars.