Ben (mouse)

@benmouse.bsky.social

Mouse // 30s // games, languages, pokemon

When you think that human progress can be better accomplished by a room full of rich people and endless server farms, instead of millions of humans working together, then it becomes easy to align yourself with the kind of old school racist who just wants to add the word 'white' before 'people'.

This is addressed to everyone, but especially Americans under the age of 30: Read dystopian novels. Read 1984, and Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451, and White Noise, and—fuck—even Hunger Games. So many of you just aren’t getting what’s been happening just because you don’t read.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

i got so good at spinning out massive walls of text from minimal research that it meant that when i did start doing proper fulsome research at university i would be overwhelmed with the amount i had to say about things when doing assignments. you learn not to miss anything

Here's Cade Cavalli striking out Willson Contreras and screaming "sit down boy!" at him. Really nice and a great week for it. Does Manfred 1) do the obvious thing or 2) do nothing because he doesn't want a Turning Point spokesman to do a viral tweet about how he won't watch baseball anymore