Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

ben

@guidetobirds.bsky.social

240 followers 220 following 900 posts

guidetobirds on twitter, thegoalie on bandcamp, i have several email addresses as well

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 2d

they should have to buy a stamp

1 9

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 5d

it would not have been a particularly close play

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 5d

jt pointing to first 🫡

1 2

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 6d

topper is fucking with me specifically

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 6d

knuckle tats TOOT BLAN

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 6d

1 1

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 7d

50/50 shot

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 7d

crazy that we are only four short years away from the completion of The Line, which will either have 1.5 million people living there in 2030 or it will not

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 7d

is mike playing halo again

1 2

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 8d

the moral of the story is to never, ever, EVER bunt.

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 8d

why would they! ! baseball manager’s job is to sit in a chair and chew stuff. topper’s performance there is totally satisfactory

Reposted by ben

Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 8d

Look if Philadelphians don’t boo a great opposing player it just means they have completely lost all respect for him. It’s a courtesy

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8d

Philly booing Ohtani cmon man. He's not a Dodger he's our national baseball Folk Hero. He is for everyone. He loves dogs and hits balls 500 ft and throws the ball 100 mph.

2 7 55

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 9d

chatbots are designed for user engagement -- why would they be designed any other way? but they drive you fucking crazy, and we're gonna see the results of that, in big ways but also in little ones

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 9d

it's not a question of intelligence or anything. smart people, dumb people, whatever. geniuses drink soda because it's engineered to taste good, but it still rots their teeth

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 9d

how many of us know someone who, before 2022, was just "kinda lonely but basically doing okay"? when was the last time you heard from them? are they still in that long-term relationship? are they still in school? do they have a job? when you try to reach out to them, what do they sound like?

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 9d

ai psychosis is a real problem. people are out there ruining their lives because they think the computer is their doctor, their therapist, their financial adviser, their friend

1 2

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 14d

all it took to make omaha feel like a "real city" was getting a bus pass. who knew

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 15d

great band, great bird

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 15d

awful news, he's had a breakout season

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 15d

“jared kushner and the saudis bought EA in order to replace artists and actors with AI” wow my bingo card is already totally full and it’s only 10 am on monday

1 1

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 18d

and thank god to whoever uploaded it, this is hard to find

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 18d

hugely entertaining: archive.org/details/iain...

"I ain't an athlete, lady-- " : my well-rounded life and times : Kruk, John, 1961- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

255, [8] p. of plates : 23 cm

archive.org

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 20d

this is the plot of Infinite Jest

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 23d

updated to ios 26 today

ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 24d

do you think he sees andrey as a caicedo sub or as an enzo sub