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Ben Can't

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🟪 MBMBaM Wizard Emeritus 🟦 they/he 🟩 ace trans Jew 🟨 Long COVIDer 🟧 wear ur fucking mask 🟥 benkantt.com

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · Nov 16

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Hi I'm Ben. Once upon a time I was a niche internet microcelebrity for sending Yahoos into MBMBaM and earning the nickname "The Wizard"

I'm an ace trans Jew with a wonderful spouse and two precious cats

I post a lot about Baltimore and maybe one day I'll make art again and post it

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 16h

The Jays have the chance to do the funniest thing Canada has done since 1814

Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 17h

Imagine winning the World Series. You'd get to visit the ruins that used to be the White House

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 7h

Also sounds like Long COVID tbh

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 11h

didn't post about this when it happened friday but..... heroes!

new york times headline: Wikipedia volunteers avert tragedy by taking down gunman at conference

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Cass @cassmarshall.bsky.social · 19h

THEY DIDN'T SEE HOW BEN SOLO WAS ALIVE???? THAT WAS A BRIDGE TOO FAR????? AFTER THEY "SOMEHOW, PALAPATINE RETURNED" A GUY WHO FELL 6000 FEET INTO A POWER CORE????? HELLO?????

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 22h

Adam Driver reveals he was developing a new Star Wars movie ‘THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO’ with Steven Soderbergh

• Was set after ‘The Rise of Skywalker’

• Lucasfilm loved the idea but Disney said no — “They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive”

(Source: apnews.com/article/adam...)

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Hellvetika @hellvetikaseraph.bsky.social · 19h

I have a fascination for ancient jewellery.
This wide Anglo-Saxon ring features the rare prolapis lazuli.

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 18h

trump seeing the no kings numbers and punching a hole in the drywall to rival a thousand kyles

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

JUST IN: The White House has begun DEMOLISHING portions of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump’s $250 million ballroom — despite earlier claiming it wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure. (Washington Post)

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 22h

An apt description considering Tupperware is an MLM.

I was dragged to so many Pampered Chef parties as a kid! (But, unlike ChatGPT, the overpriced garlic press was actually quite nice and I still use it. Yes, I bought my own garlic press as a kid.)

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23h

“Prompt parties,” gatherings of women over cheese and wine to chat about how ChatGPT can help them, are emerging as the next-generation of Tupperware party in San Francisco.

Wine, Cheese and ChatGPT: Ladies’ Night in San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 23h

Nothing but love and respect to people who do Ace 101 education. But so many conversations about asexuality in the public eye don't really get beyond this point and it'd be nice to like. Talk about actual issues???

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 23h

It's Ace Week so I'd like to say it'd be sickkkk if we as a society could move past Asexual 101

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness

transwrites.world/who-are-the-...

Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes

Ari Drennen, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:

transwrites.world

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

just to break down the profoundly degraded discursive state we're in
PROTESTORS: the president is not a king! no kings in this country!
PRESIDENT: [posts video of self in crown, shitting on citizens]
PRESIDENT'S FRIEND: there is a king. King Jesus
NOBODY IN PRESS ROOM: you've missed the point

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 1d

Can we get her $60 in the next couple days so that her phone service doesn't get cut off?

Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 1d

One of Miss Debra's relatives helped her pay most of her bills, but she still needs ~$2,500 for the remainder and for an apartment deposit!

Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 12d

I'm raising for my friend who lived down the street from us at our old place. She's been in a shitty living situation for a while now and I'm hoping this will finally be able to help her have a fresh start!

Our neighbor needs your help! Miss Debra is a disabled Black elder who is hoping to move to North $ Carolina to be with her extended family. But first, she needs our help!
We need to raise $4,200 to help her pay her remaining bills before she can leave. Any extra will go towards her moving expenses. V3nmo: @BeKa211. Include "Miss Debra" in the memo

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 1d

Furry is his own emotional support animal

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 1d

When Nell and I go to the hardware store, that's ace4ace 2 Ace

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Jennifer Griffin Graham @jgriffingraham.bsky.social · 1d

SNAP benefits are going to be paused on November 1. If you are able, now is a good time to give to food banks, food pantries, or local mutual aid groups.

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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 1d

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

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Ben Can't @bencant.bsky.social · 1d

yet another reason to get a beyond video membership

Greater Baltimore DSA @baltimoredsa.org · 18d

@beyondvideo.bsky.social a non-profit library of cinema, has signed on to the Apartheid-Free Baltimore pledge!

www.beyondvideo.org

AFB businesses pledge to:

🍉Avoid business w/ companies complicit in Israel’s human rights violations
🍉Follow BDS & PACBI guidelines
🍉Divest from complicit companies

Flyer with yellow background and images of olives and a watermelon city-skyline at the bottom. Apartheid-Free Baltimore Business. Beyond Video, nonprofit volunteer-run video library. 2545 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD. GBDSA, PYM, and JVP logos are shown at the bottom.

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 1d

me, a jew who has walked off being mildly impaled: i do not care much for israel, conceptually

the most bullyable little freak imaginable, a walking antisemitic stereotype who would squeak like a dog toy if hit: i will not be satisfied until i can bathe in the blood of gazan children

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Vivian Jenna Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be "that one friend who's too woke" but the AI images I kept seeing on protest signs and posters were a bit distasteful to me if I'm being honest

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a funny redux of the bad baby Jesuses in medieval art

Mom @milph.mom · 1d

Kids in hyperrealistic modern triple-A video games continues to be the funniest hurdle.

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Ezra S @ezra.zone · 1d

I know two people who got long covid from infections during doctor appointments where they couldn't easily mask (an MRI and an ENT exam). this is a very real risk.

And before anyone says anything - yes, there are MRI-safe respirators, most people don't know about them or have access to them.

jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 2d

Well fitting masks work very well, but my friend and his wife got Covid at a doctor’s appointment and it caused long term health problems for my friend. If people in the waiting room and clinic masked and used air filters, this wouldn’t happen. I think it’s wrong to get sick seeking medical care.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I simply do not believe that it is possible to have a serious conversation when you're saying shit like "smexual assault" and "grapist"

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