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Ryan Benk

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Producer/reporter for NPR's Weekend Edition. Horror, punk, pop-punk or anything by Sturgill Simpson. Lift heavy things. Cats are rad. SAGAFTRA. DC is a real place. https://www.npr.org/people/942414025/ryan-benk

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 4d

At 76, cabaret artist Joey Arias’s resume reads like the movie Big Fish. The tales are almost too tall to believe, but he’s really done them all.

What an honor to help tell this legend's story.

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Joey Arias has plenty of art left to give: 'I want to live to be at least 200 years'

Decades of metamorphosis and drag performer Joey Arias is far from his final form.

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Happy happy happy!

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Damn

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 21h

“The shining star of our family has dimmed his light for us in this life … We are heartbroken to announce that Michael D’Angelo Archer, known to his fans around the world as D’Angelo, has been called home."

More on D'Angelo's life and legacy: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 2d

Rounded out the weekend by contradicting Roger Ebert's view of slashers. Listen, they cut a lot deeper than people think!

Why slasher movies still have us watching through our fingers www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...

Why slasher movies still have us watching through our fingers

As Halloween approaches slasher movies draw their biggest audiences as All Things Considered host Andrew Limbong talks with NPR's Brianna Scott and Ryan Benk about what keeps the genre alive and why i...

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 2d

Ratio me. It’s a badge of honor. Oooooo yes I like it when you ratio me. Ooh now ratio me harder yessss. Now ratio me while the neighbors watch. Ok now wearing that costume. Yessss.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 2d

Drafting in the CMS

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Julio Ricardo Varela @julito77.bsky.social · 2d

Loved how @ayesharascoe.bsky.social interviewed María Corina Machado on @npr.org this weekend. Reflects the complexities of Venezuela and also Machado's support of American interventionism. Machado didn't condemn Trump actions.

Nobel Prize winner Machado says Venezuela is in 'chaos' under current regime

The far-right leader of Venezuela's opposition party said that the current president is illegitimate and called for his removal.

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like if Bret Easton Ellis says a movie is bad, then it's probably good actually

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NPR @npr.org · 3d

Decades of metamorphosis and drag performer Joey Arias is far from his final form. n.pr/48UrvoM

Joey Arias has plenty of art left to give: 'I want to live to be at least 200 years old'

Decades of metamorphosis and drag performer Joey Arias is far from his final form.

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 3d

I was looking for a job and then I found a job and heaven knows I'm miserable now -Karl Marx (1867)

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! Was such a blast putting it together and getting to know Joey!

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SlashFilm @slashfilm.bsky.social · 3d

Quentin Tarantino's comments about Stephen King's It are a lesson in why parroting the opinions of others about something you've never read is a bad look.

Quentin Tarantino's Stephen King Criticisms Literally Don't Make Sense - SlashFilm

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Bradley George @bradleygeorge.bsky.social · 4d

Promoing during my host shift!

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 4d

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 4d

Joey Arias has plenty of art left to give: 'I want to live to be at least 200 years'

Decades of metamorphosis and drag performer Joey Arias is far from his final form.

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 4d

Vegan to vampire lover:

I would do anything for love but I won't eat bat

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 4d

Just cause they suck now doesn't mean that classic U2 doesn't still absolutely rip

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 4d

This was my first experience with this darling creature of New York. Tomorrow morning on @npr.org you can listen to my profile of him on Weekend Edition Saturday. 850AM ET! Links will follow to the full radio piece and writeup tomorrow. It's a treat!

Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · Jun 5

The legend, Joey Arias at Barrell House in DC for World Pride

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Tal | TAFCON @starplanes.bsky.social · 14d

For every 10% the show gets funded I'll share a behind the scenes fun fact about Re: Drac/Re: Carm/Re: Frank!

Re: Frankenstein | Re: Dracula | Re: Carmilla @redracula.bsky.social · 14d

Re: Frankenstein is an audio adaptation of Frankenstein from the team behind Re: Dracula and Re: Carmilla. It stars @senabryer.com & @dturtleva.bsky.social and is crowdfunding now! Check it out at igg.me/at/refrank and spread the word!

Re: Frankenstein

An audio drama adaptation of your favorite gothic sci-fi novel, from the team behind Re: Dracula! | Check out 'Re: Frankenstein' on Indiegogo.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 5d

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Patrick LaForge @palafo.bsky.social · 5d

We live in Pynchon’s world www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/m...

Thomas Pynchon Saw Where America Was Headed. What Does He See Now?

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Ryan Benk @ryanbenk.bsky.social · 5d

Some people deserve to be bullied

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 5d

wtaf are you talking about

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 6d

Bless the humble character actor, without whom none of the stories you dearly love would have been nearly as rich or cohesive.

Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 6d

RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.

He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 6d

Can’t go around upsetting the KKK, can you

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 6d

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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