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Ben Kline
@benkline.bsky.social
Writer, tall, clumsy, wired, Gemini.

IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE from Variant Lit.
TWANG from ELJ Editions.
STIFF WRIST from 14 Poems.

Some of my work: https://benklineonline.wordpress.com/publications/

Podcaster at https://www.youtube.com/@mlvcpodcast
Oh it's nightmare materials, but also, exactly, yikes.
December 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Also, once again, amazing reporting from @wired.com - this subscription has been so worth it!
December 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If he owns a mirror, he knows who the antichrist is.
a man wearing glasses and a hat is laughing with his tongue out
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a hat is laughing with his tongue out
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Ben Kline
I think it’s ok to admit that the Nazis borrowed from US white supremacy and current US white supremacy is borrowing from their innovations and previous US white supremacy

Both can be true at once
December 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I wonder if he does the benedictions at Thiel's antichrist lectures....
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Several inches atop...whatever is happening here.
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I wrote the book, not the review, but I'm sharing it because the reviewer made me think about my own work in a new way AND made me cry.

portlandreview.org/a-review-of-...
A Review of It Was Never Supposed to Be by Ben Kline
I read an advanced copy of Ben Kline’s It Was Never Supposed to Be mere days after the 2024 presidential election was called. Meanwhile, pundits and journalists were stumbling over themselves to an
portlandreview.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM