Ben Miller
@benwritesthings.bsky.social
writer, historian, @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2027)
www.benwritesthings.com
www.badgayspod.com
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2027)
www.benwritesthings.com
www.badgayspod.com
Pinned
“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...
no one who described a “chapo to fascism” pipeline deserves your ear
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
no one who described a “chapo to fascism” pipeline deserves your ear
donald mcintyre rip 😭
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
donald mcintyre rip 😭
donald trump 🤝 monica lewinsky
…. you know,,,,
…. you know,,,,
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
donald trump 🤝 monica lewinsky
…. you know,,,,
…. you know,,,,
j’cannot
TRUMP SUCKED OFF BILL CLINTON??? LMAO???????????? that would genuinely be the wildest timeline
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
j’cannot
Reposted by Ben Miller
A really good thing True Anon has always said about conspiracies is that they typically work not because everyone is in on it, but because very powerful people expect their subordinates to be deferential, loyal, incurious, and incompetent.
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A really good thing True Anon has always said about conspiracies is that they typically work not because everyone is in on it, but because very powerful people expect their subordinates to be deferential, loyal, incurious, and incompetent.
Every concrete civil society and research project in Germany is being cut while the CDU feeds 500.000€ in taxpayer money annually to a right wing think tank with no concrete project proposal.
Vier Jahre Projektförderung ab 2026 mit 500.000,- pro Jahr. Bisher gibt es offenbar weder eine Projektidee noch einen konkreten Antrag.
www.rnd.de/politik/koal...
www.rnd.de/politik/koal...
Schwarz-rote Koalition will Förderung für konservative Denkfabrik R21 verdoppeln
Bei den abschließenden Haushaltsberatungen für das laufende Jahr im September hatte die schwarz-rote Koalition für die konservative Denkfabrik Republik 21 eine staatliche Förderung von jährlich 250.00...
www.rnd.de
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Every concrete civil society and research project in Germany is being cut while the CDU feeds 500.000€ in taxpayer money annually to a right wing think tank with no concrete project proposal.
opposing the industrial scale trafficking of young women and girls is woke now apparently
Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein taking time out of their day covering up the world's most famous pedophile ring to complain about Ta-Nehesi Coates.
![From: Steve Bannon I
Sent: 4/23/2019 4:06:36 PM
To: Michael Wolff _________________________________1
CC: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Announcing the 2019 Hillman Prize winners
Importance: High
Fix always in
On Apr 23, 2019, at 9:06 AM, Michael Wolff <
> wrote:
Look at the judges on this thing: the right-thinking establishment to a tee (to a Ta-Nihisi).
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 2:57 PM Steve Bannon < wrote:
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November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
opposing the industrial scale trafficking of young women and girls is woke now apparently
Reposted by Ben Miller
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...
one degree down, one degree to go. every little bit helps. doomerism is collaboration. only big social majorities can get it done.
Lot of people are already passing this around with the usual "WHY ISN'T ANYONE DOING ANYTHING" shrieks, while ignoring the fact that the article literally says that this is a *significant* decrease from the warming that we were on track for even a few years ago.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
one degree down, one degree to go. every little bit helps. doomerism is collaboration. only big social majorities can get it done.
boston: we are the fancy, educated, self-satisfied part of the united states 😌
boston: anyway want some canned bread?
www.tastingtable.com/1935839/what...
boston: anyway want some canned bread?
www.tastingtable.com/1935839/what...
What Exactly Is Canned Brown Bread — And How New Englanders Eat It - Tasting Table
Steamed brown bread with molasses was a New England tradition for hundreds of years, and in the 20th century, it ended up in a preservation-friendly can.
www.tastingtable.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
boston: we are the fancy, educated, self-satisfied part of the united states 😌
boston: anyway want some canned bread?
www.tastingtable.com/1935839/what...
boston: anyway want some canned bread?
www.tastingtable.com/1935839/what...
“let’s build the airport in the shipwreck zone!” - the Dutch, for some reason
I am still shaken on learning that Schiphol is on on a drained lake famous for wrecks, so called Ship's Hell
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
“let’s build the airport in the shipwreck zone!” - the Dutch, for some reason
i wasn’t emotionally prepared for what KLM stands for
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
i wasn’t emotionally prepared for what KLM stands for
Josh Shapiro is one of the ones who spits in your face
Pennsylvania Ends Budget Stalemate, Sealed With Concession by Democrats on Climate | To seal a deal with Republicans, Democrats are abandoning a regulation that could have forced power plant owners to pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
Pennsylvania Ends Budget Stalemate, Sealed With Concession by Democrats on Climate - Bucks County Beacon
To seal a deal with Republicans, Democrats are abandoning a regulation that could have forced power plant owners to pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
buckscountybeacon.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Josh Shapiro is one of the ones who spits in your face
“of course [trump] knew about the girls” - Jeffrey Epstein www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump knew about Epstein’s conduct, newly released emails suggest
In messages released by House Democrats, Epstein wrote ‘of course [Trump] knew about the girls’
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“of course [trump] knew about the girls” - Jeffrey Epstein www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
have they done a law and order SVU episode about gooning yet? i need to watch mariska hargitay explain gooning to ice-t
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
have they done a law and order SVU episode about gooning yet? i need to watch mariska hargitay explain gooning to ice-t
In November of 1970, after a summer of student protests including the Kent State massacre, Rudi Gernreich showed military uniforms with guns. The nickname of the collection was "back to school." Here's the press release.
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
In November of 1970, after a summer of student protests including the Kent State massacre, Rudi Gernreich showed military uniforms with guns. The nickname of the collection was "back to school." Here's the press release.
Salo
Showgirls
Female Trouble
Shortbus
Showgirls
Female Trouble
Shortbus
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Salo
Showgirls
Female Trouble
Shortbus
Showgirls
Female Trouble
Shortbus
obsessed with the new Lacma––a billion-dollar blob that has less space than what it replaced, is bad at displaying art, locks the museum into an unsustainable and anti-intellectual display practice, and looks like shit––as metaphor for the art institution today artillerymag.com/the-new-davi...
THE NEW DAVID GEFFEN GALLERIES - Artillery Magazine
Once, when I was 12 or 13, I was looking at Fernand Léger’s 1925 painting Composition in the European wing of LACMA’s since-demolished Ahmanson Building
artillerymag.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
obsessed with the new Lacma––a billion-dollar blob that has less space than what it replaced, is bad at displaying art, locks the museum into an unsustainable and anti-intellectual display practice, and looks like shit––as metaphor for the art institution today artillerymag.com/the-new-davi...
A resistance lib wine mom hosting phone banks and canvasses in her suburban home is more politically effective than the coolest person posting their correct opinions and occasionally attending a protest.
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A resistance lib wine mom hosting phone banks and canvasses in her suburban home is more politically effective than the coolest person posting their correct opinions and occasionally attending a protest.
“Madonna is the Pat Boone of voguing.” - Me
Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
“Madonna is the Pat Boone of voguing.” - Me
Reposted by Ben Miller
Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
bought and paid for formaldehyde-infused gerontocrats who lack object permanence
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
bought and paid for formaldehyde-infused gerontocrats who lack object permanence
every single AI slop farm that tried to make you freak out about this while distracting you from the genuinely evil things going on can be unfollowed and blocked
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
www.inquirer.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
every single AI slop farm that tried to make you freak out about this while distracting you from the genuinely evil things going on can be unfollowed and blocked