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Ben and Juice
@betterlazy.bsky.social
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Hi! I’m Ben, and I also write things other places. Here’s one: www.betterlazy.com
Nothing here represents the opinions of any employer, entity, or person.
Note: I never use LLM or generative AI to create any content. That’s a guarantee.
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Who doesn’t love yet another short survey, right? I mean, everybody must, because there are so dang many of them. Please rank, rate, review, like, subscribe, and otherwise pretend you enjoyed this in a way a computer will understand. I guess.
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Please, Take this Short Survey - Better Lazy
Hello! Thank you for agreeing to take my survey. You did agree, right? Oh, no. Um. Let me see. Ok, so, first, by viewing this page, you are agreeing to participate in whatever happens here. Only surve...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Magic in 2025: Lessons everywhere, but not a bit of Learn.
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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V. neat thread on a regional bread variety, discussing history, family variant, and technique. If the Internet has One True Purpose, I would make an argument that this is very close to it.
kristadb1.bsky.social Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 8d
Behold the food of my people: Toutons

(variations in photo: butter & molasses, butter & raspberry jam)

(Please read the entire thread before asking questions.)
plate with two round things, one with a brown drizzle, the other with a blood red dollop of something
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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It’s comforting to sit down with a guitar again, and doubly so with two guitars, as I did here. In two sittings, I mean, not at once. Also, be careful, there’s curses—but no cusses—in this one.
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Digging Up Sleeping Dogs - Better Lazy
You can’t tell me I’m off base on this one: I seen it with my own two true blue peepers, plain as a daylight flash in a stuck pig’s pan. Ah, apologies and salutations—I got off the block early and rui...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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History is easy. You just say things about dead people and those things become true. For instance:
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Alex and the Big Day - Better Lazy
It came to be that Alexander, brash young son of Phillip, and conqueror of the known world, was given the title “the Great.” And so, the withering mass of people gathered and wished him well and besto...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Folks, remember to spay and neuter your Hunger Games books.
brendelbored.bsky.social Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23d
I thought there were three books but every few months I hear about Hunger Games: Lamentation of the Sower and Hunger Games: Dusk of the Plaintive Wife
popbase.tv Pop Base @popbase.tv · 23d
First look at Ralph Fiennes as President Snow in ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.’ Out November 20, 2026.
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Nothing propinks like temporal propinquity.
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Temporal Propinquity - Better Lazy
The kids in this neighborhood. Too much free time, is what my Gran’dad used to say. They come down the street, leaning on their horn, laughing and hanging out of windows in that golf cart. Some kid’s ...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Terrible beauty. Perfection. Peas with AI in them.
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Psst. The Grove album has been “accidentally” uploaded 4 hours early. Don’t tell anybody.
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Willow, by The Grove
9 track album
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November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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I forgot to post it this morning, but here’s a story for this week!
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Both Is Both Is And Are - Better Lazy
“Hey, how come both isn’t singular? Aren't singular?” Davie scratched the back of his head in momentary—if ephemeral—deep thought.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Join @markfinn.bsky.social @selfwinding.bsky.social Eric, and Thom as we discuss #daredevilbornagain 42cast.com/index.php/20... #ESOnetwork #mcu #scifi #disneyplus @vincentdonofrio.bsky.social
The 42cast Episode 260: Fiskal Policies
This week Mark, Alli, Eric, and Thom join the show to discuss Daredevil: Born Again.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Half way through, the video threw an error that I wasn’t the intended audience, then charged my credit card twice.
Oh, well. Maybe next year.
mtgsecretlair.com Secret Lair @mtgsecretlair.com · Nov 3
we made it to the end. or the beginning. depends how you alphabet. secret lair: an encyclopedia of magic is Available now!
Timelapse taken in downtown Renton, WA.
Card Artist - ampreh
Muralist - weirdocult
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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SecretLair has been delayed another half hour. Phillipe is standing on the internet.
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I know I’m fifty years behind the times on this, but #mtg ATLA, Secret Tunnel is really inspired design. A+. No notes.
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An image of Magic the Gathering’s Avatar land-cave, named Secret Tunnel, with text, “this land can’t be blocked,” and “tap: add a colorless mana,” and “pay 4 and tap: two target creatures you control that share a creature type can’t be blocked this turn.” And, I love a land set with a land that does not itself become a creature, with “this land can’t be blocked.” Perfect. To me, that is Magic design as it should be, in a beautifully elegant way.
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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In the end, the moon hangs in the sky, the very picture of honest innocence.
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When the Sturgeon Bloom - Better Lazy
This is not a story of witches in the switchgrass or midnight curses whispered into empty seas from punts skulled to long-forgotten piers. Their tales need told as well, but not today. This tale runs ...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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This was a lot of fun to put together. I dig it when Ruth gets to voice a character Of A Certain Age, and Ms. Spencer is a pip.
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American Shibboleth - Better Lazy
OrCheckov’s Herring Part I: The Interview He made the appointment because she happened to call his desk when he was expecting another, more important call. She asked him if he could see her for fiftee...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Part of growing up in America is when a senior dev tells you AI was always just your CEO in a Santa mask.
October 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Hey! There was a nee single from The Grove, and I completely whiffed on posting it. It’s lots of fun!
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Ceiling Tile - Album by The Grove
Listen to Ceiling Tile by The Grove on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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It must be exhausting spending so much time and energy to be afraid of perfectly lovely people.
October 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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A fun little story about humanity’s relationship with itself. Don’t let your hammers make decisions about your nails.
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Space Shrimps - Better Lazy
In the airlock, the act of closing a helmet is self-care. In the void beyond or the bubble of life behind, perhaps less so. A moment of self-care is important to maintain morale in dark and airless ti...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Another with some cusses, but they’re deliberate ones. Also, be warned, food is called “salty” in this one.
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His Patent Leather Mustache - Better Lazy
Saint Anthony, martyr to the infinite self-indulgence machine, exhaled a plume of salty smoke into the kitchen.  “Fuck,” he thought. “This food is a little salty.” The embarassed steam rose and tried ...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Anybody else’s Word grammar-check tool just absolutely out to lunch lately? It just keeps suggesting random sputum under the banner of “It would be better…”
Nah, dude. It would be better if the sentence made sense.
October 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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“I ain’t been called arrestin’ since my runway days in gay par-ees,” said the seated officer.
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The Trouble With It - Better Lazy
I beheld the Pipsisewah and Skeezicks, rent physical and massive, blatant and organic, before me. They occupied the entirety of the back office in the warren of Sheriff’s facilities attached to the co...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Men will literally shut down the government instead of going to therapy.
October 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I wrote a mystery! It’s also a pastiche! Can you solve it?
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The Alicia Curry Mysteries - The Firebug - Better Lazy
Lefty Griswold had been known, from time to time, to pull a fast one. In a town as small as Ruston, though, his options for suckers were painfully limited. Especially with that rotten Alicia Curry aro...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM