benjamin frankenstein
@fiercefully.bsky.social
chloe/cloudie • any pronouns • would prefer you don't follow if we don't know each other! • 4 stars have been deducted for dabbling in the Occult.
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Pride & Prejudice 2005 film study using my new set of @maxulichney.bsky.social watercolor procreate brushes!
April 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Pride & Prejudice 2005 film study using my new set of @maxulichney.bsky.social watercolor procreate brushes!
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This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.
3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.
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The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN
At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
www.cnn.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
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Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
September 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.
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If you're looking for a verified donation drive to help a family in Gaza, I can vouch that one of my irl friends is helping with this one. Consider donating if you can! chuffed.org/project/1479...
Help Mohammed Hold On to Hope
Mohammed Abu Jaber is a kind, caring man living in Gaza, doing everything he can to support his family through unimaginable circumstances. Before October 2023, he had a successful business, but all of...
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September 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
If you're looking for a verified donation drive to help a family in Gaza, I can vouch that one of my irl friends is helping with this one. Consider donating if you can! chuffed.org/project/1479...
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4️⃣2️⃣ You have 42 hours left to buy Queer Games Bundle 2025. Get over 600 radical, heartfelt games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game. This morning, we've passed $80,000 for queer artists.
itch.io/b/3062
itch.io/b/3062
September 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
4️⃣2️⃣ You have 42 hours left to buy Queer Games Bundle 2025. Get over 600 radical, heartfelt games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game. This morning, we've passed $80,000 for queer artists.
itch.io/b/3062
itch.io/b/3062
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🏃💨 We've passed $56,000 for queer artists! Get over 600 games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game . . . even adjusted for inflation from 1985.
itch.io/b/3062
itch.io/b/3062
August 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🏃💨 We've passed $56,000 for queer artists! Get over 600 games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game . . . even adjusted for inflation from 1985.
itch.io/b/3062
itch.io/b/3062
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✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art.
itch.io/b/3062/
itch.io/b/3062/
July 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM
✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art.
itch.io/b/3062/
itch.io/b/3062/
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Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
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I think Zohran is an early sign
a big part of the reaction to Trump 1 was “we need to go back to normal, we gotta nominate the most conventional people imaginable” which is how we got Biden
that comprehensively failed, and a lot more people are open to real alternatives this time around
a big part of the reaction to Trump 1 was “we need to go back to normal, we gotta nominate the most conventional people imaginable” which is how we got Biden
that comprehensively failed, and a lot more people are open to real alternatives this time around
i do think the kind of backlash we see to this administration is not gonna be like what we saw to trump 1
July 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I think Zohran is an early sign
a big part of the reaction to Trump 1 was “we need to go back to normal, we gotta nominate the most conventional people imaginable” which is how we got Biden
that comprehensively failed, and a lot more people are open to real alternatives this time around
a big part of the reaction to Trump 1 was “we need to go back to normal, we gotta nominate the most conventional people imaginable” which is how we got Biden
that comprehensively failed, and a lot more people are open to real alternatives this time around
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wait, Ted Cruz arranged to be out of the country on the Fourth of July?
GOP Sen. Ted Cruz was on a pre-planned vacation in Greece with his family when devastating floods hit central Texas, and he sought to travel back "as fast as humanly possible," his office said in a statement.
Cruz came back ‘as fast as humanly possible’ from Greece vacation after floods hit Texas, his office says | CNN Politics
GOP Sen. Ted Cruz was on a pre-planned vacation in Greece with his family when devastating floods hit central Texas, and he sought to travel back “as fast as humanly possible,” his office said.
cnn.it
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
wait, Ted Cruz arranged to be out of the country on the Fourth of July?
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by this metric non-newsworthy stories can become newsworthy if they generate enough outrage for being not newsworthy. also by this metric you could print an uncensored human asshole on the front page of the New York Times.
lol, and who the fuck is this?
July 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
by this metric non-newsworthy stories can become newsworthy if they generate enough outrage for being not newsworthy. also by this metric you could print an uncensored human asshole on the front page of the New York Times.
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July 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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I've really been loving The Onion in general, and especially the print edition. Something made by humans, that values human creativity over artificial efficiency is such a delight. Capitalism tells us to always produce more, but The Onion is saying, 'what if we produced something better?'
July 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I've really been loving The Onion in general, and especially the print edition. Something made by humans, that values human creativity over artificial efficiency is such a delight. Capitalism tells us to always produce more, but The Onion is saying, 'what if we produced something better?'
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one thing that has slightly slipped through the cracks is that yesterday Trump said that 9,982 out of every 10,000 people are autistic
July 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
one thing that has slightly slipped through the cracks is that yesterday Trump said that 9,982 out of every 10,000 people are autistic
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🏰🤰📜 EPISODE ONE of TO HONOUR & OBEY with HB & @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social 📜🤰🏰
your husband's duties call him away, but yours are bound to you: a keep in disrepair, a favourless retinue, & a gnawing anxiety filling any space in your gut not taken up by the child who grows there
your husband's duties call him away, but yours are bound to you: a keep in disrepair, a favourless retinue, & a gnawing anxiety filling any space in your gut not taken up by the child who grows there
037 - to honour and obey 01 - with HB & chloe sobel | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
your husband's duties call him away, but yours are bound to you: a keep in disrepair, a favourless retinue, & a gnawing anxiety filling any space in your gut not taken up by the child who grows th...
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July 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🏰🤰📜 EPISODE ONE of TO HONOUR & OBEY with HB & @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social 📜🤰🏰
your husband's duties call him away, but yours are bound to you: a keep in disrepair, a favourless retinue, & a gnawing anxiety filling any space in your gut not taken up by the child who grows there
your husband's duties call him away, but yours are bound to you: a keep in disrepair, a favourless retinue, & a gnawing anxiety filling any space in your gut not taken up by the child who grows there
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i think, unfortunately, that this may be my masterpiece
June 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
i think, unfortunately, that this may be my masterpiece
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The reasonable conclusion to draw from the poll (and all the other polls, and everything else we know) is that rural Americans are -- not all, but mostly -- ignorant & bigoted.
But America's own noble-savage mythology does not permit anyone, on either side, to say that out loud.
But America's own noble-savage mythology does not permit anyone, on either side, to say that out loud.
June 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The reasonable conclusion to draw from the poll (and all the other polls, and everything else we know) is that rural Americans are -- not all, but mostly -- ignorant & bigoted.
But America's own noble-savage mythology does not permit anyone, on either side, to say that out loud.
But America's own noble-savage mythology does not permit anyone, on either side, to say that out loud.
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Remembering this story from 8 years ago, about the differing values of rural & urban people. One reason I remember it is that every single factual assertion made by a rural person in the piece is false.
New poll of rural Americans shows deep cultural divide with urban residents
Big-city and small-town Americans have vastly different views on issues like immigration and religion, helping to explain President Trump’s election
www.washingtonpost.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Remembering this story from 8 years ago, about the differing values of rural & urban people. One reason I remember it is that every single factual assertion made by a rural person in the piece is false.
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Gonna move on with my day, but if you want to read what is, IMO, the single best thing written on the contemporary urban/rural clash, read "The Density Divide" by Will Wilkinson.
The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization, and Populist Backlash - Niskanen Center
In this new paper, I weave recent research in political science, economics, psychology and more into an account of political polarization and the rise of populist nationalism as a surprising and overl...
www.niskanencenter.org
June 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Gonna move on with my day, but if you want to read what is, IMO, the single best thing written on the contemporary urban/rural clash, read "The Density Divide" by Will Wilkinson.
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The world didn’t need another Substack newsletter about how fucked the world is. And yet, I made one.
Meet my new project: What We Lost. It’s about the ways the tech industry is making us miserable and our lives worse. Cheery stuff!
whatwelost.substack.com
Meet my new project: What We Lost. It’s about the ways the tech industry is making us miserable and our lives worse. Cheery stuff!
whatwelost.substack.com
What We Lost | Matthew Hughes | Substack
A newsletter about the decline of tech products, and how our lives got worse as a result. Click to read What We Lost, by Matthew Hughes, a Substack publication. Launched 5 hours ago.
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June 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The world didn’t need another Substack newsletter about how fucked the world is. And yet, I made one.
Meet my new project: What We Lost. It’s about the ways the tech industry is making us miserable and our lives worse. Cheery stuff!
whatwelost.substack.com
Meet my new project: What We Lost. It’s about the ways the tech industry is making us miserable and our lives worse. Cheery stuff!
whatwelost.substack.com
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This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
June 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
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These people aren’t afraid Mamdani would be a bad mayor. We have a ridiculous, corrupt, incompetent mayor right now and the city is hanging in OK. They’re declaring all-out war because they’re afraid Mamdani (or Lander) might be a good mayor.
Having one of the richest people in America (Bloomberg) funding millions of dollars in ads bashing you really matters. Rich people promising to cut jobs from New York if you win also hurts. www.thefp.com/p/escape-fro...
June 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
These people aren’t afraid Mamdani would be a bad mayor. We have a ridiculous, corrupt, incompetent mayor right now and the city is hanging in OK. They’re declaring all-out war because they’re afraid Mamdani (or Lander) might be a good mayor.
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After Getting The Ruling It Wanted, New York Times Publishes 6 Anti-Trans Articles
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www.erininthemorning.com/p/after-gett...
June 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After Getting The Ruling It Wanted, New York Times Publishes 6 Anti-Trans Articles
www.erininthemorning.com/p/after-gett...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/after-gett...