Ben Emerson
@jbemerson.bsky.social
He/Him. PDX. 40-something choir kid. Newbie #DnD DM. #exvangelical. Work for the county library. Jack of all trades, master of none -- but sometimes better than a master of one. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
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Here are things I like if you want to connect about them:
*In no particular order
🦅Birding / Bird watching
🎼Choral Music
🐉Dungeons & Dragons
🌈Parenting queer kids
🌅Post-evangelical life
🌳Cool nature stuff
Stop by and say hi!
*In no particular order
🦅Birding / Bird watching
🎼Choral Music
🐉Dungeons & Dragons
🌈Parenting queer kids
🌅Post-evangelical life
🌳Cool nature stuff
Stop by and say hi!
None of these people look even remotely real.
December 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
None of these people look even remotely real.
I have listened to this record every single Christmas since I was born. It's perfect.
This year will be the first year listening without my dad. Pretty sure "When the River Meets the Sea" is gonna wreck me.
This year will be the first year listening without my dad. Pretty sure "When the River Meets the Sea" is gonna wreck me.
me: religion is so embarrassing
me listening to John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together: god is real and he made a little frog puppet to tell us to be good to each other
me listening to John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together: god is real and he made a little frog puppet to tell us to be good to each other
December 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I have listened to this record every single Christmas since I was born. It's perfect.
This year will be the first year listening without my dad. Pretty sure "When the River Meets the Sea" is gonna wreck me.
This year will be the first year listening without my dad. Pretty sure "When the River Meets the Sea" is gonna wreck me.
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Red Lobster never released a commercial with a jingle that went “Shrimply having a wonderful Fishmastime.” That’s why they went bankrupt.
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Red Lobster never released a commercial with a jingle that went “Shrimply having a wonderful Fishmastime.” That’s why they went bankrupt.
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Rape is bad. Racism is bad. Grifting is bad. Destroying public institutions and programs is bad. Wrecking the economy is bad. Kidnapping people is bad. Building camps is bad. Committing war crimes is bad. We need to offer people a reason to show up, but I believe that a majority are against *this*.
December 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Rape is bad. Racism is bad. Grifting is bad. Destroying public institutions and programs is bad. Wrecking the economy is bad. Kidnapping people is bad. Building camps is bad. Committing war crimes is bad. We need to offer people a reason to show up, but I believe that a majority are against *this*.
I HATE when people call my library asking for random book titles like "difficult to use" and the whole purpose is to train LLMs.
I absolutely refuse to say the words they want.
I absolutely refuse to say the words they want.
December 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I HATE when people call my library asking for random book titles like "difficult to use" and the whole purpose is to train LLMs.
I absolutely refuse to say the words they want.
I absolutely refuse to say the words they want.
I mean, does it even matter anymore to point out that TRUMP PARDONED ALL OF THEM????????????????????????
Patel on J6 arrest: "When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life."
December 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I mean, does it even matter anymore to point out that TRUMP PARDONED ALL OF THEM????????????????????????
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I’ve been rewatching The Simpsons with our middle kid and we just started season 3, the first season Conan was in the room, and the show accelerates to such an extent it feels like entering comedy hyperspace
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I’ve been rewatching The Simpsons with our middle kid and we just started season 3, the first season Conan was in the room, and the show accelerates to such an extent it feels like entering comedy hyperspace
Elder Millennial here:
Last week I used my lunch break to walk around the new release room at Powell's and found like 8 books I thought were interesting. Put a chunk of them on hold at the library on the spot.
A completely delightful experience.
Last week I used my lunch break to walk around the new release room at Powell's and found like 8 books I thought were interesting. Put a chunk of them on hold at the library on the spot.
A completely delightful experience.
There was an article in The Guardian a few weeks back about how Gen Z find bookshops preferable to online shopping, and a key factor was that an algorithm will offer you 6000 books identical to the one you just finished whereas a bookseller will offer you three that are different but meet the vibe.
November 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Elder Millennial here:
Last week I used my lunch break to walk around the new release room at Powell's and found like 8 books I thought were interesting. Put a chunk of them on hold at the library on the spot.
A completely delightful experience.
Last week I used my lunch break to walk around the new release room at Powell's and found like 8 books I thought were interesting. Put a chunk of them on hold at the library on the spot.
A completely delightful experience.
I love when prepping for the next #DnD session generates an idea for an entirely new plot line my players can encounter.
All from flipping through the monster manual in alphabetical order.
All from flipping through the monster manual in alphabetical order.
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I love when prepping for the next #DnD session generates an idea for an entirely new plot line my players can encounter.
All from flipping through the monster manual in alphabetical order.
All from flipping through the monster manual in alphabetical order.
When I was 20 I probably would have made the same argument but with significantly more elegance.
I can only hope this student is able to grow and unlearn the harmful things they believe.
I can only hope this student is able to grow and unlearn the harmful things they believe.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
When I was 20 I probably would have made the same argument but with significantly more elegance.
I can only hope this student is able to grow and unlearn the harmful things they believe.
I can only hope this student is able to grow and unlearn the harmful things they believe.
Always knew there was a reason I liked this dude.
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Always knew there was a reason I liked this dude.
Pluribus, man.
I mean . . .
I mean . . .
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Pluribus, man.
I mean . . .
I mean . . .
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
Has he tried praying about it?
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Has he tried praying about it?
My Thanksgiving plans involve my family's 3rd-level adventuring party encountering a village of Dinosaur-folk experiencing a mysterious drought.
Will the barbarian enter a frenzied rage?
What creatures will the druid wildshape into?
What new spells will our necromancer unleash?
#DnD
Will the barbarian enter a frenzied rage?
What creatures will the druid wildshape into?
What new spells will our necromancer unleash?
#DnD
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My Thanksgiving plans involve my family's 3rd-level adventuring party encountering a village of Dinosaur-folk experiencing a mysterious drought.
Will the barbarian enter a frenzied rage?
What creatures will the druid wildshape into?
What new spells will our necromancer unleash?
#DnD
Will the barbarian enter a frenzied rage?
What creatures will the druid wildshape into?
What new spells will our necromancer unleash?
#DnD
Can’t wait for her to make many millions of dollars as a … poster.
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Can’t wait for her to make many millions of dollars as a … poster.
Good news!
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Good news!
What he said. What a RIDE.
I watched S1 of “Pluribus” without having read any reviews, etc, that gave away the premise or plot. If you can do that as well, I recommend it. It’s so much fun to be completely surprised, and so odd that we always make sure we aren’t.
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
What he said. What a RIDE.
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
My dad just died this morning and I’m having a lot of weird feelings*
*he had stage 4 cancer for a year so no surprise
*we were emotionally estranged. Hadn’t had a real conversation in like 15 years.
*I saw him last weekend and said my goodbyes.
*he had stage 4 cancer for a year so no surprise
*we were emotionally estranged. Hadn’t had a real conversation in like 15 years.
*I saw him last weekend and said my goodbyes.
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My dad just died this morning and I’m having a lot of weird feelings*
*he had stage 4 cancer for a year so no surprise
*we were emotionally estranged. Hadn’t had a real conversation in like 15 years.
*I saw him last weekend and said my goodbyes.
*he had stage 4 cancer for a year so no surprise
*we were emotionally estranged. Hadn’t had a real conversation in like 15 years.
*I saw him last weekend and said my goodbyes.
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Perennial reminder that you absolutely do NOT have to hand it to MTG under any circumstances
Marjorie Taylor Greene managed to tolerate being subjected to the sort of abuse, that she has subjected trans people to for years, for approximately one week.
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Perennial reminder that you absolutely do NOT have to hand it to MTG under any circumstances
I had no idea this was a thing.
Color me intrigued.
GO SF!!!!
Color me intrigued.
GO SF!!!!
Meet the first San Francisco pro women’s baseball team, which drafted Kelsie Whitmore first overall on Thursday | @sfchronicle.com
www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...
www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...
Kelsie Whitmore makes history as No. 1 pick by San Francisco in first WPBL draft
Kelsie Whitmore, who pitched for the Oakland Ballers last year, has become the first player drafted in the nascent Women’s Pro Baseball League.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I had no idea this was a thing.
Color me intrigued.
GO SF!!!!
Color me intrigued.
GO SF!!!!
Here are things I like if you want to connect about them:
*In no particular order
🦅Birding / Bird watching
🎼Choral Music
🐉Dungeons & Dragons
🌈Parenting queer kids
🌅Post-evangelical life
🌳Cool nature stuff
Stop by and say hi!
*In no particular order
🦅Birding / Bird watching
🎼Choral Music
🐉Dungeons & Dragons
🌈Parenting queer kids
🌅Post-evangelical life
🌳Cool nature stuff
Stop by and say hi!
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Here are things I like if you want to connect about them:
*In no particular order
🦅Birding / Bird watching
🎼Choral Music
🐉Dungeons & Dragons
🌈Parenting queer kids
🌅Post-evangelical life
🌳Cool nature stuff
Stop by and say hi!
*In no particular order
🦅Birding / Bird watching
🎼Choral Music
🐉Dungeons & Dragons
🌈Parenting queer kids
🌅Post-evangelical life
🌳Cool nature stuff
Stop by and say hi!
my For You tab is entirely Mamdani.
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
my For You tab is entirely Mamdani.