Ben, Drinker of Coffee
@thebengeemon.bsky.social
Writer, storyteller, drinker of coffee | zen anxiety machine 🇨🇦 | cohost of @coffeekurosawapod.bsky.social
It’s the Cirque du Soleil of it all
February 17, 2026 at 1:51 AM
It’s the Cirque du Soleil of it all
Okay but Cairns stream when?
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Okay but Cairns stream when?
MLA Style Guide: full of notes on how to format academic papers, or a tome of lore containing the secret craft rules authors gatekeep from the common folk?
February 5, 2026 at 3:28 AM
MLA Style Guide: full of notes on how to format academic papers, or a tome of lore containing the secret craft rules authors gatekeep from the common folk?
Heartbreaking. RIP to a genuine icon.
January 30, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Heartbreaking. RIP to a genuine icon.
If Reddit is any indication, we only like to self-mythologize things like “we’re the reason the Geneva conventions exist” and not our actual military achievements.
What, me bitter about flawed popular perception of history? Never!
What, me bitter about flawed popular perception of history? Never!
January 28, 2026 at 12:09 AM
If Reddit is any indication, we only like to self-mythologize things like “we’re the reason the Geneva conventions exist” and not our actual military achievements.
What, me bitter about flawed popular perception of history? Never!
What, me bitter about flawed popular perception of history? Never!
100% - I've lived in some snowy parts of the country but that grand total was missing from all the punchlines I heard over the years!
January 26, 2026 at 7:27 PM
100% - I've lived in some snowy parts of the country but that grand total was missing from all the punchlines I heard over the years!
You know, as a kid growing up and hearing all the jokes about Toronto calling in the military, I always assumed it was some mundane amount... but no, 140cm in three weeks would do it.
January 26, 2026 at 7:10 PM
You know, as a kid growing up and hearing all the jokes about Toronto calling in the military, I always assumed it was some mundane amount... but no, 140cm in three weeks would do it.
Hot take: this is a good movie.
January 24, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Hot take: this is a good movie.
The opening of the 2nd movie in the high frame rate/3D/imax screening I saw in 2013 blew my mind, it felt like I could walk into the inn Gandalf and Thorin are in.
Of course the rest of the movie just whiffs on that feel of immersion, but I will defend how goofy and fun the barrel scene is.
Of course the rest of the movie just whiffs on that feel of immersion, but I will defend how goofy and fun the barrel scene is.
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 PM
The opening of the 2nd movie in the high frame rate/3D/imax screening I saw in 2013 blew my mind, it felt like I could walk into the inn Gandalf and Thorin are in.
Of course the rest of the movie just whiffs on that feel of immersion, but I will defend how goofy and fun the barrel scene is.
Of course the rest of the movie just whiffs on that feel of immersion, but I will defend how goofy and fun the barrel scene is.