ben

ben

@benmakes.cool

he/him. creator, engineer, movie enjoyer, leftist, magic artist. aka ben makes stuff. I mostly post photos of my cats profile pic by @legdotegg.bsky.social

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my current favorites are billy and vyper. Trying to find a third favorite among drifter, wraith, apollo, and silver but I'm bad.

I wonder what the cost of foil expressive iteration or foil stock up would be if they were only available in collector boosters.......

well I got locked out for awhile, seems I'm still locked out on mobile. But I can access on my desktop I guess. If I disappear again assume I got locked out again

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RIP to Ron Spears, one of the all time great Magic artists. His work, equal parts otherworldly and evocative, was a huge part of what drew me to the game as a kid. He was one of the best artists in fantasy and it's heartbreaking to see him go.

my cats recognize the sound of a microsoft teams call ending because they know that’s when I’ll pay attention to them

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It is always the case that any radical action by workers to resist the power of capital is "violence" but the constant suffering of poverty, absence of healthcare, hunger, surveillance, wage theft and the rest of it, well... that doesn't really count as "violence."

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This has been running in my personal discord server for months now and we just hit 1000 wordle scorigamis 🎉

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On discord, friends and I play Wordle a lot and my younger brother had the idea of tracking new wordle patterns, or wordle scorigamis. I made a bot for exactly that and wrote about how I did it. If that sounds cool, I made it free to access on my Patreon 🟩🟨⬛️ www.patreon.com/posts/142281...

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the democrats deliberately boosted the candidacy of donald trump and ran status-quo empty suits against him and those brilliant strategies got the US two trump terms. a few oddly still have the audacity to blame the left for their lack of enthusiasm in cheering on these obviously awful plans

engineering is awesome bc it breaks your brain. after enough time you’ll have realizations like “1 millimeter is actually huge” and “100 milliseconds is really slow”

I’m sorry to say this folks but we have to bring bullying back. We need to bully children off the internet. At this point I am not above it. Go put on a propeller hat little man. Ride a bike. Kick a ball.

seriously if you have a ring camera throw that shit in the trash. Think for two seconds about what this tech actually means.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Here's that Ring #SuperBowl commercial:

It’s been like this for years, they’ve been giving this tech to the police and ICE. Yesterday was the best time to destroy whatever ring (or other wireless internet based camera) products you have

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go ahead. post another "take." tell me that not liking AI is elitist. accuse Dril of sabotaging Harris's chances at winning the election. say that it's "white male privilege" to not vote for Newsom. come up with a woke way to support genocide. call me gay for liking corn dogs.

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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

propublica.orgTwo CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti ShootingThe two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

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To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

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Made this fun lil piece for a dear buddy of mine :) meant to make a chatterfang but there was some weird issues with the card, went with this instead & will try chatterfang again later. anyway, this was a simpler piece compared to other recent ones. what do y'all think? #MTG #MagicTheGathering

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Hyunsu Yim@hyunsuinseoul.bsky.social

SEOUL, Jan 13 (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor on Tuesday requested the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.