Ben Wright - Queex

Hello! You probably know me as that less entertaining associate of someone else. It turns out I have been advised that I am 'at risk of redundancy'. I am bricking it. There has never been a better time for you to throw a few quid at one of the various silly things I've made. I've made a list.

This weekend on Sunday 1st November from 1230-1330 I'll be appearing at the Stratford Literary Festival running a Manga Workshop for 11-16yr olds at the Crowne Plaza! There are actually some tickets left! Head on over and grab them if you can and I'll see you there :)

Between reigns: inter regna between rains: inter pluvias Between reins: equus

Ooh! I spent some of the weekend driving myself mad making my photography site look much nicer! I take and sell photos! I think they're great! I've sold them across the world! If YOU would like to own some fine art photography from an #autistic #adhd photographer, you can! hyperfocus.photography

Just had a lemon drizzle cake where the icing had the perfect light crunch; it was like the platonic ideal of crisp, fresh snow.

Favourite film in haiku: You have so little And yet you see far too much Jobu Tupaki

Welcome, watchers of illusion, to the castle of confusion—

Gangster in an old film: "Look out, he's got a heater!" American on Bluesky: "That's not very efficient, just get HVAC installed."

The ultimate goal of AI is so that the wealthy can have access to skills while denying the skilled access to wealth. With AI we don't get the inventive Mike Daillys or Jeff Minters or Shigeru Miyamotos. We get recycled memories of life as seen by a machine for the sake of the rich

"Nothing political" is always a stupid policy, in any context, because literally anything in the world can become 'political' if arseholes start whining about it. Every "nothing political" policy is an open invitation to let the worst people in the world censor anyone they have beef with.

The best time to develop a conscience about building weapons of terror designed for use against civilian populations is before joining Boston Dynamics, the second best time is now.

RT if you don't use AI for coding

The thing about maths (and others) is that you don't find out who is "going to use it in later life" unless you give everyone a chance to learn it in the first place. If odd bits of maths, science, geography and language don't come in clutch every so often in your daily life, that's a skill issue.

Dredging up my favourite from when we played this game 20 years ago: "Golden Brown in my Pants"

I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

Engagement Bait (from the internet) got suspended? Sucks to suck, I guess.

Average journey from High Hrothgar to Riverwood.

Happy my boy got a jump range upgrade in the latest patch.

A book is a bridge constructed from bricks of time, built by both the writer and the reader. The two of them can meet on that bridge, even if centuries separate them. Without those bricks — without that time from both of them — there is no bridge, no meeting, and no point.

why do people call LLM training on public website data “AI Copyright Infringement” when “six finger discount” is right there

The best description I've heard: AI art looks like Christian rock sounds.

great news for people who love it when a cop explodes

Diminish an anime. Half Tinfoil Unease

Diminish an anime Stablehand Swing

Does anyone know of a decent VTT that can be used for naval-style wargames? i.e. No squares or hexes, free rotation, and the ability to say 'move this thing directly forwards' instead of having to wing it?

Available now, our very Welsh Kickstarter project. They Are Still Here features stories of resistance and resilience in Welsh community, with a little help from our supernatural friends. wizardstowerpress.co...

Godzilla Minus One was originally just called Godzilla but then the queen died

I've switched tactics from calling "llms are sentient beings" nitwits stupid to agreeing with them and saying "yeah!! Furbies too!!!" and they get so much madder lmao

I've been kind of taken with this opening line from a chapter, which I added on a pure whim: "[The town] was just waking up, but trouble is an early riser."

Ad astra vel satis prope.

Data center: boo! Date a centaur: I'm listening

The controversial Calvin and Hobbes "washing machine" strip that was withdrawn from circulation in 1985 (it wasn't really. I made it)

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Go and buy stuff from here. This is not a request.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Bioinformatician: That's the centromere.

More pictures from the Wizard’s Tower book launch at #FantasyCon 2026

On pre-order, our very Welsh Kickstarter project. They Are Still Here features stories of resistance and resilience in Welsh community, with a little help from our supernatural friends. wizardstowerpress.co...