Ben

@aceofbens.com

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Mostly here to talk about the Phillies, Flyers, and whatever team I'm bandwagoning. No pronouns, do not refer to me ever.

Photo of the sky in Center City. It's like, grey-ish brown-ish yellow and the sun is a glowing red circle next to one of the sky scrapers. The whole picture kind of looks like it's in a sepia filter.
Screenshot from the MLB app. At the top of the homepage, it shows the game schedule for the Phillies (my default team of course) but the calendar squares are orders as follows: Sunday the 12th @ Detroit Tuesday the 14th - All-Star Game Monday the 13th - Home Run Derby
Push notification from the MLB app. Phils add Pham Phillies sign veteran outfielder Tommy Pham to Minor League deal.
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Screenshot from the Phillies broadcast, showing a red banner that says "CYCLE ALERT" above the Phillies' score on the scorebug while Brandon Marsh is up to bat
Screenshot of a job posting on LinkedIn. Philadelphia, PA Posted one hour ago 9 applicants Remote, Part-time No longer accepting applications
Photo of a fluffy white cat stealing chex mix cereal from a human food bowl
fluffy white cat making a weird face
Grey and white cat ferally chomping at treats on the floor
Grey and white cat with wide-open green eyes loafing on a cat tree
Screenshot from the NBCSP broadcast showing Kyle Schwarber in the dugout wearing a headband that looks like the bi pride flag.
Screenshot from the Phillies broadcast showing the jumbotron at the Padres' stadium. It's showing a "fun fact" about Bryce Harper which says, "squirts toothpaste into his mouth instead of onto his toothbrush when brushing teeth"
Photo of the fluffy white cat slouched over my knee, asleep. On the TV in the background, one of the Guardians is hitting a home run
Photo of a fluffy white cat sleeping while sitting up. The Phillies game is on the TV in the background.
Photo of a sheet cake with the words, "Congration you done it" written poorly in red frosting on it
Screenshot of an email from Handshake that I just got at midnight. It says: Nicole just messaged you about a job Hi Ben, I'm Nicole, a recruiter at Handshake Al. I came across your background and thought you might be a great fit for a couple upcoming Al training projects. Handshake Al gives students and professionals like you the opportunity to earn extra income by working on flexible, fully remote Al-based projects that help train and evaluate Al systems.
photo of a grey and white cat sitting next to me on the couch getting head scratches so he won't bite the orange cat whose butt is in the bottom of the photo
photo of me laying on the couch with a giant orange cat sitting on my chest. not pictured but he is purring louder than a lawnmower.
Photo of the side of a food truck in Manhattan. There's a photo of a cheesesteak labeled "philly cheesesteak" but it's spelled p-h-y-l-l-i
Sleepy white cat on my lap
Fluffy white cat poking her head up over a a bowl of oatmeal
Screenshot from the MLB app of the game summary for the Yankees vs Giants game about to start. There's a game note thay says "ABS makes its regular season debut as Judge takes on Webb, only on Netflix"
Screenshot of the opening page of the MLB app. At the bottom, it says "presented by Adobe"
GOOD JOB KYLE
Video showing the streetlights flickering on one singular block in Center City on only one side of the block. The wind is loud as hell in the background
photo of a very sleepy, very fluffy white cat named Zira cuddled up against my legs
a goofy-looking grey and white cat sitting in a box that is nested in another box which is nested in a third box. he is box-maxxing.
Photo of a backyard covered in snow. There's at least a foot of it. The trees are covered in snow. If pointed out, you can vaguely make out a few lit up city buildings over the horizon of the two-story town houses. On a typical day, you can see the city lights clearly but it was snowing way too hard when this was taken at 6am to see a damn thing
Screenshot showing 10 notifications from Life360 flipping between "Left Home" and "Arrived at Home"
That quote graphic of that NBA guy saying "Get ready to learn Chinese, buddy" but it says "Get ready to learn baseball, buddy" and the Phillies logo is pasted over his face.
Close up photo of a strawberry poptart but instead of the rainbow sprinkles on the frosting like a typical strawberry poptart would have, there's an image of a personified strawberry poptart with a huge toothless smile and giant wide eyes right above its mouth. The poptart is sitting in a toaster on a football field and it's holding (yes holding, because it has arms) a sign that says EAT ME! in all caps with an exclamation point and a little heart underneath it.
Selfie of me in some off-brand snuggie with a fluffy white cat sprawled across my stomach
Push notifications from my email app and from the Github app telling me that the Phillies mirror bot failed to run like ten minutes ago
photo of a big ass tv showing the winter olympic games
photo of a white cat paw grabbing the underside of my bedroom door like he's trying to pull it open
same grey and white cat napping on my lap
Photo of a grey and white cat licking my tub of potato salad
Photo of me holding up a copy of "Slide!" by Carl Wolfson in front of half-filled bookshelves. The subtitle on the front cover says, "The Baseball Tragicomedy That Defined Me, My Family, and the City of Philadelphia—And How it All Could Have Been Avoided Had Someone Just Listened to My Lesbian Great Aunt." Above the author name, it says "1964 Phillies"
Text above a screenshot that says "i am going to jump." The screencap from a Phillies broadcast of the Phanatic sitting on top of a wall behind the outfield, looking like he's going to jump like 12 feet down to the camera well.
Ahead of puck drop, fans are invited to attend Flyers Pride Fest, a pregame celebration running from 5:00–7:00 p.m. ET in the South Food Hall (Section 106). Pride Fest will spotlight local small businesses, artists, and community groups, offering fans the opportunity to shop handmade goods and participate in interactive experiences, including a specialty Pride cocktail, bracelet-making station, glitter station, photo booth, and more. Participating vendors include: Mercantile 1888 Christine K. Ring Ceramics  Snyders Shore Store  Knotty Lizard  Box Bar  Denise Fike Live Event Artistry  In conjunction with the game, Flyers Charities will host a specialty Pride Auction, which will go live the night of the Pride Game and run through January 17 at 5:30 p.m. ET on FlyersCharities.com. Proceeds from the auction will support Flyers Charities’ mission of growing the game and its ongoing commitment to make hockey accessible to everyone.
selfie of me on the el. I got my hood up and a mask on. my glasses are fogging up. the digital sign behind me says 5th st. it's so loud on here. go birds. i guess.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Every American should be ashamed of who we are and what we have become as a nation today. We have a long history of military misadventures and even crimes but the attacks we have been conducting on Venezuela are among the most wanton, egregious and least defensible acts we've ever conducted. (Quote post) Ben @AceOfBens.com As soon as y'all #Resist posters figure out how to manifest a better world that isn't just encouraging others to join you in wallowing in white guilt and then vote harder, we might finally start seeing glimpses of that better world
Photo of the saddest, most pathetic-looking dog you've ever seen peaking over my shoulder on the couch to watch my dinner plate.
Your 2026 Word: slapdash
Map of the United States with each state colored in based on how willing I'd be to move there. Absolutely: Pennsylvania Willing: Massachusetts, New York, Delaware, Maryland Maybe: New Jersey, Washington Reluctantly: Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado, California, Oregon Never: The other 38 states
Screenshot from the TikTok FYP. The video is of a bunch of Stop and Shop brand cans of ginger ale (and later, cans of tuna (not pictured)) on the conveyor belt at a checkout. The text on the video says "Ilya stocking up on the essentials for Shane"
[Screenshot of the auto generated transcript from Pocketcasts of Jeff Passan on Effectively Wild] But dude, isn't it, isn't it the same way when you buy an appliance now, you know, you have a finite number of years on it. Like the, the, the pieces and the parts are likely to, to corrode or to be used to the point where no longer they're effective after a certain period of time. I think you can kind of apply the same thing to body parts. Can you not?
(Meme) Overtime? On MY Flyers game? It's more likely than you think.
Screenshot from the Libby app. The Wait Is Over Ready to borrow! Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid Placed 29 Nov Your hold is ready after 1 week, because the library acquired 31 more copies. ✨️
Bryce Harper with a quack doctor who has him hooked up to some fax machine looking thing that is supposedly circulating his blood and exposing it to ozone or whatever the fuck. That's besides the point. He's SICK for doing this.
Tweet from Siobhan Nolan @SGNolan Halfway through the 3rd period, still no sign of Cam York. No official word yet on what the reason is. 9:54pm • 03 Dec 25
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Ruby the Dog, sitting on a chair with her chin resting on the kitchen table. She's got one eye open, staring at the chicken on my plate at the bottom of the picture.