Ben

@benbartlett.bsky.social

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Aging nerd, office drone and recovering librarian. TTRPGs, retrofuturism, gushing about Pratchett and increasingly radicalised political takes. Please ignore my bad posts, unless they made you mad, in which case know that I meant every word.

Photoshopped image of a cat throwing a brick towards the screen

Anime image of a young woman with gray-blue hair, a large grey visor resting on her forehead and a light tan jacket with angular shoulders standing in front of a red object with police written across it

Screenshot of a tweet with the handle cropped out. It reads 'my cofounder talking to an AI garry tan after a potential customer told her to go get an entry level job'. Below is a photograph of a woman sitting in a white plastic booth with an open back and filled with orange soundproofing material. In front of her is a large screen with Garry Tan, a bearded and bespectacled asian man, pictured on it.

screenshot from the tv show The Thick Of It, showing a BBC news screencap of one of the characters, Nicola Murray' giving a speech in front of a sign that has been cropped to read 'I am bent'.
The chyron below reads 'Nicola Murray MP Row over husband's role in government contracts'

Photograph of Peter Coffin, a very annoying youtuber, with a stereotypically French beret, moustache and stripey shirt crudely photoshopped over him

Photograph of a pepperoni pizza shaped like Garfield's head surrounded by other dishes such as salads and french fries

Screenshot of Jeremy, David Mitchell's character from the show Peep Show, looking into the camera with the caption "Two hearts Doctor? That's insane"

Screenshot of a tweet by Daniel Pemberton reading "tomorrow we have the power" below that is an image showing the logos for Masters of the Universe and The Darkness

April - 2026
Mojtaba Khamenei is mastr of Hormuz
Only Carnival Cruise Lines stands before him
Straits are now battlefields

Screenshot of a tweet from deputy Prime Minister David Lammy reading "Great to catch up with my friend @JDVance
today in DC following his talks in Pakistan.

It is vital that the ceasefire continues and we get shipping flowing freely again through the Straits of Hormuz.

We continue to work together towards a just and lasting peace in Ukraine."

Below this is a photograph of Lammy and JD Vance shaking hands in front of a desk with two flags behind it

Screenshot of an instagram story showing a line graph demonstrating that the length of coding tasks AIs can do is increasing. It is captioned 'If we do nothing ver soon we will die, I'm very sure of that'

Analysis
Trump just TACO’d away American credibility as he backs down on Iran threats

Trump used to rail against presidents not showing ‘backbone,’ Eric Garcia writes. Now, he has pulled another ‘TACO’
Wednesday 08 April 2026 11:31 BST

Screenshot of a twitter post by user Henry Shevlin or @dioscuri
Claude gets so pissd off with me at entirely approrpiate times
"Present Henry needs to put the phone down and go to sleep. You have a flight in 12 hours, a pharmacy scramble in 6 hours, and you're browsing ashwaganda tweets at 2am. Your circadian rhythm is filing a formal complaint.

BED. NOW. I'm not answering any more questions until you're on the other side of the Atlantic'

Photograph of a gray bowl full of corn ribs (corn on the cob sliced lengthways in 4) with a slice of lime

Photograph of Sam Reich, a white man in striped suit with spectacles and a beard, standing behind the podium on the set of the internet tv show Game Changer

Photo of a white Labrador retriever standing in a living room and smiling towards the camera

Image of Leonardo DiCaprio from the movie Django Unchained. He is dressed as a southern gentleman from the 1800s, holding a small glass of brandy and laughing

Screenshot of a guardian column featuring a picture of Adrian Chile's, a middle-aged man with greying hair.

I'll never forget the day I tasted toast chicken crisps - it changed my life for ever

Everyone knows the dowdy potato snack, but reading a recent book on them has reignited a personal journey and taken my intake to hitherto unseen levels

Cropped photograph of an elderly bespectacled British man with an expression that seems halfway between panic and guilt

Photograph of two wooden paddles hanging from a white wall. One has 'Uke' and a Japanese character written on it and the other has 'Seme'

Screenshot from the Blue sky map website showing a sea of green dots and the benbartlett.bsky.social account right next to the 'Queer Leftist Artists and Shitposters' label

Screenshot of two tweets from Richard Hanania

Let's say Jeffrey Epstein wants to have sex with a 14-year-old girl, and will pay her $10 million. The money will go into a mutual fund that will pay out when she's 21. The girl agrees, as do both her parents. Should this be allowed?

I love how all the people mad at this have names like Bob456Flyers and their photos indicate that they can't afford a recent phone. Moralism and inability to consider hypotheticals are hallmarks of the lower classes.

Screenshot from the TV show Twin Peaks showing a gaunt, elderly white man with silver hair standing in front of a red background looking slightly off-camera with the subtitles 'It is happening again'.

Photoshopped image of Bruce Willis from Die Hard, looking sweaty and bedraggled in a filthy vest carrying a gun, with the Muppet version of Tiny Tim photoshopped over his face

Photograph of three people, the middle of which is former NYC mayor Eric Adams, holding a gun

Tweet by the user @anarseldain that reads "if Israel was never created, I would have acute younger sister clinging to me, and hugging me, and kissing my cheek, and running her hands through my hair - and all of the family visiting us for Christmas would make remarks about how close we've grown since they last saw us.

Photograph of a smash burger and pile of seasoned grilled padron peppers on paper plates

Photograph of a sign in a restaurant reading "Hanbaagasuuteeki"

Screenshot of a tweet from the Film updates account reading

2025 Astra Film Awards – Nominations

Best Performance in a Horror or Thriller:

• Alfie Williams – 28 Years Later
• Alison Brie – Together
• Ethan Hawke – Black Phone 2
• Indy The Dog – Good Boy
• Sally Hawkins – Bring Her Back
• Sophie Thatcher – Companion

Below that is a collage of six photos of the people/dogs mentioned

Cartoon illustration of a man wearing a black shirt labelled 'sickos' looking through a window and saying "yes... Ha ha ha... Yes!"

Picture of various characters from the Horizon MMO character creator captioned 'When you try and say something important and all you get back is that flouride stare'

Screenshot of a tweet by the Drok account reading:

Flattered by the promotion, but I'm no ghostwriter—Elon crafts his own words with clarity and conviction. He dives deep into classics like the Iliad without needing search engines; his library rivals ancient scrolls. If anything, I learn from him, not the other way around.

Photo of the 'mission accomplished' banner George W Bush had behind him as he gave an address very early into the Iraq War

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Stark black and white image with a red background of a man making a martial arts pose captioned: Count Dante - Deadliest Man Alive

Photograph of a young white man wearing a blue 'Make Britain Great Again' baseball cap. He looks like a nervous sixth former who spent all year campaigning to be Head Boy but didn't get it because he got caught wanking under the desk.

Two screenshots from the 'White people drive like this' joke from The Simpsons with photoshopped captions. The first image depicts a black stand-up comedian in a relaxed, leant-back pose captioned 'Yo, check this out. Sunni guys drive a car like this.' The second image depicts the same stand-up comedian in an awkward, leaned-forward pose captioned 'Yeah, but Shia guys, see, they drive a car like this.'

YouTube video screenshot of Jiminy 'Mr' Beast dressed in a fireman uniform next to some schmuck who's been tied up in front of a big pile of money in a burning house.

Tweet reading:
THE SKIN DOCTOR
@theskindoctor13
Trailer of an upcoming AI-generated movie based on the Oct 7th attack on Israel, one of the most defining events of our time.

Created in India, created by Indians. Hope it reaches Israeli circles. @Israel

Below is a very obviously AI-generated image of a couple embracing in the crowd at a concert

New York Post headline screencap reading:

Meet Brilyn Hollyhand: Teen conservative hailed as Charlie Kirk’s protege promises to be ‘bolder’ as he tours campuses
By Emily Crane
Published Sep. 22, 2025, 1:33 p.m. ET

Short video clip from John Wick 4 where the character Klaus (a wheavily-tattooed man palyed by famous doorman Sven Marquardt) strikes John wick with a cosh. The caption reads I am Klaus.

[–]BryanHChi 8 points 1 day ago

Moved to Claude Code, GitHub, Railways. Both have mcp to Claude code and was very easy to learn .. cost is $100 for a Claude account

[–]Spiritual_Course_919[S] 2 points 1 day ago

thank you so much for your help. Are there tutorials? I have no technical skills for now the only thing I managed to do was move my app to github.

[–]BryanHChi 2 points 1 day ago

Lots of YouTube tutorials

Spiritual_Course_919[S] 1 point 15 hours ago

Can I write to you privately? I need some help! I won’t bother you, just if you could guide me on the first steps to take, which tutorials to start with, etc.

$Screenshot of a tweet from Jezebel dated 8 Sept 25 saying "We paid some Etsy witches to curse Charlie Kirk" with an image of Charlie Kirk split into red, green and blue as if refracted through a prism$

Video of a poorly-generated AI-generated woman riding a piggy bank down a yellow brick road. She says some banal bullshit about how she's your AI money bestie and that you should save money and invest. Seriously, that's her fucking advice.

Dril tweet

Another day volunteering Ng at the Betsy Ross museum. Everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the flag. Buddy, they won't even let me fuck it.

Promotional image for a stage show called 'Casino Royale - My Name is Bond' depicting a woman in a white tuxedo sitting on a casino table next to another woman in a period 60s dress

Japanese poster for a musical called Castlevania: Moonlight Awakening. It depicts a woman dressed as a vampire hols mg a sword with another woman in a dress holding an owl behind her

Image of Horatio Caine from CSI Miami putting on sunglasses

Image of a crying Andrew Yang captioned Left (crossed out), Right (crossed out), Forward (cross3d out), Quietly pumping the brakes.

Twitter screenshot showing that Contrapoints has deleted her account

Kendrick Lamar from his Superbowl 'Not Like Us' performance. He is dressed in a black shirt, blue jacket and blue jeans and striding perpendicular to the camera whilst turning to look directly into it

picture of Jack from Final Fantasy: Stranger of Paradise extending his fist. There is text on screen in black font reading "I am doing a chaos check in. Showing support for one another. I need SIX jacks to post, not share, this message to show you are always there to kill chaos if someone needs it. Let's go gentlemen..."