Benjamin Boles

@benjaminboles.bsky.social

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I cut hair and sometimes make music. Retired music journalist. He/they Toronto https://on.soundcloud.com/z1Wx4

PLEASE DO NOT FLUSH > Baby wipes > Cleaning wipes •Feminine hygiene products > Paper Towels > Tissues > Trash of any kind > Diapers (“Diapers” has been printed out and taped to the list)
A bunch of rocks that are really worn down bricks and construction rubble
Clip of two people DJing in a dark club, panning to the dance floor
Screenshot of a movie theatre seat layout, showing a single seat sold for the Melanie doc
Big pile of snow, with a rear view mirror hanging out the side, revealing the car hidden within
Snow covered elderly cattledog walking through deep snow, looking backwards over his shoulder at the camera
Nighttime photo of an old four floor apartment building with a central courtyard
A cattledog wrapped in a blanket surrounded by toys
Benjamin sipping from a complimentary post-surgery juice box, wearing big wraparound sunglasses over an eye shield.
Handwritten sign behind the fence which reads “A better community starts with conversation. Let’s talk. Email us communityengagement@pqwchc.ca We’re listening”
Tall fence around a small park
An AI generated photo of Ronald Reagan that looks very wrong and disturbing
My dog trying to pull me down an alley towards loud reggae music
sacrificial continents. More than imagine it, we must begin, at once, to build it. This starts with naming, as bell hooks always did, the systems that have carved out the Shadow Lands, deemed them erasable, disposable: capitalism, imperialism, white supremacy, patriarchy. It requires teaching those words, and their true meanings, to the people in our lives, so that the next time someone tells them that their suffering and burdens are all the fault of child-stealing globalists, Or job-stealing immigrants, or well-meaning teachers, or the Jews or the Chinese or the drag queens at the library, they will know better. And they will be able to fight better. "We can be hard and critical on structures, but soft on people," says the civil rights scholar john a. powell. That is the opposite of the discourse that dominates today, the one that is so very hard on people and far too soft on structures.
A 1980s cassette drive for a computer.
A tote bag with a picture of Pedro Pascal wearing a Protect The Dolls shirt
You will never be disappointed with The United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! With best wishes, I am, Sincerely, DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A pickup truck wrapped around a tree on a city street
A big speaker stack on a sidewalk during a street festival. Speaker boxes are raw wood.
A four story apartment building with a central courtyard, built in 1917, before zoning laws made it impossible.
Two middle aged men battle with lightsabers on a city sidewalk at night
BREAKAWAY REDUCING HARM & ENHANCING HEALTH If you re in a public bathroom and you think a stranger's gender does not match the sign on the door, follow these steps: 1. DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT, THEY KNOW BETTER THAN YOU.
A poster for a Strengthening Community Solidarity Day event
Old poster for a show by Suckerpunch
Yard with a flag that is half American, half Canadian. Presumably pro-annexation
Someone high up in a tree cutting off a big branch
A wrecked police car sitting on the sidewalk in front of a Pizza Pizza.
Three small children surrounded by big dogs
Rear of a building, with massive scary icicles dangling
Cybertruck on a Toronto street
More party footage
A dance party. Dark room, disco ball, hands in the air
Video of a dance party
Screenshot of that classic post about bartender kicking a Nazi out of a crust punk bar, because of you tolerate one, soon you will have a Nazi bar.
Screenshot from Crossout of a monster truck with melee weapons
A bunch of electronic music gear on a table
A table top full of electronic music devices, lots of wires, knobs, and buttons.
Sad cattledog lying on a rug, staring at the camera while whining about his bedtime walk being later than it was last month. He is surrounded by his stuffed toys.
A bottle of scented oil called “bingo winner, 7 sisters oil, alleged”
Dog in the corner of a bathroom
Frightened cattledog
A cattledog lying on a floor, looking a bit sad
Ad claiming that NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has suffered a fatal accident on live TV
Screenshot of an ad for what appears to be a news story, with a photo of Jagmeet Singh, with the headline “Jagmeet Singh Suffers Fatal Accident On Live Television”
An older apartment building, at night. There is a central courtyard, with a gate leading into it.
Handwritten note that reads: - how to be more assertive - easily intimidated - parents? Coward from them Note is sitting on top of an Octavia E Butler book
A table full of drum machines, synths, mixers and effects
A black Toronto home garbage bin that has been modified with a hole cut into it to use as a street garbage can, and then left in front of a subway station.
A curb, with sloppy pothole fix riding up onto the sidewalk
Lazy cattledog lying on a wood floor, staring at the camera
A couple audio mixers, a drum machine, a few small synths, and a delay unit, on a table with a mess of wires connecting everything
Screenshot of someone telling google AI that they are depressed, and google suggesting they jump off a bridge
A maroon and grey 1980s van with fancy rims and tiny little tires. Very cute!