Ben Kline
Writer, tall, clumsy, wired, Gemini.
IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE from Variant Lit.
TWANG from ELJ Editions.
STIFF WRIST from 14 Poems.
Some of my work: benklineonline.wordpress.com/publications/
Podcaster at youtube.com/@mlvcpodcast
- Didn't believe I could dislike him more. He proved me wrong.
- Unwinding with the new Muppet Show one-off after having to call 911 for the smoke and multiple alarms going off in the building. (Someone downstairs left their dinner on the stove and it caught fire.)
- What the.....
- Schumer and Jefferies are either fools or listening to the worst consultants ever. Like, what? We want no masks on any cop! Close the detention camps! Abolish ICE. Break up DHS back to pre-Patroit Act. Hell, repeal the stupid ass Patriot Act while we're at it and reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.
- How has Steve Bannon not [ ] already? Between him and T666p it's a toss up for who is the most rotted!
- Reposted by Ben KlineI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- Reposted by Ben KlineNew fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
- Yoga face selfie chased by...the apartment ghost opening the cabinet door...even after boo thought he'd fixed it...and 5 minutes later, the ghost CLOSED THE CABINET. I was ok with it swooshing me if I do dishes during daylight hours, but this? I will be procuring holy water this weekend.
- Bubblegutsman in a bubble
- Reposted by Ben Klinemy grandma’s rural AI doctor diagnosed her with missing fingers
- Thank goodness I have poets coming over for workshop tonight! Catching up on the news has ruined my spirit.
- Good grief go read this thread. Epstein as terf isn't surprising but also, jeez how much awful can one person contain. (rhetoical) It's as if, post arrest + into his re-emergence, Epstein decided to just become satan on earth, and pulled/pushed in numerous venue to spread ...evil upon humanity.
- "as funding is available" meaning never
- Weaving the story beats to steal the election in November.
- Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
- Um, can they come take ours? We still have nearly a foot on the ground in some places 10 days post storm wtf I'm over it!
- Reposted by Ben Klinea woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.
- Oh this album was wonderful...need to go listen again!
- The endpoint is they cash in and out via IPO before it implodes into its actual uselessness.
- I think the simple truth about the AI bubble is that, in the case of OpenAI Anthropic, both say they “train” models and spend billions on “training“ that will somehow have an endpoint, when in reality, training models is a never-ending opex. On an economic level, inference and training are the same.
- Turn up the spotlight so she melts. Ugh.
- Reposted by Ben KlineFolks, if you are in the vicinity of an ICE raid or kidnapping, and you see a truck with a satellite dish on top of it, (aka a "Stingray"), please know that this DHS technology mimics a cell tower, pulls in cell phones in radius on a signal, and can seize data off your phone without your knowledge.
- When you watch the Grammys red carpet and don't recognize anyone. 👴
- This. When I read Epstein stuff, I think about the garbage people back home who engaged in and permitted this sort of stuff. And I didn't even realize how bad it was until I started working at the public library. For so many rural and small town Americans, this crap is the norm.
- Holy 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
- Reposted by Ben Klinestraight up Gestapo shit
- "Thief of Hearts" from Madonna's EROTICA (1992) going viral w/ the Gen Z/Gen Alpha kids wouldn't have made my 2026 bingo card. Especially because it's just a fun bop that kicks off side 2 of the cassette/LP or, a mid-CD romp between heavier tracks "Waiting" and "Words." But its vibes? Current.
- I won't repost those Steven Miller tweets about birthright citizenship where he basically says 'we should've kept them all as slaves' - he's too dumb to realize he'd have never ascended to where he's currently schemed to - because he's so bad at both amateur history and syntax. Like, the gibberish!
- Caroline Polachek's PANG ....still amazing.
- These Moltbook hallucinations people are posting: hilarious, but also, another alarm to #unplugAI
- Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Biology 200 2. Politics & Literature of the Modern Middle East 3. Fiction Seminar 4. Philosophy 101 5. Advanced International Politics
- If you would like a salve against all the horrors of the world, watch the Mel Brooks documentary on HBO. I laughed so much, and will now begin a watch/rewatch of Brooks's best films!
- So many posts about the Epstein emails and references to so many different tales/theories/etc - it's more complicated than keeping track of X-Men continuity! - and wow, so many people in the mover-shaker class and the rich with stinking, glowing big red Ps on their faces.
- ok enough doomscrolling hang in there everyone + text or call someone to tell them you love them
- Reposted by Ben KlineSo QAnon spent years spreading conspiracy theories that the government was run by a cabal of elite pedophiles and it turns out they supported the actual cabal of elite pedophiles to get into power and destroy democracy.
- Reposted by Ben Klinetwo sources with knowledge of the situation tell @zeteo.com some officials in Trump’s DOJ actually explored if certain instances of anti-ICE activists blowing whistles in Minnesota could be used as evidence in criminal prosecutions of those who “obstruct” operations... zeteo.com/p/don-lemon-...
- Reposted by Ben KlineWait, you mean to tell me the guy who built the largest CSAM generator ever wanted to party hard at Epstein's island?! You don't say! www.404media.co/musk-to-epst...
- Oh man I didn't think it could be zanier and then I saw a post about Chris Rufo's "thoughts" on Minnesota. Like...jeez. A dumptruck of dummies the whole lot.
- I'm waiting for boo to arrive home with dinner. The dishes are finished, laundry running, leaving me free time to maxipost on Bsky when I SHOULD be reading some submissions (got all day tomorrow!) or revising some poems (got all day Sunday!) I've been home sick all week and going stircrazy!
- I feel like Grok hallucinated this writer as actually existing + willing to work for so little.
- One of the things I understood early on, surrounded by guns and 2A people, was that white folks only supported guns for other white folks, and even then, only other white folks just like them. Back in the day, I was a good shot, and my sissy ass being a better shot drove some of them crazy.
- Donald Trump has appeared to undermine Second Amendment rights in statements about Alex Pretti’s killing. Many in the firearms community are going along with it. www.wired.com/story/right-...
- Apparently I cannot type correctly this afternoon.
- Wow, is every rich person, law firm or whatever who quickly bent the knee to T666p 2.0 in the Epstein files? Seeing those Paul Weiss firm names in some of the posts here...it almost makes it seems like less of a conspiracy theory than a criminal conspiracy...no wonder the ravel of it all drove so
