Paul Benson
Terrible at self-promotion. Not bad at writing. Okay at being queer.
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- Reposted by Paul Bensonof course conservatives are like this about everything. "you should go to prison for doing the thing I am currently doing, right as we speak"
- Reposted by Paul Bensonodd feature of our time in how many liberals and progressive are bog standard monogamous family types--Serwer, Bouie, Hayes, AOC, etc--and how many Traditional Family Values conservatives are fuckin drugged up perverts
- Reposted by Paul BensonDisappointing move by Bookshop Org. Supporting Spotify is not supporting artists. www.thebookseller.com/news/spotify...
- “Labelling was for quitters, he insisted.”
- In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity
- Reposted by Paul BensonThis is the abuser's playbook. Oh, is there something you want? Am I mad at you? Cool, I'm gonna break it. Just to show you that I can.
- Reposted by Paul BensonThey're trying to tell us that they always get what they want. That there is nothing so hideous that they won't do it, even if it's kidnap a five year old child and then, when they lose, really try even harder to make him suffer more. Fuck them.
- Reposted by Paul BensonPlease, my magic bean, it is very sick
- Reposted by Paul BensonBut guys, if we shut down the Department of Homeland Security that also means shutting down the roaming terror squads AND airport security theater AND the orphan-grinding machine. Did you think about any of that? Did you?
- Reposted by Paul BensonThis contextualizes the wailing of mediocre men when a new generation of authors emerged and said this shit was not okay, ever, and we will hold you accountable for it. There is a woman who never wrote, because she felt unwelcome, and I know she had something important to say. That makes me sad.
- Reposted by Paul BensonAsimov's actions, and the tolerance-up-to-celebration of it, absolutely drove women out of field and out of fandom, and made it easier for others in the field, writers, editors and fans, to follow his lead for decades. Asimov pinching asses was not about his work. It kept women and their work out.
- Reposted by Paul BensonFolks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...
- Reposted by Paul BensonSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- Reposted by Paul BensonIt really is remarkable the consistency with which authoritarian regimes transition from, "our policies will work for the people" to "the people must work to enable our policies." It isn't surprising, of course - if anything it is shockingly predictable. But still well worth noting.
- Reposted by Paul BensonFemales as likely to be autistic as males but boys more likely to be diagnosed, study says
- Reposted by Paul BensonProbably will also judge them on how much support they give to the bigots in Advance. This is truly gross stuff.
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- Reposted by Paul BensonThis is actually very interesting because that’s what people get wrong about the Middle Ages as well. Simply put: you might know how to build aqueducts from self healing concrete but you might lose the need *and* capability to do so. Three separate things. Many misunderstand how societies adapt. 1/
- Reposted by Paul BensonTimeline cleanse from Murderbot. I know time is meaningless now but it aired in May-June 2025 and is eligible for award nominations this year marthawells.dreamwidth.org/670572.html
- Reposted by Paul Bensonhappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
- Reposted by Paul BensonThe regime is only increasing its repression. I wish I had something useful to say or suggest - beyond do not look away.
- Reposted by Paul BensonDem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
- Reposted by Paul BensonEvery day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
- Reposted by Paul Bensonsorry everyone we at pencil company know you liked pencils, but we can't think of any new ideas for them, so we're discontinuing pencils tomorrow. also, you won't be able to access all your pencil drawings, please burn them, cool
- Reposted by Paul BensonCalled and spoke with Adobe customer support and the guy told me Adobe is discontinuing Animate because apparently the company can't think of any new features to add to the program and they feel it's gotten stale. So they're just GETTING RID OF IT???
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- Reposted by Paul BensonTherein lies the problem. ICE is terrorizing Los Angeles, and local police are choosing not to enforce the law banning masked federal agents. This is how trust collapses.
- Reposted by Paul BensonIf you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
- Reposted by Paul BensonDefinitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
- Reposted by Paul BensonBack in the day I said "if you look at the people supporting Brexit you'll know it's not a good idea" Turns out, I was more correct than I ever imagined.
- Reposted by Paul BensonThread up, and especially this part. No one in a creative field should be using gAI in *ANY* way. You don't get to sell out other creatives just b/c it's not "your" field. No gAI writing, art, narration, music, etc. Just. Don't.
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- Reposted by Paul BensonDOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look
- Reposted by Paul BensonComedy is legal again* *terms and conditions may apply
- Reposted by Paul BensonI am not interested in being a person on Instagram, doing collaborative posts with people or filming myself talking to the camera. I want to be a person who fucks off away from the noise and works hard and writes better and better books for the rest of his life and then dies. Why is that not ok?
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- Reposted by Paul Bensonyeah, so Fallout nailed it
- Reposted by Paul BensonThe president of the United States had his DOJ raid the Fulton County election office and seized ballots. This is clearly a dry run for 2026. Yet, this is treated by too many in legacy media as normal. I founded Democracy Docket in 2020 because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
- Reposted by Paul BensonIn the USA, UK & definitely here in Australia for 25 years there has been a complete absence of care about thinking “what if your enemy was in charge & took advantage of these laws?” Comes IMO from both sides mostly agreeing those who challenge the status quo / power structures as the bad guys
- Reposted by Paul BensonI got followed by an AI-generated yaoi porn account this morning. Instant block. Fuck you. If the yaoi smut isn't being created by an insane perverted fujoshi or fudanshi putting every ounce of their love and freak fetishes into it by hand then I don't fucking want it
- Reposted by Paul Bensonstraight up Gestapo shit
- Reposted by Paul BensonMINNEAPOLIS: “Thousands and thousands— the people of Minneapolis are not letting up. Despite Tom Homan saying there’s a drawdown, these people don’t believe it. They want ICE OUT COMPLETELY.”
- Reposted by Paul BensonAnthropic being honest about the damage they’re doing is probably the result of them reading my popular science book which they stole.
- “We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.” Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- Reposted by Paul BensonPlease also support Fort, Crews, and Lundy who may not have the same legal resources as Lemon. spokesman-recorder.com/2026/01/30/g...
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- Reposted by Paul Bensonthis is what’s happening everywhere they go in force ordinary people will not be cowed the same way elite society has been we are going to win
- Portland, Maine www.pressherald.com/2026/01/30/l...
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- Reposted by Paul BensonAgain, as we observe not only ICE but <gestures at everything today alone, including Don Lemon & the Epstein Files>, I will reiterate that there is a constitutional solution to the systematic violation of the law & the court orders, & it is not more laws or court orders.
