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Ben Minarelli

@italianplastic

Freelance writer, GM, Walnut's dad

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Just finished @esotericebb.bsky.social. In an insanely stacked week of good games, this is what I spent my time playing. Killer writing with heart and humour. Go play it!

09.03.2026 08:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from the video game Persona 4. In the halls of Yasogami High, the protagonist talks to a male student labeled "Stylish student". His dialogue window reads:
"Hanging out with women, going on dates with them, that's fine. Killing them? Not so much."

Screenshot from the video game Persona 4. In the halls of Yasogami High, the protagonist talks to a male student labeled "Stylish student". His dialogue window reads: "Hanging out with women, going on dates with them, that's fine. Killing them? Not so much."

happy international women's day

08.03.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 7076 πŸ” 2805 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 26

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

03.03.2026 10:09 πŸ‘ 1676 πŸ” 459 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 9
A doodle titled β€œyeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a β€œwerk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

A doodle titled β€œyeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a β€œwerk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

Back at it again in the mines

25.02.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 3114 πŸ” 1041 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 20
25.02.2026 08:43 πŸ‘ 5901 πŸ” 1312 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 12

Me, angrily, when I reread my first drafts

24.02.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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cant.stop.laughing

24.02.2026 06:18 πŸ‘ 2855 πŸ” 872 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 19

i'd hit a pentuple axel every time he yells "THERE'S A BOMB IN MY CAAAAARRR"

20.02.2026 05:32 πŸ‘ 533 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 2

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

18.02.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 14707 πŸ” 2448 πŸ’¬ 211 πŸ“Œ 192

The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.

13.02.2026 08:05 πŸ‘ 7003 πŸ” 2374 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 7

I've been trying to finish my horror novel for five years! It's hard to find the time. But it's my story, it's the thing I want to make in the way I want to make it. It's actually mine. Even if it sucks it will have been worth it to make the thing I wanted manifest.

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The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman) Previously inΒ The Last War in Albion:Β Alan Moore wroteΒ Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...

Hugo eligibility post!

β€œThe Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.

31.01.2026 04:58 πŸ‘ 480 πŸ” 169 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 40

From: Jeffrey Epstein [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.co
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 12:02 PM
To: Elon Musk
Subject:
congragulations

From: Jeffrey Epstein [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.co Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 12:02 PM To: Elon Musk Subject: congragulations

congragulations

31.01.2026 03:13 πŸ‘ 7715 πŸ” 1229 πŸ’¬ 113 πŸ“Œ 227

Might as well put astronaut on there too at that point. Also far from the point, but if I'm hiring someone with the CV of an N. K. Jemisin I'd offer a little more dosh

31.01.2026 09:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hell yeah brother, Harrowmaster was a personal fave, keen for GL!

27.01.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
@kareem_carr
Jan 21
reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
Jan 21
a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 β€’ 3:47 PM UTC

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 β€’ 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

22.01.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 25526 πŸ” 6052 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 236
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it's the big day

14.01.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 7489 πŸ” 2058 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 293
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12.01.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 468 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Otherβ„’. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

05.01.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 15575 πŸ” 2062 πŸ’¬ 644 πŸ“Œ 254

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapbβ€”"

You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

27.12.2025 02:15 πŸ‘ 16115 πŸ” 3298 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 42
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Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

22.04.2024 19:43 πŸ‘ 3645 πŸ” 1419 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 43

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

22.12.2025 00:29 πŸ‘ 8630 πŸ” 2747 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 33

If y'all ain't watching this as it comes out you're missing out, a documentary about the pioneers of the telegraph wire and also about Home Improvement. I don't know what more you could want

19.12.2025 00:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I heard there was a secret meat
With paprika, and spicy heat
But you don't really care for sausage
Nduja

...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.

17.12.2025 18:23 πŸ‘ 1266 πŸ” 284 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 16
18.12.2025 17:30 πŸ‘ 3858 πŸ” 1122 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 33
tweet reading: GAME TRAILER: β€œEnter a world beyond belief...”

ME: β€œYes”

GAME TRAILER: β€œAn adventure like never before...”

ME: β€œYES”

GAME TRAILER: β€œJoin your friends online”

ME: β€œI’m out”

tweet reading: GAME TRAILER: β€œEnter a world beyond belief...” ME: β€œYes” GAME TRAILER: β€œAn adventure like never before...” ME: β€œYES” GAME TRAILER: β€œJoin your friends online” ME: β€œI’m out”

i stand by this statement every year

12.12.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 19924 πŸ” 4157 πŸ’¬ 268 πŸ“Œ 197

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep goingβ€”
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last tiβ€”
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

10.12.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 13599 πŸ” 4857 πŸ’¬ 108 πŸ“Œ 228

Jimmy Fallon: so this new product is called a shit sandwich? is it good?
Guest: Yes, Jimmy. It's great.
Jimmy Fallon: [taking out a photo of a shit sandwich pasted onto a black piece of poster board and showing it to the camera] wow. would you take a look at that?

09.12.2025 17:29 πŸ‘ 343 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0