Ben Quick

Instead of saying I produce standup comedy, I’m going to start telling people I work with the mentally ill

@clementtong_ @DJSnM The pilots are dead

@DJSnM Honestly unless they said anything bad I'm not sure why the CVR can't be published - especially if the pilots are alive and consent and there is nothing negative that can come out of it (eg: in my opinion US1549 should be published as long as both pilots are happy?)

NTSB doesn't release cockpit voice recorders from crashes, except in this case they've released an image of a spectrogram. I'm not sure that's a good idea since you can probably reconstruct a lot of audio from the megabytes of data encoded in this image.

@RichardHanania I just tried to figure out which of the 3 passages had the most contempt for its audience.

Can you distinguish my articles from AI? I wrote two op-eds, and had Claude and ChatGPT write their own versions of each. People say that AI writing has obvious signs. But can you actually tell in a blind test? Take my survey and find out here. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

@TheCinesthetic Nicolas Cage in Drive Angry

What’s a sex scene that genuinely mattered to the plot and couldn’t be removed from the film?

@jaynitx Relevant for @DKThomp ‘s latest podcast

Jeff Bezos reveals the moment an early Amazon executive told him he had enough ideas to destroy Amazon: "Early in Amazon's history, Jeff Wilke came to me one day and said, Jeff, you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon. You have enough ideas per minute, per day, per week to destroy Amazon." "I was like, what do you mean?" "He said, you have to release the work at the right rate that the organization can accept it." "Every time I released an idea, I was creating a backlog, a queue, work in process. It was just stacking up, it was adding no value. In fact, it was creating distraction." "So I started prioritizing the ideas better, keeping lists of them, keeping them to myself until the organization was ready for the ideas."

Playing a geo gusset like game and my fiancé thought New Zealand was located in Europe. Do I dump her or put her down

Saw a homeless person with a sign that said “please help if you can” so I told her about Claude Code

Wait so you’re telling me the Department of War has uh… started a War!??!

@oelma__ Magazines

Before cell phones, what did people do on the toilet?

@Noahpinion Exact same way. Though I can hear themes of the music I liked at 14 that style resonate. Moments, sounds and chord progressions that translate across genres. Lots of motifs that I was keying in on but found more directly as I got older

I still love the music I loved at 21, while the music I loved at 14 feels a little stale and played out to me

@p8stie but im feb picses

List of things that are satanic: - Snapchat - delta 8 gummies - parking meters and especially the ParkMobile app - all crypto currency especially solana and especially bitcoin - men that are February Pisces - people whose car is so full of junk that u can’t sit down

@RyanDivish @Dennisthatsit Of the mariners starters Logan is the one I want them to extend most because I love him and Cal’s dynamic

@Dennisthatsit Your bingo card is weir

Logan Gilbert: “He never looked that excited catching my bullpens.”

@MichaelDuncan I wil need to see a pic of him hard before he has my support

We kill the Ayatollah. We kill everyone at the meeting to pick the next Ayatollah. Then when they finally pick a guy we say he can’t get boners lol

@25YearsAgoLive @cNFTfART I love this account

@cNFTfART What movie is this from?

The Department of Defense announces that major renovations to the Pentagon will occur this year. The building will be modernized and all the windows will be reinforced with blast-resistant glass.

@PeteHegseth @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei @POTUS Resign

Thank you for your attention to this matter. cc: @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei

@bendreyfuss This is why I follow you

I’d like to have sex with Candace and then we’d be laying in bed smoking and I’d say “Candace?” And she’d say “yes, Keith?” And I’d say “my name is Ben actually and I just put a Jew baby in your belly” and she’d start crying and begging me to take it out and I’d say no

Say what you will about Candace Owens but when it comes down to it she is pretty

@A_Jude It was never the first inning that was the issue. It was the velocity in the 4th.

Bryce Miller averaged 94.8 mph on his fastball during an injury-marred 2025. Here's where he's at through the first inning of his first spring start:

Indeed the main tragedy of that year

@transriotgrrrrl @BriannaWu @Noahpinion I like Wu and Noah, both are good faith thinkers. But I see your point and perhaps the semantics do matter.

@DoverQuick @BriannaWu @Noahpinion Making it a civil right which is what it is since gender identity is a protected characteristic under the 1964 civil rights act means it’s a stronger case. Medications can be banned and the right will just ban them for everyone. I don’t even particularly like Wu and we agree

Democrats believe that trans rights -- as defined in the 2010s -- are a civil rights movement. And Democrats believe that civil rights movements A) always win in the end, and B) are morally worth supporting even if they aren't currently popular.

@BriannaWu @Noahpinion @transriotgrrrrl This convo feels lost on the semantics of what to call it. Civil rights / public health. More important is that you two are aligned against any move to ban HRT. One could call it public health, but it’s still targeted discrimination. Language doesn’t make it more or less evil.

Noah, they want to ban HRT for transsexual because if they ban HRT, we don’t exist anymore. That makes it a civil right. I don’t mean to be dramatic, but if I could not get HRT I would accelerate the end. A life with my brain not working like it was before is just simply not worth living. You can’t feel anything. It is terrifying to hear you talking like this.

@chriscareymsp Join the resistance and go make plans.

Teen hangouts dropped off a cliff after 2012. Those teens are now adults in their late 20s and 30s wondering why they have no close friends. We keep treating the loneliness epidemic like it came out of nowhere. It didn't. We just weren't paying attention when it started. Chart via @jean_twenge data, h/t @jayvanbavel