The Great Benzino

My new book, “Gloryland,” is available now in ebook and paperback (order from me only). Paperbacks will be available online in December. DM for orders. Find the ebook and check the sample with the link. tinyurl.com/7wf67h73

@JoeGarzaCreates @s8n I want to be a space crusader.

@s8n We were born in the worst of times @El__Ben

Wait is this the Fang Fang guy? The guy who attacked me from the clouds like 2 months ago? @RepSwalwell Well that was a quick demise 😭 I didn’t even have time to put his name on a champagne bottle before his life fell apart. At best he is a serial drunk scumbag cheater who has now been caught cheating with a Chinese spy he and with multiple of his staffers. What a guy! At worst he belongs in prison for life if the allegations are true.

My HOA is two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon

Museums should stay open until midnight. I don't want to go to a club. I want to look at art.

@dyingempires @byzantinemporia Done.

If you're at all interested in ancient and medieval maritime history, you should be following this account. Regularly posts high-quality content, should have way more than 50 followers.

I really find the mosaics in the mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna to be quite mesmerizing. Helps me imagine how amazing the mosaics in Constantinople must have been!

@CAgovernor #RatioWatch

California is again leading the charge against large-scale identity theft and hospice fraud. Today, we're taking decisive action against 14 providers who tried using stolen identities to bill Medi-Cal for nonexistent hospice services.

@AP The use of “Byzantine” as a pejorative is violence and this aggression will not stand. #JusticeforByzantium

@shadihamid #RatioWatch

Most American Muslims aren't immigrants. They're born and raised here. And they're not that different from the Republican base when it comes to questions of homosexuality, gender, and family. We don't ask Republicans to "assimilate" into American liberal culture. 1/

@Andr3jH @DouthatNYT I can take it.

BREAKING: GRRM claims The Winds of Winter is "too powerful" to be released to the public, will restrict preview access to ~40 r/asoiaf mods.

This week's episode of "Interesting Times" is a conversation with Ben Sasse, who is dying in public: nytimes.com/2026/04/09/opi…

Your parents stopped buying things for themselves years ago. Not because they couldn't afford it. But because every time they had extra money, they thought of you first. They wear the same clothes. Use the same phone. Eat simpler meals. While making sure you never felt like you went without. Most of us noticed too late. Some of us never noticed at all.

My life is a constant struggle between my (attempted) strict anti-inflammation diet and the cold pahst that inevitably ends up in my New Jersey refrigerator.

Best summary of America I have seen

Leo III should be venerated the same way Charles Martel is venerated.

@MemoryMedieval TIL “Louis” is a variant of “Clovis”.

Riddle me this: Where'd the Franks go?

@PalmyrPar @kuchisakeonnax In the Byzantine Empire women were expected to mourn for one year after the deaths of their husbands. This is valid.

Her husband killed himself like a year ago btw

it’s hole filling season

Did they just leave the Canadian astronaut in space?

@vtnsvrgrbtc 🤡

Make Selanik Turkish Again...