Ben

@beeeencox

Sacramento, CA via TX and NC. UAW 4811. No one gets there alone.

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Ben@beeeencox· Jul 1

Niels Bohr at an anthropology conference in 1938, after the Anschluss but before Hitler took the Sudetenland.

...we may truly say that different human cultures are complementary to each other. Indeed, each such culture represents a harmonious balance of traditional conventions by means of which latent potentialities of human life can unfold themselves in a way which reveals to us new aspects of its unlimited richness and variety..."

...It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies, to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.

Ben@beeeencox· Jun 20

Pretty disappointing we never got a Futurama gag based on this true story of Fermi and co. needing to get the football team to move around big blocks of uranium and graphite for them.

From Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb:
Our little group, which by that time included Bernard Feld, George Weil, and Walter Zinn, looked at the heavy task before us with little enthusiasm. It would be exhausting work." Then Pegram to the rescue in Fermi's telling: "We were reasonably strong, but I mean we were, after all, thinkers. So Dean Pegram again looked around and said that seems to be a job a little bit beyond your feeble strength, but there is a football squad at Columbia that contains a

dozen or so very husky boys who take jobs by the hour just to carry them through college. Why don't you hire them?
And it was a marvelous idea; it was really a pleasure for once to direct the work of these husky boys, canning uranium--just shoving it in--handling packs of 50 or 100 pounds with the same ease as another person would have handled three or four pounds."

"Fermi tried to do his share of the work," Anderson adds; "he donned a lab coat and pitched in to do his stint with the football men, but it was clear he was out of his class. The rest of us found a lot to keep us busy with measurements and calibrations that suddenly seemed to require exceptional care and precision."

Ben@beeeencox· Jun 18

any two people on bluesky talking about the post office

From Jane Austen's Emma:
“The post-office is a wonderful establishment!” said she.—“The regularity and despatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!”

“It is certainly very well regulated.”

“So seldom that any negligence or blunder appears! So seldom that a letter, among the thousands that are constantly passing about the kingdom, is even carried wrong—and not one in a million, I suppose, actually lost! And when one considers the variety of hands, and of bad hands too, that are to be deciphered, it increases the wonder.”

“The clerks grow expert from habit.—They must begin with some quickness of sight and hand, and exercise improves them. If you want any farther explanation,” continued he, smiling, “they are paid for it. That is the key to a great deal of capacity. The public pays and must be served well.”

Ben@beeeencox· Jun 6

The agendas of old scientific and intellectual society meetings were all like 1. check out this cool snake 2. I discovered the nucleus

"The first item on the agenda was a Manchester fruit importer's report that he had found a rare snake in a consignment of Jamaica bananas. He exhibited the snake. Then it was Rutherford's turn. Only an abstract of the announcement survives, but Chadwick remembers how it felt to hear it: it was "a most shattering performance to us, young boys that we were...We realized this was obviously the truth, this was it."
Rutherford had found the nucleus of his atom. He did not yet have an arrangement for its electrons.

text from Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Ben@beeeencox· Jun 4

tweet from @mjohnnes_23 (not actually Marine Johannes): "don’t care abt the mwnba but i like wemby and the little one who looks like if a dumpling came to life"

Ben@beeeencox· Jun 2

Grainy black and white video still of Vladimir Nabokov (bald man in glasses) reclining in a chair and making an exaggerated frowny face.

Ben@beeeencox· May 31

Spurs coach Mitch Johnson in the aisle of a plane wearing a Seattle Seahawks hat and a t shirt with a picture of Jimi Hendrix wearing a Sonics jersey. Picture taken right after the Super Bowl this year.

Ben@beeeencox· May 12

Being invited to remember some guys with my dad.

Text from my dad: Is Mobley for Cleveland related to cuttino Mobley of rockets.

Ben@beeeencox· Apr 23

earlier I saw the ultimate NYT covering Trump headline: will Trump do something or just kick the can down the road? I wonder which he'll choose!

Trump Faces May 1 Deadline on How He Can Continue the War

After that date, President Trump would have three choices: seek congressional authorization, wind down operations or give himself an extension.

Ben@beeeencox· Mar 26

young hot ecoterrorist lol

a young Titus Welliver in the X-Files--dark-haired, with thick eyebrows, bushy mustache, and dirty face, as the character in the episode has been in the woods for an extended period--leaning against the outside wall of a cabin

Ben@beeeencox· Mar 23

Dana Scully glasses meme--left side, four vertical panels showing closeups of a redheaded woman with increasingly bright glare on her glasses. On the right side, a list of X-Files guest stars: Titus Welliver, Tony Shalhoub, Tony Todd, Brad Dourif.

Ben@beeeencox· Mar 22

Parking garage nachos

some nachos (tortilla chips and liquid cheese product in a paperboard container) on the pavement next to the wall of a parking garage on UC Davis campus

Ben@beeeencox· Feb 22

I have a job interview at UNLV coming up, which is proof that I may leave Sacramento, but I'll never escape the shadow of the Maloofs

screenshot from the alumni section of the UNLV wikipedia page:

Other notable alumni include:

Francis J. Beckwith (b. 1960), Christian philosopher[148]
Justin Favela (b. 1986), mixed-media artist
George J. Maloof, Jr. (b. 1964), president of Maloof Hotels and former owner of the Sacramento Kings[149]
Danny Tarkanian (b. 1961), attorney, businessman, perennial candidate and son of former basketball head coach Jerry Tarkanian

Ben@beeeencox· Feb 22

It's pretty interesting that he never talked politics in interviews or anything (to my knowledge) and only addressed them kinda obliquely in his lyrics, but like, this is definitely the guy who wrote "Ben Gurion."

two pieces by Rick Froberg from the book "Plenty for All." Both use green, black, and red on a white background. The piece on the left is mostly curved lines, the one on the right has more figures, most of which are abstract but the one in the center clearly looks like a watermelon.

Ben@beeeencox· Feb 12

please join my campaign to make this the new national anthem

third verse of the Mountain Goats' "Color In Your Cheeks":
They came in by the dozens, walking or crawling
Some were bright-eyed, some were dead on their feet
And they came from Zimbabwe, or from Soviet Georgia
East Saint Louis, or from Paris, or they lived across the street
But they came, and when they finally made it here
It was the least that we could do to make our welcome clear

Ben@beeeencox· Feb 6

dog Eugene Tooms

A borzoi (big white furry dog) standing on its hind legs behind a chain link fence, only its torso has been photoshopped to be extra long. a much more normal-looking black dog is on all fours next to it.

Ben@beeeencox· Feb 1

congrats @damonagnos.bsky.social on your new gig as an NYT Opinion headline writer

Ben@beeeencox· Dec 31

Favorites 2025. A nice thing that happened was participating in a bunch of fun record dork communities (shoutout @see-saw.fun). Fuck Spotify and fuck ICE. Here’s to building a better world in 2026.

LPs
Kilynn Lunsford - Promiscuous Genes
Tubs - Cotton Crown
Los Pirañas - Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida
Home Front - Watch it Die
Emergency Group - Bag of Waters
Dwarfs of East Agouza - Sasquatch Landslide
King Blood - Eve I Aye Ivy
Dark Thoughts - Highway to the End
Motherfuckers JMB & Co. - Music Excitement Action Beauty
SML - How You Been
Blagojche Tomevski, Filip Bukrshliev, Dorjan Jovanovikj,
Dragan Teodosiev - Sveti Nikole Session Vol. 2
Orcutt Shelley Miller - Orcutt Shelley Miller
Makin’ Out - Living in a Glass House
Knowso - Hypnotic Smack
Cartoon - Theatre of the Absoid
Ville Lähteenmäki Trio - Second Sight
Mujeres Podridas - Sangre y Sol
France - Destino Scifosi
Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise
Melvin Gibbs - Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2

Singles/EPs
Smarthearts - Not Forgotten
Gnome - I Like It
The Number Ones - Sorry b/w Blind Spot
Useless Eaters - Ego Shell b/w Rub
Abi Ooze - Live at Lemp
Gripper - Demo 2025
No Peeling - No Peeling
Heather the Jerk - Very Motorcycle
Penza Penza - Volcano Song b/w Kaboom
TAKAAT - Is Noise, Vol. 2

Reissues/Archival
Various Artists - Digging Central Asia: Musical Archaeology
Along the Silk Road (compiled by Anvar Kalandarov)
Group Inerane - Marhajan Bianou
Grass - Grass
The Spells - The Night Has Eyes
Mohinder Kaur Bhamra - Punjabi Disco
Various Artists - Aïssaoua: Sufi Trance from Morocco
Jessica Williams - Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project
1985-1987
Aksak Maboul - Before Aksak Maboul (documents and
experiments 1969-1977)
Don Cherry, Latif Khan - Music/Sangam
Atef Swaitat and Abu Ali - Palestinian Bedouin Psychedelic
Dabka Archive

Live Performances
3/24 Gray Area, SF - Michael Rother
6/26 Knockout, SF - Zorn, Brüja, Night Hammer
7/26 St Paul’s Episcopal Church, Sacramento - San
Kazakgascar, Chiradip Sarkar and Abhishek Basu
8/28 Great American Music Hall, SF - Los Gaiteros de San
Jacinto, Romperayo, El Pecado de Juana
9/6 Stork Club, Oakland - Orcutt Shelley Miller, Famous
Mammals
9/19 Ace of Spades, Sacramento - Hives, Snooper
10/11 Rickshaw, SF - Tubs, Foyer Red, Softie
11/14 Pretty Gritty, SF - Caroliner
11/20 Starlet, Sacramento - Home Front, Slugger
12/19 Teragram, LA - Osees, Brigid Dawson and the
Mothers Network, DJ Tom Scharpling, MC Dynasty Handbag

Ben@beeeencox· Nov 3

this is the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me @whatatimepod.bsky.social

email from What a Time To Be Alive Patreon: SURPRISE Hellraiser Movie Commentary!

Ben@beeeencox· Oct 17

Trump's talking about his own death like Clyde Bruckman in that scene where the network wouldn't let the X-Files writers use the word "maggots" www.youtube.com/watch?v=975z...

"I'm not concerned with where I am or how I got there. I'm at peace and it's then that I realize I'm dead. My body begins to turn a greenish-white with spots of purple. Next, the insects arrive. The inevitable follows, putridity and liquescence. Before I know it, I'm nothing but bones."

Ben@beeeencox· Oct 11

@damonagnos.bsky.social really need you to see one of the greatest caption errors ever in this Dancing Queen timeout segment during the Spurs preseason game