Ben Oberkfell

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Ben Oberkfell@ben· 3d

RIP

The post author standing next to a mural of Anthony Bourdain

Ben Oberkfell@ben· 3d

City of Vancouver nails baby traffic cones to tree stumps so you don’t trip

A tiny orange traffic cone, tacked to a stump of a former street tree

Ben Oberkfell@ben· 5d

Headline: “OpenAI launches smart speaker shaped like a hemorrhoid pillow.”

an inflatable donut shaped cushion for people with hemorrhoids

Ben Oberkfell@ben· 5d

spotted at the airport; they’ve been hiding it in plain sight all along.

Ben Oberkfell@ben· 7d

The lack of oxford comma implies you can rent a room in a dispensary on Airbnb

Headline:

Webster Groves officials charged the city for strip clubs, pot store and Airbnb, audit says

Ben Oberkfell@ben· 11d

Periodic reminder that this labeler brilliantly highlights for you the accounts that are either clearly bots or whose owners desperately need to log off every now and then bsky.app/profile/stec...

Ben Oberkfell@ben· 12d

Love how Google Calendar doesn't know to automatically remove a former employee from a standing meeting, but then if I move the meeting, Gmail knows they don't exist and yells at me quintuple-fold

Ben Oberkfell@ben· 12d

This is absolutely amazing! When I was on the Games team we made these NES boxes to commemorate a product launch, I hope there's a real playable 8 bit version now 😀

A mock Nintendo NES game box but for the New York Times Crossword, which was a NYT-only internal swag that commemorated a release of the Crossword mobile app

Ben Oberkfell@ben· 13d

Must be a slow business day at Taco Bell

Ben Oberkfell@ben· 13d

The world desparately needs an Android phone that looks like this, to match the vibe

A 90s see thru fluorescent pink, green, blue, and yellow Conair landline phone

Ben Oberkfell@ben· 16d

From the makers of this informative series of magazines

a collection of "PREPPER" magazines that ask "ARE YOU READY?"

Ben Oberkfell@ben· 21d

I have ascended

a fellow espresso series 1 machine, with sports car shiny red color accent

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Jul 3

Is it downloading all of GPT-5.5 here? I can’t do anything *at all* at zombocom because I don’t have all day

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Jun 26

whenever I see Claude say "Cogitating" all I can think of is this '80s banger

The "Mathnet" title card from the TV show Square One. It's a spoof of the LA city seal like Dragnet, except it says "to cogitate and to solve" instead of "to protect and serve"

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Jun 21

I was there too, did not expect I’d be taking my kids to watch an absolute artist at work

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Jun 4

The Backrooms (2026)

Ben Oberkfell@ben· May 21

I typed 148 words and I had an app! * we regret to inform you the app sucks and can’t be fixed

Then, I tried actually using my three apps: a calorie counter and two games. They were kind of bad. And just when I started to enjoy iterating on them, trying to make them better, AI Studio informed me I’d reached my daily limit. I’d have to pay or wait for more.

Ben Oberkfell@ben· May 21

Ben Oberkfell@ben· May 18

didja have to?

A close-up photograph of a yellow bumper sticker on the back of a black car, positioned just below a Missouri license plate.

The bumper sticker features text in a mix of purple, red, and black fonts that reads:
"KEEP HONKING! I'm Sitting In My Car Crying To the cranberries 1993 Hit Single, “LINGER”!"

Ben Oberkfell@ben· May 8

“Make a designer cringe so hard they collapse into their own gravity” challenge

An eye-level shot of a restaurant wall covered in a cluttered, chaotic collage of eco-conscious slogans, showcasing a "design horror" of clashing typography. The wall is a dull yellow, plastered with phrases like "Raw Organic Is The New Sexy" and "Crushed Red Is the New Green" in a dizzying array of mismatched fonts.
The typographic nightmare includes:
• A heavy, weathered stencil font for "Adopt The Pace Of Nature."
• A clean, all-caps sans-serif for "SAVING THE PLANET ONE KITCHEN AT A TIME."
• A thin, curly, informal script for "re-energizing food."
• A quirky, uneven "hand-drawn" font for "sauced & dressed."
• A typewriter-style slab serif for "Raw Organic Is The New Sexy."
The phrases are separated by random vertical bars and chopped off mid-sentence at the edges, creating a visual "word salad" that lacks any consistent alignment, hierarchy, or aesthetic harmony. In the foreground, three industrial beverage dispensers partially obscure the bottom of the wall, adding to the cramped and disorganized feel of the space.

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Apr 18

Tired: SEV0 Wired: Hot Thick SEV

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Apr 16

This labeler is so good at highlighting bad takes from people who need to touch grass @stechlab-labels.bsky.social

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Apr 6

I beg to differ, I most definitely did HACKY things when building this game

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Apr 5

This lives rent free in my head

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Mar 28

The shrink wrap locks in the train’s freshness and delicious taste

A Caltrain locomotive covered in white shrink wrap

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Mar 17

Fist my bump, let’s do this

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Mar 15

Is there anywhere good in the US to buy this stuff? I got this in Japan and I am hooked. I hate the gooey texture of sunscreen cream, and aerosol spray sunscreen is nasty. This is magical

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Mar 11

TIL Prodigy Reloaded is a thing, as someone's managed to crowdsource old caches from a 35 year old app and reverse engineer a replacement backend www.prodigyreloaded.com

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Mar 6

Never gets old

Ben Oberkfell@ben· Mar 5

My annual perf review is tomorrow, hoping they won't offer me the lunch menu because there will be too many atonements and approbations