Reposted by Ben wAndCouldHePlay7 @andcouldheplay7.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“We can speak about what this means for the game going forward, but we can also admire what they’re doing on the pitch”, says Carragher like they aren’t fucking linked. They’re only doing what they’re doing on the pitch because they cheated. The players aren’t there because they love LS Lowry. 77816
Reposted by Ben wLegal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1 651258686
Reposted by Ben wJohn Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 19/07/2026When mum came back from the rave with her new pals 26701143
Reposted by Ben wZoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The thing about JKR and telling folks not to buy Harry Potter shit is it isn't because we think it can take away her fortune and platform. She's so rich she would still be rich if she never sold another book It is because it is literally the smallest possible hurdle to clear to value trans lives 4257581899
Reposted by Ben wMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/06/2026It seems that several commentators have set themselves a challenge: to write a thread or article expressing disbelief as to why Starmer was so loathed without mentioning his stances on AI, Black Lives Matter, Gaza, trans rights, and then dismiss that loathing as the hysteria of out-of-touch elites. 18656162
Reposted by Ben wJames Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Wrote about the elections for the paper (which went to press last night): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... 18337161
Reposted by Ben wTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 26/04/2026And we just waited around all day thinking millions of people would die horribly because he was bored with his pointless war 112927
Reposted by Ben wMel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026To sit and dine with this man and his cronies, drink his wine, toast his health, while his gov't and the businesses that support this government ruin the lives, bodies, and careers of hard working journalists across this country is just unconscionable Blegh, gross. Take your hankies and shove it 31039142
Reposted by Ben wRutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1 336100435078
Reposted by Ben wmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 05/06/2025no matter what, if Musk is involved, it's gonna explode 325128
Reposted by Ben wJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/06/2025"I was this pedophile's biggest supporter until he was personally mean to me" seems like a bit of an own goal. 525052839
Reposted by Ben wKaty Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 152126435251
Reposted by Ben wJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Ashamed to be a citizen of a country that arrests people for ‘dissent and protest’. Recalling that the slogan ‘Speaking Truth to Power’ originated with the Quakers. 16490173
Reposted by Ben wNome @nome.bsky.social · 12/03/2025So that means that any attempt to neuter a hippo is: A) Exploratory Surgery B) Done under "best guess" conditions C) Where the drugs are *going* to wear off D) On an animal that weighs more than a Ford F150 E) All of which is muscle F) On testicles that are hiding from you G) And it is mad about itmedia.tenor.coma large hippopotamus is standing in the water with its mouth openAlt: a large hippopotamus is standing in the water with its mouth open 202044246
Reposted by Ben wPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/02/2025“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion” From the new Private Eye, out now. 138140583082
Reposted by Ben wLunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Leon is upset people are calling Teslas Swasticars Hundreds were tagged with this sticker in London 623166104343
Reposted by Ben wPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/01/2025Those doomsday clock guys need to either do it or pipe down 412168140
Reposted by Ben wMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/01/2025Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit) 21133827610285
Reposted by Ben wEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Searching #liberal or #democrat on Instagram now returns "We've hidden these results", #Republican has no such problem. Seems bad. 2071956738
Reposted by Ben wSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/01/2025a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever 202100292087
Reposted by Ben wJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/01/2025I hate every single possible thing about this, and I'm heartbroken about all of it. www.vulture.com/article/neil...vulture.comThere Is No Safe WordHow the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades. 3095096749
Reposted by Ben wIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Today is an object lesson in the radicalisation of the British right-wing press. Britain is being disparaged and insulted by a foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. But the Mail, the Express, the Telegraph and even the Times choose focus their criticisism on the British prime minister instead. 17851001514
Reposted by Ben wMoudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024When a woman named Datâ wrote the equivalent of “per my last email” to her brother in the 8th century BCE, she was actually trying to tell him about someone’s death. “The lady Gagâ has died and your brother is troubled” oracc.museum.upenn.edu//saao/saa19/... 616841
Reposted by Ben wdaveockop.bsky.social @daveockop.bsky.social · 27/11/2024The gif we've all been waiting for. 642699451
Reposted by Ben wOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Important context here: ● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares) ● "a big farm" is 217 acres. Now let's see who's angry: ● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres ● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres ● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres ● Dyson owns 36,000 acres 21265912903
Reposted by Ben wSean O’Connor @seanoconnz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024If Bluesky is the new social media app of record, I thought we should move the Jesse Eisenberg story over here. 132305342
Reposted by Ben wHeather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I’m starting to understand what it must have been like when Caligula made his horse a senator. 513252891
Reposted by Ben wDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 11/11/2024📣 🏺 A Palaeolithic #Archaeology & Human Origins people starter pack! Nearly 80 people here, if you work in these fields and want to be added, let me know (I'm keeping the list to trained/ qualified professional/academic/researchers etc at the moment) go.bsky.app/6hXVX57 7122396
Reposted by Ben wsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2024This is one that I genuinely think will be printed in history books one day to show how insane American media culture became. CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives. 10960562196