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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 22/09/2026

I wanted to find out whether anyone is actually making money from AI* and this came up 👀 *Yes. Nvidia is making money. Nvidia and literally nobody else.

isaiprofitable.com

Is AI Profitable Yet?

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 21/09/2026

"Most of the people The Times spoke to at the pool said they were Israeli settlers. Many said that knowing the water came at the expense of local Palestinian farms was part of the draw." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/w...

nytimes.com

Israeli Tourist Trap ‘Herod’s Pool’ Is Draining Palestinians’ Land Dry (Gift Article)

Israeli lawmakers have promoted visits to an ancient reservoir in the West Bank that was refilled this summer with water diverted from Palestinian-owned farms.

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 19/09/2026

Ran my first sub-20 5k this morning, after lots of hard work and a couple of failed attempts. Apologies to anyone who has to talk to me for the next month, because I'm not going to shut up about it.

Parkrun result screenshot. 56
Ben HORRIGAN,

VM35-39,
8 finishes | Male 54/358,
66.69% age grade,
19:46,
New PB!

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 18/09/2026

Very popular in the family WhatsApp chat right now: this trailer for MobLand in which Pierce Brosnan yells our surname and then suggests people google it if they've not heard of it. youtu.be/VvYl1a1Px5Y?...

youtu.be

MobLand | Season 2 Fire Trailer | Paramount+

YouTube video by Paramount Plus

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 15/09/2026

My new update to this rule is using @pangram.com to confirm whether the text is AI-generated... It's usually obvious, but it's always good to check they're not just a really bad copywriter with really good spelling.

static.klipy.com

Blocked and Reported: Game Over

Alt: Blocked and Reported

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 10/09/2026

"Who gets top billing in the new Brad Pitt film?" "The dog stars?" "No, 'Heart of the Beast'." @empiremagazine.bsky.social

Empire Magazine article about the dog in Heart of the Beast. Highlighted: "Pitt insisted his co-star be #1 on the call sheet.”

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Craig Steele @crgst.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

and Clippy. Welcome back Windows 98

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 15/08/2026

Interesting stuff. So there *are* different levels of urgency but they all look and sound the same to the user. The only one that's different is level 1 because opting out is not possible. Quite horrifying to think about when that might be called for.

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 14/08/2026

I wasn't a fan of this evening's Scarecrows' Wedding 4DX Bedtime Story Experience, to be honest

Page from The Scarecrows' Wedding picture book. It fell to the ground and it started a fire. Betty screamed "Help!" as the flames flickered higher.

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Buzz @thebuzzzz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Coming soon... 🐝

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 24/06/2026

Always nice to see the classic World Cup copywriting clichés come back around. "Show X the red card" "Kick Y into touch" "Give Z a hydration break"

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 17/06/2026

It's been a joy to work with Tameside Council to document this brilliant school street scheme in Mossley. The important messages for these projects are always the ones shared by the children we speak to. Great to see the cross-party political support for these schemes, too!

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Cargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It's why they're likely quietly supportive of the under 16 ban. It's the least disruptive option to their existing business. It doesn't require addressing the algorithmic feeds/amplification/rage baiting that differentiates modern social media (2026 Facebook/Twitter vs 2006 Facebook/MySpace etc).

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Charles Dahl's Dickens Chickens

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 10/06/2026

The solution to this was kind of staring me in the face...why am I still bothering to use Google Search if it's no longer a good product? Giving @ecosiasearch.bsky.social a go. So far I've been able to get a definition for a word without tearing my hair out, so that's promising.

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Wilson Wilson @courier429.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

We need to encourage dudes to buy cargo bikes if they're having a midlife crisis.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Incredible score for the UK here. There is something to work with if anyone feels like harnessing it.

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey ☕️ @bagpuss.org · 21/05/2026

The @b3ta.com image challenge this week is to change one letter in the name of a famous work of art. I spent way too long changing Edward Hopper's Nighthawks into Fighthawks.

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, changed into Fighthawks. The man who would normally be sat on the outside of the bar is lying on the ground outside, surrounded by glass shards, his stool lying a few metres away. The corner window is broken. The woman in red is staring at him from within the diner. The man who accompanies her is sat looking at her. The owner of the diner is hiding behind the bar.

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 19/05/2026

It's so good!!! It seems that nobody I know is watching it, and I don't get why. It's easily up there with the best British sketch shows, even though most of them are only 6x30 mins per series...

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 18/05/2026

Good luck scanning that QR code from 100 metres away...

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 17/05/2026

I'm glad we didn't stay up for the annual tradition of regretting staying up for the voting. #Eurovision

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 16/05/2026

Finland is actually my favourite so far. I've found most of this entries a bit meh. #Eurovision

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 16/05/2026

Why is it called Eurovision Asia when Eurovasian was right there? #Eurovision

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 15/05/2026

Interesting look at the history of cycle paths in the UK - and the history of arguments about cycle paths!

youtu.be

Why is this pavement made of concrete?

YouTube video by Chris Spargo

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 14/05/2026

It's a Bike Tetris kind of day 🧱 #quaxing

My Babboe Big-E cargo trike, with a wooden box at the front filled to the brim with filming kit

Filming kit laid out on the office floor. Enough to fill the boot of an SUV.

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Car Lite San Mateo @carlitesanmateo.com · 12/05/2026

Love this tire branding. Apologies for not getting a better angle 🤣

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 07/05/2026

It's so devastating that years from now, schoolkids will learn about the climate crisis and how Donald freaking Trump saved us all from it.

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 04/05/2026

Actual madness right here. Hopefully this is stating the obvious here, but Reform are pretty much the worst people you can imagine giving power to.

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 03/05/2026

Best shows on TV for decentring cars? I'll start - the new Balamory does a great job of showing that you don't need cars to get around. Instead, the characters walk, wheel or (in Ava Potts and PC Plum's case) use their fabulous bikes.

Ava Potts from Balamory wearing a bright pink outfit, pushing a pink cargo trike with a back basket uphill along the street.

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 02/05/2026

At the local May Day fair. Doggy Simon Says sounds.....dark 😰

DOGGY COMPETITION
SCHEDULE
1.30pm Best Doggy Fancy Dress
1.35pm Best Golden Oldie (Dogs over 10 years old)
1.40pm Doggy with the Waggiest
Tail
1.45pm Best Decorated Lead
(May Day Themed)
1.50pm Best Doggy Trick
1.55pm Doggy Simon Says (Doggies start in a circle walking round on their lead with their owners and when Simon says sit or lie down the last doggy to comply is eliminated)

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 30/04/2026

This is what it means to be English

Weather forecast for the next six days. Rainy for the entire bank holiday weekend, sunny either side.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 28/04/2026

What's stopping YOU from hitting these kinds of numbers? It's all about SHOWING UP and HUSTLING and CASHING IN on the deaths of thousands while taking advantage of an over-reliance on fossil fuels that is sending us all headlong into mass extinction.

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 28/04/2026

Congrats to BP for making $3 billion profit last quarter! Love to see the underdog pulling through like that. 🥹

BP profits hit 3-year high as Iran war delivers windfall.
Oil major’s quarterly profit beats analysts’ expectations on back of ‘exceptional’ trading performance.

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 27/04/2026

POV: Your heart is in the Netherlands but your address is in Stockport @walkridestocky.bsky.social

View from the saddle of my cargo bike, with a large wooden box at the front with child benches and other bits and bobs. I'm riding across a grassy field that doesn't have a path to my street, even though it does have a path from a cycleway to the other street that backs onto the field. It's a long story.

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 26/04/2026

We love a milkshake machine/miniature railway combo. Norbury Cow Shed/Brookside Garden Centre. Both well served by decent bike routes if you're around Cheadle/Bramhall/Hazel Grove/Poynton. @walkridestocky.bsky.social

My boys having cake and milkshake at a picnic bench in front of a shed with vending machines in it. Babs the cargo bike is parked at one side.

Selfie of me and the boys on a miniature railway

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 23/04/2026

Who among us hasn't played a fun game of Snog, Taser, Deport with friends

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 23/04/2026

Such a joy to see inaccessible barriers being removed from walking/wheeling/cycling routes in Stockport. This cut-through is a key part of our commute/school run. Thanks @stockportcouncil.bsky.social and the brilliant campaigners of @walkridestocky.bsky.social 🎉

Before: Screenshot from Google Street View showing a set of three guardrails forming a tight chicane across a path between two houses. Our cargo trike would just about fit, but only with a dismount and lots of manoeuvring. I.e. not remotely accessible, and a pinch point during the school run as young people tend to congregate waiting for their friends.

Now: photo of the same cut-through with the chicane removed and just one railing panel remaining at the edge of the road.

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 20/04/2026

Sometimes copywriters come up with things that make sense on first read but are actually nonsense. How exactly do you "delight" somebody to a tea room?

Back of a bag of Betty's coffee. "Since 1919, we've been delighting visitors to our Café Tea Rooms in Yorkshire..."

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 19/04/2026

Update: it went great! My knees no longer work but it went great!

2026-04-19
Ben Horrigan
Finished Marathon @ adidas Manchester Marathon 2026

Total time
03:32:32
Overall
position
5299
M35
852
Men
4788

Me at the end of the race with my boys either side, looking very happy that they were finished waiting around for me.

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 16/04/2026

I'm running my first ever marathon on Sunday. I've not been as consistent as I would have liked with the training (young families and four-hour trail runs don't tend to go too well together) but I still feel fairly fit. Any tips for last-minute prep and for the day itself?

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Ben Horrigan @ben.s91.media · 15/04/2026

The latest annoying AI trend: businesses sending automated replies to all their Google reviews, ever

Five star Google review from me, two years ago: Lovely room and breakfast. Friendly and helpful staff. Much better value for money than staying in Edinburgh itself.

Reply today: Thank you so much for your wonderful review, Ben Horrigan! We're absolutely delighted to hear you had a great experience with us. Your kind words mean a great deal to our whole team, and we truly hope to welcome you back again soon.

— Leonardo Hotel Edinburgh Murrayfield

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