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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 5h

The far right is falling apart 😍

French Far-Right
Leader Marine Le Pen
Threatens to Cut
Support for Ukraine if Elected

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Would it surprise you to hear Terminator is now a millionaire property developer 😂 it's true!

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Was one of the biggest networks as well 😢

Map of Leeds corporation tramways at fullest extent

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Was in Heptonstall for the night (lost my copy of Crow when I moved house)

Crow by Ted Hughes; Journeys of the Soul: vernacular funeral routes in upper Calderdale by John Billingsley; Magical Dispositions: a history of magical thinking in Calderdale by John Billingsley

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This fortune coookie is the last straw

Says "You've cracked the cookie, now crack the £100,000.
Scan for your chance to win!"

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seen a couple of small challengers to 10 Foot this morning

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It won't be the first, but my dad got into loads of trouble for giving me this to read, there's a story called The Strangling Oak that set me right off

The Midnight Hearse by
ELLIOTT O'DONNELL

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh here's the justification, sounds like bollocks to me!

Take that Kaddish prayer I'll be saying. It refers to "Israel" three times. The Jews were called Am Yisrael, the people of Israel, centuries before we were called Jews. What's more, when I say the prayer, I will, following tradition, be facing east - towards Jerusalem. The prayer book in my hand will be full of references to Jerusalem and indeed to Zion, expressing in a hundred poetic ways a yearning to return. This is not some new, political thing. It's what Jews have been saying and doing for millennia. Many, many centuries before Zionism was a political movement, it was a longing - the need to end a painful exile from the Land of Israel
- enshrined in the very heart of Judaism.

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good afternoon from the awkwardly-placed Mick Jagger and Keith Richards statues

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is Dialryckz. This kind of music makes me want to tear up everything I'm trying to do and start again. It's generations younger than me though and I think I'm best off just listening

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Traditional prison release bit

Guardian:
'Thank you Andy Burnham': prisoners react as they begin to leave under early release scheme

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah yes the legendary 80s boom which lasted from 1987 to 1991 when there was another recession

Twitter:
Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke
Follow
§ ...
Andy Burnham seems to remember a different 1970s to the rest of us. Britain in 1979 was utterly broken - ravaged by unaccountable trade union power, economically stagnant, the sick man of Europe.
The 1980s saw a remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise, the rule of law and championing Western values. And it is this that our Prime Minister rails against...

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

is it going to recommend me the Aphex Twin

zephyrhq 5h
@threads
BREAKING: Claude has a feature called Vinyl Mode.
It helps you build a record collection you love, like a record shop owner who's happy to tell you everything they know.
Here are 6 prompts to start digging:

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I touched your sandwiches so they're mine now"

Guardian screenshot:
Israel
Israel-bound passenger plane makes emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after reported fight between pilots
Israeli officials scrambled fighter jets amid fears of possible hijacking before plane landed at Tabuk airport

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like watching Jeff Mills on his 909

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Great book! One of the East End Jewish classics. @othersfield.bsky.social bought me my copy, forever grateful

Cover of A Kid For Two Farthings by Wolf Mankowitz

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In the Dartford back rooms cafe

Vast bland open space with tables and a handful of customers (it's Sunflower Cafe in the Priory Centre)

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I found this particularly funny/depressing

The musician said he was inundated with autograph requests while inside and some of the seasoned inmates saw the conga renditions as potential auditions because they secretly pined for careers in the entertainment industry.

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Remembering when a friend and I went to a museum hungover and went to sleep in the corner of a replica Iron Age roundhouse, it was so nice and dark

Pic of Iron Age roundhouses in the British museum

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#np I can't get enough of this album it is so beautiful

Roedelius Selbstportrait Vol. III
Reise durch Arcadien

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Amazing stuff from Leeds - the Yorkshire cities are where sound system culture fused with house music, things would have gone a very different direction if this had become the blueprint (Matt Anniss's Join the Future very good on the racial politics of what happened to rave)

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Burnham putting clear water between himself and Stalin there with what you can achieve with a ten year plan

We Own It @We_OwnIt•1m
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BREAKING
Andy Burnham has just
announced that he will put forward plans for taking our water into public control in his 10-year plan later this year
Let us be clear, public control is not public ownership. We already have public control of water now - it's called regulation. The solution to the crisis we face in our water system is public ownership.
Thames Water households cannot wait for the government's 10-year plan. Thames Water is insolvent now. Andy Burnham must take Thames Water

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Off work with the mental health atm but had a lovely walk and meal in London and it was a good day!

Lillian and I in a restaurant overlooking the canal

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The prototype of the "Khrushchevka" housing blocks being built in Novye Cheremushki in Moscow in 1959. These blocks went on to house tens of millions of people across the Soviet Union (from Google image search)

Sepia photo of a building site with a part-built prefabricated housing block

Black and white photo of largely completed prefabricated housing blocks and cranes

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Lillian is back from Canada 🎉

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Interesting new local wedge issue. I don't live far from the bridge and we have some of the worst air quality in the country

Dartford Green Party poster:
PUTTING DARTFORD FIRST
Community. Conversation. Transformation.
IN 2024-25 THE CROSSING MADE £78 MILLION
BUT DARTFORD GOT NOTHING
EXCEPT POLLUTION & HIGHER PRICES
THAT MONEY BELONGS TO YOU
Green Party
Promoted by Mark Lindop, c/o The Green Party of England and Wales, PO Box Green Party, London, SEP

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