Reposted by Ben JonesDr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 28/09/2026I remember the day after Brexit. I watched British-born women, doctors and nurses in hijabs being told “we voted for you to go home”. They were home. So spare me the fucking revisionism about what that moment unleashed. 🧵 512026
Reposted by Ben JonesKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5876512129
Reposted by Ben JonesTariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The club is effectively a proxy for United Arab Emirates, an ally of the United Kingdom, which has been found guilty (pending an appeal) of corrupting Britain’s biggest cultural force for so many years. Friends like these 😵💫 110315
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Imagine talking to Trump about Thucydides. You’d have better chance playing tennis with a goldfish. 022
Reposted by Ben JonesAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026don't have to give orson scott card credit for much but "the rise of the internet will eventually give political power to people purely on the basis of them being good at posting, and it will _suck_" was a pretty good call 3629
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Without reading, it’s really hard to know if this is a feature or a threat 000
Reposted by Ben JonesMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 485297767666
Reposted by Ben Jonesryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/09/2026the tide is turning folks. it’s a month late and a trillion dollars short, but it’s turning. even Trump can’t stop it 181057202
Reposted by Ben JonesMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The history books are going to be filled with incredulous accounts of how stupid people elected the stupidest person to lead a superpower. 1030944
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Amazing, the same people for whom wind turbines are unsightly blots on the landscape: let's build desalination plants 010
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I plan Titan factories powered by raccoons. Make me a trillionaire 000
Reposted by Ben JonesCasmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026LinkedIn is having blazing rows about the 7 lessons that thought leaders can take from Odysseus's logistical decisions. 2253337
Reposted by Ben JonesMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026mildly funny that X is having blazing rows about Nolan’s Odyssey because he cast black people in it and Bluesky is having blazing rows about whether a noted Homeric translator’s LRB review of it misses the point or not 292642432
Reposted by Ben JonesKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/07/2026on the bright side, it's kind of awesome that so many people are talking about THE ODYSSEY, the translation the movie is based on, the translator's own thoughts in the LRB, and what a big, ambitious film can mean in a market oversaturated with movies about superheroes and nostalgia for old titles 19833122
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Is this the film that launched a thousand "well, actually"'s and burnt the topless towers of the LRB 000
Reposted by Ben JonesBjörn Jóhann @bjornjohann.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Want to stop wasting water? Great! Switching from animal-based to plant-based foods once a day is more valuable than boycotting AI for a year. 1020632
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026No shit why would that be — “Iran’s New Leader Is More Open to Pursuing a Nuclear Weapon, U.S. Intelligence Says” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...nytimes.comIran’s New Leader Is More Open to Pursuing a Nuclear Weapon, U.S. Intelligence SaysThe previous supreme leader, who was killed early in the war, had renounced nuclear weapons. U.S. spy agencies believe his son is more interested in building a bomb. 000
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Saw Keegan in the first game I ever saw live (Wednesday against Newcastle, along with a youthful Beardsley & Waddle). Near the end of his playing career, but had that presence that all great players have. Though not enough to beat the mighty Wednesday that day. RIP 010
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This is the tackiest sporting event I've ever seen and it's not close 000
Reposted by Ben JonesAlan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 15/07/2026OTOH it’s outrageous that they can do this without consequence yet Haiti couldn’t even wear their perfectly reasonable shirts. OTOH this is some really sad cringe shit. “We lost the war but we have a banner.” Ok man. 940277
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Also easy at the time. And correct. But other than that he’s definitely a genius 010
Reposted by Ben JonesEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 15/07/2026i don’t think argentinian players called fernandez, martinez, messi etc *really* want to have a conversation about giving land back to its original owners 192170364
Reposted by Ben JonesDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 14353961168
Reposted by Ben Jonesderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens. 6961291338
Reposted by Ben JonesRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026we are one day away from the funniest VAR offsides graphic ever 7966721338
Reposted by Ben JonesSean Carroll @seanedmund.bsky.social · 02/07/2026@bendylan.bsky.social what have you done ben 021
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026It's like some people don't like having 60 second minutes again. 100
Reposted by Ben Jonesjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport 854625673
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I had a go, but I do not care who wins out of Canada and South Africa. This is the downside of the expanded tournament. You should be able to dislike one side in the knockouts. 100
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I’m old enough to remember search engine adverts and they were a lot worse. The lycos dog. Ask Jeeves. Mmmmm no. 010
Reposted by Ben JonesDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/06/2026Michael Cembalest is out with his annual energy report for JP Morgan and it's full of fascinating stuff, but this graph jumps out: Trump is succeeding in stifling America's clean energy boom. Absolutely ceding the field to China. 311094430
Reposted by Ben Joneslilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊 6449481403
Reposted by Ben Jonesleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier 228140343949
Reposted by Ben JonesChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 19/06/2026I really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering. 8953881471
Reposted by Ben JonesStanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026When Macron's memoirs come out, the first passage I am going to read is how he convinced Donald Trump to sign a peace agreement in Versailles. 1114828
Reposted by Ben JonesKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?" 468320886924
Reposted by Ben JonesCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o... 229119663097
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I'm calling it: England are going to win the worst World Cup of our lives, and instead of "there's people on the pitch... they think it's all over!" there's going to be 60 years of a gurning Trump slobbering on the trophy next to a confused Harry Kane. 000
Reposted by Ben JonesJack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The difference between Russia/Qatar and the USA is Russia/Qatar used the World Cup to hide their human rights abuses, and the USA are using it to flaunt them 111447449
Reposted by Ben Jonesmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/06/2026The dream of Hollywood Executives, the one that Netflix is ultimately based on, has always been to find a way to let the tail wag the dog and to *tell* people what to watch. Then you wouldn't need to invest all this money in talent and production and marketing etc! 314215
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