Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Well I'm seeing that people on the internet are making ludicrous one-eyed claims about both, since you mention it. 000
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think if you are saying that the descendants of people who settled somewhere 400 years ago must now be considered somehow illicit colonisers, then your politics are not particularly progressive. 100
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Aside from anything else, that's a magnificently incorrect view of the history of Northern Ireland. Or the UK governments's attitude towards it for that matter. 110
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A similarly prosaic invention that is quintessentially of its place would surely be the lawnmower? 100
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If he's hearing this "every time he goes to the UK" then he's going to the UK to talk to Nazis specifically. Nobody that isn't a fringe online Nazi is talking like this in the UK. 0120
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just read the comments on Sian Berry’s insta post about the motion, and you’ll never guess who they are saying put her up to it. 2271
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If you’re not already familiar, Simon’s blog is a gold mine of empirical info on LLMs. He knows his onions… 010
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ban them from the premier league for 10 seasons. Declare their owners fail the first and proper test. 120
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 5876532131
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I’m so late but this is 100% Savoie. The French bit sure I guess, but the Aosta valley still speak French at school. 000
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 · 24/09/2026Be amazing if it were the ex Lib Dem Danny Alexander though. 000
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Imagine talking to Trump about Thucydides. You’d have better chance playing tennis with a goldfish. 022
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Didn't happen / who are you going to trust - your lying eyes ? / false flag / Ukraine did it 1141
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I saw a technique for this that looked pretty sensible (the TL;DW is "make the crackling straight with a couple of cuts and some skewers") : youtu.be/1P448Uin2iY?...youtu.beMy Favourite Pork Chop TechniqueYouTube video by Back of House 110
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 · 17/09/2026I could get given Berlin every day and I would never get 100. It's just never where I think it should be. 040
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Without reading, it’s really hard to know if this is a feature or a threat 000
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The kids these days say “search it up”. As a verb and as a command 030
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. 485297777666
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Looking forward to how many different ways there are of asking "how is that not interfering with play?". 000
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Don't tell me, he wants Ukraine to abandon their fortress belt that Putin has been unable to take in 12 years, for a brief "peace" whilst Russia gets sanction relief 040
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“What does God say”. There was the year, 97?, when they did play The Girl with the Sun in Her Head and it’s one of my favourite Glastonbury moments 110
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I don't know, but it's taken me longer than it should to determine this is more expensive than France current price (9.57 USD for a gallon, if I've converted into stupid units correctly) 100
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I don’t remember that. I remember the weird calm on sept 12. And then the posters at every subway stop and people thrusting photos of loved ones in our hands. 011
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 · 03/09/2026The snapping of the pasta is necessary for the dish, or a very cunning promotional ruse 100
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026He can buy them from me, I am the owner of the known universe, and I have an NFT to prove it. 020
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I think Villa’s hopes resting on an injured 17 year old was a bit of a warning sign. 001
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The reliance on "First rate administrators" seems to be the main point of departure. 060
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Works pretty well with minced anything too (though per the recipe I think pork is best). Actually the recipe has got me thinking I need to get some holy basil seeds.... 110
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 · 16/08/2026Because Diet Coke tastes like someone has crushed paracetamol into it. 020
Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Yeah me too. There's bits I didn't recognise at the time - I mean Agamemnon as batman was very obvious, but Penelope's screen / Interstellar I didn't see at the time. Looking forward to a second watch (this time with hen's teeth 70mm...) 000