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Ben Jones

@bendylan.bsky.social
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Professional nerd for a bijou research institute on the Franco-Swiss border

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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well I'm seeing that people on the internet are making ludicrous one-eyed claims about both, since you mention it.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I 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.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Aside 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.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Or, to celebrate British cuisine, the tin can?
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A similarly prosaic invention that is quintessentially of its place would surely be the lawnmower?
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If 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.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just 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.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you’re not already familiar, Simon’s blog is a gold mine of empirical info on LLMs. He knows his onions…
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can someone switch reality off and on again please
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ban them from the premier league for 10 seasons. Declare their owners fail the first and proper test.
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 28/09/2026
I 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. 🧵
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I 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
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
100% take the hero points
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m so late but this is 100% Savoie. The French bit sure I guess, but the Aosta valley still speak French at school.
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The 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 😵‍💫
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’ve been kettled for a lot less than that.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Be amazing if it were the ex Lib Dem Danny Alexander though.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Imagine talking to Trump about Thucydides. You’d have better chance playing tennis with a goldfish.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Didn't happen / who are you going to trust - your lying eyes ? / false flag / Ukraine did it
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I 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.be
My Favourite Pork Chop Technique
YouTube video by Back of House
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An excellent end to his cameo though.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
TIL he was born in Houston
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
don'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
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What is this unicorn of which you speak.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I could get given Berlin every day and I would never get 100. It's just never where I think it should be.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Without reading, it’s really hard to know if this is a feature or a threat
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The kids these days say “search it up”. As a verb and as a command
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Looking forward to how many different ways there are of asking "how is that not interfering with play?".
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Don'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
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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
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ixta Belfrage’s porcini ragu.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I 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)
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I 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.
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements Stereolab
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/09/2026
the tide is turning folks. it’s a month late and a trillion dollars short, but it’s turning. even Trump can’t stop it
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trade is bad Russia is good
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The history books are going to be filled with incredulous accounts of how stupid people elected the stupidest person to lead a superpower.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The snapping of the pasta is necessary for the dish, or a very cunning promotional ruse
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
He can buy them from me, I am the owner of the known universe, and I have an NFT to prove it.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I think Villa’s hopes resting on an injured 17 year old was a bit of a warning sign.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The reliance on "First rate administrators" seems to be the main point of departure.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Love a bit of FPL
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Works 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....
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hard to think of better fast food.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I control Sagittarius A*
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Amazing, the same people for whom wind turbines are unsightly blots on the landscape: let's build desalination plants
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Because Diet Coke tastes like someone has crushed paracetamol into it.
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Ben Jones @bendylan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yeah 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...)
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