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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

feels great being literally the very first year to pay £9K a year for uni and having a massive graduate tax (disguised as loan) draining my bank for decades which people six months older than me don't have

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Just been using my laptop on my lap and have to say, it’s a classic move. Feels right. Can see why it earned the name

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Twitter is a great place to see interactions so dumb you couldn’t even dream them

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Ralph Fiennes has the greatest range of any working actor, right? Can anyone else be THAT scary and THAT funny?

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The crazy-making thing about all of this is that there is no need for it, no demand for it, no consent from the civilian populations and, no practical use whatsoever. These people just love war!

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

kitten don’t throw a blue shell at daddy

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I honestly wonder about the long term effects of people offloading all their thinking and mental workload onto AIs. Your brain is a muscle and it will be goo if you refuse to use it

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

There’s actually very few words that Americans use that British people don’t know, but every single one of them is used by Wordle

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The wildest part of this is Onion story is that it was published in 2013 lol

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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aussiesewerrat @aussiesewerrat.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Well one Aussie reporter has been deliberately shot at and before you say no watch the video

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Scroll Deep @scrolldeep.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Scroll Deep 🤝 JoJo Siwa in the interview of the century

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Look I know it’s been said but it’s so on the nose that they’re called ICE. If a YA novel did that we’d all roll our eyes and yet here we are

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We’re very rapidly gonna have to deal with people who have cameras built into their glasses that are filming you without telling you

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

heads up that if you do this, I will simply never remember my password again

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Never clocked ‘An Ethanol Picture’ until now

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

As someone who used to get South West Trains to school for years, and then (after it was renamed) get South Western Railway to work for years, I cannot tell you how happy I am to dance on its useless grave now that it’s nationalised. My least favourite company ever. May they cancel trains in hell

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I came up with a phrase on Scroll Deep today that might be the best line I’ll ever say

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I couldn't help myself and read an article from one of those right wing outrage comic book websites and this bit really cracked me up:

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Podcast Delivery @podcastdelivery.com · 11/05/2025

Unraveling the rise and fall of Vine, this 8-part series explores the app's wild journey from internet sensation to sudden demise. Join @benedicttown.bsky.social as he delves into tales of genius, chaos, and betrayal that shaped today's digital landscape.

Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

On the train. Young girl across from is explaining to her younger sister what 9/11 is (already interesting) and her mum just interjected to tell her ‘it was 2011, not 2001, that’s why it’s called 9/11’

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Andor Ep 8 is so good it’s insane

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

[lenny kravitz voice] american pope!

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I wish I was as dedicated to anything as wetransfer is to never keeping me signed in

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f-dsi.bsky.social @f-dsi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Just finished listening to @scrolldeep.bsky.social ‘s Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World. It was SO captivating. @benedicttown.bsky.social absolutely smashed it out of the park 👏🏽

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Very few TV shows take place ‘in da bungalow’ anymore, due to woke

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Under Biden, GTA 6 was coming out in 2025. Trumps owns this delay.

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

There’s an exact perfect length for men’s shorts. Anything longer or shorter, even by a millimetre, looks bad. The problem is the perfect length is An Unknowable Secret

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Hark Audio @harkaudio.com · 28/04/2025

HARK DAILY: Today's best podcast moments in one playlist, featuring: - @corybooker.com on how Donald Trump ushered in a global crisis @timmiller.bsky.social - The library straddling the U.S. border @rumblestrip.bsky.social - The rise and fall of Vine @benedicttown.bsky.social

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

(To the tune of ‘Many Men (Wish Death)’ by 50 Cent) Mini Moons

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Would a guilty man plead not guilty?? I’ve seen enough, let him go

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Hark Audio @harkaudio.com · 24/04/2025

Are you terminally online? You have to listen to ‘Vine: Six Seconds That Changed the World,’ the new series from @benedicttown.bsky.social & @globalplayer.com which breaks down how the app created the internet as we know it. Listen on Hark Audio: shorturl.at/8Ko8F

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It's launch day!!! I can't wait for you to hear this 😊

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Scroll Deep @scrolldeep.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Vine will rise again 🔥 Listen to 'Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World' right now on @globalplayer.com or wherever you get your podcasts: vine-six-seconds-that.captivate.fm/listen

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Sophie Snelling @sophiesnelling.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🎧 Exciting news! I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World This brand-new series hosted by @benedicttown.bsky.social tells the untold story about the rise and fall of the app which shaped the internet And it's a bizarre story of genius, chaos and betrayal

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Jorkin B Peanitson @bonerman-inc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

but im a jeep im a vehicle what the hell am i doing here beep beep honk honk steer

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

this was the best Big Brother eye. No contest

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Look I’m no Christian conspiracy guy but surely the ‘Trump is the antichrist’ evidence is mounting up so much even those guys can’t resist it

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

🇬🇧 in 2025: Fixing this country’s myriad problems: ❌ 😡 Continually attacking 0.5% of the population for simply existing: 🤩 💕

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