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It ought to be reassuring to know that these greedy deceitful awful people dodge taxes in their own land too, but it isn’t. How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So nearly a David and Goliath moment. 3 mins after this pic taken Richmond (salary bill £0) dropped the ball with Ealing (salary bill reportedly£4m) line at their mercy. Would have drawn level. Heartbreaker. Ealing went down the other end and scored twice. Final score 36-19. What could have been!

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So it seems Spurs actually finished 16th in the past two seasons.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Spotted by my brother in Brighton: the nihilism of fly-tipping.

A fly-tipped mattress propped against a wall in Brighton, bearing graffiti in large red letters: "Nothing really mattress..."

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Personalise an epic film... e.g. Harriets of Fire Ty Tanic

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't follow Formula One, but good on them for using subtitles for the hard of hearing…

F1 track with numerous Zoom signs on the advertising billboards

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We have about 2 years to stop Britain turning into feeble, broke, absurd, malfunctioning and risible version of the worst of the United States.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Gabriel Pogrund, Sunday Times say that Reform gave the story to the Telegraph + other outlets, after Sunday Times inquiries about it

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years ago tonight I went to bed in my Washington DC home not believing what I'd seen that day: the Pentagon burning; F-16s screaming over the Potomac at 150 feet; a city gridlocked in its roads and its mind; a society unable to answer 'Why Us?'; war in American; a worldview brought tumbling down.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Turns out the Daily Mail are enemies of the people too.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 09/09/2026

The race for London's scammiest address is on! We found one building is responsible for a quarter of all trading standards complaints in Islington. Another in Camden is close behind — but weirdly is where Andy Burnham registered his new company. Read: www.londoncentric.media/i/214696641/...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Interesting choice of photo by the FT.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Netflix has put its prices up by more than 10 per cent for UK viewers. Maybe now people will start to question what it gives them that the free services of ITVX, Channel 4 and BBC iPlayer don't. The answer is, in my opinion, not much for up to £21 a month.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’ve so missed Nadine Dorries’ unique and dynamic approach to live television interviews. Channel 4 News.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There really, really, ought to be a hyphen after the word "illicit" in this headline. Most unlike the FT. Best subs in the business in my experience.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

On X too. Transcending the culture wars.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, all the good things about America. Kind, generous, selfless, sincere, moral, talented, imaginative, a distributor not a hoarder, a teacher not a taker. The antithesis of the man who normally hogs America's headlines and global attention. Bathe in the memory of a lovely American.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I took this photograph in County Kerry this afternoon and everyone will think it is a postcard. But things like this do happen here. Free the Portmagee Two!

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

From BBC’s former Director of News. An indictment in my opinion.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026

A former director of BBC News speaks:

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A former director of BBC News who is full of wisdom and understanding (and patience). When he gets post-y about something, you know it's serious.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The trouble with government by TV personalities is that they don’t fully grasp that things happen even when the cameras are off.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 11/08/2026

Having received a few of these letters, including from Carter Ruck, always worth looking at what the lawyer is willing to commit itself to vs where it says "as instructed by our client". Also, how much is pompous language vs how much is substantive factual denial. Creating fear is the point.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The BBC weather forecast said there was a 0% chance of what just happened happening. It has now stopped happening. I know it has a name, but I can't remember it. And now it's gone. And the BBC says there is a 0% chance of it happening again. Pain.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

While we fret about AI, are we all missing a more immediate threat to humanity's future? Has anyone even considered the ramifications of allowing an intergalactic space warrior to sit in our legislature? What if he sits on the defence select cttee? "Intergalactic!" "Warrior!" - Wake up UK!!!

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Ipsos in the UK @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

July's leaderboard📊 Burnham tops the charts on favourability with a net score of +1. Count Binface features in the leaderboard for July, with 25% favourable towards the intergalactic space warrior. Farage also sits on 25% favourable, followed by Starmer on 22%.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

@philipstephens.bsky.social Congratulations, Phil. They were the better team and to beat this Kerry team they needed to beat history too. Fantastic game. I am not glad they won because I am a Kerry man, but it is such a moment for the game. Really pleased for you and yours.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Many eyes for an eye makes the whole world blind a lot faster.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Credit where and when it is due: this is a fair and balanced front page of the Telegraph website.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If Andy Burnham's first move has been to make Hot Podium Guy redundant, I fear for his chances of re-election.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Pretty clear that Andy Burnham is going to spend the first few months of his premiership laying out what a mess he has inherited. Or was that the other guy?

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It’s 25 years since we lost Douglas Adams. I am happy to have been able to get a reference to him into this piece in the FT about why the humanities are essential www.ft.com/content/fbde...

It is 25 years since the death of Douglas Adams. He was prescient in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in
concluding that finding the answer to life, the universe and everything was not that difficult - it was 42. But the hard part was understanding the question. The humanities are here to help us make sense of the questions of our time.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Very similar to the Battle of Waterloo. We win the 1st half, French come back hard in the 2nd and it looks like their quality subs are going to win it for them at the death. Then Jude Bellingham comes on and annihilates the Imperial Guard. Only difference is, the Germans didn't arrive late to help.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“Rest of World Plans To Screen Hegseth For Low IQ”

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Thought process leading up to Farage announcement: 1) What would Donny do? 2) Good idea, I'll do that.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The essence of Farage's gambit is that only Clacton voters can judge him, but his alleged conduct would be an offence against the British political system if proven, not just one constituency.

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

That’s not why nobody wants to give you the time of day, Nigel.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Important point that DCMS is leaving Twitter - this is the “expert” department for this issue. It’s as if DSIT dropped Palantir. As if.

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