Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Stephen Merchant once deployed just such a ‘You’re absolutely right’ to Karl Pilkington in the RG podcast that my friends still use it regularly to this day 020
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This morning I woke up with this song in my head, and today happens to be the 90th anniversary! Listen and weep in solidarity: youtu.be/jnMrHQHUa1Y?...youtu.beCable StreetYouTube video by The Young'uns - Topic 000
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’ve lent my voice to this very silly podcast series, give it a listen! pod.link/1843313851/e...pod.link'Gallows Humour' TrailerListen to 'Gallows Humour' Trailer from Neuroses Journal wherever you get your podcasts! 000
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Toll by Neal Shusterman I’ve really enjoyed this series. This is a great conclusion, which itself points to the over-simplicity of the way the world is set up in book 1. Some (clumsy albeit well meaning) non-binary rep! Hope but with realism! He’s a little too pleased with his own puns. 010
Reposted by Ben L-CSophie Hall @sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026just when I thought she'd finished explaining the rules, we then got this 011
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“You can only work on one grave at a time” OK, but why? Also, the way the whole key system worked meant that all the keys had to open all the locks, making it an entirely pointless step 100
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I obviously wouldn’t know this because I’m in London, but if I were in Aotearoa I’d probably say Wow, TVNZ+’s UI is utter shite 020
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tonight I’ve watched instalments from two different vampire franchises where a fast-talking new character refers to the protagonist, a vampire slayer, as ‘B’ and is later revealed to have been withholding secrets that may put the hero in jeopardy 000
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Do I repost this literally every time I see an offence? Couldn’t possibly say. In totally unrelated news, Eleanor Rigby has very specific syllable counts and stresses to make it work 010
Reposted by Ben L-CBen L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 22/12/2025My god people if you’re going to do jokey rewordings of songs please make sure they fucking scan I shouldn’t have to say this 222
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026George Fouracres’ pronunciations in the regency sketch made my favourite comedic performance I’ve seen in a long time - WILD vowels all over the shop 010
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Scythe novels by Neal Shusterman are set in a future where basically anything can be healed and death has been solved, so society has to find a new way for lives to end, professional ‘scythes’ who are the only people allowed to kill permanently 010
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026As autumn settles in this is your seasonal reminder to set aside a cold wet evening to watch this delight of a film. Ensure whisky is at hand, but perhaps don’t do a complete drink-along 010
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin So many big ideas! Politics! Gender! Science! So much to chew on. Presents an incredibly nuanced and critical view of a world that might in lesser hands be merely presented as a utopia 120
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026They should make a separate hospital for people who know how to act like they’ve used a lift before 000
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026In a recent chat with friends about new sexy Poirot, I pitched Milf Marple 391
Reposted by Ben L-CIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Smoke me a kipper, Arthur - and none for those greedy pilots, they don't deserve it" RIP Stephanie Cole 1711322
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I obviously know about American spellings of theatre and centre, but I’ve just seen ‘specter’ and: yuk! 000
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026People who talk about television for a living: ‘pilot’ is not synonymous with ‘episode 1’ 000
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026OK turns out lots of people have said this (and it’s the other way round) 000
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just watched Carrie (1976) for the first time - why did no one tell me it’s just Horror Matilda 100
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I feel there may be a teammate murder following this week’s Only Connect 110
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Fearsome Fairies edited by @elizadearnley.bsky.social Always fun to read a book by someone I’ve shared a stage with! An enjoyable selection of tales, most too authored for my purposes as a storyteller, but many drawing on older folklore and tales that I intend to look into further for telling 100
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026(also, to be horribly sincere, I really enjoyed the chance to have more extended and deliberate hangs with you during my annoying brief Sidmouth stint. Here’s to many more!) 110
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Saw some graffiti which apparently says ‘evoke’ but the v looks like a u so I thought it was a fun way to ask ‘you ok?’ 010
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026‘Write a poem about your favourite book, but don’t you dare mention the name of a protagonist’ 100
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026In primary school we had to write a poem about our favourite book. I got in trouble for using the word ‘Titty’. All the teacher needed to do was open a single page of Swallows & Amazons 110
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’m catching up on Josh’s back catalogue and this particular newsletter made me laugh out loud and then tear up* in the office, both of which made me look like a really cool guy *🥲 2131
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Disgusted to hear that the presenter of the BBC’s leading academic discussion programme thinks that things can ‘reach a crescendo’ - how much did Misha Glenny’s education cost at Magdalen College School? 000
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Scrolled further and immediately realised I’d broken your rule bsky.app/profile/boot... 1140
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Oh no! I run a university access scheme, does that make me a vizier? 1190
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It’s been _zero_ days since I last got emotional thinking about the need for Arthur Shappey’s ‘Code Red’ 010
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Coral (the colour) is having a real moment and I entirely blame Monzo 000
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I have only just learned that the Just William books were not, in fact, written by a man called Richard Crompton. Apparently my brain never got further than the first four letters 000
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Who’s got that post about all the ‘a masterpiece’; ‘I devoured it!’ book blurbs that’s like ‘I’m begging you to tell me what it’s about’ - had this issue a lot recently 000
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Man in my office, no, letting a dribble of water run over your fingers for 0.2 seconds is not enough, wash your fucking hands 000
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It’s the day when I would usually repost this, and I’m gutted I can’t anymore 010
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If my experience with fandom wikis are anything to go by, this won’t be anywhere near comprehensive and consistent enough 001
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett My annual Pratchett; of course it’s good, it’s Pratchett. But this was great! Fairy tales & the power of stories! Couldn’t be more suited to my current interests! Some great stuff about power & authoritarianism, plus the most direct LOTR nods I recall in Discworld 110
