Reposted by Ben HazellJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 04/10/2026The "zionism is racism" motion that has just passed on the Green Party's conference floor is truly gross, and deeply racist. The party's MPs deserve some credit for opposing it, though they should've done so more stridently and sooner. This is now a millstone around the party's necks. Deservedly. 41509145 509
Reposted by Ben HazellA Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Dear all: how bosses should talk to the troops–Ultimately, what matters most is understanding one’s priorities and conveying them as thoughtfully, regularly and non-tediously as possible… www.ft.com/content/de27... @pilitaclark.bsky.social @financialtimes.comft.comDear all: how bosses should talk to the troopsAnd what they should always try to avoid 172 7
Reposted by Ben Hazellderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors. 1417752626 7.8K
Reposted by Ben HazellGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The fact that the two best shows in the world — TASKMASTER and BLUEY — didn’t make the list is utterly baffling to me 101416 141
Ben Hazell @benhazell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I still often think of this cartoon, and how we are where we are. The assumed confidence of the type. 000 0
Reposted by Ben HazellJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6528181175 2.8K
Reposted by Ben HazellSarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 08/09/2026There's a lot of focus right now on employers’ plans for AI. But if you're worried about your job being automated, the more proximate threat could be that colleague of yours with a Claude subscription and a manic glint in their eye. www.ft.com/content/ed21...ft.comAI is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading at workBoundaries between different occupations are blurring at the cost of a collaborative company culture 55721 57
Reposted by Ben HazellBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026The first item on a typical Amazon search results page is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search. The top row is 25% more expensive. The best result is usually on the second screen, somewhere around the 17th position: pluralistic.net/2023/11/03/s... 34/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Big Tech’s “attention rents” (03 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 2268115 268
Reposted by Ben HazellJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 28/08/2026Now FREE TO READ – why we need more data centres. I feel like an epidemiologist in February 2020 – the dangerous threat in the near future is so clear, and we need to prepare for it. Please consider sharing it with the data centre-sceptics in your life. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-case-f...takes.jamesomalley.co.ukThe case for Nightingale DatacentresBritain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis 23017 30
Reposted by Ben HazellKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.nytimes.comDolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.” 247238485773 23.8K
Reposted by Ben HazellJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/08/2026PS: Today is a very fine day to donate to the Imagination Library. imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 4697159 697
Reposted by Ben HazellHolger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This incident needs to be thoroughly investigated. If true, no public office in the EU or any member state can continue to run any microsoft products. nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/m...nltimes.nlMicrosoft accused of leaking Dutch civil servants' names to U.S. governmentMicrosoft has reportedly shared the names of Dutch civil servants working for two regulatory agencies with the U.S. House of Representatives. The agencies involved include the Authority for Consumers ... 27783426 783
Reposted by Ben HazellJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026This is absolute rookie stuff. There is just absolutely no way that a headline like this should ever make the BBC News website. It being the weekend is no excuse, either: political news *always* drops on Saturday night, for the Sunday papers. 55920177 920
Reposted by Ben HazellBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026Then she busts out a beautiful, *perfect* little statistics aphorism: "Personalisation under a standard loss function is regression to the collective mean with extra steps." 32/ 19217 92
Reposted by Ben HazellAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it. 23247442014 4.7K
Reposted by Ben HazellEd Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 21/07/2026✍️A TNT shortage, a world at war and why an obscure factory next to a Sheffield fast fashion warehouse could help explain how to reindustrialise Britain. An essay on the new Chancellor, the old Chancellor and whether anyone can actually turn our economy around👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-factor...edconway.substack.comThe Factory We Had to Build AgainRachel Reeves, John Healey, and the surprising story of Britain’s return to manufacturing. With some big explosions along the way 37530 75
Reposted by Ben HazellOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/07/2026No school should be on X or oblige parents to get updates from it. A site that actively promotes porn, bullying, hate and fascism is not an appropriate place to post pictures of sports days. 831526421 1.5K
Reposted by Ben HazellMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 30/06/2026London stands in solidarity with our LGBTQIA+ community. You are, and will always be, loved and wanted in London. Proud to host my annual Pride Reception at Outernet, celebrating the enormous contribution of LGBTQIA+ Londoners. 344353 443
Reposted by Ben HazellRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Zohran Mamdani never taking off the suit is really funny and also I think genuinely a really good bit of personal branding. He is to some degree making himself a character by always having the same costume on, with occasional modifiers 482156173 2.2K
Reposted by Ben HazellDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 15/06/2026This is the thing with the BBC. One section of it will cover the far right disastrously while another is diligently digging out the truth. It runs the gamut from courageous gold-standard reporting to Justin Webb 14688168 688
Reposted by Ben HazellWill 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I mean, one of them fractured a woman's spine with a sledgehammer Zack. 1311726 117
Reposted by Ben HazellMichael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 12/06/2026So this is the BBC’s neat way to watch overnight World Cup highlights with no spoilers… bbc.co.uk/nospoilers This will take you to a World Cup highlights page on BBC iPlayer, which will have highlights for every match without telling you who has won.bbc.co.ukWorld Cup Highlights - BBC iPlayerWatch TV programmes from the World Cup Highlights collection on BBC iPlayer. 1011857 118
Reposted by Ben HazellJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 11/06/2026The government quitting Twitter won't stop Musk (but they should do it anyway) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/displaceme...takes.jamesomalley.co.ukThe government quitting Twitter won't stop Musk (but they should do it anyway)Skip the displacement argument and let's talk about something real. 22710 27
Reposted by Ben HazellAdil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors? 14275912368 7.6K
Reposted by Ben Hazell Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 04/06/2026 76105992423 10.6K
Reposted by Ben HazellIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/06/2026This was a groundbreaking piece of work. A work so good it means a life well spent. Millions of people understand Iran, the diaspora and the weird bittersweet details of the immigrant experience through the work she did. 17781156 781
Reposted by Ben HazellKieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Hugely sad. We've lost John Blanche. It's hard to know where to begin. He set fire to a generation's imagination, and those fires show no sign of stopping burning. His work very much illuminated the darkness. 202502741 2.5K
Reposted by Ben HazellHuw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Got to be one of the most inflammatory statements ever broadcast on the BBC, let alone a current affairs show. Apparently, there’s a ‘regime’ that for ‘30 years’ has been operating against the interests of whites. 114549164 549
Reposted by Ben HazellStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/05/2026The value-add of private providers is either or both of “it allows you to harness the power choice and competition” or “the profit motive helps drive innovation”. If you think there are “excessive profits”, what do you think the value add IS? 16996 99
Reposted by Ben Hazellryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/05/2026you too can experience Billionaire Madness, for only a modest fee 1031677 316
Reposted by Ben HazellJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 10/05/2026And here’s a fantastic example of how NHS data can be used to drive forward medical science and save lives. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-to-use...takes.jamesomalley.co.ukHow to use NHS data for scientific research – without creating a privacy nightmareWhat happened when Ben Goldacre stopped writing fun popular science books and got a real job instead. 0155 15
Ben Hazell @benhazell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026It's an interesting one to watch Gemini hallucinate. It just told me you have a signature coffee blend from a shop in Texas, and seasonal blends named after your books. The coffee shop at least seems real. On the other hand, this human agrees on Coke Zero 000 0
Reposted by Ben HazellRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I fear Labour people risk falling into an ecological fallacy visible from space when reacting to these results. Here is what is very clear in results so far: Labour are losing *seats* to Reform, but... Labour are losing *votes* to the Greens Greens split the vote, Ref comes thru middle 811225440 1.2K
Reposted by Ben HazellJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 03/05/2026This is grotesque on multiple levels. 1511409468 1.4K
Reposted by Ben HazellDustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 27/04/2026The original sin is the ML-based News Feed. It may have started somewhat useful, but it quickly goodharted into an addiction machine that damaged its users. Mark does not understand the idea of second-order desire, so the fact that they wanted to keep using it was all the justification he needed 2/ 624115 241
Reposted by Ben HazellNatasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full: 4520461179 2K
Reposted by Ben HazellJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/04/2026OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...mashable.comSinceerly is an AI tool to 'un-AI' your writingA new ouroboros in the tech world has emerged. 14357071326 5.7K
Reposted by Ben HazellMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/04/2026Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service 64147761757 4.8K
Reposted by Ben HazellMaria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 12/04/2026So many of us are now textual Case Pollards, physically averse to pre-digested, mass extruded machine verbiage just as William Gibson's Pattern Recognition protagonist was made physically sick by fashion and brands. 1341399 413
Reposted by Ben HazellKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0... 6175491911 7.5K
Reposted by Ben HazellMoudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026We therefore learn from this learned commentary made by a Babylonian scribe over 2000 years ago, that in the Akkadian language, the word shitti means "shit" 14521155 521
Reposted by Ben HazellJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 24/03/2026This is heartbreaking. Please stop for a moment and consider the children caught up in this. Imagine you're a trans child - already a difficult experience, to put it mildly - and you've found a hobby you enjoy with friends, and now you're being kicked out for being trans. It's cruel. 6364137 364
Reposted by Ben HazellAda Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Marie Maynard Daly co-discovered the link between high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the clogged arteries that can cause heart disease and strokes. She also studied the damage that cigarettes have on the heart & lungs. adalovelaceday.subst...adalovelaceday.substack.comProf Marie Maynard Daly, BiochemistMarie Maynard Daly was a biochemist who co-discovered the link between high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the clogged arteries that can cause heart disease and strokes. 4493154 493
Reposted by Ben HazellJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 02/03/2026Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era. 884556751 4.6K
Reposted by Ben HazellColin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...deadlanguagesociety.comHow far back in time can you understand English?An experiment in language change 19936561333 3.7K
Reposted by Ben HazellEd Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 20/02/2026📽️EXCLUSIVE For the first time ever, @skynews has been into the @bankofengland's gold vaults to see the world's second biggest trove of physical gold. An extraordinary place. An extraordinary sight. Have a watch of our film👇 youtu.be/dDlY4AFqV7o?...youtu.beSky News gains rare access to Bank of England's gold vaultsYouTube video by Sky News 2258 25
Reposted by Ben HazellNigel Whitfield @nigelwhitfield.uk · 14/02/2026In one sense, this is democratisation - those with money have always been able to play games with the law, spending way more to avoid a parking ticket they feel they don't deserve than the actual fine, etc. Now, AI slop means everyone can waste official time, regardless of their wealth. 272 7
Reposted by Ben HazellJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/02/2026The final item of this article feels like another early rumbling of something bigger – public services are getting swamped with AI-generated complaints and appeals, often citing fictitious legal precedents etc. It’s already a serious headache and it’s only going to get worse. 1413036 130