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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is going to be great... And I have three months to think of how to word the questions I have been mumbling to myself.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Come for the boys, stay for the spies!

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's a group of Americans on my train playing true crime 20 questions. Bizarre to hear a cannibalism case described with yes or no answers.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Paramilitary groups are murdering and killing people on the streets. Sorry, individual states, but it's not ignorance of your beautiful foliage that's stopping people from visiting. Your tourist ads have limited power.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This blanket is for my baby niece. I love her a lot and hope it stays with her for a long time.

The bi flag part of the blanket, close up enough to make the moss stitch obvious. The blanket has been draped so that the bi flag is central but the other flags are visible around it.

The trans flag, the last part of the blanket. It is laying flat on a chair. Stripes from other flags are visible at the top of the photo.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wanted it to sit neatly and withstand toddler play!

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When I say two years, I don't mean I started this two years ago, left it for ages, and have only recently restarted it. I mean for the past two years, there's not been a moment when I've had free hands, because every time I've sat down I've picked up needles. Moss stitch, man.

A close up of the lesbian flag part of the blanket. It shows dark orange, lighter orange, white, light purple and darker purple stripes. They are draped at an angle. The rainbow flag part of the blanket is visible in the lower part of the photo but is not the focus.

The rainbow flag part of the blanket, showing red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple stripes. The top of the bi flag is also visible.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

After two years, I've finally finished my flag blanket. It's knit in approximately 280 rows of moss stitch using ColourLab DK by West Yorkshire Spinners.

A woollen blanket covering a chair. It has been knitted in moss stitch horizontal stripes. These stripes are in the pattern of four flags: the lesbian, rainbow, bi and trans flags.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was gobsmacked that this one didn't turn out huge. I thought it was going to put her on everyone's radar. I still think it should have done.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fascinated that you've had to discourage pizza horror as a genre. Do lots of people find pizzas particularly horrific?

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As they get older, they'll yell sociably with excitement. That's less acceptable for adults, but screaming is pretty normal for preteens (and for teens in some circumstances).

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A combination of reasons! When they're very small, they struggle with volume control in general; on a very practical level, they've not yet learnt how to make themselves quieter. They'll yell because they're excited or just feeling a lot of emotions and see no reason not to.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Apples are delicious and come in a variety of different tastes and colours. You can also make pie with them.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

An interesting time to announce this considering what else Anthropic are currently in the news for.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What a beautiful mask! I'm always jealous of how pretty the American ones are.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are so many states I would have liked to visit... But not now, and maybe not ever. Sympathy for not being able to fill in any more of the map.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sounds like happiness is being able to afford a spare room.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The fact he was being given the equivalent of £12m a year from his estate probably made the looks much easier. So the real question is, why aren't today's rich going wild commissioning artisans to make them equally fabulous outfits?

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

He was a delight on Monkey Cage - won't be listening to it without him. Good on him for standing up.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I have an ex who was a professional, orchestral level woodwind player. Her speciality instrument was the recorder. She got a recorder scholarship that paid for her entire university education. She had recorders that needed insurance. Recorders: they're a real instrument!

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

AO3 lets you choose Middel Englisch as a language for fics. Unfortunately, unlike with the Eald Englisċ tag (which is owned by Tolkien nerds), nobody's yet used it accurately.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Doctors can be incredibly short sighted about elder patients and miss things that would be obvious in younger ones.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

When I was a teenager, a close friend's elderly father was incredibly unwell. He was delirious, refusing food, and wetting himself. I suggested testing his blood glucose. It was in the high teens. None of his doctors had thought to do this.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I don't think anyone will be surprised to learn Harry Potter fans have priorities that are in complete opposition to real people and culture. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Text from BBC article reading: Project manager Simon Ludlam told the Energy Revolution podcast the cable was originally "going to go straight through" the tribute, before fans left his firm "hundreds of calls". "Actually we were quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby's grave," he said.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Incredibly impressive you can do this so casually - if I had to ditch 50k, there's a good chance I'd be crying about it.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My first thought was a writer I then remembered was straight. Turns out straight SFF writers exist, unlikely as it may seem.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It sounds like Lucas won that hat fair and square, Mario style.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Remembered as a solitary genius by straight people whose entire experience of him is that awful biopic, maybe. Queer mathematicians I know think of him as a sociable role model who was charming at parties.

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i’m just ken @shepardcdr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you're part of the BioWare or Sims community and want to talk about how those studios' queer characters and themes have impacted you and your fears for those series moving forward after this sale, I'd love to chat with you for a Kotaku story. Can be reached here or email kshepard@kotaku.com

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A lot of people are just posting his article where he said he wanted to shag kids, which isn't fair. We should also remember him as a virulent racist who had several IPSO complaints upheld against him and who cheated on his wife, impregnating a 22-year-old he then assaulted.

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Bookish & Queer @bookishandqueer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is your last chance to grab yourself an Early Bird Ticket for Bookish & Queer and save £10 on the standard price. We have some great guest announcements coming soon, so don't miss out! www.tickettailor.com/events/siren... #booksky #books #fantasy #scifi #queer #queerbooks

Bookish & Queer
Online Sci-Fi & Fantasy Literature Convention
3rd and 4th October
Last Chance for Early Bird Tickets
No coded needed. Ends 23:59 31st July (BST)
Full price £65

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Joanne has been trying to persuade companies that the kids are still into Harry Potter. They aren't. The TV show is the last desperate attempt to keep the money rolling. Gen Z have no attachment to the IP and see it as something boring their parents once enjoyed.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My Scouts are of the opinion that Harry Potter is something only the most cringe of parents are into.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Haha yeah, I suspect having memorised the train timetables and maps, Mina Harker style, doesn't get you a railcard for being badass. It should though.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If you're based in the UK, be aware that the eligibility for a Disabled Persons Railcard is expanding in September, and you might now be able to get one even if you couldn't before. www.disabledpersons-railcard.co.uk/eligibility-...

A screen shot from the Disabled Persons Railcard site. A green menu bar reads Disabled Persons Railcard. The body text reads: Phase 2, launching in September 2026, will further extend eligibility to disabilities and conditions that require professional health evidence and more detailed assessment, including some long-term or degenerative medical conditions, and neurodiversity where it has a substantial impact on a person's ability to travel by train.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Heck yeah for queer organisers and queer guests building our own community spaces.

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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Happy 66th birthday to John Leguizamo, who has always understood the assignment.

John Leguizamo as 'Tybalt' in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

John Leguizamo as 'Aurelio' in John Wick

John Leguizamo as 'Ozzy Delvecchio' in Bloodline

John Leguizamo as 'Eumaeus' in The Odyssey

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Were people who play videos on public transport never taught manners? Is politeness a code of conduct which, like chivalry, is now seen as old-fashioned and irrelevant? And if so, what comes next?

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Was not at all surprised to learn this morning that the humans in Thomas the Tank Engine speak Sudric, a Goidelic language family conlang. Of course a guy who builds a world of trains included a conlang.

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Jess Glanz @jessglanz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Just made my own pesto! I bet most people don’t know that with just a little effort, a bunch of ingredients that cost more bought separately than together, and SO MUCH CLEANUP, you can make something only slightly worse than you would buy in a jar at the supermarket. And it’ll go off quicker, too 💖

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The BBC asked the White House if they considered American women in the military "low-T". The White House refused to acknowledge women in the military existed.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I've mentioned this before, but I love your continuous insistence on hyping up the good things in this world. There are so many of them and they're a much better use of people's time.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I finished it a couple of weeks ago and boy, does the creepy get creepier.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A weird part of reaching your 30s is that sometimes, your friends' parents will start dying of old age.

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Bennett McKenna @bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I go to at least half a dozen hospital appointments every year, and have done so for my entire life. Every time they ask me to hop on the scales, I answer with a cheery, "No thanks!". No argument. No justification. That's skinny privilege.

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