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Benn

@bennexeter.bsky.social
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Nerd. Plant-based. Humanist. Gay. Green. ❤️ languages, maths, science, Star Trek, swimming, gardening, DIY, allotmenting, travel, beaches, surf, scuba, Lego ⛔️ AI slop Speaker of 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇪🇸 Learner of 🇯🇵 Mostly posting about UK politics.

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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Google Maps now
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Me: “Cool eclipse” The cat:
Scared cat
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Gee thanks, great help
Finger post with three signs saying “path”
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
THE LONDON
ECONOMIC
Kate Wilton @KateWilton1
One day Farage will go too far, people will finally see him for the hate filled, narcissistic turd he really is. He doesn't want to improve this nation he wants to divide it, he wants to profit from it and laugh in the faces of all those daft enough to believe in him.
11:47 AM • Jun 2, 2026
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
From my recent trip to Japan. So beautiful. 日本への旅行で好きなフォト
A Ryokan garden 旅館の庭A Ryokan garden 旅館の庭Forest 森A palace garden pond 庭の池
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Jupiter and the Buddhist temple at Kiyomizu
Jupiter and the Buddhist temple at Kiyomizu
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Exeter City Council election 2026 - popular vote tallies: 💚 Green Party 33% 🔴 Labour 22% ➡️ Reform 22% 🟠 Lib Dem 12% 🔵 Conservative 11% #greenparty
Exeter City Council election 2026 - popular vote tallies
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Isn’t it fucked up that, on their 250th birthday, the king of the United Kingdom had to go to the USA to lecture their leaders on values and democracy?
Charles III visits the USA
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
My blue cat in a sunny garden! Happy first of May! 💚🩶
Garden with grey cat
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Lots of solar energy today! 84% in SW England at lunchtime. 😎
GB national grid generation mix with 45% solar
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
#carrotweather
Carrot Weather being savage
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Public service announcement 📣 If you have friends who do this, educate them or get rid of them. Every. Single. Thing. about this whole room is wrong. </end PSA>
A tacky crushed velvet and chrome table and chairs owned by someone with no taste
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#greenparty
Why I vote Green.

The 99% shouldn't have to pay for the banking crisis, the fuel crisis, or the climate crisis, or the next crisis, or the one after that. The average citizen shouldn't be told to cut back, or to change her lifestyle, for decisions made by warmongers, sociopaths, fossil fuel industry or whoever else. The British people shouldn't be told that if they have no job it is their fault. Migrants shouldn't be scapegoated and blamed for our social or economic problems.

So yes, I vote Green. I don't believe the narrative about an interfering big government, recklessly spending and annoyingly intervening, creating a culture of lazy scroungers and lax borders. That kind of thinking prescribes one thing: nothing. It tells us that to get where we need to go, our government needs to do an awful lot less than it has. We leave it to the market, promote hate, praise selfishness and greed, and hope it all turns out alright. I say no. Enough.

We need to move vested interests and big money out of politics.
We need a new politics, of the people, for the people, and by the people.
We aren't asking for people to live in the stone age, but in the 21st century.
We need to update our way of making decisions that affect us all.
We need the planet and its people to come first.

I hope you join me.
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Good morning from Blue! 🩶
Blue the cat in the garden in the sun
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Reform seem to be forgetting that this is a local election. ❌ none of this is local politics ❌ not one word about what they’d propose to do instead There’s a lot wrong with Reform, but one of the most heinous things is that they treat voters like fools.
Reform local election flyer with no local election politics or proposals
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Chilling.
In 1962 l was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy, and Keynesian growth would finance public service improvements and a welfare state that steadily reduced inequality. I wa: suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time. In 6o years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions.
Dr Stephen Watkins, Oldham, Lancashire
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Great crowd with @mothinali.bsky.social and @exetergreens.bsky.social today in Exeter! 💚 #gpew #greenparty
Green Party crowd in ExeterDiana Moore, Mothin Ali and the Green Party crowd in Exeter
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Great Britain’s grid’s carbon intensity is due to be the lowest it has ever been today, with all the solar and wind. Today is the day to charge your EV and wash your laundry! 💚⚡️☀️💨
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
All the tech bro dudes buying into AI hype sound like this. Is the pilot vibe-flying the plane? Shut the fuck up.
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Well said. 💚 #greenparty
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Spring is coming! 💚🌷🌱
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Because gay Christmas is what Jesus would have wanted
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
@privateeyenews.bsky.social 🔥
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Exactly.
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Private Eye right on the money.
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
#trump #musk
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
If you see this, post a beach photo.
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Easter’s cancelled this year.
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
What other mysteries of the 90s is AI going to solve? What is love?
Why is he so blue?
What are trumbaleens?
What does zigazigah mean? 😭
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Apparently I speak Icelandic now. [Spotted in Funchal]
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Looking forward to it. According to the International Naturist Federation, “World Naturist Day has traditionally been marked on the first Sunday in June in the northern hemisphere, and the first Sunday in December in the southern hemisphere.”
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Not sure if I want to laugh
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Benn @bennexeter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Today I did a mountain.
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