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Ben Bowman

@bennosaurus.com
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I research youth studies and environmental justice, and I am a dinosaur from the internet 👨‍🏭Senior Lecturer @ Manchester Met Uni 💚Quaker | #COYS | (he/him) 🔗 www.bennosaurus.com

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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 17h
Kind of wondering if, after spending my formative years absolutely locked on to bots on Unreal Tournament, I could trigger a Pavlovian response and focus on my work by playing the intro music at the start of my day, M-M-M-Monster Kill for every five carriage returns in the word processor
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 29/09/2026
"I'm banishing you to the National League"
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 29/09/2026
1,000,001 video game remakes and still no roguelike of "Zombies Ate My Neighbours", make it make sense
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 28/09/2026
words to live by
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 27/09/2026
Do you know what is a conspiracy? Holograms. What happened to holograms? They used to be on bank cards and everything. I'm sure there was a hologram shop on Milsom Street in Bath. Who took our holograms??
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962. “[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” 🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
Caricature of Rachel Carson by David Levine for the New York Review of Books.
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Samio (unc who wants to help you learn philosophy) @samio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When allistics blow up and scream at you, that's also a failure of social skills. When allistics pretend to be nice to you, only to then go behind your back and talk shit about how weird you are to their REAL friends, that's also a failure of social skills. That's just normalized behavior, not skill
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
disconnect.blog
The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Saskia Heijltjes @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Very, very, last minute, but do join us for Kidical Mass in Bath tomorrow at 11am! There'll be bubbles 🫧 and chanting by children 🎶 📣 What do we want: SAFER STREETS! When do we want it: NOW! Another popular one is this: Hey ho, hey ho Stinky cars have go to go 😆 Poster design by Alice, not AI 🙌
Poster for Kidical Mass in Bath on Sat 26 Sept at 11am. Poster design by Alice (11 yrs old).Routemap showing:
Orange Grove - Cheap Street - Westgate Street - Saw Close - Barton Street - Wood Street - Quiet Street - New Bond Street - Broad Street - George Street - Queen’s Parade Place - Royal Avenue - Brock Street - The Circus - Gay Street - George Street - Milsom Street - New Bond Street - A3039 (around Guildhall) - Pulteney Bridge - Great Pulteney Street - A36 - Sydney Gardens - End
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 24/09/2026
I had loads of Game Boy games but the first time I really saved up pocket money for one, asked the bloke at Dixons to get it out of the cabinet, bought it and had my mind blown by it was Monster Max. Had no idea what I was getting into. I can still hear it in my ears
screenshot from "monster max" the monster "max" is next to some of the killer spikes that are extremely killer, as well as a bomb that's about to blow up these pusher-bollard baddies
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences? We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.
Babies will face almost twice as much extreme fire weather in Europe that great grandparents
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 18/09/2026
(holding phone camera up) could you please ponder this, your holiness, for the memes
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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New post: 'Reform’s Donations are not Normal'. Plotted every donation in the Electoral Commission donations register in grey - and Reform's recent mega donations in red.
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 17/09/2026
I like that "The Green Menace" suggests @zackpolanski.bsky.social is on the phone to andy burnham to cancel drilling in the North Sea, but also that he's got a fight with Spiderman later on
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 15/09/2026
the "killing eve" and "football" crossover is extremely niche, i know, but i am really thinking of spurs as a villanelle character murdering shit football managers' reputations (mourinho, frank, de zerbi) also stalked from afar by a nemesis/lover (pochettino) towards inevitable doom & death
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 15/09/2026
Ice Cube did a song about this like eight years ago
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 15/09/2026
A mic drop on LinkedIn by someone resisting the University of Sydney, Australia who are planning to replace educators with AI chatbots: "Anyone impressed with the slop produced by such a system was never interested in creative or critical thinking to begin with" www.linkedin.com/posts/lian-s...
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University of Sydney to Replace Human Tutors with AI Bots | Lian Sinclair posted on the topic | LinkedIn
The replacement of tutors and lecturers with 'AI bots' is set to start in early 2027. We will have student assignments, written entirely by gen AI, being marked by AI agents, and when students ask an...
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 14/09/2026
It's a work in progress, but I've written and signed a pledge to my students this year that I will not use GenAI in teaching www.bennosaurus.com/no-ai-pledge
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 12/09/2026
When you're unschooling but also it's been a hard day
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 09/09/2026
Hi friends! If you're interested in young people's environmental activism, climate change or anything like that, please join us to launch our Handbook of Young People's Environmental Action on 22nd September, 2pm-3pm UK time... EventBrite link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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Book launch: Routledge Handbook of Young People's Environmental Activism
Join us to celebrate the launch of this important, global handbook on young action, and to hear from authors including young authors!
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 09/09/2026
£21bn pounds (plus £3bn a year to maintain it) and Trident relies on a balloon and the balloon's popped. Adds up
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 08/09/2026
Beyonce's next album is an experimental journey through Chas and Dave covers, you heard it here first
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You know what happens when a plane 'overshoots' a runway. It doesn't just 'return'.
Aerial view of an American Airlines Boeing 737 that overshot the runway, lying wrecked on rocky ground beyond the airport perimeter, fuselage split open and wings buckled, with emergency workers nearby.
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 04/09/2026
Testify - Parliament www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-OZ...
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Parliament - Testify
YouTube video by PerryCoxPF93
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 22/08/2026
Spurs are losing but, to be fair to them, if things had gone a little bit differently they'd also be losing but to Charlton Athletic
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 22/08/2026
Omar Marmoush is watching Sky Sports like the Kombucha Girl right now
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 21/08/2026
Data: You are absolutely correct, and I apologize for the error and the misidentification of the card used in my previous hand. ​My attempt to use Pikachu was further complicated by my erroneous decision to use a fire-type move, Ember, on your Six of Clubs – which would have defeated your Full House
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 20/08/2026
The best place for AI is the bin
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 20/08/2026
(sees a person painting a picture) uhhh doesn't your phone have a camera
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 20/08/2026
Half good, half bad at Hillsborough tonight. Wednesday looked dangerous in the first half but as soon as it went against them, they lacked ideas. I was surprised the manager didn't have anything up his sleeve, given individual players seemed to have a spark in them. Quite liked Harry Gray #swfc
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sure, go ahead and use a chatbot for companionship or relationship advice (to list a couple of the top AI use cases), but in return maybe we all can agree that none of this justifies polluting our air, draining our water supplies or worsening the climate crisis.
hbr.org
How People Are Really Using AI in 2026
In the third edition of this study, the authors found that people are adopting generative AI for an ever-widening range of uses. Trends from one year to the next should be understood as shifts in emph...
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 14/08/2026
Britain when it's on fire
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Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Andy Burnham on his way over to The Range, rolling up his sleeves, face grim
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
once the idea of abolishing slavery turned off most voters. what does that mean? abolitionists shouldn't have tried? or fought for slavery-lite?
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 13/08/2026
the monster raving loony party and that need to have a hard look at themselves for not simply adding a whole bunch of candidates earlier in the alphabet than F
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What's that, Ed Emberley Frog? You have something you want to say?
A drawing of a frog based on a step-by-step guide by Ed EmberleyThe frog saying "FUCK A.I.!"
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 06/08/2026
repost with your earliest childhood crush from film/tv youtu.be/Vv0xjzkOAe8?...
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2 Unlimited - No Limit (Top Of The Pops, BBC UK Firts Version 1993) (HD Remastered)
YouTube video by Ediciones Moogoperator
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 04/08/2026
"The fires, heat and extremes that have dominated the summer of 2026 are what scientists have long been warning about from the burning of coal, oil and gas." via @apnews.com
apnews.com
This summer isn't breaking heat records — yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists say
With parts of the globe aflame in wildfires, deadly heat waves parking over cities, record hot oceans and a strengthening super El Nino, it seems like we’re baking through the hottest year on record.
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 02/08/2026
Do you remember in like 1998 when every adult on the planet discovered how to use Microsoft clip art at precisely the same moment
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 01/08/2026
All power to the Luddites
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
BORN TO FROLIC, FORCED TO REPEATETLY TURN OFF AI - SHIRT'S AND TANK TOP'S AT dashare.zone - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
A BLACK TSHRIT "BORN TO FROLIC, FORCED TO REPEATEDLY TURN OFF AI" AVALIABLE AT dashare.zone - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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AJRed @ajred.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 19/07/2026
0-0 in Trump's final? Excellent. Rodri to scuff in an accidental winner, ideally off his arse, at 81'
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ok this is very good
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Rikaku @beastmasterrika.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.
An image showing the colorful transparent plastic of various pieces of technology of the 90's and early 2000s, that were easily the popular choice of the millennial age bracket. Some of the tech is an iMac, Nintendo 64, Sega DreMcast, a PlayStation 2, a Gameboy color and Advance, and CD player.
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 11/07/2026
Don't really care about the England team but it is nice to see someone in the public eye who shares my approach to summer fashion
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