Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 17hKind 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 010
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 29/09/20261,000,001 video game remakes and still no roguelike of "Zombies Ate My Neighbours", make it make sense 000
Reposted by Ben BowmanBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Good 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... 15555208
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 27/09/2026Do 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?? 110
Reposted by Ben BowmanGreg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Rachel 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 07337
Reposted by Ben BowmanSamio (unc who wants to help you learn philosophy) @samio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When 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 193
Reposted by Ben BowmanParis Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026An 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.blogThe media has the AI threat all wrongGenerative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios. 271738585
Reposted by Ben BowmanSaskia Heijltjes @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Very, 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 🙌 1105
Reposted by Ben BowmanGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 206188445350
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 24/09/2026I 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 011
Reposted by Ben BowmanZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Absolutely 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. 371417473
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 18/09/2026(holding phone camera up) could you please ponder this, your holiness, for the memes 132
Reposted by Ben BowmanTom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 16/09/2026New 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. 12212
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 17/09/2026I 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 061
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 15/09/2026the "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 020
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 15/09/2026A 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...linkedin.comUniversity of Sydney to Replace Human Tutors with AI Bots | Lian Sinclair posted on the topic | LinkedInThe 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... 021
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 14/09/2026It'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 031
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 09/09/2026Hi 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...eventbrite.co.ukBook launch: Routledge Handbook of Young People's Environmental ActivismJoin us to celebrate the launch of this important, global handbook on young action, and to hear from authors including young authors! 051
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 010
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 08/09/2026Beyonce's next album is an experimental journey through Chas and Dave covers, you heard it here first 130
Reposted by Ben BowmanDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026You know what happens when a plane 'overshoots' a runway. It doesn't just 'return'. 05518
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 04/09/2026Testify - Parliament www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-OZ...youtube.comParliament - TestifyYouTube video by PerryCoxPF93 000
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 22/08/2026Spurs 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 040
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 22/08/2026Omar Marmoush is watching Sky Sports like the Kombucha Girl right now 000
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 21/08/2026Data: 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 110
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 20/08/2026(sees a person painting a picture) uhhh doesn't your phone have a camera 040
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 20/08/2026Half 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 020
Reposted by Ben BowmanJohn Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Sure, 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.orgHow People Are Really Using AI in 2026In 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... 0155
Reposted by Ben BowmanLorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Andy Burnham on his way over to The Range, rolling up his sleeves, face grim 39326
Reposted by Ben BowmanWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026once the idea of abolishing slavery turned off most voters. what does that mean? abolitionists shouldn't have tried? or fought for slavery-lite? 747459
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 13/08/2026the 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 010
Reposted by Ben BowmanCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023Under 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 11188452997
Reposted by Ben BowmanDarren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 12/08/2026What's that, Ed Emberley Frog? You have something you want to say? 10918225
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 06/08/2026repost with your earliest childhood crush from film/tv youtu.be/Vv0xjzkOAe8?...youtu.be2 Unlimited - No Limit (Top Of The Pops, BBC UK Firts Version 1993) (HD Remastered)YouTube video by Ediciones Moogoperator 000
Reposted by Ben BowmanZack 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.comapnews.comThis summer isn't breaking heat records — yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists sayWith 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. 512651
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 02/08/2026Do you remember in like 1998 when every adult on the planet discovered how to use Microsoft clip art at precisely the same moment 011
Reposted by Ben Bowmanda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 20/07/2026BORN TO FROLIC, FORCED TO REPEATETLY TURN OFF AI - SHIRT'S AND TANK TOP'S AT dashare.zone - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN 0986246
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 19/07/20260-0 in Trump's final? Excellent. Rodri to scuff in an accidental winner, ideally off his arse, at 81' 030
Reposted by Ben BowmanRikaku @beastmasterrika.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Fuck 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. 180103324087
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 11/07/2026Don'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 020