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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 · 30/09/2026
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 Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 28/09/2026
(the north raises its arm) there's a good aquarium in there mind
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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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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 27/09/2026
It can be hard for kind boys because they're under really really close observation by teachers etc. Real life example some kids who used the term alpha male as a joke got a stern talking to about the manosphere but were baffled because they didn't know anything about it
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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.
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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 · 25/09/2026
In the eye of the beholder. I lived in MCR & teach in MCR... it's buzzing, active, has a hard edge and a strong sense of community across & in different neighbourhoods, people who like MCR love it. But it's MCR through and through, if you don't like it I agree you won't like any of it I reckon
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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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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 24/09/2026
so beautiful! i learned that slow worms live up to 20 to 30 years in the wild and the oldest known slow worm lived to 54 💚
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 23/09/2026
(sorry you probably don't care but every so often one has a very small number on top, that's not a teeny 4mm pipe, it's a 4" pipe with an old sign from before the 70s which still has Imperial measurements on it)
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 23/09/2026
Top number is the diameter of the water main in mm (how much water Fireman Sam / Elvis etc can expect to draw) bottom number is metres to the hydrant outlet, sometimes with an arrow pointing which way to find it
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 22/09/2026
Sepp Blatter's disembodied brain announces that all matches will have six halves, each with a 20-minute commercial break and a bloodwine toast in the centre circle to Earth's gloried benefactor, Galactic Emperor Xargil of Zeta-3 Reticuli
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 22/09/2026
Ugh this is going to be like the time someone put the term "water memory" in the title of a paper
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 21/09/2026
They'll stick with him like they stuck with Frank: for too long. Poch signed a new contract recently too. Nagelsmann?
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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
The look of a Pope whose DM just asked him to roll a perception check
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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
when you want to know where you are but ask someone aged 18 months
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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
Spurs turning up to assassinate another shit manager's reputation (De Zerbi)
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Jodie Comer and Stefan Iancu as Clowns in Killing Eve
ALT: Jodie Comer and Stefan Iancu as Clowns in Killing Eve
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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
Those are so good.
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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
thanks, unlocked 31 deaths and two wins, i liked the omniknock a lot, have a great 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 · 09/09/2026
bow down to margate
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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
methinks the punctuation doth protest too much!
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Dr Evil
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 04/09/2026
"come, brethren, prithee"
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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
Truly one of the football teams of all time
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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 · 22/08/2026
Savinho to his agent
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Snooki Says 'Cancel All Of It'
ALT: Snooki Says 'Cancel All Of It'
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 21/08/2026
Many people would like to live. Life can be a thrilling, affirming and captivating journey from youth to old age, full of joy, love, and adventure. But living isn't just something that happens to you – wanting to live is a choice you often have to make for yourself
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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 · 21/08/2026
what we have here is a cutting edge electronic piano, i mean it's the concert piano of the future, it's super technologically advanced. so advanced, in fact, that occasionally it does a fart noise, a wrong note. it's great for everything but don't play a concert or music you need anyone to listen to
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