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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Driving past this and telling my partner they left a note for the cleaners. She’s really had enough of it now.

Facade of art deco building in west London reads ‘Hoover Building’. For American friends, hoover means vacuum in the UK.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Can anyone hook a fella up with a beta code for Instinct AI?

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Or at least do the trend properly and ironically attach it to a kitchen spatula as an impromptu mic.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Another excellent analysis from Dan Neidle on how the very wealthy can avoid stamp duty. Personally triggering as I am staring at a £30k SDLT bill, a move I have to do for work. I cannot easily add five more properties to the deal for less than the sum of the tax taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/09/22/n...

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Nick Candy, Suneil Setiya, and £18.5m stamp duty avoided

Nick Candy’s £265m mansion was the UK’s biggest-ever house sale. We reveal how adding five small flats appears to have avoided £18.5m of stamp duty.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Grand designs back with a classic of the genre. Young couple with £1m to spend… how will they manage etc..

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 14/09/2026

Pray for your mentions 😬. Every single road user would do well to remind themselves of the hierarchy of road users before they head out. Cyclists have a responsibility to reduce danger to pedestrians. This does not take away from a car/van/lorry’s responsibility to reduce danger to cyclists.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 06/09/2026

Rugby season starts again. Early season is pretty delightful way to spend a Sunday morning… depths of winter coming soon

View of Aylesbury rugby club pitches, kids playing rugby and the book ‘unworking’ on my knee

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 02/09/2026

Putting it in parentheses is beyond absurd.

Screenshot of Google map centred on Lake Ontario, now displayed as Lake Ontario (Lake America).

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 23/08/2026

Peckham Rye junior parkrun this morning.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 22/08/2026

I came very close to letting my 6 year old walk 1km home during the recent eclipse because she was being an unbearable little prick and ruining it for everyone.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 21/08/2026

Is anyone looking at how we might scale what works in GM?

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 21/08/2026

Interested in how you funnel civil servants into local gov when it is also contracting 🤷‍♂️

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 17/08/2026

A close friend is at risk of redundancy, as part of a clumsy global mega corp re-org. He leads data science and AI implementation in a large telco. Very hands on with building and implementing stuff from boring ML to shiny new LLM stuff. Where do people look for jobs these days? Is it all LinkedIn?

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Get them onto the local parish or town council, even easier and an immediate direct involvement in local issues .

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 12/08/2026

A 97% eclipse is 80% more underwhelming than a total eclipse. Not worth the price of the kids being dickheads because of a late bedtime 😉

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Entire village slowly making their way up the local hill to view the eclipse

People gathering on Quainton hill to view the solar eclipse

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 07/08/2026

Lovely day at Chessington World of Adventures, with the small caveat that paid fastrack tickets are bullshit. If I was king for a day, I would end this practice.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 06/08/2026

Dry robe or wax jacket very heavy class signifiers at my boys rugby training in the winter.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 04/08/2026

I’ve done my bit by going camping, which has at least summoned clouds

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 03/08/2026

Angel, Shoreditch and Peckham were the bits on my routes that caused me the most anxiety.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 03/08/2026

I stopped enjoying it too. Delivery scooters and kids as you describe without helmets (I assume to prevent police pursuit) all over the roads. Came very close to being bike jacked, so went back to public transport.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Another thing the boy will be better at than me before too long. First ever wave he tried to catch and he’s up on his feet 🏄‍♂️ 🤙

9 year old boy, stood surfing a small beach break at Croyde Bay, North Devon, UK

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 24/07/2026

House move making some progress, lawyers are lawyering. Next major admin is schools. It’s 2026 and the online experience is still appalling. Why are you making me interact with a GIS tool? Completely unusable on mobile. Let me put a postcode in a field and have a list of results returned please.

A screen shot of a schools finder service that’s unusable on a mobile browser. Overlapping menus preventing selection of options on what looks like an iframe of an ESRI mapping service.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 23/07/2026

Option B. But, before flipping the coin sell a 50% stake of the potential winnings for £200k to a hedge fund.

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Trying to explain the latest AI security frenzy on channel 4 news m.youtube.com/watch?is=yVF...

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AI gone rogue: OpenAI agent hacks Hugging Face

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 21/07/2026

Makes them about the same size as the average London Borough.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 20/07/2026

💯 this. One of the most important long tail effects of the Government Digital Service is the increased accessibility of public sector digital services - which helps everyone.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 16/07/2026

I have three kids and enjoy camping trips. A Skoda Octavia estate is more than enough car and its tiny 1.0 litre engine happily gets us to the alps and back. I don’t understand the fascination with these giant cars

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 15/07/2026

My local council has replaced the main search bar with an AI chat and I don’t like it. I’m just not convinced every interaction needs to be a bloody chat. The integrations with some back office systems is neat, I’d just like to see a new UX paradigm for this stuff

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 13/07/2026

“Verify your age” Submits undergrad dissertation on a floppy disc.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 09/07/2026

Benjamin here, only my parents use it…. but agree it’s lovey to have the option there. I think my later years will be mostly hedonism and eccentricity as a Benjamin.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

OK, this is an unlikely ask: is anyone in S London willing/able to lend an MTB/gravel bike for next weekend, suitable for someone about 5ft 9in? Reasons/justification/location in next post. In return: a cleaned bike/eternal gratitude/nice bottle of wine/even some cold, hard ££ if preferred.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 05/07/2026

Irony is turning half your garden into a paddling pool and the temperature dropping by 10 degrees

Back garden of an end terrace house with a 10ft paddling pool in a 20ft wide garden. Two children playing in cold water

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 29/06/2026

Selling and buying houses is still all done by writing on bits of paper then 😭

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 29/06/2026

In the process of moving. Been looking at some delightful 1960’s modernist estates in Surrey - many of which prohibit visible heat pumps, solar panels or EV chargers 🤯

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 27/06/2026

Two weeks after the brother in laws stag do parkrun, it’s a wedding day parkrun in Tetbury

A group of runners in front of the Tetbury Goods Shed parkrun sign

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Not sure I agree with the ‘Good’ rating of my environment sensor in the home office. Work has had to stop.

Data from air quality sensor showing status as good. Temp 34c humidity 58% CO and VOC low

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 24/06/2026

Dentist union has collectively agreed to not allow 2:30 appointments, because they got tired of the dad jokes.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 24/06/2026

Yes, although hot sunny summer days usually also equals a surplus of renewable electricity. I am not pious enough to choose the efficiency over the comfort. But will do that afterwards!

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 24/06/2026

Very much budgeting for a full aircon install for the forthcoming house move. Was hoping to do solar first, but that can wait if this is the new normal.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 21/06/2026

Excellent weekend of boxcar racing. Our entry (that I am hired muscle for pushing, not engineering) won the best engineered for its tilt steer mechanism.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 13/06/2026

Brother in laws stag do parkrun on Wollacombe Dunes

People running on a trail with a tall man wearing a white bridal gown.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 12/06/2026

Stag do this weekend. Thing I am most looking forward to is getting a new parkrun location tomorrow morning 🫣

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 10/06/2026

Selling house and already suffering idiots in the first week. Feedback: we really want an open plan kitchen and dining room. Maybe look at the photos and floor plan of the Edwardian cottage before you book a viewing?

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 27/05/2026

It’s a compelling idea from the practicalities of testing new services. Would need to consider that testing on the IOW is to test with a population that is whiter and older than the rest of the UK.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 27/05/2026

7:45am water balloon fight.

Two children throwing water balloons in a garden.

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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 25/05/2026

Six year old just sleepwalked into her big brothers room and went for a pee sitting on his drum kit stool 😂. He didn’t wake up and we cannot ever tell him.

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