Reposted by benjamin weilBen Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun. 48767922648
Reposted by benjamin weilBen Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 02/05/2026this is an eye wateringly antisemitic depiction of zack polanski — a jewish man. 37512
Reposted by benjamin weilDr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Obviously, while my musings are topical - Carl Sagan had already said the crux much more eloquently and succinctly. 05316
Reposted by benjamin weilBen Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Has a single living former US President –– Clinton, Obama, Bush, Biden –– condemned Donald Trump's threat to commit mass-scale war crimes against the civilian population of Iran? 610323
Reposted by benjamin weilSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history. 182114992743
Reposted by benjamin weilDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Disingenuous prick. He has embedded transphobia as policy. He has denied young trans people access to medication and support. His government has brought back a version of Section 28 against trans young people. He is actively denying trans and non-binary individuals safety and respect. 17509129
Reposted by benjamin weilThe Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 24/03/2026New community-based research conducted in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets highlights on-going and pressing needs. We call for the implementation of key recommendations to improve the health and well-being of trans communities by a range of stakeholders. www.thelovetank.info/news/tnathelovetank.infoTower Hamlets trans needs: new research calls for action — The Love Tank CICNew community-based research, developed in collaboration with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and The Love Tank, highlights the on-going and pressing needs of trans communities within the eas... 1115
Reposted by benjamin weilMichael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026NIHR Clinical Lectureship in Primary Care @lshtm.bsky.social Post is open to fully qualified GPs with a PhD and an academic track record. 4 Years of funding to develop your portfolio at one of the UKs leading Public Health and Primary Care research institutions. Apply by 13th April 2026.jobs.lshtm.ac.ukJob Opportunity at LSHTM: NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care/ General PractitionerThe London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in... 017
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 16/03/2026the internet was better when it was for losers and outcasts 1492
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026the therapists quoted in this piece offer very empathic descriptions of porn addiction (which I believe is as real as any other form of addiction) that don’t centre porn itself, but rather the culture within which it is being consumed, as problematic. i appreciate that enormously. 2211
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 09/11/2025have just seen someone criticise the new adaptation of mary shelley’s frankenstein for failing the bechdel test…. Media literacy is dead 1290
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 21/10/2025excellent article by @tabbykibugiwriter.bsky.social on continued inequities faced by Black women in sexual health: national.thelead.uk/p/sti-crisis...national.thelead.ukWe’re in an STI crisis. Once again, Black women are being left behindThe gonorrhoea vaccine should be a major breakthrough, but young Black women are being left out of sexual health policy – with devastating effects. 1131
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025folks i think it is actually politically expedient to stress that "gender affirming" and "confidence building" are contiguous and similar but *not identical*. 1291
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025🧵: the availability of new injectable formulations of PrEP is going to be enormously difference-making in our collective mission to tackle HIV inequities. more people than ever before will be able to use medications that are essentially 100% effective at preventing HIV. /1 1283
Reposted by benjamin weilDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Our horror at the genocide in Gaza, at the mass murder of civilians on Oct 7 2023, and at today's atrocity in Manchester, comes in each case from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can. 018867
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 03/10/2025literally no correlation here except to massage the notion that the cause of palestinian liberation is antisemitic and to manufacture consent for genocide from jews (which, itself, places jews in harm’s way). 1232
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2025for a second i thought Dyson Airwrap Co-anda 2x was a new tv programme 061
Reposted by benjamin weilThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18/09/2025An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt. nyer.cm/6ApBXER 632384855
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 18/09/2025not only a masterpiece - a truly exceptional investment in art, spirit and vision that has more or less been obliterated under the thumb of late stage capitalism 1220
Reposted by benjamin weilPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys 6395123110901
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 06/09/2025please admire this regal weight bench i saw today 4560
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 06/09/2025holiday has been very good for getting rid of inflammation (the enemy of condition) 121212
Reposted by benjamin weilSimon HB @norock.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival 200245504604
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 30/08/2025last check in before holiday. been holding at 96ish kg since competition (97 here) and happy with what the rough starting point for bulk will be. 21959
Reposted by benjamin weilEddy - edftmxxx🏳️⚧️ @edftmxxx.bsky.social · 29/08/2025I'm doing the World AIDS Day Red Run in November to raise money for Prepster and @thelovetankcic.bsky.social! Donate to my JustGiving page here: www.justgiving.com/page/edftmxxx Any and all donations appreciated🥰 016117
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 29/08/2025the term “performative male” has just finished judith butler off 190
Reposted by benjamin weilMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 28/08/2025111/NHS direct is a joke. Having to misgender yourself to the people there for no reason is outright humiliating. It's designed to put trans people off reaching out for healthcare support. There were years of surveys that worked on finding respectful ways to gather this information, disregarded. 401014258
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 26/08/2025this is brill. the section on dialectical materialism is very well written. 06313
Reposted by benjamin weilWill Nutland @drwilln.bsky.social · 26/08/2025What are the drug & alcohol needs of queer people in the UK? This new community-based research hot-off-the-presses, stunningly authored by @benvyle.bsky.social 172
Reposted by benjamin weilJoe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 26/08/2025This is a 5-year postdoc position! One for the queer STS / medical humanities and other scholars out there. What a cool opportunity 01911
Reposted by benjamin weilThe Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration. Closing date 02 Oct 2025. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.comPostdoctoral Fellow LGBTQThe Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a 5-year postdoctoral Fellow to work on the Wellcome funded Discovery Award Medici... 01210
Reposted by benjamin weilDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority". 4442671795
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 23/08/2025most people on this app have bad taste and no sense of humour,,, proving carrie fisher in ‘when harry met sally’ right once again 2210
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 21/08/2025read alongside a roughly inverse pattern in A levels, record levels of As, paints a deeply unequal portrait of who is seeing school through to A level. 030
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 17/08/2025beware of moral entrepreneurs; someone is *always* profiting from your panic. 1160
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 17/08/2025if a gay man socialises and doesn’t post a picture on his instagram story, did he make a sound 0431
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 14/08/2025increasing pet peeve is books stylised as “NOUN/ADJECTIVE: a novel”. we know!!! we can see!! 190
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 08/08/2025think this film was written and, more importantly, edited by my dog 0120
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 08/08/2025in a safe space (a friday afternoon screening of freakier friday filled with women and gays xx) 1190