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benjamin weil

@benvyle.bsky.social
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writer-researcher-bodybuilder / head of research @thelovetankcic.bsky.social / they/he / insta: @benvyle / ✡️ 🍉 (london, where views are my own)

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
this is an eye wateringly antisemitic depiction of zack polanski — a jewish man.
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Obviously, while my musings are topical - Carl Sagan had already said the crux much more eloquently and succinctly.
A photo from Apollo 11 with Ladin standing next to the American flag. A text is overlaid. It reads "For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon.
It reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind."
As the United States was dropping 7.5 megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity.
We would harm no one on a lifeless rock."
- Carl Sagan,
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Has 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?
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Spencer 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.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Disingenuous 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.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New 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/tna
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Tower Hamlets trans needs: new research calls for action — The Love Tank CIC
New 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...
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Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
NIHR 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.
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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care/ General Practitioner
The 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...
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
the internet was better when it was for losers and outcasts
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
the 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.
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
have just seen someone criticise the new adaptation of mary shelley’s frankenstein for failing the bechdel test…. Media literacy is dead
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
excellent article by @tabbykibugiwriter.bsky.social on continued inequities faced by Black women in sexual health: national.thelead.uk/p/sti-crisis...
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We’re in an STI crisis. Once again, Black women are being left behind
The gonorrhoea vaccine should be a major breakthrough, but young Black women are being left out of sexual health policy – with devastating effects.
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
folks i think it is actually politically expedient to stress that "gender affirming" and "confidence building" are contiguous and similar but *not identical*.
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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
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Our 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.
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
literally 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).
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leo benjamin @growingbottom.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
i'm back 😜
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
for a second i thought Dyson Airwrap Co-anda 2x was a new tv programme
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18/09/2025
An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt. nyer.cm/6ApBXER
The cover of the September 29, 2025, issue of The New Yorker.
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
not 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
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Phil 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
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
home tomorrow
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
please admire this regal weight bench i saw today
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
holiday has been very good for getting rid of inflammation (the enemy of condition)
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
i have the best workouts on holiday
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
you can’t tell but i am in 🇦🇱
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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
last 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.
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Eddy - edftmxxx🏳️‍⚧️ @edftmxxx.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I'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🥰
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
the term “performative male” has just finished judith butler off
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 28/08/2025
111/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.
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111 online

What was your sex at birth?

Female

Male

This online triage depends on knowing your registered sex at birth, not your gender identity.

If you are doing this for someone else, tell us their sex at birth if you know.

We need to know this information so we can ask relevant clinical questions.

If you feel uncomfortable giving this information, or do not see an option that represents you correctly, you can call 111 to talk to a nurse.
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
this is brill. the section on dialectical materialism is very well written.
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Will Nutland @drwilln.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
What 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
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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is a 5-year postdoc position! One for the queer STS / medical humanities and other scholars out there. What a cool opportunity
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Exciting 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...
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Postdoctoral Fellow LGBTQ
The 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...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Just 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".
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
most people on this app have bad taste and no sense of humour,,, proving carrie fisher in ‘when harry met sally’ right once again
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
read 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.
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
beware of moral entrepreneurs; someone is *always* profiting from your panic.
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
if a gay man socialises and doesn’t post a picture on his instagram story, did he make a sound
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
read this
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
increasing pet peeve is books stylised as “NOUN/ADJECTIVE: a novel”. we know!!! we can see!!
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
think this film was written and, more importantly, edited by my dog
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benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
in a safe space (a friday afternoon screening of freakier friday filled with women and gays xx)
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