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Ben Wardsloane

@benward.uk
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Web developer. @bffdotfm radio. Music nerd. Brit in San Francisco. he/him.

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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 30/09/2026
I’m of the view that there’s only one correct answer for AI avatars.
A screenshot from ChatGPT dots, my agent named “Bird” has an avatar of a red drinking bird toy. Perfect for pressing the letter Y incessantly while I go do other things.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 02/09/2026
Naming the site of a most embarrassing military quagmire after himself? I think we can let him have this one.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 10/08/2026
I remember when the new BART fleet came in the noise reduction felt revelatory. Riding to SFO now it feels like the track is howling just the way it used to. Is it in my head or did that actually regress? Did we just get used to it being quieter but it’s actually still always been bad?
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 07/08/2026
Remembering fondly when it sucked because all app icons were blue.
A screengrab of my dock, showing Notion, Linear, Github, Conductor, Orca and Emdash, all which have black and white icons. (3 of these apps do effectively the same thing and I'm just trying them out, but still.)
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 07/08/2026
Sitting in a meeting pod and this emergency exit sign makes me look like a fairly content Sim.
Screengrab of my self-view in a Google Meet window. Captioned with my name. In the background, a glowing green exit sign is at a perspective angle to look like a diamond, and its glare makes it look like like VFX rather than physical signage. I'm leaning my head to one side so it appears the green, glowing diamond is hovering above me.
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Probably only 3 or 4 goals left in this game now
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 06/07/2026
I think this game ends 4-3. No ideal who wins.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 06/07/2026
The USA were in real danger of being recognised for actual merit in this tournament and I love it for them that This Fucking Guy can’t help himself but stick a monumental asterisk on all of it.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
[Kermit rising from the reflecting pool like Baron Harkonnen, dripping green goo, intensely sad] Hi-ho.
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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Got this stuck in my head and had to get it out. Just in case someone needs it.
The ENRON logo, but it says ELON and is Tesla red.
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 18/03/2026
They’re not boots on the ground if they’re oversized dress shoes.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 16/03/2026
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 31/01/2026
I remember Musk’s shitty downplaying of “‘Pedo guy’ is just a thing people in South Africa say”. It makes more sense in the full context of “‘Pedo guy’ is just a thing people in South Africa say about me”.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 05/12/2025
The NFL should give him an Emmy.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 05/12/2025
The FIFA Peace Prize thing has my reactions torn between how objectively hilarious and pathetic it is, and deep-seated shame because… well just because I like football.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 23/10/2025
Did someone tell him that there’s treasure buried under the White House or something? He’s going to emerge from the rubble filled hole in the ground clutching “actually the real constitution” declaring “see says right here: one king.”
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 20/10/2025
They …bombed JD Vance? You never go full VEEP, guys. Did they remember to write “antifa is good” on the shell at least?
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 19/10/2025
San Francisco was scorching today. Lucky we had signs for …shade.
Me, holding a sign that reads “No Kings, Only Frogs”
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 29/09/2025
Trump to sign an executive order requiring only his personal caddies be allowed to work the course at the next Ryder Cup.
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit is standing in the grass holding a bag and saying a-ha !
Alt: Infamous Bond movie henchman Oddjob discretely drops a golf ball from his trouser leg, allowing his employer — Donald J Trump — to cheat at golf, his alleged favourite game. (Donald Trump cheats at golf.)
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 24/09/2025
Handled with remarkable, deft class, and channelling this rare extra attention toward all manner of issues beyond himself. Kimmel has such a talent for stepping above his shtick at key moments.
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This whole website right now:
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 30/08/2025
Thoughts and prayers (derogatory)
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 19/08/2025
Make a band a food: Sushi and the Banshees
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 19/08/2025
Make a band a food: …And you will know us by the trail of bread.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 19/08/2025
Make a band a food: The eggs eggs.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 14/08/2025
Trump’s solution to the Ukraine war is for the USA to surrender? Truly his Nobel Peace Prize is in the bag.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 13/08/2025
Slightly diminish a band: Nick Cave and the Just Absolute Dogshit Seeds
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 13/08/2025
Slightly diminish a band: A Winged Stalemate for the Sullen.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Reese Reese Witherspoon. Withoutherspoon
Reese Witherspoon eating ice cream and smiling Reese Witherspoon with a neutral expression
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 30/07/2025
“I kicked him out of my club for hiring underage girls.” Sounds like a strong moral position. “I kicked him out of my club for hiring underage girls from me.” A real choice to keep talking for those two more words.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 18/07/2025
Seemingly every few weeks I have to erase my Firefox local profile and start over because it simply ceases to make network connections and won't load any pages. No new extensions, no config change. Just… dead. Forum advice like “disable http3” is ineffective and seems outdated. Anyone fixed this?
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 12/07/2025
Any user in particular?
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 20/06/2025
I was building a floating frame for a canvas. I mistakenly cut two sides the wrong way up, so they were short. Oops. Bought new wood and finally restarted. This new wood is thicker. So reusing old measurements doesn’t make the same size frame. I now realise. Anyhoo, today I made half of two frames.
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Bill Criswell @crswll.dev · 15/06/2025
A picture of Early Christians and Christian Slater cut in half
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 15/06/2025
Look, I’m not in favour of dick swinging military parades as a measure of national might. Very anti that, in fact. Especially my own country. But I’m also opposed to such parades making us look like total dogshit. Greenland is watching this confidently drawing up plans to annex to lower 48.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 15/06/2025
Happy birthday you fuck. You colossal prick. You piece of shit. Enjoy your Army birthday party. Bet you wish you’d kept the old bone spurs sick note to skip out on this too, yeah?
Donald Trump, looking miserable as fuck in the rain watching his birthday military parade.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 15/06/2025
Also a delight to see Trump’s tiny dick parade looking so shitty. Looks so hard to spin they’ll have to exhume Sean Spicer from the Easter Bunny tomb they froze him in.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 15/06/2025
Home from the SF No Kings march, looking through all the wonderful pictures from around the country. There’s so much to face, but so good to see how not alone we are to do it.
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
gentleman, gentleman, please, there's no need for this! you are both in the epstein files.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 06/06/2025
I’m inclined to believe Elon since he was there.
That picture of Elon and Ghislaine Maxwell
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 05/06/2025
Twitter right now
Lobster fight meme, but it's all The Worst Person You Know
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/06/2025
God DAMN
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 05/06/2025
All I want now is the news that a plucky little Ukrainian drone has exfiltrated The Pee Tape from a Russian bunker and is racing toward the border with it.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
this reminds me of the day the llamas escaped from the zoo
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 05/06/2025
Heh “very disappointed”. “Elon was once like a son to me, but now he is like one of my sons.”
Push notification from The Guardian:

“Trump says he's 'very disappointed in Elon' and unsure if they will have good relationship after Musk's criticism of his tax bill”
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 08/05/2025
Google pimping its latest AI a little more literally than they perhaps meant to.
Email summary:

Google Gemini
Ben, our most intelligent model is now available to you.
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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 08/05/2025
I just don’t think Pete Hegseth’s policy of serving hard liquor at every briefing is working out you guys.
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