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Ben Wardsloane

@benward.uk

445 followers 231 following 160 posts

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.

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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 28/08/2026

This guy is in charge of ICE today?

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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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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 · 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 · 06/06/2025

I’m inclined to believe Elon since he was there.

That picture of Elon and Ghislaine Maxwell

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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 · 24/04/2025

Can only read this headline in Parker Posey’s voice. Which given the context I do not feel great about, tbh.

Headline from The Guardian: “'Vladimir, stop!' Trump in rare rebuke to Putin as Kyiv attack toll rises to 12.”

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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 05/04/2025

I enjoy the juxtaposition of these two posts in my timeline:

Dan’s “Remember people are cheaper than robots” post appears next to Johan’s “Safe cracker is coming along” post, itself showing a photo of a robotic arm turning the wheel of a safe lock.

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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 29/03/2025

Huh! Very familiar…

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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 04/02/2025

First Warriors game in a while. #NBA

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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 23/11/2024

Apple AI telling scary campfire stories as the rain closes in.

Apple Intelligence summary of some Slack messages in #tech-help: Power outage, creepy atmosphere, game over.

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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 19/07/2023

The “after” photo for my bread adventure was also pretty good.

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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 18/07/2023

Back on baking. First dough with a new starter. Seems to be full of life.

Two baskets of sourdough. A little deformed and bubbly. Ready to chill out in the fridge for 12 hours before baking in the morning.

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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 04/07/2023

Wearing the official @rusty.todayintabs.com American independence shirt.

Me. Wearing the Today in Tabs “You can Always Quit” shirt.

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Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk · 22/06/2023

At first glance, I *really* misread the tone of this new “please subscribe” banner on The Guardian. Like, yeah OK, I am a lazy piece of shit. I'm sorry I haven't achieved enough this year. Fucking hell newspaper, I'm trying my best. There was a pandemic, you know? Wait what?