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Ben Woodsmith

@bwoodsmith.bsky.social
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TV & Film Producer

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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Looked it up and found it. Opposite of a glow-up is a glow-down. I’m having a glow-down.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-int... Is it ok to turn to drugs, pills and alcohol when you HAVEN’T won at tennis?
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‘I tried to escape with drugs, pills and alcohol’: Björn Borg on his misery and mayhem after quitting tennis
The sporting superstar walked away from success and adulation at 26 – much to everyone’s bemusement. He opens up about his secret life and the depression, cocaine, overdoses and aggressive cancer that...
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Great day to take my kids to the Lego store in Leicester Square 👍
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Do the people who are driving AI and it’s gradual take over the creative industries have a plan for what to do with all of us who will be out of jobs? What’s the end game? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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The ‘death of creativity’? AI job fears stalk advertising industry
WPP and others roll out AI-generated campaigns as Facebook owner Meta plans to let firms create their own ads
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Displayed to humans who are on their way to work
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
‘Why be alive?’ 🎯
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🎯🎯🎯
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/05/2025
Biden Faces Mounting Pressure To Let Younger Democrat Battle Cancer
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Biden Faces Mounting Pressure To Let Younger Democrat Battle Cancer
WASHINGTON—After a stunning admission that he’d been diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of the disease, former President Joe Biden reportedly faced mounting pressure on Monday to let a younger De...
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
@bbc6music.bsky.social not wasting time and ripping out absolute face melters at 12.15 on a Friday
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Find someone who looks at you like Tice looks at Nigel
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It must be great being in Reform. Everyone's always talking about you and bending to your will on the level of vibes but you can come up with any old shit as a policy and get away with it. Schrödinger's Reform: simultaneously the next government and outsiders whose policies don't demand scrutiny
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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Quick!! Everyone! Start freaking out and posting furious comments and drone on and on about the 100% tarrif on . . .films made outside the USA. Aaaaarrrgh. It's the end of the world, it's the worst thing ever! Or we could all ignore the weird old loser.
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"What makes you think I had anything to do with it?"
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 01/05/2025
In any other major city in Europe the streets of Soho would obviously be pedestrianised and businesses/visitors on a glorious day like today could enjoy al fresco dining. But thanks to Westminster Council and the way we give outsized power to absurd local complaints, not here!
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Antikrish (UTFR MUFC) 🇾🇪 @antikrish.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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Jake Hanrahan @hanrahan.tv · 25/04/2025
Really terrible times we're in right now.
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There’s a Vape With a Tamagotchi Inside It That Dies If You Stop Puffing
A participant in an NYU "Stupid Hackathon" says they created a Tamagotchi-integrated vape, where the pet dies if the user stops vaping.
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The onion always nails it but I find some of their funniest work those rare articles where they make trump this oddly lucid philosopher.
Trump: ‘All Arrests Are Politically Motivated As The Legal System Is The Codified Exercise Of Political Power’
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Manori R. @manori-r.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Risk aversion in the industry means broadcasters and distributors need trusted names to get shows financed, shot and delivered, but we're seeing a real polarisation in the writers attached to the premium dramas getting made.
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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
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Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally)

Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet
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Your pissed off grandma @anomaly100.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is incredible. Wait about 20 seconds into this clip. 🙃
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Obama warns that AI will take up many of the jobs humans currently do, and that we'll need to figure our work, income, and meaning in life When will global governments start the conversation for Universal Basic Income, so to ensure no one is left behind?
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Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · 19/04/2025
I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME
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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Amidst all these Studio Ghibli style AI creations doing the rounds at the moment, here's the great Hayao Miyazaki chastising AI creators to their faces. You can see how devastated they are with his reaction. And how devastated he is with what they're doing.
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Ok so what’s the plan? You develop AI so no human is needed anymore to create art. So what do you want us all to do? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’
As tech firms battle creative industries over copyright, OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he was ‘really struck’ by product’s output
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!
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Blair Spookily @blairloudly.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
[ceo tossing and turning in bed] the air. the air they breathe should be a subscription service.
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Somebody on Reddit posted this about the US and it hits hard: ‘They’re gonna crash the economy again and we’re gonna have to fix it again and they’re gonna blame us for not fixing it fast enough again and I just want this doom loop to end’
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Day twenty four of walking from London to New Zealand. youtu.be/a7cOpNphUNE?...
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Day twenty four of walking from London to New Zealand.
YouTube video by Fergus Craig
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Lego time
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Bigthinkingcap @bigthinkingcap.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
If Monday was a person
Dorian Grey portrait
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The ‘Narrator About To Ruin Your Audiobook’ Talent Agency
Title:
The 'Narrator About To Ruin Your Audiobook' Talent Agency

[There follows a series of cheesy black and white actors’ headshots, with names and descriptive captions]

Liz Chirpley
A very expressive narrator. Like, far too expressive really. We've asked her to dial it down.

Greg Mistake
Once read a whole book on Chernobyl, out loud, for money. Still can't pronounce the word 'nuclear’.

Sebastian Equality
Does a really committed ‘woman voice' for all his female characters. We’ve asked him to dial it down.

Brian Decanter
Will read your serious literary novel out *perfectly* apart from one (1) character which he will do in a sort of 'cartoon dog' voice and we simply do not know why.

British Voice 3
We found him in settings. Needs a charger but my god he's cheap.

Leonard Darling-Mwah
Really goes for the Indian accents!
Absolutely fearless. We've asked him to dial it down.

Chris
[Show an actor headshot of someone who is clearly a hand puppet]
The absolute king of trauma memoirs but when we give him biscuits they just fall out of his mouth onto the floor which makes us think he may be some kind of puppet.

Emily Lewis
[Show an actor headshot of a girl, eyes rolling up, clearly possessed]
Can do a very convincing 'man voice'. Needs restraints, and a priest.

J.C. Slurpee
Author with a really, really wet mouth who we had to let narrate his own book because he's famous.
Unlistenable.

Stuart Wilkinson
[Show an actor headshot of a duck] 
Great energy, can't read.
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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Day ten of walking from London to New Zealand... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWQX...
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Day ten of walking from London to New Zealand.
YouTube video by Fergus Craig
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 06/02/2025
Genuinely on tenterhooks to find out where this is going to end.
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/02/2025
I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI
Brian Driscoll, the acting director of the FBI, sporting curly hair, a kinda rakish jazz dirtbag moustache and beard combo, a faintly amused look in his eyes and a wry "whaddaya gonna do" smirk
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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Day eight of walking from London to New Zealand... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkn5...
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Day eight of walking from London to New Zealand.
YouTube video by Fergus Craig
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A modern classic
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Marmaduke wants to know what’s happening
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
My wife is a yoga teacher. Should I be worried?
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
👏
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🍁𝒮𝒶𝓈𝓈𝓎 𝒢𝒾𝓇𝓁 🤍 @sassycanadian0.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
"You better fix my entire life" ~Me to my coffee
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Absolutely tremendous
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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Day two of walking from London to New Zealand. www.youtube.com/watch?v=drqn...
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Day two of walking from London to New Zealand.
YouTube video by Fergus Craig
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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Can’t wait for day 2…
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