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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 · 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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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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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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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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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I Saw The TV Glow is great and feels really fresh

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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Yeah! Took my two boys and they had a great time. Stupid fun. And that’s fine.

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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

Wishing you a great day at work and all the best

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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

That would be a fourth way then. I’m up for it and feels like we tried it with Corbyn who I voted for. It just seems like this leftist purity thing is unworkable in real life. I don’t like Starmer much but also believe he wants to help people who can’t work. It takes time. Let him try.

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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

?? I think you’ve got lost in your own political metaphor. With respect, I’d encourage you to point your political anger at the voices who deserve it.

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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I have no particular love for Starmer and, I think, have the same political values as you, but this purity test that you hold leaders to is damaging. Starmer is at least a grown up in a political environment led by angry toddlers. What more do you want right now?

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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Are you shitting on Starmer for repeating too many times that he’s the son of a tool maker? With everything…That’s your target?

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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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Ben Woodsmith @bwoodsmith.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Tremendous. Your day won’t get better than this

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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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