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Ben Cadwallader

@caddymation.bsky.social
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3D Animator & someone who really should be doing more drawing & probably reading too. Used to be over there, now planning to be over here instead. I like a few different sports too, so look out for stuff about that as well

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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 3h
#BigTech's data centres use as much power as millions of homes and guzzle our water. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Zero water waste 🗣️ Local community consent Sign Foxglove's petition to stop data centres harming our communities and environment. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
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Ban data centres that harm our communities and climate
Big Tech’s giant data centres swallow as much power as millions of homes, guzzle our water, and risk driving up our energy bills - all with zero limits. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Ze...
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 5h
NEW | On good reviews for a bad speech… KEMI-CHARMED LIFE Praise for Kemi Badenoch’s Tory party conference speech shows the British right-wing press engaged in an act of collective fantasy. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/kemi-charm...
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Kemi-charmed life
Praise for Kemi Badenoch’s Tory party conference speech shows the British right-wing press engaged in an act of collective fantasy.
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Brian @brianscant.bsky.social · 9h
The barrister who cleared Jukes and Orr is Reform’s own barrister, Adam Richardson. Investigations, internal or otherwise, are more credible if the lawyer isn’t the company’s own lawyer! For anyone interested in Richardson, a failed UKIP candidate, read this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Russia murdered 25 innocent people overnight in Ukraine, 5 were children; the missiles and drones targeted them while they slept to maximize the casualty count. Trump will call Putin immediately, to wish him a happy birthday.
This image appears to show a Ukrainian State Emergency Service worker carrying a rescued animal wrapped in a patterned blanket at the site of a deadly missile strike in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast.According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the image shows emergency responders fighting a fire at a garage cooperative in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv following a Russian aerial attack on October 6, 2026.
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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yep, according to the latest issue of Private Eye she accepted £8k to go to Greece to meet with Murdoch & various News UK execs, which fits in with the recent love-in between her & the Sun in particular recently
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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The way she & the 2 guests on for that section just span what looked a v low-key Tory conference as some great success was laughable.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes. That’s always been the case with the Tories. But in the past they’ve been clever enough to lie about the fact they exist to enrich the 1% at the expense of the 99%. But not Badenoch!
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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If anything it reflects badly on her- Paddington seems a generally popular character so trying to use him as a diss on an opponent doesn't really work.
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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It was some other Conservative Party that go to another school, that she didn't know at all but somehow ended up a govt minister for..
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Bileysmullet @bileysmullet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Presumably Badenoch isnt aware that the Tories were in power for the huge majority of the last 16 years.
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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The problem for her there is that there were people in the 1980s who openly didn't want the likes of John Barnes in the England team. They were generally called out as the filthy racists they were & from what I remember didn't have MPs 'legitimising' their 'concerns'.
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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Birmingham's Symphony Hall is a brilliant venue, but i doubt it's hosted much as truly shit as a speech by Badenoch (& i'm including all the other times the Tories have pitched up there, spewing among other things their anti-EU bile while ignoring the fact the Hall & ICC were built using EU funding)
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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just look at those ye olde metal safety barriers!
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The prosecution case is that Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate used and threatened physical and sexual violence in order to maintain control and compliance." Where are the voices from the self appointed defenders of women and young girls who would usually be on this? www.reuters.com/world/uk/tat...
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Tate brothers used 'lover boy' model to exploit women, Britain says
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate used a "lover boy" model to lure women with the ‌promise of romantic relationships before coercing them to create online pornography, British law enfor...
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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My home city being cursed by both the Tories & Reform this autumn conference season (extra horrible irony of the Tories banging their anti-EU drum again for leaving the ECHR while sat in a Symphony Hall & convention centre built using EU regeneration funds)
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026
I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings
The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scamThe cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.
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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've stumbled across an image that sums up 1979 during the Scarred For Life era, combining ITV's 11 week strike with the Yorkshire Ripper...
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/10/2026
#VanityFair
Vanity fair cover with Sam Altman stealing everything
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Dragonrider "Is he dead yet?" 🐠🐟 Try/Me 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @topsyscatmum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Quelle surprise www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Angela Eagle: "Rising bills, poorer services and sewage pumped into our rivers, all the while water bosses got paid millions of pounds in bonuses - that is the legacy of privatisation." (Cabinet ministers would not have said this under Keir Starmer)
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dame Angela Eagle MP, Labour's Environment Secretary, on Kemi Badenoch claiming water privatisation has been a "success": "Kemi Badenoch is living in an alternate reality. How anybody can look at the Tory record on water and call it a success is baffling."
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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pygmyshrew.bsky.social @pygmyshrew.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ian Hislop's specialist subject is Jeffery Archer... worth a watch. bsky.app/profile/cwas...
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 06/10/2026
A rather more honest Jeffrey Archer obituary by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I kept coming back to Coghlan: "You're a liar. He's a liar and he knows it. He's even putting his wife through it. I've got nothing he's got money. I can't even go back to work" brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...
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Here lies Jeffrey Archer
The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The demise of WHSmith reminds me of when my friend queued for ages to buy a protractor, only to get to the front and discover that it was Jeffrey Archer doing a signing
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Politician, perjurer, crook, crap novelist and general arsehole Jeffrey Archer has carked it. That both hilarious and sinister clip of him on Newsnight lives rent free in my head. Looks like we'll be waiting for ever for you to be Mayor now pal. Can't wait to read all the glowing press tributes.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Adam Boulton told Times Radio re: Jeffrey Archer: “You really couldn’t make it up…” He famously did, Adam.
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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Probably be better off eating alone!
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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That really doesn't sound like fun.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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weloveallthat @weloveallthat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Shocked, nay stunned, to discover that Clive Dunn's 1970s novelty number one hit "Grandad" actually merited a Japanese 7" single release.
Japanese cover art for Clive Dunn's "Grandad"showing Dunn in Dad's Army military attire holding a gun in one hand, standing to attention next to some kind of hewn stone monument, possibly a gravestone. The song title is rendered in katakana in a curiously artistic font, as is the name of the B-side. Other Japanese script informs potential local purchasers that the disc is a British number one hit.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The history of neoliberalism is one of public money being channeled to private corporations. What does Syed think happened in 2008 and what Austerity was for?
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hate this. Replies and quotes are disabled because the poster knows it’s crap. Musk is shit. Sagan didn’t say that. But he *did* write: “There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate… Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.”
A post from someone with the text: “I’m with Carl Sagan on this.” then an image of Elon Musk with the text: “"Mars is the
ultimate lifeboat for human
consciousness.
Expanding our footprint across the stars is an
absolute biological imperative to outlive the inevitable decay of earth."
ELON MUSK” alongside an image of Carl Sagan with the text: “"Abandoning a dying planet instead of
healing it is the ultimate hubris.
Escaping to the stars is just a
billionaire's fantasy to avoid cleaning up the mess left behind."
CARL
SAGAN”
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Elizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
(The number was based on 71 percent of 2,000 people surveyed saying they they’ve had food stolen by a gull before, applying that to the entire UK population then multiplying it by 0.8 — the average number of thefts that year reported — and a cost of £5.50 per food item)
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Right, I keep seeing this on here because it’s so deliciously memeable but… who says? Well, the ‘research’ that came up with this number was commissioned by Compare The Market. Yes, it’s slander of British seagulls by foreign meerkats.
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Britons lose £171
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Conservative party Shadow Culture Secretary to speak at conference tomorrow about how to "defend press freedom", whilst her own party bans journalists whose coverage they don't like
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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Found all the talk about him being the one murdered in the game because he's such a laser focused, tenacious journalist quite darkly amusing
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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 02/10/2026
Obvious Plant advert for COMING SOON Extra Teeth Dental Care. We will keep adding teeth until you tell us to stop.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
evergreen post that is!
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Dan McPainInOneSpecificKnee @danmckee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FUCK OFF TOPLOADER #totp
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That damning moment in The Armando Iannucci Shows when, during a list of Things We Simply Don't Need: 'The Daily Express, the song Crash-Bang-Wallop What a Picture, the music of the Bluetones...' #totp
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Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's quite clear the role of Aunt Bessie has been passed down the generations of the Bessie family!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children. Some people charged up to £104 extra. Neoliberals routinely moan about regulation but are silent on customer rip-off schemes. If businesses were ethical we wouldn't need regulation.
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UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children
Planned rule change forms part of Burnham’s bid to crack down on the ‘little charges that add up’
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Reform UK Mayor of Basildon – who is also Essex County Council’s Cabinet Member for Education, SEND and Skills – has had one of his companies struck off the official register after it failed to file legally required documents, while another has never filed accounts in more than six years
bylinetimes.com
Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years
Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🔴 Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years Exclusive: Reform UK’s Sam Journet branded “Britain’s worst councillor” as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/r...
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Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years
Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council
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