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Amateur photographer, animal lover, nature lover, NHS supporter 💙 Left the other place and taken up permanent residence here. It's much healthier. And so much more friendly.

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 48m
Turns out Trump’s so-called “deep state” was protecting us from diarrhea and keeping our food safe.
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Is Trump to blame for explosive diarrhea, too?
Yes. His cuts in food safety have literally caused a shitshow.
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 51m
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The catapult petition is over halfway. This is how we win this
Catapult crime against wildlife is skyrocketing. Add your signature now!
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 52m
‘Sign this petition today to demand that the government prioritize the well-being and lives of these children by implementing an urgent reimbursement scheme for medicinal cannabis treatments.’
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Urgent Government Reimbursement Scheme for Children accessing Medicinal Cannabis
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 58m
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Robert Jenrick would welcome Tommy Robinson and Danny Tommo supporters into Reform
As if further proof of Reform’s far-right credentials was needed, Reform’s shadow chancellor signals his endorsement of Britain’s far-right street-gang leaders
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 4h
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Sign the petition: M&S - come clean about the damage caused by your farmed salmon
Add your name to the petition today
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 4h
‘Reform has investigated Reform. Its own barrister and general secretary have produced a 27-page report finding no evidence that the party or the two senior figures involved, James Orr and Dan Jukes, broke the law. The actual police, meanwhile, are still investigating.’
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Inspector Farage and the case of the worrying whitewash
Reform has investigated and cleared itself. What it found should worry anyone considering handing it power.
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 4h
Over 3 million hours of sewage. Thousands of people getting sick. A water system failing to protect our health. Read the Water Quality Report 2026 ⬇️ www.sas.org.uk/resource/wat...
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Water Quality Report 2026
Over 3 million hours of sewage. Thousands of people getting sick. A water system failing to protect our health.
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 4h
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The Breaking Point
A President Who Can't Tell Fantasy From Fact
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 5h
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It’s time for men to speak up - and act | Good Law Project
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f
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Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia
Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Abolishing our independent public bodies removes scrutiny without fixing the underlying problem
A vulnerability we highlightd a year ago is now Conservative policy
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
lawyersforanimals.substack.com
The need for scrutiny of self-regulated equine sports
This article was written by guest writer Dene Stansall, a long-time advocate to help horses in British racing.
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
‘Holden’s findings help us better understand not just where the media firestorm against Jason Arday emerged from, but the new set of beliefs being propagated on the ‘intellectual’ side of the far-right.’ bylinetimes.com/2026/10/06/e...
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'Even Nazi Psychologists Acknowledged Jewish Intelligence': The Posts of the Academic Who Targeted Jason Arday
Nathan Cofnas, whose Substack set off the media firestorm over Jason Arday, made a series of posts about “Jewish IQ”, “Mischlings”, and the “emptying” of Gaza
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Microplastics have been found in human placentas, Antarctica and clouds. The planetary boundary we've smashed through the hardest - novel entities. Plastics, pills and pesticides, we've been poisoning the planet and ourselves with a cocktail of synthetic chemicals for decades.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Interesting We tend to think of “climate tipping points” as one big research area. They’re not. Attention is massively skewed: Greenland has 1000's of papers, while some tipping elements have <150. What risks are we missing simply because they’re harder to study? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Uneven attention to climate tipping points | PNAS
Climate tipping points have moved from theoretical concern to a practical challenge for climate-risk assessment and governance. Yet whether scienti...
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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
05.10.2026 'Floods devastate rice fields in the Halagon region of Izeh city, Iran' Alertageo [x] #FossilFuels #Meat #Dairy #Collapse #Climate #Asia
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Revealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policy
FGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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‘The tide is turning’: Palestine solidarity’s impact on British politics
British Palestinian Committee director on what divestment and electoral pressure have achieved – and where work remains
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The Most Exclusive Dinner in the World
You're Not Invited, But You're Paying For It
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Kremlin launched its full invasion of Ukraine claiming it was facing biological attack. Now the disinformation has come back to bite it reports Caroline Orr Bueno
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Russia Scrambles to Cover Up Potential Plague Outbreak After Years of Spreading Biolab Conspiracy Theories
The Kremlin launched its full invasion of Ukraine claiming it was facing biological attack. Now the disinformation has come back to bite it reports Caroline Orr Bueno
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Ban balaclavas to make our streets safer
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The government's consultation on fireworks closes this week, so here is the link. I'm pretty sure there's also an email address for people who "cannot respond online" www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Fireworks and pyrotechnics in the UK
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you feel this consultation has omitted options that you feel strongly about the email address is fireworksconsultation@businessandtrade.gov.uk
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Stop Killer Robots
Share the petition and you'll help multiply the impact of this campaign: Stop Killer Robots
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
‘But I got road salt exempted from Trump’s tariffs’ is really the perfect way to sum up Susan Collins during the Trump era. While he does hundreds of things to hurt Mainers, she brags about one small thing she did to help her reelection, while doing nothing on the big things.
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
High electricity prices are threatening industrial jobs across Britain and holding the UK back.I've just signed this petition asking the Chancellor to cut industrial electricity prices at the Budget. Add your name too! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/cu...
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Cut Industrial Electricity Prices in the Budget
High electricity prices are threatening industrial jobs across Britain and holding the country back. Sign the petition asking the Chancellor John Healey to cut industrial electricity prices at the Bu...
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"This is not about animal welfare; it is a political gesture driven by pressure from a small group of hard-left MPs.” Never trust a Tory to protect wildlife. substack.com/@protectthew...
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Protect the Wild (@protectthewild)
Badenoch gave a speech at a fox hunting fundraiser earlier this year. She continued: "This is not about animal welfare; it is a political gesture driven by pressure from a small group of hard-left MP...
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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I’ve seen the horrific content that some kids watch – it’s no wonder our children are in trouble — The Independent
From reports of child-on-child abuse in schools to the Cornell 7 case, every day we see more examples of society’s inability to educate boys properly. Rebecca Spargo writes about what she’s learned wh...
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
‘“To hear him spit on our sacrifice is insulting, it’s hurtful, and it’s disrespectful to the dead. On the other hand, these men have proven themselves nothing more than children. So when I heard JD Vance say it, it’s like, ‘Oh, good. Dumbass said something else.’”’
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‘Spit on our sacrifice’: Canadian veterans fume after Trump and allies take jibes at military — The Guardian
Military families say Trump officials ‘owe us an apology’ after disparaging remarks by JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and others
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 06/10/2026
🚨The government is looking for UK alternatives to Palantir to run the NHS data platform, the FT reports. This follows a week of protests in 40+ places across England and a rally of hundreds at Palantir's London HQ. Help keep the pressue up: nopalantirinthenhs.com
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Harry’s Take! (@harryeccles94)
The racism is Zionism motion was never about trying to win votes, it was about trying to get justice for the Palestinian people. The motion was put together by people of all faiths, including many J...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
Even your plagiariasm machine isn't good at the work of doing plagiarism
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
So the AI users are going to feed our original work directly into the chatbot and make it different enough to avoid detection, rather than using chatbot output trained on our work. Eg - recently, I found out Electrek was just copying my blog posts for profit on their website, to run ads against.
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Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co)
WTF is this - @fredlambert.bsky.social from @electrek.co just ripped my post and reworded it? And even generated some garish slop to use as a header?? Did he do this manually or did a chatbot just do…
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Stupid headlines of our (Financial) Times www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10...
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Stupid headlines of our (Financial) Times
The FT has just published this headline: As stupid headlines go, that one does take some beating. The whole reason why the S&P 500 has hit its first all-time high since August is precisely because...
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'Meet Jack, a free AI career agent. Jack works differently. Instead of handing you a feed, he starts with a conversation. You tell him about your experience, your skills, and what you want next.' Is it right to anthropomorphise AI? Malware or otherwise?
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Nerve Hotlist
The best culture to enjoy this week – from Salman Toor’s richly imagined queer worlds to AK Blakemore’s dazzling novel of a 19th-century English revolt – as chosen by our editors and writers
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Deborah Frances-White: It’s not just Cornell: rape culture spreads from frat houses to business, politics and even boys’ phones
College fraternities are notoriously unsafe places for women. But it’s worse than that: they are also where the most powerful men in the world learn to be misogynistic, writes the Guilty Feminist
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“It's not free to keep a secret. You are a human being first, you're a citizen second and you're an employee third, and your fellow human beings need you.”
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‘We have a $1tn company acting desperate’: Frances Haugen on The Social Reckoning, Zuckerberg, and Facebook's growing fragility
The whistleblower whose explosive revelations about her employer inspired Aaron Sorkin’s new film tells Carole Cadwalladr that, despite Silicon Valley’s power, ‘we have the ability to change a lot of ...
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Why Sloth Bears Deserve Global Attention
What’s the first image that comes to your mind when you hear the word “bear”? For most of us, it’s […]
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Trump Is Losing on Two Fronts
The war with Iran has wrecked his promise on affordability, and the coalition that carried him in 2024 is starting to come apart.
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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No, we don't spend £74 million a year on branded condoms for Pakistan
Tracing the City AM headline, from Matt Goodwin's LBC claim and back through Guido Fawkes to a UK aid programme for women in rural Pakistan
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
bylinetimes.com
Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Grabbed, Shoved, Crated.
What ‘de-pop’ looks like on a so-called ‘game farm’
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Müller: Cut all ties with ALL farms who abuse their cows!
I just signed the campaign calling on Müller to cut all ties with ALL farms who abuse their cows!
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ISDS explained in 60 seconds ⏱️ Join the Global Days of Action against ISDS – 15th to 17th October 2026 Visit stopisds.global to learn more
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
‘“From an individual convicted of espionage to others convicted of sexual offenses against minors, these defendants concealed critical facts from the U.S. government and represent serious criminal offenders.”’ Tяump is obviously included in all of the above offences. apple.news/AkDFlsG-sTf-...
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Trump Administration Mounts ‘Largest Denaturalization Effort in Modern History’ — TIME
Forty foreign-born individuals may lose their U.S. citizenship after the Justice Department filed multiple lawsuits across the country seeking their denaturalization, in the latest instance of Donald ...
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Social Media Settings Scammers Hope You Never Change — HuffPost UK
They could reduce your risk of identity theft and phishing fraud.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Environmental Destruction Agency
For them, it’s all about money
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