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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"doubleplusgood duckspeaker" — 1984. appendix: The Principles of Newspeak, George Orwell

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nice guy vs a good man. I want to be the latter, but I'm probably the former.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Keogh, Pugh, Wriothesley, Cighburmann, Featherstonhaugh... All good names with spellings that hurt if you don't know the pronunciation

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#DeviantArt #Phishing attack. Quite good, really, I must say. I'm still not going to pay them anything 😄😄😄 "Stay Safe!" indeed.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Much as I love my [autistic] child, I sometimes need to scream. She worries. And worries. And worries. And worries. And worries. And worries. And worries. And begins again for the next minute. And the next. And the next...

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I did this very simple recipe yesterday. Very tasty! Would Recommend Ingredients 1 cup full-fat plain Greek yogurt 1/2 cup tahini 1/4 cup freshly-squeezed lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt Directions whisk together the yogurt sauce ingredients until combined gimmesomeoven.com/greek-meatballs

A white plate holding, layered, a tortilla, a circle of sliced meat and dollop of yoghurt and tahini sauce, the latter spread into a circle with the back of a spoon.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Was it lazy to answer the question "is it raining?” by opening the weather radar app on my phone instead of standing up, walking to the window, opening the curtains and peering into the darkness?

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So. I Google 'The bartender rips off your arm' to find the full Star Trek/Lower Decks quote: "The bartender rips your arm off and kills you with it! It is not an honorable death since, technically, you have died by your own hand." Google cannot be too careful, so its first reply is instructions;

the bar tender rips off your arm

A severed arm is a life-threatening medical emergency that requires calling for emergency services immediately.

Emergency Steps

Call 999 right away to get an ambulance.

Press hard on the bleeding wound with a clean cloth or bandage.

Keep pressure on the wound until help arrives.

Wrap the detached arm in a clean, damp cloth and put it inside a sealed plastic bag.

Place the bag on ice, but do not let the arm freeze or touch ice directly.

Is this a joke, part of a story, or a real emergency?

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#GENX – WE know where the pencil goes. I was wondering what sort of image encapsulated GenX. There are many, many ideas: drinking from a garden hose (I never did that), heading home when the streetlights came on (I never had that), being a latchkey kid (I wasn't one), but a pencil in a mix tape?😀👍

Alt text: Stylised close-up of a yellow pencil inserted through a cassette-tape reel, beside the handwritten title, “GEN X — We Know Where the Pencil Goes.”

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Silence of the Lambs, 1988 It's suddenly so dated. Not the story, as such, but the detail – a Rolodex. A car with a phone built in. The lack of DNA analysis. All those little things that we use our phones for now, including as torches (that's a lesser thing, but still a thing). Simpler times😄

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Would therpod dinosaurs have tasted like chicken? Turkey? Duck? Ostrich? No idea, but I'm suddenly craving barbecue.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Why IS the alphabet in that order?

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I don't know that I have ever seen this before. Just enough of one colour eggs to fill up a row before having to swap to another color of eggs to do the rest of the box! Damnit, I should have put a banana in for scale – to attract similarly boring people, you understand 😄😄😄😄

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I just had a wish to open my front door, shout "NEMATODE!" and shut the door again. I didn't, but it was close. What in hell was that about? 😄

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I found this image of a 14th-15th century hinge in the 'dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century Vol 8' — Viollet-le-Duc, and thought it would be cool to reproduce in #Blender Fascinating book and we can now get it translated on the page fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Vi...

This illustration shows an antique iron paumelle (lift-off hinge) from the late 14th or early 15th century, featuring ornate openwork plates terminating in stylized animal heads and a central barrel entwined with a snake.

Design features include pierced, decorative strap leaves (the fiches) secured with rivet nails. Terminal ends shaped like roaring animal profiles (resembling lions or panthers).A central pintle and barrel wrapped in a sculptural snake relief.

"... when the opening frames were of fairly great height (six to seven feet), the hinges were long and equipped with two spaced eyes, to prevent the warping of the wood. Figure 42 depicts one of these hinges, which appears to belong to the end of the 14th century or the beginning of the 15th. The pin is free between the eyes, as seen, and is adorned with a round iron tail coiled in a spiral around it. This tail is free as well. To unhang the frame, it is sufficient to remove this pin from above...".

This image comes from Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle (The Dictionary of French Architecture from 11th to 16th Century) (1856) by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Front-facing CGI render, created in Blender, of an ornate 14th- to 15th-century iron butt hinge mounted on a blue canvas surface. Its symmetrical, rough-textured leaves feature decorative openwork, curved edges and rows of round-headed rivets. A central hinge pin has pointed finials and a raised spiral detail.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Skeleton 150, excavated beneath Stirling Castle's chapel in 1997, has more than 160 separate fractures in a body 165cm tall. The body of a man who died around 1304 is the first known possible death by trebuchet rock. Unlucky in an 'at least it was quick' kind of way. www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet

“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

That moment when you grab a backcloth for a fast photo of something cool and then can't work out why the washing load is small today 😄😄 😄 😄 😄 😄 😄 😄 (It's because it was a duvet cover!)

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I found this door elevation and outline on Pinterest and thought it needed creating in 3D. After some searching, the address is on Via Ercola Ciofano, Sulmona, #Italy, and still standing. #Blender

Architectural drawing with Russian annotations showing the front elevation and cross-section of a tall, round-arched stone doorway. Dimensions, masonry joints, wooden double doors, an iron ring handle, moulding profiles and scale bars are marked in feet and inches.

Computer-generated reconstruction of a tall, round-arched doorway set into a weathered ochre plaster wall. Dark wooden double doors, slightly parted at the centre, are surrounded by a pale moulded stone frame. Strong sunlight casts a large diagonal shadow across the wall and cobbled ground.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A graphic #dream of beheading and being shot in the face – the latter from a first-person perspective A scene with Scottish settlers in early America. There have been less stressful wlee4wake-ups

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Full belly rumbling Skin stripping breath de-creasing Ironing pre dawn #haiku

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Flies and compost heaps After, therefore because of Fallacy flies free Or Flies and compost heaps After, therefore because of Fallacy flies: free Post hoc ergo propter hoc #haiku

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Fish fish fish fish fish Fish fish fish fish fish fish fish Fishetty fish fish Fish #haiku Not quite classical form, but heartfelt.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Another dream about owing a year's work and not having started yet, followed by the request to turn the front door upside down so that black is on the outside and white on the inner (don't ask about the dentil shelf or window). Then the fight dream. Banging the head of a big bloke into oak panels.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Honey Suckle scent Listen for the smoke alarm Summer stimului We're not burning yet, but there have been local fires. Not as wild as France, but it's getting closer guys, it's getting closer every year. #ClimateChange #Haiku

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Dammmmnnn! Not only do I have a Discworld book I don't remember ever buying, but it has rules to Cripple Mr Onion compiled by Andrew C. Millard and printed out in 1996 –I think it was on a Wednesday.

A picture of the cover of Terry Pratchett's 'the last hero' with a sheaf of paper sticking out of the top showing the rules for cripple Mr onion.
In the background are a heap of cardboard boxes, as befits a storage room.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Summer sky, grey clouds Mind churning, going nowhere Our promise falls short Failure #haiku 😄

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The pleasure at seeing my 'talk like a Terry Pratchett Igor'* request to #chatgpt be fulfilled by the phrase: "The Moon Iſ a Harſh Miſtreſſ"* *that "ſ" is a 'long s' character, that looks to us like an 'f', resulting in comments by Stan Freberg about "the purfuit of happineff".

"The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" displayed in Hoyer Script.

"Hoyer Script™ is a fresh redesign of Hans Hoyer’s Schoenschrift, a slender vintage italic with a calligraphic touch. This font should be used like my blackletter fonts. It means that the s-key is occupied by the long s, and the round s lies on the #-key. By typing N, o, and period plus activating Ordinals feature you will get an old-style number sign.

Designers: Ralph M. Unger"

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Last Autumn's apples Gold pressed out of green and red Slake this summer's thirst English #Cider #haiku

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#Kiwi proper boot polish you can tell by the smell I dunno. Best boot polish ever, it's been going on my boots and shoes for the best part of 6 decades (thanks for covering the early years, dad) and now I have to pay 'Armando Legg' to get the stuff, because they don't sell it in the UK anymore. 🤬

A right boot with a nitrile-gloved thumb rubbing on boot polish. Next to the boot on a tiled floor is an open tin of Kiwi black boot polish.
Unseen are the polishers curses, rising sulphurously into the air, directed at the manufacturer for no longer selling in his country.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

09 August 2023 I was tormenting a cycle manufacturer: I want to ride your bicycle I want to ride your bike I want to ride your bicycle I want to ride it where I like You say crank I say chain You say pace I say pain You say a race I say hey man Speed was never my scene And I don't wear Lycra...

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Brown grass, burning sun Memories of The Hot One Brings childhood music Hot weather #haiku Strange how that happens ,😄

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

75g crunchy peanut butter 1 spoon Calories to spare Priceless!

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I did NOT attempt to throttle my Finer Half. I was dreaming I was fighting a real jerk who'd dismissed a guy I worked with as not being capable of taking down a room of soldiers because he was Jewish. Ok, I had HIM by the throat, but I was only squeezing my wife's upper arm. Please. No bruising?

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Panda's Oh No Moment

ALT: Panda's Oh No Moment

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Remember the line (to paraphrase slightly) "He doesn't mind the language, it's the beatings he don't need¹."? I'm starting to mind the language, too.😝 ¹ Cool For Cats, Squeeze, 1979

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"Eff you, and the Wellington boot you rode in on." I think this fits into the class 'the British art of insulting friends brackets from the top of a ladder brackets'.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Windy snickers". That moment when you hear a phrase as you wake up and it sticks in your head.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The moment one steps outside a hot kitchen into a cooler evening...

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

White wine and soda. Not as fun as Weston's vintage cider, but cooling in the current climate.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

youtu.be/DlPHmYtqSdA A hot summer night: felt like a nit... No, it's not, but it should be.

youtu.be

Robert Palmer - Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor Doctor)

YouTube video by RobertPalmerVEVO

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Siesta, anybody? Once more, I'm thinking of dragging a fan, mounted onx castors, about the place.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Next. What do I do next...? Hungry. Eat Fruit Pig-dog! Wait, what? Shouldn't that have been Eat Fruit, Jerry/Fritz/Tojo/generic, not too derogatory term for whichever opponents the British Tommy was fighting this week in the comics of the 70s? Surely, Nazis wouldn't insist on vitamin C???

Illustration of the 'commando – war stories in pictures' publication, number 401 entitled 'terror team'.
2 British soldiers in World war 2 uniform and Tim hat stand ready as a third, wearing a green woollen hat, kicks in a red, tongue and groove door with a black lock-set and doorknob, set in a rough, redbrick wall. The bricks are two or three times the volume of regular house bricks. There are masonry gaps, but no obvious masonry.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

On the left, a real Belle Époque flat in Antwerp. On the right, the #blender reproduction. The fireplace is in the main file, awaiting the doors – both the mullioned and the side door with the etched glass panel – to drop into place one day.

A bright, elegant dining room in a period home, viewed from one end of the room toward a sunlit sitting room beyond.
On the left is a large pale stone fireplace with carved geometric decoration around the opening. Above it is a dark green-black inset panel, etched or painted with an elaborate urn-and-flower design. The mantel holds candles, books, small framed artwork, and a brass-toned decorative sphere. A wicker peacock chair sits in front of the fireplace, with books resting on its seat.
The walls, ceiling, doors, and mouldings are painted white, giving the room a very airy, high-ceilinged feel. Tall white-framed glazed double doors stand open ahead, their panes divided into decorative rectangular and arched shapes.
On the right, a long rectangular dining table with a pale blue-green top fills the foreground. It has mismatched wooden chairs around it and a large white textured pot containing a leafy green plant at its centre. Near the nearer corner are a tray, a gold-coloured cylinder, and a glossy black decorative object.
Beyond the open glass doors, daylight pours into a softer, mostly white sitting room, where a pale sofa and a striped chair can just be seen

The same long, elegant room is now empty of furniture and seen at night. The pale walls, tall doorways and decorative mouldings are still there, but most of the room has fallen into warm brown shadow.
At the far end, the glazed double doors are closed. Their white-painted frames form a neat geometric pattern of small rectangular panes and tall rounded central motifs. Light from the room beyond shines through the glass, a subdued amber glow that catches the patterned divisions and hints at pale shapes on the other side without clearly revealing them.
To the left, an open doorway leads into a brighter adjoining space, throwing a vertical strip of pale light across the doorway’s raised wall panels. A glazed panel beside it reflects a faint version of that light.
The empty floor is dark and unobstructed, making the room feel wider, quieter and more expectant than in daylight. It has the atmosphere of a house after everyone has gone to bed: familiar architecture, but transformed by darkness and the light leaking in from elsewhere.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Not eating much all day makes for a gorgeous dinner. Hungry is annoying, but the pleasure of food when hungry? Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Think flavorful thoughts, folks.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Damn I missed a chance to buy in. I shall go and listen to Dracula! And let that be a lesson to us all 😄

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It works for politicians, why not the rest of us?

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