Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 7hThat absolute sweetest spot in the accountancy/football venn diagram… 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Burnham’s speech omitted his main policy change: cancelling Keir Starmer’s secret plan to Dim The Sun www.gov.uk/government/p...gov.ukSolar radiation modification approaches - the government's viewThe UK Government does not support the deployment of solar radiation modification and does not plan to do so. 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Apologies, I’ve been busytheguardian.comThe hunk shortage: where are England’s handsomest men hiding?When the Mr England contest put out a call for entrants, only seven people signed up. Now, with 13 days to go until the final, the organisers are getting desperate 000
Reposted by Ben AAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the one hand, the source of the money is fake, but on the other hand, the way it would be spent is bonkers. What a compelling policy 3493
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 25/09/20263 points deduction per charge, negative points at the end of a season carry forward, is my final magnanimous offer 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Every UK party’s tax policystatic.klipy.comSuccession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious PeopleALT: Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People 0182
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As my OH has a courtesy car extended to month *seven* while a dented bumper is replaced, I am starting to understand why UK car insurance premiums are so high 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Always thrown by the Northbound/Southbound signs on the Jubilee, when it definitively an East/West line 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is very accurate - but a lot of the problems with EA is really due to longtermism rather than the idea of effective giving 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026AI safety *is* worth discussing and Bluesky *is* too negative on its capabilities …but a lot of the industry now sound like the type of yelling psychotic guy you’d back away from on the tube www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUncontrolled AI could lead to 'silicon species' rivalling humans, warns MicrosoftMustafa Suleyman says he believes rival AI firm Anthropic is in effect teaching Claude it "may be conscious". 110
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026France to no longer be the EU’s chippiest country about the use of French 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026As I suspect the residents are likely all fans of the British Empire, I think give them the full experience: dispatch the artillery 100
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Arthur Laffer popping up to explain this will boost the UK economy by encouraging people to die more www.ft.com/content/a878...ft.comTories look at ways to cut UK inheritance taxConservative leader Kemi Badenoch says the levy mainly caught ‘home-owning middle-class families’ instead of the super wealthy 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Think there needs to be a ‘TV that scarred me’ subcategory: - Grotbags - IT - Ghostwatch - The episode of QED on spontaneous human combustion 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“Hi, you appear to have interacted with our company for three picoseconds. This is your third huffy reminder that you are still to spend ten minutes writing a detailed review on Trustpilot” 011
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Every week Camilla Cavendish puts on her outfit to pen another column on 'why is the UK a bit of a mess?' I just hope the end of the heatwave means it's now less uncomfortable.static.klipy.comI Think You Should Leave Hot Dog SuspectALT: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Cheers, Kevin Warsh’s crying now www.ft.com/content/acfc...ft.comTrump promises $5,000 ‘dividend’ for US voters if Republicans win midtermsPresident puts himself at centre of congressional election campaign despite his plummeting approval ratings 020
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026All this Navier-Stokes chat is giving horrific uni flashbacks 011
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Something I’ve wondered about ‘Kent Police escorted them to the station’: did they check whether there were any ethnic minority passengers on the train they dumped a bunch of masked fascists on? And which would be worse? The police doing that or not doing that? 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I’d like to think this was delivered in the same huffy tone residents here are used to. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukKent Police defend response to Port of Dover protestAn MP has questioned why Kent Police did not know beforehand about the protest on Saturday. 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Good to see the courts have stepped back from a judiciary-run command economy www.ft.com/content/314e...ft.comNext wins ‘landmark’ judgment in UK retail’s multibillion-pound equal pay battleTribunal rules FTSE 100 group is justified in paying warehouse workers more than mostly female shop workers 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 05/09/2026‘Silence about masked racists that even Bobby Jenrick condemned’ is definitely giving Sir Keir vibes 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Find a partner who loves you as much as Radio 6 loves uncritically reading out Reform press releases 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Agree with this to an extent but think the success of Hogwart’s Legacy demonstrates a wider point: social media noise is just massively unrepresentative 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026How do I get to become a UK regulator? I quite fancy a job that seemingly involves little more than the occasional press release explaining why I’m not doing stuff 110
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Am sticking with the Three-Body Problem out of morbid curiosity as to how they’ll do the later books*, which seem pretty much unfilmable 100
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The water company’s email updates are such a self-own: ‘our services start to fall over when demand is 3% above average’ 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Glad to see somebody is prepared to speak out about the true monster of Dicken’s novel: Tiny Tim 100
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Residents still at risk from smoke inhalation, arsonists warn 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I wish that all these ‘dynamic US vs sclerotic Europe’ pieces would mention the fact the former’s recent growth has been built on a gigantic fiscal deficit 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Make your favourite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. Complications in a faulty product recall lead to organisational changes at a major corporation 100
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Post-holiday theory: tattoos will go massively out of fashion over the next 10-20 years, or at least large ones will. 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I say double down: Watching the characters mouth ‘Wat’ as a bad dub says ‘Robin’ could make this highly entertaining 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Optimistic take here is that the spark gap is down to ~3.3 meaning that even low/zero disrupt heat pump installs pay off 331
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The horror of my parents, having left me in the care of an older sibling, returning home to find we hadn’t moved from the Atari ST in 8 hours 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My insta is still a mess of VNS devices adverts after I foolishly said ‘these VNS devices sure look like snake oil’ 100
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Day 7 of the all-inclusive and my liver is already a fine fois gras 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Grim that Cleverly immediately reaches for the Travellers dogwhistle when discussing general planning policy 001
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Holiday components ranked, per my OH: 5% pool 5% food 5% sunshine 85% silently judging the parents whose kids need to be plonked in front of an ipad continuously at every family meal 000
Reposted by Ben Adani ⭐️⭐️ @daniawfc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026one last day of peace before arsenal football club dictate my mental health for the next 9 months 1215018
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Am I alone in finding Haldane’s articles incredibly facile? The comments underneath suggest I am, but his stuff always just seems so intellectually lightweight for somebody with his CV. www.ft.com/content/117e...ft.comWhy Britain needs a Messi budgetThe playing style of the great Argentine footballer demonstrates that less can be more 120
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The irony here is that the programme applies a ‘real/not real’ binary to a complicated situation, which is the same problem we have in applying a binary diagnosis to a spectrum. inews.co.uk/culture/tele...inews.co.ukI have ADHD - this is what The Great ADHD Myth gets so wrongThe stereotyping and dismissals in Channel 4's frustrating new documentary will help no one 120
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Interesting idea from @kilowatts-io.bsky.social and one which, if I were a minister, would be piloting immediately. (Ideally somewhere above the B6 boundary) open.substack.com/pub/kilowatt...open.substack.comThe Great British heat annuity'Heat or eat' is back, and No.10's answer is a block tariff. Something bolder: Great British Energy installs the heat pump against the value of the home — and guarantees warmth for life. 000
