Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026At some point Labour and its supporters are going to come unstuck with the constant messaging that, above a certain income level, you should expect nothing from the state apart from an invoice. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 2322035
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Literally just finished my first HA automation earlier today... it's not *too* bad but I'm glad I bought Home Assistant Green with it pre-installed rather than trying to do that bit myself. But then I'm probably in that category... 110
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Me, telling the grandkids about how back in my day we lived in a high-trust society 030
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 · 31/08/2026Residents still at risk from smoke inhalation, arsonists warn 000
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 · 23/08/2026Grim that Cleverly immediately reaches for the Travellers dogwhistle when discussing general planning policy 001
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Got curious as my in-laws used to live a couple of villages over. Looks quite big. 030
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Excellent example of the text not supporting the headline. “Most of the cost stems from paying gas-fired plants” “Rising gas prices are driving the bulk of the forecast increases” 100
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This is the kind of BBC reporting that treats every utterance equally has me gnashing my teeth. “Mr Smith says he believes the moon is made of cheese. NASA said they disagree” 030
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Absolute top-class grade A trolling of your readers there, @financialtimes.com 👏🏻 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Nice of Kemi to run a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Lib Dems 121
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026For all the endless debates about where the north begins, nobody has beaten YouGov 210
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Yeah, fascinated if adding a click-through disclaimer suddenly stops this from being illegal 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 04/06/2026History demonstrates that this line of reasoning has *never* turned out badly 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Putting CCTV over the back garden to keep some family from drinking my paddling pool water 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 29/05/2026We’ve all let our water company’s shareholders down and, if anything, it’s us who should be apologising to them 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 29/05/2026This kind of detailed nerdery feels like it could have been written for me personally. ‘twas excellent. 020
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 15/05/2026It’s redolent of when everybody was 100% convinced that this guy was going to lead Labour to the promised land 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Just saw this on the front page of The Athletic - didn’t realise he read your skeets 2181
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Maths syllabus at Oxford: Term 1: Multiplication by 1.6 Terms 2-9: How to bring up your Oxbridge degree unprompted 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Exciting to see the main political parties flirting with the idea of fuel subsidies and price controls 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 27/04/2026A lot of DC’s post-government output becomes a lot easier to parse if you just imagine an unmasked Scooby Doo villain complaining about ‘meddling kids’ 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 24/04/2026TBH i think it’s more to do with the same factors that lead to kind of gender disparities below 300
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 24/04/2026It's like when this guy disappeared to NY for 3 months and half the party memory-holed his actual performance, instead becoming convinced he was King over the water. 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Why the fuck would I want to do puzzles on Linkedin? I don’t even want to do Linkedin stuff on Linkedin. 000
