Ben Beckford
@benbeckford.com
Web/app/game/software developer, husband, Dad and loser of sunglasses.
Formally @bbeckford
Formally @bbeckford
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
@watsoncomedian.bsky.social Any No More Jockeys on the horizon, Mark?
October 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
@watsoncomedian.bsky.social Any No More Jockeys on the horizon, Mark?
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And yet, if anyone in the press calls this racist (which it patently is), they’ll face more outrage than the man who lamented a shortage of white faces.
So we’ll politely rebrand it as “unwise,” perhaps “ill-judged,” or “not in keeping with the spirit of inclusivity.”
Sick. To. The. Back. Teeth.
So we’ll politely rebrand it as “unwise,” perhaps “ill-judged,” or “not in keeping with the spirit of inclusivity.”
Sick. To. The. Back. Teeth.
October 7, 2025 at 6:10 AM
And yet, if anyone in the press calls this racist (which it patently is), they’ll face more outrage than the man who lamented a shortage of white faces.
So we’ll politely rebrand it as “unwise,” perhaps “ill-judged,” or “not in keeping with the spirit of inclusivity.”
Sick. To. The. Back. Teeth.
So we’ll politely rebrand it as “unwise,” perhaps “ill-judged,” or “not in keeping with the spirit of inclusivity.”
Sick. To. The. Back. Teeth.
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"Are you scared yet?"
Did you know the US Justice Department published a study that found 'far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left extremists.'
They've just deleted it.
Did you know the US Justice Department published a study that found 'far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left extremists.'
They've just deleted it.
September 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Are you scared yet?"
Did you know the US Justice Department published a study that found 'far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left extremists.'
They've just deleted it.
Did you know the US Justice Department published a study that found 'far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left extremists.'
They've just deleted it.
Can't get over the images of starving children in Gaza, how can we just stand by and let this happen in 2025?
July 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Can't get over the images of starving children in Gaza, how can we just stand by and let this happen in 2025?
Australia were absolutely robbed, this would've won last night if it got through to the final of #Eurovision, they out-weirded Europe and it's a banger.
youtu.be/EJ0RdIU_G8g?...
youtu.be/EJ0RdIU_G8g?...
Go-Jo – Milkshake Man (LIVE) | Australia 🇦🇺 | Second Semi-Final | Eurovision 2025
YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest
youtu.be
May 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Australia were absolutely robbed, this would've won last night if it got through to the final of #Eurovision, they out-weirded Europe and it's a banger.
youtu.be/EJ0RdIU_G8g?...
youtu.be/EJ0RdIU_G8g?...
Or #Eurovision top 3:
1. Latvia
2. UK
3. Switzerland
Austria and Israel nowhere near.
Still, JJ sang it well.
Roll on 2026!
1. Latvia
2. UK
3. Switzerland
Austria and Israel nowhere near.
Still, JJ sang it well.
Roll on 2026!
May 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Or #Eurovision top 3:
1. Latvia
2. UK
3. Switzerland
Austria and Israel nowhere near.
Still, JJ sang it well.
Roll on 2026!
1. Latvia
2. UK
3. Switzerland
Austria and Israel nowhere near.
Still, JJ sang it well.
Roll on 2026!
That's just maths isn't it, @androidauthority.com?
May 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
That's just maths isn't it, @androidauthority.com?
Shame on #Currys for forcing customers to buy their expensive £569 #Switch2 mega bundle by artificially putting the base model and MKW bundle out of stock!
Surely that's not in line with Nintendo's wishes?
@nintendolife.com @gamexplain.bsky.social @theverge.com @theguardian.com
Surely that's not in line with Nintendo's wishes?
@nintendolife.com @gamexplain.bsky.social @theverge.com @theguardian.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Shame on #Currys for forcing customers to buy their expensive £569 #Switch2 mega bundle by artificially putting the base model and MKW bundle out of stock!
Surely that's not in line with Nintendo's wishes?
@nintendolife.com @gamexplain.bsky.social @theverge.com @theguardian.com
Surely that's not in line with Nintendo's wishes?
@nintendolife.com @gamexplain.bsky.social @theverge.com @theguardian.com
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1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
May 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
Always in plain sight
This exchange is so very telling.
Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this:
"I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"
Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this:
"I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"
April 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Always in plain sight
Absolutely insane. Is the #BBC dead?
BBC bans Evan Davis from informing the public on heat pumps. “As the world has ‘progressed’ in the past few months” the BBC “has become concerned that anything like this - informing people about heat pumps - can be interpreted as treading on areas of pulic controversy” youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
20. The final episode...
YouTube video by Happy Heat Pump Podcast
youtu.be
April 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Absolutely insane. Is the #BBC dead?
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The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
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This is shocking. Even by the standards of 2025.
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This is shocking. Even by the standards of 2025.
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Despite not liking needles, he began donating his blood in 1954. Soon, it was realized that Harrison's blood contained a rare type of antibody especially sought after by healthcare professionals. 🧪
www.iflscience.com/man-whose-bl...
www.iflscience.com/man-whose-bl...
Man Whose Blood Saved 2.4 Million Babies Dies Aged 88
For his impressive feat, he was dubbed "the man with the golden arm".
www.iflscience.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Despite not liking needles, he began donating his blood in 1954. Soon, it was realized that Harrison's blood contained a rare type of antibody especially sought after by healthcare professionals. 🧪
www.iflscience.com/man-whose-bl...
www.iflscience.com/man-whose-bl...
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This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.
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It's like ra-ain, on your wedding day
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
www.ft.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It's like ra-ain, on your wedding day
Horrific
Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.
January 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Horrific
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If a man can’t give a Nazi salute at a party for a racist convicted fraudster and proven sex offender, then what kind of sick world are we living in, I ask you.
January 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
If a man can’t give a Nazi salute at a party for a racist convicted fraudster and proven sex offender, then what kind of sick world are we living in, I ask you.
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When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
January 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.