Phil Benson
@physicistphil.bsky.social
Physicist with a penchant for politics and philosophy. And occasional amateur photographer and astrophotographer! https://www.flamsteed.info/
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Putting this together was actually a HUGE amount of fun.
Feel free to share it - here or on whatever platform and with whichever friend or family member you think would enjoy our vibe and the gorgeous community we have become.
Feel free to share it - here or on whatever platform and with whichever friend or family member you think would enjoy our vibe and the gorgeous community we have become.
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Putting this together was actually a HUGE amount of fun.
Feel free to share it - here or on whatever platform and with whichever friend or family member you think would enjoy our vibe and the gorgeous community we have become.
Feel free to share it - here or on whatever platform and with whichever friend or family member you think would enjoy our vibe and the gorgeous community we have become.
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Have a listen to my conversation with @emilythornberry.bsky.social
EXTREMELY excited that the superb foreign policy podcast Behind The Lines is now part of the Quiet Riot family of shows and WHO better to kick us off than the marvellous @emilythornberry.bsky.social
And a huge welcome to @snellarthur.bsky.social
🎧👇
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And a huge welcome to @snellarthur.bsky.social
🎧👇
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Emily Thornberry on British Foreign Policy
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 05/11/2025 · 56m
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November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Have a listen to my conversation with @emilythornberry.bsky.social
The best just got better! Way to go, guys! 👍
We've only gone and teamed up with the best podcast on foreign policy!
Behind The Lines with @snellarthur.bsky.social - the best source of intelligent conversation on foreign policy, and global security - is now our sister podcast!
📣 open.spotify.com/episode/0n82...
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Give it a proper Quiet Riot welcome by following/subscribing.
📣 open.spotify.com/episode/0n82...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Give it a proper Quiet Riot welcome by following/subscribing.
November 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The best just got better! Way to go, guys! 👍
This series is going to be Epic, Fab, Fun, Thoughful, Educational.... huge recommend... if you didn't catch series one try it out...!
🏛️ PODYSSEY SEASON 2 - All the details! 📜
What. Where. When.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6Aw1...
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What. Where. When.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6Aw1...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... @sturdyalex.bsky.social
Podyssey Season 2 - All The Details
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 04/11/2025 · Bonus · 9m
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November 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This series is going to be Epic, Fab, Fun, Thoughful, Educational.... huge recommend... if you didn't catch series one try it out...!
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SELfE's legendary EUROMETER hits Bromley
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
SELfE's legendary EUROMETER hits Bromley
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The Wonderful Lord Heseltine
"He walked slowly to the lectern, one hand on the rail, the other behind his back. A 92-year-old Lord Heseltine at London’s Ministry of Sound isn’t an image you expect to see. But there he was at the Next Gen 2025 conference"
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
"He walked slowly to the lectern, one hand on the rail, the other behind his back. A 92-year-old Lord Heseltine at London’s Ministry of Sound isn’t an image you expect to see. But there he was at the Next Gen 2025 conference"
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Politics has left gen Z screaming into the void. At least...
As Labour loses support among young people, others are standing by to hoover it up
observer.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Wonderful Lord Heseltine
"He walked slowly to the lectern, one hand on the rail, the other behind his back. A 92-year-old Lord Heseltine at London’s Ministry of Sound isn’t an image you expect to see. But there he was at the Next Gen 2025 conference"
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
"He walked slowly to the lectern, one hand on the rail, the other behind his back. A 92-year-old Lord Heseltine at London’s Ministry of Sound isn’t an image you expect to see. But there he was at the Next Gen 2025 conference"
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
This is insane. And yet there are still climate change deniers that walk amongst us...
UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱
On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊
asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1
On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊
asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1
October 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is insane. And yet there are still climate change deniers that walk amongst us...
Fantasic news!
Publishing a preview, with full schedule and dates next weekend. Four bonus episodes after that. Then Season 2 begins in December. A x
October 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Fantasic news!
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🗡️ NEW Sunday School: Well Plaid!
🏴 Caerphilly result - what it means; what it doesn't
🌹 Lucy Powell is elected deputy Labour leader
☠️ Celebrity Traitors; or Why Clever Folks Can Be Total Idiots
😂 Kenny & Alex get the giggles.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6A0r...
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🏴 Caerphilly result - what it means; what it doesn't
🌹 Lucy Powell is elected deputy Labour leader
☠️ Celebrity Traitors; or Why Clever Folks Can Be Total Idiots
😂 Kenny & Alex get the giggles.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6A0r...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Sunday School: Well Plaid
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 26/10/2025 · 58m
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October 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🗡️ NEW Sunday School: Well Plaid!
🏴 Caerphilly result - what it means; what it doesn't
🌹 Lucy Powell is elected deputy Labour leader
☠️ Celebrity Traitors; or Why Clever Folks Can Be Total Idiots
😂 Kenny & Alex get the giggles.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6A0r...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🏴 Caerphilly result - what it means; what it doesn't
🌹 Lucy Powell is elected deputy Labour leader
☠️ Celebrity Traitors; or Why Clever Folks Can Be Total Idiots
😂 Kenny & Alex get the giggles.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6A0r...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
New podcast find of the day. And the first episode is titled 'procrastination'. Perfect.
New podcast find of the day. And the first episode is titled 'procrastination'. Perfect.
Procrastination
Podcast Episode · ill-advised by Bill Nighy · 09/10/2025 · 26m
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October 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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New podcast find of the day. And the first episode is titled 'procrastination'. Perfect.
New podcast find of the day. And the first episode is titled 'procrastination'. Perfect.
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreicahofq6s4xow7vowj7dx6odw6ejdwr4kwcmzta7qwi4hg2nvywji@jpeg)
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NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
1/
October 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
1/
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
1/
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Quite the spectacle to see media outlets who've cheered on austerity saying 'oh god, SEND spending is out of control'. Well, if you gut councils, fail to provide local special school spaces, collapse SureStart and leave public/collective transport to rot, that's what happens. Cuts are expensive
October 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Quite the spectacle to see media outlets who've cheered on austerity saying 'oh god, SEND spending is out of control'. Well, if you gut councils, fail to provide local special school spaces, collapse SureStart and leave public/collective transport to rot, that's what happens. Cuts are expensive
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Telling poll showing majority of Brits preferring the pre-Brexit immigration system, incl. 37% of (confused) Reform voters.
Not necessarily a wish to go back to free movement, but certainly an acknowledgement that Brexit did not only not solve the issue but created new problems.
Not necessarily a wish to go back to free movement, but certainly an acknowledgement that Brexit did not only not solve the issue but created new problems.
Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system
The idea was that leaving the bloc would give the U.K. back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system. But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.
www.politico.eu
October 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Telling poll showing majority of Brits preferring the pre-Brexit immigration system, incl. 37% of (confused) Reform voters.
Not necessarily a wish to go back to free movement, but certainly an acknowledgement that Brexit did not only not solve the issue but created new problems.
Not necessarily a wish to go back to free movement, but certainly an acknowledgement that Brexit did not only not solve the issue but created new problems.
Andromeda galaxy. Amazing what you can image, even from central London... #astrophotography
October 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Andromeda galaxy. Amazing what you can image, even from central London... #astrophotography
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Lord Heseltine, "Brexit is now having a debilitating effect on the UK.. It will be reversed, not it, when..The deception of Brexit has exposed Britain"
October 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Lord Heseltine, "Brexit is now having a debilitating effect on the UK.. It will be reversed, not it, when..The deception of Brexit has exposed Britain"
The physics of sinking boats (thanks Kenny. Sigh), porn in public and the "drag queen theory" of interviewing... quite the journey in today's @quietriotpod.bsky.social! oh, and some politics as well 😂
🌹Keir as Crystal: Time to Call Things by Their Names 🐸
Labour Conference
Starmer Speech
Farage Tantrum
BBC Bias
Reform Russian Bribes
Moldova Election
Ukraine Pushback
Wokey Dokey
All this AND @annettedittert.bsky.social!
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/3out...
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Labour Conference
Starmer Speech
Farage Tantrum
BBC Bias
Reform Russian Bribes
Moldova Election
Ukraine Pushback
Wokey Dokey
All this AND @annettedittert.bsky.social!
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/3out...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Keir as Crystal - Time to Call Things by Their Names
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 02/10/2025 · 1h 11m
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October 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The physics of sinking boats (thanks Kenny. Sigh), porn in public and the "drag queen theory" of interviewing... quite the journey in today's @quietriotpod.bsky.social! oh, and some politics as well 😂
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Podyssey Season 2 @alexpodyssey.bsky.social is now very close to reality - threshold is being able to pay production costs and expert contributors for 10 episodes (season will be 20 episodes, but will pick up numbers/support as it goes).
Please, become a monthly supporter.
www.ko-fi.com/podyssey
Please, become a monthly supporter.
www.ko-fi.com/podyssey
September 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Podyssey Season 2 @alexpodyssey.bsky.social is now very close to reality - threshold is being able to pay production costs and expert contributors for 10 episodes (season will be 20 episodes, but will pick up numbers/support as it goes).
Please, become a monthly supporter.
www.ko-fi.com/podyssey
Please, become a monthly supporter.
www.ko-fi.com/podyssey
Comet C/2025 Lemmon. Not the best shot... moving target and all that. Still, not a bad effort... #astrophotography
September 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Comet C/2025 Lemmon. Not the best shot... moving target and all that. Still, not a bad effort... #astrophotography
The Eagle Nebula, featuring the "pillars of creation". Taken last week from Malaga using an 80mm telescope, around 3.5 hours total exposure time. #astrophotography
September 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The Eagle Nebula, featuring the "pillars of creation". Taken last week from Malaga using an 80mm telescope, around 3.5 hours total exposure time. #astrophotography
The M33 galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. Taken last week from outside Malaga, Spain. 3.5 hours total exposure time.
September 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The M33 galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. Taken last week from outside Malaga, Spain. 3.5 hours total exposure time.
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OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
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New paper! The last of Eloïse Bretagne's PhD papers is out! Here we generalize our models for permeability to magma mush at any melt fraction. Take a look if you want to model percolative flow of melt through a magma mush and if you want to account for crystal shape.
OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
September 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New paper! The last of Eloïse Bretagne's PhD papers is out! Here we generalize our models for permeability to magma mush at any melt fraction. Take a look if you want to model percolative flow of melt through a magma mush and if you want to account for crystal shape.
OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...