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alanbenzie
@alanbenzie.bsky.social
· Apr 25
Rise Sessions, by Re:Search
4 track album
researchmusic.bandcamp.com
Self promotion post. My old band have started putting tracks we made many years ago online and you might like them. this was recorded in Glasgow tenement 30 years ago, although I don't think it sounds like it
researchmusic.bandcamp.com/album/rise-s...
researchmusic.bandcamp.com/album/rise-s...
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I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
...and mind itself is magic coursing through the flesh.
And flesh itself is magic dancing on a clock,
And time itself the magic length of God
And flesh itself is magic dancing on a clock,
And time itself the magic length of God
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
...and mind itself is magic coursing through the flesh.
And flesh itself is magic dancing on a clock,
And time itself the magic length of God
And flesh itself is magic dancing on a clock,
And time itself the magic length of God
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village.
downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph
downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village.
downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph
downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph
And became as lonely as a shepherd
and as overburdened by vast distances,
and summoned and stirred as from far away,
and slowly, like a long new thread,
introduced into that picture-sequence
where now having to go on bewilders us.
and as overburdened by vast distances,
and summoned and stirred as from far away,
and slowly, like a long new thread,
introduced into that picture-sequence
where now having to go on bewilders us.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
And became as lonely as a shepherd
and as overburdened by vast distances,
and summoned and stirred as from far away,
and slowly, like a long new thread,
introduced into that picture-sequence
where now having to go on bewilders us.
and as overburdened by vast distances,
and summoned and stirred as from far away,
and slowly, like a long new thread,
introduced into that picture-sequence
where now having to go on bewilders us.
Six police motorbikes and two cars speeding past this bus stop, sirens blazing, heading west on Oxford Street. Perhaps there is a riot at Marks and Spencer
December 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Six police motorbikes and two cars speeding past this bus stop, sirens blazing, heading west on Oxford Street. Perhaps there is a riot at Marks and Spencer
I just ran across the office shouting "Never underline text in a document, it makes it look like a fucking school newsletter" at a colleague, which might the most Alan thing I've done this year.
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I just ran across the office shouting "Never underline text in a document, it makes it look like a fucking school newsletter" at a colleague, which might the most Alan thing I've done this year.
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I'd never seriously considered the possibility that I might live long enough to one day see the US become a pariah state to rival North Korea, but right now I wouldn't rule it out.
The Trump National Security Strategy is bonkers in many ways but this objective stood out:
"Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations"
Making their strategy of supporting radical right and extremist parties explicit.
"Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations"
Making their strategy of supporting radical right and extremist parties explicit.
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I'd never seriously considered the possibility that I might live long enough to one day see the US become a pariah state to rival North Korea, but right now I wouldn't rule it out.
Misadventures in online shopping Pt 2. Buying something to pickup from a physical shop I have now realised is only open 11am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, and it's three miles away and when the fuck am I supposed to collect that, galaxy brain.
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Misadventures in online shopping Pt 2. Buying something to pickup from a physical shop I have now realised is only open 11am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, and it's three miles away and when the fuck am I supposed to collect that, galaxy brain.
Misadventures in online shopping Pt.1 : Putting items with a sale price into my webshop basket, leaving it for 24 hours before checking out and finding out the sale has ended and everything had gone back to full price. 😐
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Misadventures in online shopping Pt.1 : Putting items with a sale price into my webshop basket, leaving it for 24 hours before checking out and finding out the sale has ended and everything had gone back to full price. 😐
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Who up widening they gyre
anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately
August 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Who up widening they gyre
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Introduce yourself with five Fnords you have grokked
1. FNORD
2. FNORD
3. FNORD
4. FNORD
5. fnord
1. FNORD
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4. FNORD
5. fnord
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
1. Minotaur at a pub off Bethnal Green Road
2. A disgruntled (and lost) leprechaun in Saxmundham
3. A manticore buying milk at the Franprix on rue de longchamp
4. A mermaid washed up on plage Aber (she was ok)
5. Dragons (everywhere)
1. Minotaur at a pub off Bethnal Green Road
2. A disgruntled (and lost) leprechaun in Saxmundham
3. A manticore buying milk at the Franprix on rue de longchamp
4. A mermaid washed up on plage Aber (she was ok)
5. Dragons (everywhere)
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
- Absolute unit ginger and white neighbour cat called Buddy
- grey squirrels everywhere
- effing foxes shitting on my garden sofa
- bloody rats terraforming my flowerbed
- several mice brought indoors by Daphne
- Absolute unit ginger and white neighbour cat called Buddy
- grey squirrels everywhere
- effing foxes shitting on my garden sofa
- bloody rats terraforming my flowerbed
- several mice brought indoors by Daphne
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Introduce yourself with five Fnords you have grokked
1. FNORD
2. FNORD
3. FNORD
4. FNORD
5. fnord
1. FNORD
2. FNORD
3. FNORD
4. FNORD
5. fnord
I need a delivered-to-your-door subscription service for limes and garlic
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I need a delivered-to-your-door subscription service for limes and garlic
Someone has started playing festive songs on an steel drum, right outside the office window.
December 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Someone has started playing festive songs on an steel drum, right outside the office window.
I don't know whether Die Hard is a Xmas movie or not because I'VE NEVER WATCHED IT AND I NEVER WILL, YOU CAN'T MAKE ME.
December 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I don't know whether Die Hard is a Xmas movie or not because I'VE NEVER WATCHED IT AND I NEVER WILL, YOU CAN'T MAKE ME.
Oh captain my captain
The Muppet Christmas Carol is not a Christmas film
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Oh captain my captain
I’m just really hoping the redacted words are “hand” and “other hand”
December 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I’m just really hoping the redacted words are “hand” and “other hand”
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“You know what will keep this clown car on the road, lads? Entryism.”
Your Party conference votes for allowing dual membership:
"Members shall be permitted to hold membership in other national political parties where they have been approved by the CEC as aligning with the Party’s values, to include those with whom the Party cooperates electorally."
69% majority
"Members shall be permitted to hold membership in other national political parties where they have been approved by the CEC as aligning with the Party’s values, to include those with whom the Party cooperates electorally."
69% majority
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
“You know what will keep this clown car on the road, lads? Entryism.”
@profanity.accountant give me the numbers
November 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
@profanity.accountant give me the numbers
Proposal. If you...
a) care, even the slightest tiniest bit, what Rachel Reeves uncle thinks about anything
b) aren't Rachel Reeves aunt...
then you lose the right to vote in the next three General Elections
a) care, even the slightest tiniest bit, what Rachel Reeves uncle thinks about anything
b) aren't Rachel Reeves aunt...
then you lose the right to vote in the next three General Elections
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Proposal. If you...
a) care, even the slightest tiniest bit, what Rachel Reeves uncle thinks about anything
b) aren't Rachel Reeves aunt...
then you lose the right to vote in the next three General Elections
a) care, even the slightest tiniest bit, what Rachel Reeves uncle thinks about anything
b) aren't Rachel Reeves aunt...
then you lose the right to vote in the next three General Elections
Colleague just gave me a 45 min guided tour to drawing details in Revit and I now have the same wide-eyed panicked feeling that I had the first time I watched 28 Days Later
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Colleague just gave me a 45 min guided tour to drawing details in Revit and I now have the same wide-eyed panicked feeling that I had the first time I watched 28 Days Later
Introduce yourself with five Fnords you have grokked
1. FNORD
2. FNORD
3. FNORD
4. FNORD
5. fnord
1. FNORD
2. FNORD
3. FNORD
4. FNORD
5. fnord
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
1. Minotaur at a pub off Bethnal Green Road
2. A disgruntled (and lost) leprechaun in Saxmundham
3. A manticore buying milk at the Franprix on rue de longchamp
4. A mermaid washed up on plage Aber (she was ok)
5. Dragons (everywhere)
1. Minotaur at a pub off Bethnal Green Road
2. A disgruntled (and lost) leprechaun in Saxmundham
3. A manticore buying milk at the Franprix on rue de longchamp
4. A mermaid washed up on plage Aber (she was ok)
5. Dragons (everywhere)
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
- Absolute unit ginger and white neighbour cat called Buddy
- grey squirrels everywhere
- effing foxes shitting on my garden sofa
- bloody rats terraforming my flowerbed
- several mice brought indoors by Daphne
- Absolute unit ginger and white neighbour cat called Buddy
- grey squirrels everywhere
- effing foxes shitting on my garden sofa
- bloody rats terraforming my flowerbed
- several mice brought indoors by Daphne
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Introduce yourself with five Fnords you have grokked
1. FNORD
2. FNORD
3. FNORD
4. FNORD
5. fnord
1. FNORD
2. FNORD
3. FNORD
4. FNORD
5. fnord
In early Christian times there was no state. No census to establish a tax base, no tax collectors, no Prefect of Judea, no Roman province, no trials and therefor presumably no crucifixions. Absolute dumbass lunacy.
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
In early Christian times there was no state. No census to establish a tax base, no tax collectors, no Prefect of Judea, no Roman province, no trials and therefor presumably no crucifixions. Absolute dumbass lunacy.
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."