ben Becalel
@benbecalel.bsky.social
No matter where you go... there you are.
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Saw a long hot water bottle round my friends’ house and it looked like a scene from Jim Henson’s Dune…
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Saw a long hot water bottle round my friends’ house and it looked like a scene from Jim Henson’s Dune…
A man can leave the UK...
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A man can leave the UK...
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
a) this is not the question you think it is, and b) yes, absolutely.
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
a) this is not the question you think it is, and b) yes, absolutely.
Woke up at 3 with a sore throat. That cold could have chosen an easier time, to be honest.
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Woke up at 3 with a sore throat. That cold could have chosen an easier time, to be honest.
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Someone has bought something on Etsy but the address is incomplete. I've messaged and emailed. Seems impatient to refund it after 3 days, but if it's not posted today it'll mess my stats up. So if it was one of you, I promise that email wasn't spam.
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Someone has bought something on Etsy but the address is incomplete. I've messaged and emailed. Seems impatient to refund it after 3 days, but if it's not posted today it'll mess my stats up. So if it was one of you, I promise that email wasn't spam.
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What’s my politics? You could say I’m socially and fiscally supportive
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What’s my politics? You could say I’m socially and fiscally supportive
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It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
Under two *wheezing* years!
Yes, I'm sure it wil, lads.
Yes, I'm sure it wil, lads.
OpenAI’s secret device from Jony Ive and Sam Altman finally has a working prototype — simple, screen‑free, and aiming to feel calm instead of chaotic. Launch expected in under two years. #OpenAI
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buff.ly/vauMuUh
OpenAI may spark the biggest disruption since the iPhone within 2 years
OpenAI is set to cause the biggest tech disruption since the iPhone in less than 2 years
www.windowscentral.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Under two *wheezing* years!
Yes, I'm sure it wil, lads.
Yes, I'm sure it wil, lads.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Not sure how old this plastic bag is but Gateway supermarkets have been around since the 1960s. In 1990 they began to be rebranded as Somerfield. Exposed by shifting sands and found during one of our recent beach cleans. #plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene
September 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Not sure how old this plastic bag is but Gateway supermarkets have been around since the 1960s. In 1990 they began to be rebranded as Somerfield. Exposed by shifting sands and found during one of our recent beach cleans. #plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene
Every now and again you come across a priest that seems to be rather reasonable.
But then again, if he was really that reasonable, would he become a priest in the first place?
But then again, if he was really that reasonable, would he become a priest in the first place?
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Every now and again you come across a priest that seems to be rather reasonable.
But then again, if he was really that reasonable, would he become a priest in the first place?
But then again, if he was really that reasonable, would he become a priest in the first place?
The trick is in installing the right prosecutor to do the job, you see.
Prosecutor drops charges in Trump's electoral interference case
Prosecutor drops charges in Trump's electoral interference case
The US president and 18 codefendants were charged with racketeering and other offenses in Georgia in 2023 over their alleged efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election in the southern state.
www.lemonde.fr
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The trick is in installing the right prosecutor to do the job, you see.
For comparison, the car park at the hospital we visit frequently here, in France, isn't free. But as patients we get a special ticket and the fee is a flat 1.80€ per day.
Did you know that since the SNP scrapped hospital parking charges in 2008 that it’s saved hospital staff, patients and visitors over *£90million*?
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
For comparison, the car park at the hospital we visit frequently here, in France, isn't free. But as patients we get a special ticket and the fee is a flat 1.80€ per day.
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One of the leaders of the mass protests against Poland's near-total abortion ban has been denied security clearance, meaning she cannot continue serving on a government commission investigating surveillance of civil society groups, including her own, under the former PiS administration.
Polish abortion activist denied security clearance to investigate surveillance of her own movement
notesfrompoland.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
One of the leaders of the mass protests against Poland's near-total abortion ban has been denied security clearance, meaning she cannot continue serving on a government commission investigating surveillance of civil society groups, including her own, under the former PiS administration.
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"we keep hearing conversations about tough choices, but these always seem to be tough choices for children in poverty, for disabled people, for working class communities, when are we going to see tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires?"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on #GMB
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on #GMB
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"we keep hearing conversations about tough choices, but these always seem to be tough choices for children in poverty, for disabled people, for working class communities, when are we going to see tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires?"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on #GMB
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on #GMB
Keep going, it's working.
Le Kremlin a jugé ce mercredi « inutiles » les efforts des Européens pour jouer un rôle dans le règlement du conflit en Ukraine, au moment où l’activité diplomatique s’accélère autour d’un plan américain visant à mettre fin à près de quatre ans de guerre.
Plan pour l’Ukraine : l’UE veut « maintenir la pression sur la Russie », Moscou juge « inutiles » les efforts de Bruxelles
l.leparisien.fr
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Keep going, it's working.
Will the spuds be nice? Who cares, I just can't resist a nice wooden box.
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Will the spuds be nice? Who cares, I just can't resist a nice wooden box.
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Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
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ChatGPT took Press Gazette content then said that could not have happened:
World’s leading LLM said it could not have done the thing it did. pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ch...
World’s leading LLM said it could not have done the thing it did. pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ch...
ChatGPT took Press Gazette content then said that could not have happened
World's leading LLM said it could not have done the thing it did.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
ChatGPT took Press Gazette content then said that could not have happened:
World’s leading LLM said it could not have done the thing it did. pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ch...
World’s leading LLM said it could not have done the thing it did. pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ch...
And on tonight's programme: Can my phone see the stars?
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
And on tonight's programme: Can my phone see the stars?
'that is possible' could be an out of jail card here.
... I want every task that is possible to be automated with artificial intelligence to be automated with artificial intelligence."
www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-ceo-e...
www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-ceo-e...
Nvidia CEO told employees to use AI for 'every task that is possible'
AI adoption at Nvidia is top priority, says CEO Jensen Huang in an internal meeting. He promised expanded hiring amid AI growth.
www.businessinsider.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
'that is possible' could be an out of jail card here.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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![[Scene is a MEDIEVAL PLAGUE PIT with all the bodies inside it. On the edge of it is a young peasant woman, in a sack cloth dress, covered in boils. She is lounging glamorously next to the pit. Her boyfriend is standing a few feet away, photographing her with an anachronistic mobile phone]
GIRL:
OK so I'll sit here...
With my hair like this…
Rubbing my cyst with the corpse's hand.
[She produces a whithered severed hand and starts rubbing it on her face.]
[We are treated to a revolting close up of her rubbing the severed hand on her disgusting massive cyst.]
[Her boyfriend takes a photo of her.]
SNAP
GIRL:
OK, now write this:
"Hanging out at the burial pit, rubbing my sebaceous cyst with a severed corpse hand from
#BurtsGraverobbers…”
And then: #selfcare, #metime, #BurtsGraverobbers…
... nails emoji, heart emoji, cyst emoji.
BOYFRIEND:
Um...
Should we really be promoting this?
I mean… does rubbing a corpse's hand on a cyst actually work?
GIRL:
Look, Burt's done research, OK?
And he's paying us four groats.
BOYFRIEND:
Hmm.
[Boyfriend dutifully taps out the post on his phone]
TAP TAP TAP
BOYFRIEND:
Cyst emoji?
GIRL:
Just use a fried egg.
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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