Ben C
@bencc.bsky.social
Mainly post on mastodon as https://morehammer.uk/@bencc/ these days but happy to see plenty of old twitter friends on here.
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Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
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Not being funny, what nazi-ass shit is this?
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Not being funny, what nazi-ass shit is this?
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‘what if torture and inhumane and degrading treatment was fine sometimes’ – the Labour Party
If you currently rely on the European Court of Human Rights for your minority group to *not* be targeted, you're in trouble...
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
‘what if torture and inhumane and degrading treatment was fine sometimes’ – the Labour Party
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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It’s more than two years since Eastend Homes’ disastrous attempt to build flats on our flats resulted in our homes being flooded. Our homes are still being ruined. We still haven’t an explanation for how this meets building regulations. It’s like nothing was learned from #RonanPoint or #Grenfell.
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It’s more than two years since Eastend Homes’ disastrous attempt to build flats on our flats resulted in our homes being flooded. Our homes are still being ruined. We still haven’t an explanation for how this meets building regulations. It’s like nothing was learned from #RonanPoint or #Grenfell.
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So, I actually live very near Hampton, and it's honestly probably my favourite geography story, because it demonstrates very well and surprisingly easily the impact that human development can have on an area!
![Time Out London
@TimeOutLondon
Hampton-on-Sea, Kent
Another victim of coastal erosion, Hampton was a modest oyster-fishing
village that sprung up in the late nineteenth century. Abandoned in 1916,
Hampton-on-Sea crumbled into the ocean. Today the only evidence of
its existence is the local boozer
[Picture of a pub with the sign "The Hampton Inn" on]
2:54 PM - Sep 14, 2021](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:drktb5ipf5erorwuw3fycwo2/bafkreicbblwsrdywkjhwmvb3fazclknke3mwxxmzbjpauvthxhr47xmlla@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
So, I actually live very near Hampton, and it's honestly probably my favourite geography story, because it demonstrates very well and surprisingly easily the impact that human development can have on an area!
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There’s a comment piece in The Times about sickness benefits mysteriously going up and no mention of Covid, long Covid, the effects of lockdown etc. Boosters help people stay healthy, but now they are only available to the very old or people who can afford them.
It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.
October 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
There’s a comment piece in The Times about sickness benefits mysteriously going up and no mention of Covid, long Covid, the effects of lockdown etc. Boosters help people stay healthy, but now they are only available to the very old or people who can afford them.
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Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
September 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
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We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all
Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...
humanists.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
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They just don't put thought into design like they used to.
The longer you look, the calmer you feel.
The longer you look, the calmer you feel.
April 25, 2024 at 5:07 AM
They just don't put thought into design like they used to.
The longer you look, the calmer you feel.
The longer you look, the calmer you feel.
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We're all sick more and it's because of COVID.
Great explainer on how a COVID infection hurts our immune system, so we're more sick, or sick more with other illnesses after a COVID infection.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Great explainer on how a COVID infection hurts our immune system, so we're more sick, or sick more with other illnesses after a COVID infection.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
www.bmj.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We're all sick more and it's because of COVID.
Great explainer on how a COVID infection hurts our immune system, so we're more sick, or sick more with other illnesses after a COVID infection.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Great explainer on how a COVID infection hurts our immune system, so we're more sick, or sick more with other illnesses after a COVID infection.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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sometimes you see a joke on Internet that just speaks to your humor core
August 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
sometimes you see a joke on Internet that just speaks to your humor core
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no notes, nailed it
August 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
no notes, nailed it
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What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest
August 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest
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someone posted a picture of the park on their newbuild housing estate and what on earth are we doing
August 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
someone posted a picture of the park on their newbuild housing estate and what on earth are we doing
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Labours Comms Strategy, in full
July 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Labours Comms Strategy, in full
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Every UK petition is like this
July 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Every UK petition is like this
Looking forward to finding out what VW are up to with the statement they're releasing in a couple of days, following a month of being evasive about their airbag recall that's not a recall in the UK. Pretty sure my 2013 Up has a Takata airbag, they just aren't admitting it: spod.cx/blog/vw_taka...
Volkswagen Takata Airbag Mess in 2025
Starting in 2013, many vehicle manufacturers recalled vehicles fitted with faulty airbag inflators made by Takata Corporation. Over 100 million airbags have been affected, so this is a pretty common i...
spod.cx
July 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Looking forward to finding out what VW are up to with the statement they're releasing in a couple of days, following a month of being evasive about their airbag recall that's not a recall in the UK. Pretty sure my 2013 Up has a Takata airbag, they just aren't admitting it: spod.cx/blog/vw_taka...
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In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”
no it wasn’t and no it didn’t
July 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”
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Watch this to the end.
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
July 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Watch this to the end.
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An in-depth article showing the problems faced by me and my neighbours and the web of organisations passing responsibility.
Further important concerns were raised about the disastrous vertical extension project on our homes in Mile End in this article in The Standard: www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop...
Inside the Mile End homes flooded by disastrous air space project
A project to add two storeys to existing residential blocks in Mile End began in 2022. Three years on, the disastrous project has brought only ill health, distress, and disruption to residents
www.standard.co.uk
July 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
An in-depth article showing the problems faced by me and my neighbours and the web of organisations passing responsibility.
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Oh. My petition to put up signs on the Blue Bridge to remind drivers that they shouldn't overtake cyclists on the bridge is now live.
Please sign and share. You can sign if you live, work or study in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
Please sign and share. You can sign if you live, work or study in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk
July 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Oh. My petition to put up signs on the Blue Bridge to remind drivers that they shouldn't overtake cyclists on the bridge is now live.
Please sign and share. You can sign if you live, work or study in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
Please sign and share. You can sign if you live, work or study in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
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hasn't affected where I am (yet) but really not encouraging that South East Water has simply cut off water to big chunks of Herne Bay, Whitstable & some outskirts of Canterbury since yesterday as their system cannot cope with a two (2) day heatwave
July 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
hasn't affected where I am (yet) but really not encouraging that South East Water has simply cut off water to big chunks of Herne Bay, Whitstable & some outskirts of Canterbury since yesterday as their system cannot cope with a two (2) day heatwave
Unimpressed that my 2013 VW Up shows up in the VW airbag recall checker (www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/owners-an...) but not the gov.uk one. No recall notification from VW themselves, and customer support seem to have admitted the dealers aren't ready to handle the recall yet.
Airbag safety recall campaign | Volkswagen UK
The global recall campaigns caused by a risk of fatal injury resulting from defective Takata airbags also affect Volkswagen models.
www.volkswagen.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Unimpressed that my 2013 VW Up shows up in the VW airbag recall checker (www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/owners-an...) but not the gov.uk one. No recall notification from VW themselves, and customer support seem to have admitted the dealers aren't ready to handle the recall yet.
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David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...
The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen
Personal website of David R Hagen, scientific software engineer
drhagen.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...