Benjamin Hendy
@benjaminhendy.bsky.social
Reader/writer/lover/fighter* NHS worker.
Author of How To Fill A Black Hole, tween/YA fiction.
Opinions are all someone else’s.
He may sound funny but he wasn’t supposed to.
Author of How To Fill A Black Hole, tween/YA fiction.
Opinions are all someone else’s.
He may sound funny but he wasn’t supposed to.
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The rich are astonishingly good at convincing poor people that other poor people are the reason they are poor.
Well, it’s a better suggestion than Madame Web I suppose…
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Well, it’s a better suggestion than Madame Web I suppose…
Dear @netflix.com - clearly your algorithms are total shit. I mean, like, the worst algorithms in the world. If you did music would you be recommending Coldplay? If you did books, would you be recommending Dan Brown? This is on a par. Fuck you. It makes me want to drop my subscription .
November 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Dear @netflix.com - clearly your algorithms are total shit. I mean, like, the worst algorithms in the world. If you did music would you be recommending Coldplay? If you did books, would you be recommending Dan Brown? This is on a par. Fuck you. It makes me want to drop my subscription .
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
This @tntsportsbra.bsky.social coverage of The Ashes is the worst cricket coverage I have ever seen. Great idea to have your lead comms not be cricket specialists or be in the country where the action is.
We need an intervention and the coverage given back to @skysportspl.bsky.social
We need an intervention and the coverage given back to @skysportspl.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This @tntsportsbra.bsky.social coverage of The Ashes is the worst cricket coverage I have ever seen. Great idea to have your lead comms not be cricket specialists or be in the country where the action is.
We need an intervention and the coverage given back to @skysportspl.bsky.social
We need an intervention and the coverage given back to @skysportspl.bsky.social
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Books. No cookie preferences. No cookies. No GDPR. No pop ups. No bots. No floating videos. No AI. No ads. No trackers. No misinformation. No fascist techbros. No distracting animations. No paywalls. No influencers. How good are these things? Books are frickin awesome
October 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Books. No cookie preferences. No cookies. No GDPR. No pop ups. No bots. No floating videos. No AI. No ads. No trackers. No misinformation. No fascist techbros. No distracting animations. No paywalls. No influencers. How good are these things? Books are frickin awesome
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
Off to see @gene-band.bsky.social featuring @martinrossiter.bsky.social at Hammersmith Apollo this evening. A friend has dropped out which mean I have a spare ticket. Drop me a line if you’re interested in coming…
October 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Off to see @gene-band.bsky.social featuring @martinrossiter.bsky.social at Hammersmith Apollo this evening. A friend has dropped out which mean I have a spare ticket. Drop me a line if you’re interested in coming…
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ECHR offers protection against unfair dismissal from work, protects pension rights, maternity leave rights and protects women getting divorced. People who think it's a good idea to leave should be ridiculed like flat-earthers. The ignorance is astounding.
September 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
ECHR offers protection against unfair dismissal from work, protects pension rights, maternity leave rights and protects women getting divorced. People who think it's a good idea to leave should be ridiculed like flat-earthers. The ignorance is astounding.
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This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
September 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
Have you ever heard such pusillanimous, narrow-minded, semantically vacuous fucking old wank in your life, @markthomasinfo.bsky.social ?
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Why the flip is an English council trying to ban swearing?
Thanet wants to use a public spaces protection order to fine people £100 for ‘foul or abusive language’. And it’s not the first to try it …
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Have you ever heard such pusillanimous, narrow-minded, semantically vacuous fucking old wank in your life, @markthomasinfo.bsky.social ?
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
This isn’t mine, but I don’t know who came up with it so can’t credit. Sorry…
April 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This isn’t mine, but I don’t know who came up with it so can’t credit. Sorry…
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. No matter what the UK Supreme Court says.
April 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. No matter what the UK Supreme Court says.
@jayforeman.bsky.social Just stumbled across this elsewhere. Obviously square is better than round, but any thoughts on the roundest country?
March 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@jayforeman.bsky.social Just stumbled across this elsewhere. Obviously square is better than round, but any thoughts on the roundest country?
There’s no such thing as a fish and no such thing as a finger but, weirdly, there is such a thing as a fish finger.
January 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
There’s no such thing as a fish and no such thing as a finger but, weirdly, there is such a thing as a fish finger.
This is really interesting and counter intuitive. Unless it’s wrong. Maine @jayforeman.bsky.social can confirm one way or the other…?
#mapmen
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#mapmen
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From the PeterExplainsTheJoke community on Reddit: Petah is the joke the line not being straight or I am missing something?
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January 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is really interesting and counter intuitive. Unless it’s wrong. Maine @jayforeman.bsky.social can confirm one way or the other…?
#mapmen
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#mapmen
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Sky TV’s current marketing campaign is terrible. “At Sky, the best is yet to come in 2025”? I should hope so - we’re less than a fortnight in, if the year’s already peaked we’re in trouble…
January 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Sky TV’s current marketing campaign is terrible. “At Sky, the best is yet to come in 2025”? I should hope so - we’re less than a fortnight in, if the year’s already peaked we’re in trouble…
The #NFL knows how spoil UK fans - Jets, Browns and Jags for London games in 2025. Only three of the worst teams in the league. I thought they might be serious about expanding the fanbase but seems they want to actively turn us off the sport.
January 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The #NFL knows how spoil UK fans - Jets, Browns and Jags for London games in 2025. Only three of the worst teams in the league. I thought they might be serious about expanding the fanbase but seems they want to actively turn us off the sport.
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“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
January 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
The rich are astonishingly good at convincing poor people that other poor people are the reason they are poor.
January 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The rich are astonishingly good at convincing poor people that other poor people are the reason they are poor.
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I’m reminded of this rather grim story about the immense amount of marketing younger writers now need to do to sell (and they better look hot while doing it).
as one quoted writer says, you have to either have BIG family money or be brilliant at self promotion to survive nowadays.
as one quoted writer says, you have to either have BIG family money or be brilliant at self promotion to survive nowadays.
November 3, 2023 at 1:33 PM
I’m reminded of this rather grim story about the immense amount of marketing younger writers now need to do to sell (and they better look hot while doing it).
as one quoted writer says, you have to either have BIG family money or be brilliant at self promotion to survive nowadays.
as one quoted writer says, you have to either have BIG family money or be brilliant at self promotion to survive nowadays.
“The only surefire way to stop the violence is to let them kill everyone. It’s like young children, you just need to let them wear themselves out.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
October 31, 2023 at 8:11 AM
“The only surefire way to stop the violence is to let them kill everyone. It’s like young children, you just need to let them wear themselves out.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Check out this profoundly, delightfully unhinged list, and try to guess what is being ranked here, and who is doing the ranking. Answer is at the end of the alt text.
October 22, 2023 at 1:34 PM
Check out this profoundly, delightfully unhinged list, and try to guess what is being ranked here, and who is doing the ranking. Answer is at the end of the alt text.
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WHAT A CONCEPT
WILD TO THINK THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME REASON TO EXPLORE THE SYSTEM WHICH LED TO LITERAL DECADES OF ICONIC TELEVISION
WILD
WILD TO THINK THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME REASON TO EXPLORE THE SYSTEM WHICH LED TO LITERAL DECADES OF ICONIC TELEVISION
WILD
October 11, 2023 at 3:14 PM
WHAT A CONCEPT
WILD TO THINK THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME REASON TO EXPLORE THE SYSTEM WHICH LED TO LITERAL DECADES OF ICONIC TELEVISION
WILD
WILD TO THINK THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME REASON TO EXPLORE THE SYSTEM WHICH LED TO LITERAL DECADES OF ICONIC TELEVISION
WILD