Ben
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Ben
@smithben.bsky.social
Tired lawyer in London. Books, baking, burgeoning existential dread. 🏳️‍🌈
The rush of a colleague telling you you look skinny is better than (what I imagine cocaine feels like).
May 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Scum
Asked if Keir Starmer still believes that a trans woman is a woman, his spokesman replies "no".

Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms
April 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Not one of these girls knew who Truman Capote was, don’t lie to me. #dragrace
March 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Is the wheel of time actually genuinely good this season?
March 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Not me crying at the great pottery pot off finale
March 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The sun is shining and there’s a new gaga album full of bops and I’m instantly 50% less depressed.
March 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Every week Severance just reveals the biggest freak you’ve ever seen on screen.
March 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Zelensky should be allowed to hunt JD Vance like a wild animal.
February 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Love 2 spend 70 quid on a ticket for a sub- 2 hour journey on a train that smells like piss.
February 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
You really can gauge how depressed and overwhelmed I am by how many books I’m buying at any given moment
February 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Oh god that annoying onlyfans farmer couple have gone mask off ‘LGB without the T’ Tory.
February 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Enjoying all your ugly boyfriend reveals today xx
February 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
In hindsight it really was insane that drag race did a wizard of oz challenge featuring the cast of Little Women LA
February 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
So Trump tariffs bullshit is just cover for Musk and co destroying the American administrative state, right?
February 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Gay St Vincent!
February 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
If the “”Deep State”” as the far right conspiracists think of it actually existed, Elon Musk would have fallen out of a window by now.
February 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Someone slap me, I’m considering downloading Hinge/Timder/whatever we’re using these days
February 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Think I have some sort of delusional body dysmorphia going on where I think I look quite good with a buzzcut.
February 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I’ve seen enough, Onya Nurve is my winner of season 17.
February 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Drafting complicated restrictive covenants on a Saturday morning, regretting my life choices.
February 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Absolutely criminal that Paul W Downs is straight.
February 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
So Trump is intentionally trying to crash the US economy a week in, is that right?
January 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
There needs to be a word for the weird almost imposter syndrome you have when someone “too hot” messages you on the apps and you assume it’s a catfish or a scam.
January 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The thing you have to remember when reading stories like this is that 90% of employment judges are incompetent idiots

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...
Nurse can refer to transgender doctor as a man in legal victory
Tribunal rules ‘misgendering’ is not harassment after Sandy Peggie claims she was forced to get changed in front of trans woman
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The thing you have to remember when reading stories like this is that 90% of employment judges are incompetent idiots

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...
Nurse can refer to transgender doctor as a man in legal victory
Tribunal rules ‘misgendering’ is not harassment after Sandy Peggie claims she was forced to get changed in front of trans woman
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM