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Ben 🏳️‍🌈

@benrattigan.com

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I wish this Government would do something. also Abolish the Treasury. 📍 Hartlepool, UK 🖖🏳️‍🌈🕹️💻🚝 🐶 🌳 he/him

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Nu Pogodi! Enjoyer @lameposting.bsky.social · 1h

Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 1h

🤣 I’d forgotten about that useless crap.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 1h

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 2h

I don’t have a lot of faith in the railways in doing much outside of London & SE.

Ok maybe it’ll eventually make its way to the other 9 stations they manage but that’s hardly “across all parts of the network” as they (NR) stated.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 3h

Sounds like a London Railway Clock rather than a national one.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 3h

Hartlepool business Tanglewood Games crowned a Best Place to Work in Gamesindustry.biz awards

www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/people/...

'I'm incredibly proud': Hartlepool business crowned a Best Place to Work

A Hartlepool-based business is celebrating after being crowned one of the best places to work in the UK within the gaming industry.

www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 8h

This is quite something given the Secretary of State doesn’t see any value in branding or livery until the trains can turn up on time.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 8h

Stop it. 😆

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 10h

Not pleased with the amount of times I’ve had to write nonce in my notes.

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Mark Fixes Stuff @markfixesstuff.com · 1d

If it's not one thing it's another. My Presonus editing speakers flat out died.

Let's take a look inside at the SHOCKING quality. Spoilers: It's actually really rubbish.

Can we fix them?

youtu.be/BDi2ENf6lk4

#presonus #repair #audio

My Video Editing Speakers DIED! 😱 Why Did Presonus Do THIS?! Eris 3.5 No Power Repair

YouTube video by Mark Fixes Stuff

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 1d

We’ve talked about micro segmentation for a full hour and I want to die now.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 1d

Ok we’ll need to calculate what percentage of your blood is Irish.

Me: I had a few glasses of Jamesons the other night, will that do?

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 1d

Today’s lesson: Cryptography.

a close up of a man 's face with glasses and red hair making a funny face .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with glasses and red hair making a funny face .

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 1d

Recruiting cannon fodder from schools.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 1d

Storyville: Mr Nobody Against Putin on BBC Four is fascinating and frightening, these teachers know it’s all bullshit and lies coming from Moscow.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 2d

Theres fun sponging and then there’s this abomination…

Sugar free version of the world’s dullest biscuit, no sugar, no salt, no fat, no gluten, lifeless shite

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 2d

*an

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 2d

And 8.4% drop in unemployment here is nothing to be sniffed at.

www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/people/...

‘Good news for Hartlepool’: New figures show a sizeable fall in unemployment across the town

Hartlepool has seen an 8.4% drop in unemployment over the past year according to new data released by the Office for National Statistics.

www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 2d

Well that explains all the malicious sharing links I’ve been getting to my Google Drive.

This is an example of a good quality response from LNER, so well done as this is well thought through comms. 👍

@davidhorne.bsky.social

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 2d

The rants of a narcissist.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 2d

www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...

Why Hartlepool is becoming the North's most unlikely creative powerhouse

My visit to the Northern Festival of Illustration highlighted how a once-overlooked seaside town is becoming one of the UK's most exciting creative centres. Over the last few years, I've spent a l...

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 2d

Good morning, let’s get you all warmed up.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 3d

You ca use your Avios points for big discounts with Apple.

The discount….