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Ben Austwick
@benaustwick.bsky.social
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benaustwick.co.uk

Hold kindness in your heart like a knife at the throat of the world
Bring back the monasteries
December 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The United States is drifting closer to its next Forever War, one whose impact can't be kept away from its homeland borders, in the dumbest possible way
December 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The idea that we can't get out of this decline with taxation is hilarious
December 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Berkeley Court, Eastbourne. Gigantic landlord's block built in the 90s in Victorian seaside vernacular
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Hope they extend this to Canada so Las Vegas becomes cool desert ruins
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
December 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Apparently Soviet ice cream was really nice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plombir...
December 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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December 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours (last dates for Christmas orders: UK: 17 Dec. Sheffield: 23 Dec). Recent hardbacks inc. Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'. Order here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
December 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Bought my first truck (DAF XG)
December 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Lichen collage. On lakeside rock, Northwest Territories, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This shittty mood better not be the beginnings of flu
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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EU officials are weighing the 'Nuclear Option' of dumping U.S. Treasuries if Trump cuts a Ukraine deal and betrays the Allies. This would trigger an economic collapse in the US, millions would lose everything overnight and Saudi Arabia, UAE, and China would buyout the country.
December 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Some powerfully half-arsed tree harassment from Tux.
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I feel like my entire childhood was basically shops called Chips that had that exact font, just following me around dead end towns in the north.
December 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Britain's national photographer just about nails him unfortunately
December 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Still no girls technical Lego then!
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Regardless of any architectural or traditional heritage value, this is an example of a functional building used for years, that works for people, with which they have an emotional history as well as a practical need. #PlaceHistory #LocalDemocracy #HeritageAttachment #BusShelter #BusesMatter
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Canning Town
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
No waaaay Dartford station got a Greggs
December 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I wasn't breast fed and look how I turned out!
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The grim death toll from heat waves across European cities this past summer would have been captured in shocking headlines if they happened all at once, in a bombing or plane crash—835 in Rome, 630 in Athens, 409 in Paris.
Human-Caused Warming Tripled the Death Toll of European Heat Waves This Summer, New Report Shows - Inside Climate News
Public health researchers struggle to track the accelerating pace of global warming impacts.
insideclimatenews.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
More comic timing from Labour attacking the Green position on NATO
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM