Ben Rathe
@benrathe.bsky.social
Comms for TikTok. Recovering Press Secretary. Evertonian. Colts fan. Joyful cynicist, according to my own colleagues.
It is very funny when Americans learn that no, in fact the Super Bowl is not the most watched sporting event in the world.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino said the World Cup, consisting of 104 matches, will be the equivalent of “three Super Bowls a day” over five weeks.
Is it a fair comparison?
Is it a fair comparison?
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It is very funny when Americans learn that no, in fact the Super Bowl is not the most watched sporting event in the world.
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
My only thought on the Reeves story is that it’s mental that we have these incredibly important people in country-altering jobs and don’t have a civil service unit that just sorts this kind of thing for them?
October 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
My only thought on the Reeves story is that it’s mental that we have these incredibly important people in country-altering jobs and don’t have a civil service unit that just sorts this kind of thing for them?
This quote is funny because they literally did not tell us how much they disagreed with her for ages.
NEW - Starmer on Katy Lam: "I can't tell you how much I disagree with her.
"People who are lawfully in this country, who have been working in our communities, our neighbours... to reach in and remove them from our country - for 'cultural reasons'. That is how far the Conservative party has sunk."
"People who are lawfully in this country, who have been working in our communities, our neighbours... to reach in and remove them from our country - for 'cultural reasons'. That is how far the Conservative party has sunk."
October 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This quote is funny because they literally did not tell us how much they disagreed with her for ages.
Contrast with the UK, where The Houses of Parliament is literally going to burn down because they won’t spend any money to fix it.
Trump on his new White House ballroom: "In order to do it properly we had to take down the existing structure."
October 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Contrast with the UK, where The Houses of Parliament is literally going to burn down because they won’t spend any money to fix it.
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A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission)
Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.
Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.
October 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission)
Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.
Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.
I’ve also never seen a tweet that sounds less like someone who has been to a football match.
While Jenrick is obvs wrong about policing, crime and violence + also wrong about longterm trends integratio
But he is importantly wrong - in a less obvious way - about community too
The average attendance at Aston Villla in 1986 was only 15,000: that atmosphere didn't bring people together
But he is importantly wrong - in a less obvious way - about community too
The average attendance at Aston Villla in 1986 was only 15,000: that atmosphere didn't bring people together
October 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I’ve also never seen a tweet that sounds less like someone who has been to a football match.
Listened to the latest Swift album. It’s….fine? Nowhere near her highest heights, a massive step up from Tortured Poets which was rubbish. #LifeofaShowGirl
October 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Listened to the latest Swift album. It’s….fine? Nowhere near her highest heights, a massive step up from Tortured Poets which was rubbish. #LifeofaShowGirl
“Yeah, I’ve been starvin’ em, teasing ‘em, singing off key. Me-may-ma-moo, mee-moo-ma-mee”
Whenever my wife or I talk about feeding the cats, or that we are starving.
Whenever my wife or I talk about feeding the cats, or that we are starving.
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
October 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“Yeah, I’ve been starvin’ em, teasing ‘em, singing off key. Me-may-ma-moo, mee-moo-ma-mee”
Whenever my wife or I talk about feeding the cats, or that we are starving.
Whenever my wife or I talk about feeding the cats, or that we are starving.
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Lib Dem MPs having literally no idea how hard it is to get ‘cut through’. Part of an endless series that has been going on since the party was founded.
Exclusive @theipaper.com: Sir Ed Davey has been told to raise his game by Liberal Democrat MPs amid growing concerns that the party is failing to cut through with the public inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Ed Davey told by his MPs to raise game and drop ‘bullsh*t stunts’
Dissatisfaction has been fuelled by a feeling that the party have not received the media attention that many MPs expected after their election performance
inews.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Lib Dem MPs having literally no idea how hard it is to get ‘cut through’. Part of an endless series that has been going on since the party was founded.
I’ve re-written this to try to be more polite but I can’t be bothered, so here is my thought:
If you think this, you are an idiot.
#LibDems
If you think this, you are an idiot.
#LibDems
Exclusive @theipaper.com: Sir Ed Davey has been told to raise his game by Liberal Democrat MPs amid growing concerns that the party is failing to cut through with the public inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Ed Davey told by his MPs to raise game and drop ‘bullsh*t stunts’
Dissatisfaction has been fuelled by a feeling that the party have not received the media attention that many MPs expected after their election performance
inews.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I’ve re-written this to try to be more polite but I can’t be bothered, so here is my thought:
If you think this, you are an idiot.
#LibDems
If you think this, you are an idiot.
#LibDems
Battered them 0-0, genuinely good performance. Not helped by genuinely one of the worst refereeing performances you will see. If he’d literally guessed every time he’d have got more right.
September 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Battered them 0-0, genuinely good performance. Not helped by genuinely one of the worst refereeing performances you will see. If he’d literally guessed every time he’d have got more right.
….what the heck is in ‘The Passion of the Christ 2’?
September 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
….what the heck is in ‘The Passion of the Christ 2’?
Incredible window for Everton. A, 9/10.
There will be lots of unnecessary moaning about the lack of a new RB, but it’s not like we don’t have depth there. Unless you’re signing a nailed on starter, which they obviously didn’t feel they could, no point just adding more names. #EFC
There will be lots of unnecessary moaning about the lack of a new RB, but it’s not like we don’t have depth there. Unless you’re signing a nailed on starter, which they obviously didn’t feel they could, no point just adding more names. #EFC
September 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Incredible window for Everton. A, 9/10.
There will be lots of unnecessary moaning about the lack of a new RB, but it’s not like we don’t have depth there. Unless you’re signing a nailed on starter, which they obviously didn’t feel they could, no point just adding more names. #EFC
There will be lots of unnecessary moaning about the lack of a new RB, but it’s not like we don’t have depth there. Unless you’re signing a nailed on starter, which they obviously didn’t feel they could, no point just adding more names. #EFC
I just want to pick up some ramen guys….
August 31, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I just want to pick up some ramen guys….
Newcastle have been involved in the game of the season, and two of the worst football games I’ve seen in years.
August 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Newcastle have been involved in the game of the season, and two of the worst football games I’ve seen in years.
“The mystery box could be anything, even a boat!”
@AdamSchefter tweeted
Jerry Jones: “Those draft picks could get us top Pro Bowl players.”
Jerry Jones: “Those draft picks could get us top Pro Bowl players.”
August 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“The mystery box could be anything, even a boat!”
12 tracks does at least suggest someone has intervened since the debacle of the bloated last album.
🚨Taylor Swift unveils the cover art and tracklist for ‘The Life of a Showgirl.’
August 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
12 tracks does at least suggest someone has intervened since the debacle of the bloated last album.
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These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
August 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
This must be a troll. It must be.
August 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This must be a troll. It must be.
Also, and I *know* this both isn’t the point and exposes my pedantry, it should be ‘Delivered by whom?’
Whatever the merits of the policy on information on work checks, this seems ill-judged and inappropriate messagimg & imagery from the UK government.
July 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Also, and I *know* this both isn’t the point and exposes my pedantry, it should be ‘Delivered by whom?’
The purple clues in #Connections today is possibly the stupidest group ever, and only works if you mispronounce at least two of the words.
July 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The purple clues in #Connections today is possibly the stupidest group ever, and only works if you mispronounce at least two of the words.
I listened to a podcast the other day where a guest said the USMNT would make the World Cup semi finals….
MEXICO WINS THE 2025 GOLD CUP FINAL AGAINST THE UNITED STATES 🇲🇽
July 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I listened to a podcast the other day where a guest said the USMNT would make the World Cup semi finals….