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@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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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 16m

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

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 5h

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 · 5h

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 .

media.tenor.com

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 16h

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 17h

Recruiting cannon fodder from schools.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 17h

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

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 21h

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 · 23h

*an

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 23h

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

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 1d

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 · 1d

The rants of a narcissist.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 1d

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...

www.creativeboom.com

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 1d

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

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 1d

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

The discount….

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 1d

Probably dead now, sorry.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 1d

Regulatory Compliance

a man in a suit is sitting at a desk with his hand on his face and the words `` nap time '' .

ALT: a man in a suit is sitting at a desk with his hand on his face and the words `` nap time '' .

media.tenor.com

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 2d

Doing a CISSP course, very, very dry learning topics today.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 2d

There’s another argument that constantly comes up about them not “fitting on our narrow streets” despite the fact many European countries with equally as small streets manage fine with them.

Is there not a version of this that is also bi-directional with a drivers cab each end?

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 2d

I’m not sure how they would be anymore dangerous than a tram.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 2d

You know he’s lying because his lips are moving.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 2d

Depop is also full of this.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 3d

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 3d

Yes, more Trek!

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 3d

For anyone outside the US, here’s the non-region locked version:

Official Trailer | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | NYCC 2025

YouTube video by Star Trek

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 3d

Ok he’s also been done for shoplifting by look of it in Gateshead.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 3d

I don’t get the second photo, why is it overlayed on a picture of Gateshead Metro Centre?