Ben Bowsher
@benbowsher.bsky.social
Political Theorist and Researcher. Always overthinker. Sometimes designer. Now the useless kind of doctor.
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if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode
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then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
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danish social democrats lost, badly. the "the left but adolf hitler on immigration" people:
December 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
danish social democrats lost, badly. the "the left but adolf hitler on immigration" people:
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wow who was he up against
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
wow who was he up against
“He has a racist past!” He has a racist present!
I can't help but feel as though all this heat over whether Nigel Farage was a racist bigot fifty years ago is a distraction from the same discussion the press and political class continue to dodge: That the party he leads, right now, is a, racist, bigoted, far-right political party.
December 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
“He has a racist past!” He has a racist present!
Is FIFA the most corrupt organisation in the world? It would be if the Labour Party didn’t exist.
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Is FIFA the most corrupt organisation in the world? It would be if the Labour Party didn’t exist.
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The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).
Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).
Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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guy who thinks he can lose 5 pounds in december
December 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
guy who thinks he can lose 5 pounds in december
Love to see a bunch of people who were never interested in Your Party and who aren’t involved in the internal struggles over various issues get incandescently angry from the sidelines based on some screenshots and nothing else. You are the smartest most moral ones, well done.
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Love to see a bunch of people who were never interested in Your Party and who aren’t involved in the internal struggles over various issues get incandescently angry from the sidelines based on some screenshots and nothing else. You are the smartest most moral ones, well done.
Lot of sneering going on about your party from people largely who haven’t done any meaningful political organising in their lives. Probably why they’re flattening a site of struggle for democracy into a silly little thing, based on views shaped by a hostile press.
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Lot of sneering going on about your party from people largely who haven’t done any meaningful political organising in their lives. Probably why they’re flattening a site of struggle for democracy into a silly little thing, based on views shaped by a hostile press.
Anyone who can turn out at the New Bridge Hotel today to defend migrants ASAP it is needed. I hear the fascists are on the attack today! Help if you can!
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Anyone who can turn out at the New Bridge Hotel today to defend migrants ASAP it is needed. I hear the fascists are on the attack today! Help if you can!
I’d rather spoil my ballot - fucksake @thisisyourparty.bsky.social, who was doing shortlisting and why did they absolutely shit the bed?
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I’d rather spoil my ballot - fucksake @thisisyourparty.bsky.social, who was doing shortlisting and why did they absolutely shit the bed?
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On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
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Guardian has a game designed to show you how hard Rachel Reeves’ job is and within 30 seconds I made everyone happy by raising taxes somewhat on very wealthy people and corporations and slightly cutting them for everyone else, undid welfare cuts, got the budget into surplus. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Guardian has a game designed to show you how hard Rachel Reeves’ job is and within 30 seconds I made everyone happy by raising taxes somewhat on very wealthy people and corporations and slightly cutting them for everyone else, undid welfare cuts, got the budget into surplus. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not to become one of those “politics happens when the council don’t do my bins properly” guys but my green bin suddenly stopped being taken 8 weeks ago. Only just got an answer why - somehow our bin is from a different council, and apparently that is some magic code for unemptiable.
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Not to become one of those “politics happens when the council don’t do my bins properly” guys but my green bin suddenly stopped being taken 8 weeks ago. Only just got an answer why - somehow our bin is from a different council, and apparently that is some magic code for unemptiable.
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This excuse would be pretty grim even if Labour were now very popular thanks to their flag-saluting foreigner crackdowns, which they really are not.
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This excuse would be pretty grim even if Labour were now very popular thanks to their flag-saluting foreigner crackdowns, which they really are not.
I fucking would!
I would never have believed we would see a headline like this under a Labour government
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I fucking would!
Shabana Mahmood just needlessly justifying fascist rhetoric to chase a tiny percentage of voters who won’t vote for them anyway. 🙃
November 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Shabana Mahmood just needlessly justifying fascist rhetoric to chase a tiny percentage of voters who won’t vote for them anyway. 🙃
Capitalism is dependent on an ever expanding war machine
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Capitalism is dependent on an ever expanding war machine
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Is it “tell the racists how very right they are” this week, and “wring your hands over them“ next, or the other way round? I get so confusicated
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Is it “tell the racists how very right they are” this week, and “wring your hands over them“ next, or the other way round? I get so confusicated
Hearing people are urgently needed at the counter demo at New Bridge Hotel in Newcastle today - if you can show up to support local asylum seekers and to say no to the fash!
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Hearing people are urgently needed at the counter demo at New Bridge Hotel in Newcastle today - if you can show up to support local asylum seekers and to say no to the fash!
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1 trillion dollars with nothing more than the hope that this time the monorail will work behind them. Obscene.
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
1 trillion dollars with nothing more than the hope that this time the monorail will work behind them. Obscene.
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Capitalism has made this man a trillionaire. Can we be honest now that it’s not a real and effective way of organising social relations.
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Capitalism has made this man a trillionaire. Can we be honest now that it’s not a real and effective way of organising social relations.