Ben
@hedben.bsky.social
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. He/him
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This will not go well.
What this will do is push teenagers, already more digitally literate than lawmakers, into using increasingly sketchy methods to avoid age checks.
Let me tell you how I know... 🧵
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What this will do is push teenagers, already more digitally literate than lawmakers, into using increasingly sketchy methods to avoid age checks.
Let me tell you how I know... 🧵
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December 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This will not go well.
What this will do is push teenagers, already more digitally literate than lawmakers, into using increasingly sketchy methods to avoid age checks.
Let me tell you how I know... 🧵
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What this will do is push teenagers, already more digitally literate than lawmakers, into using increasingly sketchy methods to avoid age checks.
Let me tell you how I know... 🧵
1/
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Banning teenagers from VPNs will push them to use more unsafe routes to access what they want to access. They're more technically literate coupled with being idiotic risk takers.
End.
End.
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Banning teenagers from VPNs will push them to use more unsafe routes to access what they want to access. They're more technically literate coupled with being idiotic risk takers.
End.
End.
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When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
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I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
People keep replying with bad movies, which I think is missing the point. Hereditary is a good movie that I’d recommend people watch precisely once.
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
People keep replying with bad movies, which I think is missing the point. Hereditary is a good movie that I’d recommend people watch precisely once.
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Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
Thanks, I hate it
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
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The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Thanks, I hate it
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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I tell you what, that Santa Claus has got real presence about him
December 18, 2024 at 5:32 PM
I tell you what, that Santa Claus has got real presence about him
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2025 advent calendar. Day one.
You run downstairs, excited to open the first door. A voice in the back of your mind tries to tell you that you didn't actually buy an advent calendar this year—and this wasn't in the house when you went to bed last night—but you push that aside.
You run downstairs, excited to open the first door. A voice in the back of your mind tries to tell you that you didn't actually buy an advent calendar this year—and this wasn't in the house when you went to bed last night—but you push that aside.
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
2025 advent calendar. Day one.
You run downstairs, excited to open the first door. A voice in the back of your mind tries to tell you that you didn't actually buy an advent calendar this year—and this wasn't in the house when you went to bed last night—but you push that aside.
You run downstairs, excited to open the first door. A voice in the back of your mind tries to tell you that you didn't actually buy an advent calendar this year—and this wasn't in the house when you went to bed last night—but you push that aside.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Robbie Williams can do one. If you want to fuck with John Barry, this is how you do it.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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October 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Robbie Williams can do one. If you want to fuck with John Barry, this is how you do it.
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
October 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
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M&S mini thread for a Wednesday morning.
One day, the second time I worked there, I was ringing up a women's order and asked if she wanted cash back.
One day, the second time I worked there, I was ringing up a women's order and asked if she wanted cash back.
October 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
M&S mini thread for a Wednesday morning.
One day, the second time I worked there, I was ringing up a women's order and asked if she wanted cash back.
One day, the second time I worked there, I was ringing up a women's order and asked if she wanted cash back.
I’m funding the translocation of new, viable colonies of polar bears to Antarctica and Penguins to the North Pole so they can finally meet. I’m sure they’ll be best buddies.
lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful
what would you buy to break the curse?
what would you buy to break the curse?
October 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I’m funding the translocation of new, viable colonies of polar bears to Antarctica and Penguins to the North Pole so they can finally meet. I’m sure they’ll be best buddies.
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Okay. The people have spoken.
For every reskeet this gets, I will post a random picture from my camera roll with no explanation (other than alt text).
Let the games begin.
For every reskeet this gets, I will post a random picture from my camera roll with no explanation (other than alt text).
Let the games begin.
May 8, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Okay. The people have spoken.
For every reskeet this gets, I will post a random picture from my camera roll with no explanation (other than alt text).
Let the games begin.
For every reskeet this gets, I will post a random picture from my camera roll with no explanation (other than alt text).
Let the games begin.
Describe your Bluesky account in a single image
October 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Describe your Bluesky account in a single image
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because stuff always works like this when you're a one-man band, obviously it's only now that Alien:Earth is finished I'm finally getting chance to remake the moulds for our Xeno:Morph kit. He's back in the shop as a pre-order, anyway!
September 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
because stuff always works like this when you're a one-man band, obviously it's only now that Alien:Earth is finished I'm finally getting chance to remake the moulds for our Xeno:Morph kit. He's back in the shop as a pre-order, anyway!
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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Dude, Where’s My Car? Oklahoma!
Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film.
September 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Dude, Where’s My Car? Oklahoma!
Kiss Kiss Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Bang Bang
Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film.
September 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Kiss Kiss Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Bang Bang
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Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film.
September 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film.
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Yesterday, I highlighted how Kash Patel's poor handling of the case could put it in jeopardy.
But today the FBI's lead-podcaster, doubled-down on *STUPID*, in a public interview that is a defense attorneys dream!
Let's breakdown the incompetence:
x.com/adamscochra...
Yesterday, I highlighted how Kash Patel's poor handling of the case could put it in jeopardy.
But today the FBI's lead-podcaster, doubled-down on *STUPID*, in a public interview that is a defense attorneys dream!
Let's breakdown the incompetence:
x.com/adamscochra...
September 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Yesterday, I highlighted how Kash Patel's poor handling of the case could put it in jeopardy.
But today the FBI's lead-podcaster, doubled-down on *STUPID*, in a public interview that is a defense attorneys dream!
Let's breakdown the incompetence:
x.com/adamscochra...
Yesterday, I highlighted how Kash Patel's poor handling of the case could put it in jeopardy.
But today the FBI's lead-podcaster, doubled-down on *STUPID*, in a public interview that is a defense attorneys dream!
Let's breakdown the incompetence:
x.com/adamscochra...