Posts by Ben Beckford
“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis
M&S Food: You get what you pay for
Waitrose: You have to pretend you get what you pay for
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
🧵 1/5
hardDisagree
Does this include 16-17 year olds?
Our latest tactical voting advice to stop Reform:
stopreformuk.vote/parl/gorton-...
Parliamentary by-election 26th Feb 2026
🟢 Gorton & Denton = GREEN
#Manchester #ByElection
Dirty glass is safe glass,
Clean glass is dangerarse.
Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
Worst take of the year.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
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I've been waiting for the tech to mature before taking the plunge, the Valve Frame is the first one I might actually buy, if they can price it under £600
May I offer thingymabob, and doobreywotsit - which I believe is of South West origin.
@watsoncomedian.bsky.social Any No More Jockeys on the horizon, Mark?
Should be a standard Gmail feature imo! Let me see the decline in my email habits on a chart!
Robert Jenrick Robert Jenrick complained of v 'not seeing another white face' in Birmingham neighbourhood Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit
And yet, if anyone in the press calls this racist (which it patently is), they’ll face more outrage than the man who lamented a shortage of white faces.
So we’ll politely rebrand it as “unwise,” perhaps “ill-judged,” or “not in keeping with the spirit of inclusivity.”
Sick. To. The. Back. Teeth.
"Are you scared yet?"
Did you know the US Justice Department published a study that found 'far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left extremists.'
They've just deleted it.
Can't get over the images of starving children in Gaza, how can we just stand by and let this happen in 2025?
Merry Switchmass to all who celebrate! #Switch2
Australia were absolutely robbed, this would've won last night if it got through to the final of #Eurovision, they out-weirded Europe and it's a banger.
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Our* 🙄
Or #Eurovision top 3:
1. Latvia
2. UK
3. Switzerland
Austria and Israel nowhere near.
Still, JJ sang it well.
Roll on 2026!
That's just maths isn't it, @androidauthority.com?
Shame on #Currys for forcing customers to buy their expensive £569 #Switch2 mega bundle by artificially putting the base model and MKW bundle out of stock!
Surely that's not in line with Nintendo's wishes?
@nintendolife.com @gamexplain.bsky.social @theverge.com @theguardian.com
1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
Always in plain sight
This is cool Gina, would be nice to change currency symbol :)