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At what point can we #ProsecuteGove, seize all his ill-gotten assets and use them to pay back every corrupt penny? @goodlawproject.bsky.social

I came out this morning and found this flyer on my Honda Odyssey. Just because I own a Honda doesn't mean I condone the man's actions or agree with all of his political beliefs, and I'm a little offended at the idea that I should be held responsible.

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

Finally, someone is taking a stand against Sheeran.

"Yousa people gonna dye?"

Some much needed optimism: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

that's right

You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.

Who will rid me of this -

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Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter are being expressly used for fascist propaganda, control, and targeted attacks. They are unsafe. If you have to be there, be there, but it's not ceding the digital space to leave fascist platforms for new and safe alternatives. Community is where we make it.

AI is the free U2 album of our time.

Livid - LIVID!!! that Google Gemini has inserted itself into my work inbox and no amount of dicking around with settings will remove the invasive, useless little fucker

This is an amazing idea and cannot happen soon enough

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Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

This is fucking insane. Props (?) to whichever comic-illiterate exec went into a meeting with his sinuses full of 'web fluid' and said "We don't need to spend the cash on Tom Holland guys, we just need Jared Leto and some glow-in-the-dark Halloween fangs" www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...

Good morning.

A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.

Die Hard contains the word Christmas 18 times, in Home Alone it's only 8. Thus, if Die Hard is not a Christmas film, neither is Home Alone. Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Hi everyone

Good morning to everyone except my earworm who is currently singing the theme song from "Sharky and George" on repeat

210,000 words. Still. Not. Done. At this point I'm considering leaving it unfinished and working on an insane prequel with some dragons instead, until I too can afford a motorised shopping scooter #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting

After many years of preparation (read: making him watch five and a bit series), I have finally introduced my boyfriend to the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the apex of all television.

Sorry to report this is factually incorrect, and I put to you as proof that you can get boring old turkey all year round, but you can ONLY get goose at Christmas. Also most turkeys taste like they never had even one sip of water while they were alive.

By far my favourite category of Gregg Wallace interactions were all the times people used to tweet him saying they'd just had a banging steak bake

I am from Plymouth, from where the pilgrim fathers sailed, fleeing religious persecution. What nobody remembers is that they were persecuted because they were absolutely bonkers. They wanted to ban theatre and dancing, believed that enjoyment was sinful & that anything not in the bible was worthless

Do not do this, they cut that song for the very good reason of saccharine dullness.

Taking the afternoon off to visit the chintziest place in all the kingdom, the Christmas ideal home show. If you have never been, prepare yourself, for you have never seen such chintz all in one place.

Just got IDed buying beer in Sainsbury's. I'm 45. Telling you all because fairly obviously, this has made my day.

This has got me thinking. The ‘echo chamber’ criticism assumes that social media is only about politics. But it’s also about literature, art, science, nature, ecology etc and we’re all learning from each other here all the time (if we engage that way).

Good. Now we should turn it into a floating prison for corrupt Tories, rename it the Boris Johnson, and put him in a toilet cubicle that locks from the outside.