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Ben Le Foe

Ben Le Foe

@benlefoe.bsky.social

25 followers 70 following 56 posts

20+ years digital professional, now working in the travel sector. Apparently also a long-haired, beardy, occasional musician-type. All views my own.

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Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · 21h

You asked how rights will change? Right now I don't have to carry an ID and I strongly believe that will change.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · 21h

Just like passports are only used at borders and driving licences are only used with regards to driving issues. Oh wait, no they aren't... so of course a digital ID that 90% of adults will end up having to have on their phones won't suffer from function creep.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · 1d

I've launched 3 websites this year (though the project started last year). Waterfall delivery would not have delivered them in the same timescale, and the flexibility of agile made it easier to get the business to focus on core requirements as the deadlines loomed.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · 1d

As I manage a trio of websites, I look forward to the extra time rooting around in the office fridge looking for cheese.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · 1d

We have a pretty bad history of stop and search being abused in this country; no reason to make it easier for no benefit.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · 1d

The one where I can anonymously go about my day and if the police really want to fuck with me it's going to cost them a ton of paper work. I've lived in a country with ID cards and watched it be used as a tool by the police when they want to start hassling you.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, so it's not Spiders Nightclub in Hull? I thought that seemed a bit weird.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · 5d

I came here to say this.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 7d

Sisyphus had it easy, pushing a boulder up a hill for all eternity. He didn't have to get an 8 year old ready for school in the morning

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · 8d

An episode of Prime Suspect I think had a kid being run over because he was wearing headphones; this was a key revelation.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · 8d

Yes but the adaptor was under £10 and lets me plug in anything with a 3.5mm jack. So your assertion that because of the EU it's impossible to attach any analogue device to the Apple USB ports is nonsense really.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · 9d

Well 40-odd years ago I remember listening to a Sony Walkman cassette tape player as I took myself to school. So this isn't a new thing.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · 9d

Seems odd as I can totally attach wired headphones to my ipad via the USB socket and a cheap adaptor.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · 10d

I want to know how this was discovered. Presumably you thought you'd have a sneaky chocolate whilst waiting for the pot noodle to cool down and it fell in?

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · Sep 13

The far right has been legitimised by Labour, Conservatives and Reform and all those journalists and channels that have either failed to hold them to account or actively supported them - meanwhile, international law has been eviscerated - the weak, the cowardly and the greedy have succeeded

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · Sep 13

If I were the UK Government I would simply not route all my communications through the platform whose owner just called for regime change in Britain and said "fight back or die"

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · Sep 13

A modest TV broadcasting proposal:

Brian Kilmeade takes 5 minutes after the weather to interview a homeless person and then administer their lethal injection.
And now your local news-

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 13

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · Sep 13

So you're trying to come clean.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · Sep 13

My dad gleefully did this. Sorry to anyone near him in Thames Ditton circa 2008-2009.

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · Aug 27

Eesh. Notts Reform leadership blacklisting both the local paper and the local democracy scheme that covers the council for the BBC. Don’t like this at all

www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...

Reform leader bans engagement with Notts Live in unprecedented step

All of Reform UK's Nottinghamshire county councillors will now refuse to speak to any of our journalists

www.nottinghampost.com

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · Aug 26

If he gets in we'll only be able to afford to stuff him into an empty Gu dessert pot with a Pringles lid from the bin.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · Aug 23

Sounds like you have some experience of this. I can almost feel you going into a cold suet.

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · Aug 21

That's funny, as I had assumed from your rather ranty comment earlier that you were a fully-fledged Master Baker.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · Jul 30

‘Friends, this is how democracy dies.’

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 30

We are witnessing the silencing of American media | Robert Reich

We are witnessing the silencing of American media | Robert Reich

From the Washington Post to CBS, companies are caving to Trump. This is how democracy dies

www.theguardian.com

Ben Le Foe @benlefoe.bsky.social · May 26

But what about the kidneys!