Ben Austwick
@benaustwick.bsky.social
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Hold kindness in your heart like a knife at the throat of the world
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Hold kindness in your heart like a knife at the throat of the world
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Ben Austwick
@benaustwick.bsky.social
· Oct 26
Newfoundland wildflowers — Ben Austwick
Making the move from analogue to digital photography got me out of a bit of a creative rut (as I’d hoped) and has led me to experiment with different subjects and types of photography. Nature photogra...
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New blog post - Newfoundland wildflowers www.benaustwick.co.uk/blog/newfoun...
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Decentralized hyperlocal organizing also means multiple kinds of actions in multiple places at the same time which is a critical feature of resistance on this terrain.
You can’t kill or arrest everyone.
You can’t kill or arrest everyone.
January 31, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Decentralized hyperlocal organizing also means multiple kinds of actions in multiple places at the same time which is a critical feature of resistance on this terrain.
You can’t kill or arrest everyone.
You can’t kill or arrest everyone.
Manor asylum dormitory block
January 31, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Manor asylum dormitory block
Horton asylum. Chapel floor (cafe) and water tower (gym)
January 31, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Horton asylum. Chapel floor (cafe) and water tower (gym)
Long Grove asylum, Epsom. This was the children's asylum
January 31, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Long Grove asylum, Epsom. This was the children's asylum
Chessington South station
January 31, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Chessington South station
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This is so anti democratic I don’t even know where to start.
What a depressing, elitist, and almost quasi authoritarian way to view politics.
What a depressing, elitist, and almost quasi authoritarian way to view politics.
Would the MPs not have picked - say - Cameron, May, Johnson, Sunak and Starmer? And if they would, then what the fuck is the issue here
January 31, 2026 at 7:59 AM
This is so anti democratic I don’t even know where to start.
What a depressing, elitist, and almost quasi authoritarian way to view politics.
What a depressing, elitist, and almost quasi authoritarian way to view politics.
Just a note that bookies odds are calculated by how people bet so the bookie doesn't lose money. They're not a reliable indicator of how people will vote.
January 31, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Just a note that bookies odds are calculated by how people bet so the bookie doesn't lose money. They're not a reliable indicator of how people will vote.
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BBC News - Route for third Edinburgh tram line unveiled
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Route for third Edinburgh tram line unveiled
The detailed plans show Edinburgh's south suburban railway being used with a new connection to the existing route on Leith Walk.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 12:58 PM
BBC News - Route for third Edinburgh tram line unveiled
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Epsom asylums walk today :)
January 31, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Epsom asylums walk today :)
This is why you keep pushing. I doubt Solidarnosc thought this would be the end result either
File under, we never quite know what's coming next.
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
January 31, 2026 at 11:07 AM
This is why you keep pushing. I doubt Solidarnosc thought this would be the end result either
These fucking starvers, absolutely rolling in it and sending begging letters to paedos
Jeffrey Epstein sent money to Mandelson’s husband after prison release, emails reveal
Jeffrey Epstein sent money to Mandelson’s husband after prison release, emails reveal
Convicted child sex offender asked accountant to ‘send 13k dollars’ to partner of then UK business secretary
Jeffrey Epstein sent thousands of pounds in bank transfers after his release from prison in 2009 to Peter Mandelson’s husband, according to emails published by the US Department of Justice on Friday.
The latest documents raise fresh questions about Epstein’s relationship with Mandelson, who was sacked as the UK’s ambassador to Washington when details of his support for the disgraced financier emerged in September. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:55 PM
These fucking starvers, absolutely rolling in it and sending begging letters to paedos
My mate's uncle wrote Wicked Willy!
The 80s saw a surge in sweary, naughty adult comedy books, many of them TV tie-ins. And in 1984, Gray Jolliffe and Peter Mayle's talking cartoon penis WICKED WILLIE became a minor cultural icon. Some of the humour has aged like milk, mind you (see pic 3)
January 30, 2026 at 4:06 PM
My mate's uncle wrote Wicked Willy!
I loved this but my then 8-year old niece, who I made watch it with me, thought it was a losing combination of creepy and boring
On the subject of Folk Horror I’m going to add this from Mackenzie Crook’s masterpiece adaptation of Worzel Gummidge, where Guy Forks laughs as the flames lick his feet (and they all laugh as ‘his cape goes up’.
It’s silly obviously, but also has a bit of that nonchalant violence of the countryside
It’s silly obviously, but also has a bit of that nonchalant violence of the countryside
January 30, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I loved this but my then 8-year old niece, who I made watch it with me, thought it was a losing combination of creepy and boring
Cool shit going down in Edinburgh www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Edinburgh tomb of philosopher David Hume vandalised with ‘satanic’ symbols
Tour guide reports drawing of naked woman pointing knife at baby and coded writing at Old Calton burial ground
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Cool shit going down in Edinburgh www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Some interesting stuff about paganism in that medieval poetry book I've been reading for ever. Religion for life and the cycles of life, but once that was conquered we needed Christianity to reassure us about the afterlife - the afterlife is barely touched on in paganism
January 30, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Some interesting stuff about paganism in that medieval poetry book I've been reading for ever. Religion for life and the cycles of life, but once that was conquered we needed Christianity to reassure us about the afterlife - the afterlife is barely touched on in paganism
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The most interesting thing about this ABC Challenger long read (to me) is that the five engineers who warned it was unsafe then became "lepers".
Why is it not the managers who overruled them to suffer social ostracism?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Why is it not the managers who overruled them to suffer social ostracism?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
'They're gonna die': How five people tried to stop the Challenger tragedy
Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy.
www.abc.net.au
January 29, 2026 at 6:07 AM
The most interesting thing about this ABC Challenger long read (to me) is that the five engineers who warned it was unsafe then became "lepers".
Why is it not the managers who overruled them to suffer social ostracism?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Why is it not the managers who overruled them to suffer social ostracism?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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Gotta suck shit being a true Trump believer. You spend years roiling in anger over made-up bullshit. You fill a little bottle with piss or whatever and spray a 5-foot tall woman with it. She instantly squares up to kick the shit out of you. You go to jail. The goons you idolize say you work for her.
Until it was silenced 10 months ago by DOGE and self-proclaimed USAGM acting CEO Kari Lake, along with the rest of the nearly 50 language services of the Voice of America, VOA Somali reached on a weekly basis ~65% of adults in Somalia.
January 29, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Gotta suck shit being a true Trump believer. You spend years roiling in anger over made-up bullshit. You fill a little bottle with piss or whatever and spray a 5-foot tall woman with it. She instantly squares up to kick the shit out of you. You go to jail. The goons you idolize say you work for her.
Fancy one today. I liked it!
January 29, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Fancy one today. I liked it!
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Sisimiut, Greenland
pen and aquarelle pencils
Mostly plein-air, I finished some of the colouring later
#UrbanGaze #art #drawing #mixedmedia #Greenland
pen and aquarelle pencils
Mostly plein-air, I finished some of the colouring later
#UrbanGaze #art #drawing #mixedmedia #Greenland
January 29, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Sisimiut, Greenland
pen and aquarelle pencils
Mostly plein-air, I finished some of the colouring later
#UrbanGaze #art #drawing #mixedmedia #Greenland
pen and aquarelle pencils
Mostly plein-air, I finished some of the colouring later
#UrbanGaze #art #drawing #mixedmedia #Greenland
Pertinent in light of the POLITICAL SCIENTIST I've just seen advocating for the legally impossibile banning of the over 60s
It is absolutely insane that we are trying to come up with workarounds and bans on children accessing social media when the simple solution - holding social media platforms responsible for their content under existing law - has been staring us in the face for years.
This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 29, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Pertinent in light of the POLITICAL SCIENTIST I've just seen advocating for the legally impossibile banning of the over 60s
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North Greenwich Transport Interchange
1999
Foster + Partners
1999
Foster + Partners
January 29, 2026 at 10:55 AM
North Greenwich Transport Interchange
1999
Foster + Partners
1999
Foster + Partners
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Yes, this is all stupid.
Note 'marry early'. Your 9-9-6 day plus gym, running, specialist diet and other activities require support to achieve. A wife in such cases is very helpful. It's more overt here but remains an integral part of much contemporary straight men's lifestyle advice.
Note 'marry early'. Your 9-9-6 day plus gym, running, specialist diet and other activities require support to achieve. A wife in such cases is very helpful. It's more overt here but remains an integral part of much contemporary straight men's lifestyle advice.
January 29, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Yes, this is all stupid.
Note 'marry early'. Your 9-9-6 day plus gym, running, specialist diet and other activities require support to achieve. A wife in such cases is very helpful. It's more overt here but remains an integral part of much contemporary straight men's lifestyle advice.
Note 'marry early'. Your 9-9-6 day plus gym, running, specialist diet and other activities require support to achieve. A wife in such cases is very helpful. It's more overt here but remains an integral part of much contemporary straight men's lifestyle advice.
Fell for a scam EE text where you cash in points for a box of cigars 😂 I was like "ooh nice"
January 29, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Fell for a scam EE text where you cash in points for a box of cigars 😂 I was like "ooh nice"