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Ben Tedds
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Unscripted Development Researcher. Writer for Big Finish Productions, with work in Doctor Who Magazine and Lateral. He/They 🏳️‍🌈 All these opinions are mine, officer

Website: www.bentedds.co.uk
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BREAKING: Skeletor has defected to Reform.
Skeletor from He-Man, a yellowed skull in a purple rope
January 27, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
bentedds42.bsky.social
In other words, we'll prove we're not the Gestapo by behaving like the Gestapo
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 26, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
don't really want to argue about the ethics of genAI overall right at the moment but if you're giving OpenAI in particular your money please consider literally any other option
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d
The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI
CONTRIBUTOR GREG BROCKMAN AMOUNT ELECTION TO DAT $25,000,000 $25,000,000
January 26, 2026 at 12:58 AM
bentedds42.bsky.social
I started off a mass run of donations to trans charities on July 31st 2020 to celebrate JK Rowling's birthday.
cupcakesarenice.bsky.social Sarah Cupcakes @cupcakesarenice.bsky.social · Nov 12
I have a game. What were you "known" for on Twitter?

I'll go first. I'm the woman who caused Dave Ramsey to mass-block Royals Twitter.
January 24, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways
January 22, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
Thank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing
January 23, 2026 at 9:35 PM
bentedds42.bsky.social
The hell it has after the show's best finale EVER.
gregjenner.bsky.social Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 4d
The biggest TV show in the country, record-breaking viewing figures… but, you know, The Telegraph gonna Telegraph
January 23, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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andylevy.net
nine years old
“I am Puerto Rican,” she says. “I send my kids with their passports to school. I’m having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and — just — you get that fight-or-flight response.” At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it’s in her back pocket. “I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped,” she says. “I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away.”
January 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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hpsvanessa.bsky.social
It is extremely exciting to be goverened by people who literally do not understand how computer make beep.
January 23, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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greenparty.org.uk
Help us make hope normal again.

Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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I was heckled by another MP while asking about inclusive relationship education in schools

Sickened but not really surprised that homophobia is alive and well on the bench behind me

'They're primary school kids' he says - as if no primary school kids have lesbian or gay parents!
January 21, 2026 at 11:32 AM
bentedds42.bsky.social
Hope beats hate.
electionmaps.uk Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 6d
Horsley (Derbyshire) Council By-Election Result:

🌍 GRN: 43.6% (+16.7)
➡️ RFM: 35.5% (+0.6)
🌳 CON: 13.9% (-9.0)
🌹 LAB: 3.8% (-6.5)
☑️ ADV: 1.9% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.4% (-2.0)

No Ind (-1.7) as previous.

Green GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
January 21, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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Because...

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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
petition.parliament.uk
January 18, 2026 at 8:40 PM
bentedds42.bsky.social
Skyscraper Live is happening this coming week! One of the first ever things I was involved in developing.

Catch the Traitors Finale at 8:30pm, then stay up til 1am for the big event. Climbing Magazine has done a fab breakdown of it here: www.climbing.com/news/alex-ho...
Fruit, Custom Shoes, a Cave, and More Ways Alex Honnold Is Gearing Up for His Live Free Solo
From the shoes he’ll wear and his training plan, to a confidence-inspiring memory I hold of Honnold soloing, here’s an inside perspective on this upcoming live event.
www.climbing.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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soozuk.bsky.social
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
January 17, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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mcnees.bsky.social
You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
January 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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"Dope Zack Polanski" - Carole Malone
zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11d
What’s that old phrase about resorting to personal insults when you don’t have a single solid argument?

Join.greenparty.org.uk
The right is split and Badenoch is too busy slating Reform UK to even beat gap toothed dope Zack Polanski in the polls.
January 16, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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roseschmits.bsky.social
“a biological male trans woman“ we really are through the looking glass where insane phrases like that are now treated as normal and official
January 16, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
I find Gmail’s new “write this for me” feature deeply sinister. They’re trying to convince you that you are dumb and helpless. Don’t let them steal your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate. You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you’re capable now.
January 15, 2026 at 7:49 PM
bentedds42.bsky.social
Kind Hearts and Coronets feels like the kind of film you could maybe justify remaking once in a generation if you picked a truly iconic actor to play all the D'Ascoynes... But it looks to me like the only reason they didn't here was to avoid a plagiarism suit.

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How to Make a Killing | Official Trailer HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
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January 15, 2026 at 10:53 PM
bentedds42.bsky.social
I won a game of Werewolf once. It was, to be fair, a very good win.
A Discord message, which reads as follows: Jaden 10/11/2022 12:55 @Ben Tedds (He/They) let it be known, that fucking werewolf game yesterday now lives rent free in my mind and I will get you back for this one day Imfao
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 AM
bentedds42.bsky.social
I know everyone's on a Traitors high at the moment (me too!) but I will also say how delighted I am that The Boyfriend has returned on Netflix. It's a Japanese gay dating show which is unlike any other reality show I've seen - gentle and unjudgemental. Defo worth your time (sub over the dub).
January 14, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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My Facebook algorithm has been desperate to show me Nigel Farage's altruism the past day. I've learned he bought Christmas dinner for a town of pensioners, saved an entire dog shelter from closing, opened a community hospital in his name, bought a new Volvo for a waitress... If only reality agreed.
January 11, 2026 at 11:31 AM