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Ben
@safers.bsky.social
Bit of a rotter, will work for food. Owns way too many shoes. (trying to) dysgu Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿


Tell your cat I said hi.


(Previously known as @safeasfuck)
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Also I made this to describe why i enjoy social media
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don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Bumped into your mum in London
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Skyrim
Name a videogame with a dragon.
December 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
French connection
Name a film with a car chase
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
December 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The staircase at our hotel. A little bit liminal
December 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
As we head into the festive season, a little reminder to the meat eaters that pigs-in-blankets toad-in-the-hole is one of the most delicious food ever.

Here’s one I made last year
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I’ve brought multiple t shirts away with me but only one pair of trousers. Kid had just coughed coco pops all over my only pair of trousers, the tiny rotter
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We left Cardiff at 11 today, heading for TV’s That There London. We’re still in fucking Wiltshire

Chances of seeing the carols in St Paul’s are slowly reducing to zero
November 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Morning. Him next door has started with his mini-digger bullshit at the crack of 7:55 (can’t quite wait till 8 can he)

What is it with morning people? He’ll call it a day by 11ish. Would it kill him to start later on a weekend?
November 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Hahahaha today has taken an even more bizarre twist

We live in a “garden village”

(It’s basically a suburb with ideas above its station but it stated life as a socialist utopia experiment)

Anyway, today’s our village Christmas fayre, including the switching on of the Christmas lights. I’ve just
November 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Going out for lunch with family but it’s almost certainly going to descend into chaos. 11 of us are heading to a place where you can’t pre-book. The ages range from 3 to 87, with the highest concentration around mid to late 20s. The place does protein-heavy foods specifically geared to athletes so
November 29, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Nature at its finest. A sparrow hawk in my garden, eating its latest kill
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

Nirvana
Cypress Hill
The Spice Girls
Rage Against the Machine
Stone Temple Pilots
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

Madonna
Guns N’ Roses
New Kids on the Block
A-ha
Ramones
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen

Ray Charles
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Beastie Boys
Massive Attack
Faith No Nore
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
same, woke AF

8values.github.io
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Large numbers of folks in Cardiff & the surrounding areas gave received Reform leaflets with a return envelope today. Just back from post-running pint where we’ve discussed sending back random junk along with a liberal sprinkling of glitter, then submitting Subject access requests to ask where
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
S’funny. I was thinking about this the other day. between the ages of 18 months and 18 years I lived in a village in the south wales valleys

I’ve lived in Cardiff for 33 years, I’ve lived in my current house for 22 years, but even tho I wasn’t born there, nor is it the place I’ve lived at for
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Do a vulgar roast, use forbidden words
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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It's not the despair, Charlie Brown. I can handle the despair. It's the hope.
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Fucking YAAAASSSSS!

meant to be heading to work this aft to deliver in-person training to a roomful of folks on a specific bit of software which they hate using & don’t think it’s their team’s job to have anything to do with it (so basically a hostile audience)

Just had an email. It’s cancelled
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Half-life 1
Half-life 2
Half-life 2 episode 2
Name a videogame you've played for 1250+ hours.
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Hey @kavey.bsky.social look!

Our kitchen smells divine.
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Just home from parkrun, like wine sort of joiner-inner

Now heading off to get our kids hair cut because from behind he’s starting to look like Rita Fairclough
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Oooh I tell you what though, I’ve grafted* at work today!

(* done loads of laundry, bled the upstairs radiators & popped to Costco)
November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM