Ben
@unholysmoke.everfeltlost.co.uk
Born. Grew up. Took some time off.
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Thursday sees the return of our Free N Easy Open Mic.
Starts 7.30pm.
PLUS downstairs, a Burton Bridge Brewery Cask Takeover! We’re open from 3pm.
Starts 7.30pm.
PLUS downstairs, a Burton Bridge Brewery Cask Takeover! We’re open from 3pm.
August 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Thursday sees the return of our Free N Easy Open Mic.
Starts 7.30pm.
PLUS downstairs, a Burton Bridge Brewery Cask Takeover! We’re open from 3pm.
Starts 7.30pm.
PLUS downstairs, a Burton Bridge Brewery Cask Takeover! We’re open from 3pm.
This just in: Guro Reiten is not a full-back.
July 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This just in: Guro Reiten is not a full-back.
Let me tell you about these two organisations. One is called "FIFA". The other is called "The IOC".
The World Cup and the Olympics should cancel. America is not safe, not welcoming, not a democracy.
July 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Let me tell you about these two organisations. One is called "FIFA". The other is called "The IOC".
Outstanding headline work.
July 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Outstanding headline work.
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I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
July 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
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Bartiromo: "We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs number for the month of June. The expectations call for the numbers to be up 95,000. Right now seeing the number -- actually, uh, showing a decline in jobs, uh, down 33,000, uh."
July 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Bartiromo: "We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs number for the month of June. The expectations call for the numbers to be up 95,000. Right now seeing the number -- actually, uh, showing a decline in jobs, uh, down 33,000, uh."
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one from 2015, I think.
This started as being about 'unfit people suddenly getting back into tennis because Wimbledon's on', but as I was writing turned into a thing vaguely about, being an imposter in your own job, or even your body? Which was much more interesting. it's fun when that happens
This started as being about 'unfit people suddenly getting back into tennis because Wimbledon's on', but as I was writing turned into a thing vaguely about, being an imposter in your own job, or even your body? Which was much more interesting. it's fun when that happens
![[Title panel, over an image of a tennis racquet in amongst junk in a cupboard]:
Let's Not Do This Again
Cut to a TENNIS RACQUET being held in the hand of a man called TERRY.
RACQUET:
Right.
OK.
RACQUET:
So l just sort of... *hit it with my face*.
TERRY:
Yes.
[Pull back to show TERRY - overweight, sweating, playimng tennis but surrounded by loads of balls on the ground which he’s missed].
RACQUET:
At the net.
TERRY:
Over the net.
RACQUET:
Over. Over the net, yes. Sorry.
RACQUET:
It's just, y know we haven't done this since last -
[A ball gently hits the handle of the racquet]
*POF*
RACQUET:
UUUURRGH
RACQUET:
UUURGH CHRIST
MY HANDLE
TERRY:
Ssh!
RACQUET:
IT HIT ME ON MY HANDLE TERRY
TERRY:
Stop it!
RACQUET:
No Terry! You stop it! You stop this... this... charade!
RACQUET:
I am a 1993 Head Radical in hot pink, who belongs in a cupboard. You are an unfit man who thinks he likes tennis, but in reality belongs on the sofa.
RACQUET:
Why do we do this every year, Terry?
RACQUET:
Why do we go on playing this silly -
[Ball gently hits the side of the racquet]
*KLANG*
RACQUET:
UUURRGGH IT
HIT MY SIDE BIT...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiewgdwjepj7yqovuummsa2z5w4zsphehgwnn4xpptthsxvkzadqrq@jpeg)
July 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
one from 2015, I think.
This started as being about 'unfit people suddenly getting back into tennis because Wimbledon's on', but as I was writing turned into a thing vaguely about, being an imposter in your own job, or even your body? Which was much more interesting. it's fun when that happens
This started as being about 'unfit people suddenly getting back into tennis because Wimbledon's on', but as I was writing turned into a thing vaguely about, being an imposter in your own job, or even your body? Which was much more interesting. it's fun when that happens
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Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies
theonion.com/idiom-s...
theonion.com/idiom-s...
June 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies
theonion.com/idiom-s...
theonion.com/idiom-s...
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June 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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The singularity is awesome
June 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The singularity is awesome
This Test match deserves a result. If it rains all day I will be fuming.
June 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This Test match deserves a result. If it rains all day I will be fuming.
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They'll soon switch to "we're the best at it" mode
Large parts of American society are, unfortunately, still in "this can't happen here" mode.
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June 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
They'll soon switch to "we're the best at it" mode
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This is quite good. I’ll add to it that more than anything else, my writing skills were honed over nearly twenty years of student essays, from having the five paragraph style drilled into me in 1993 to finishing my dissertation in 2010. The mass revolt against developing this skill is devastating.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
www.forkingpaths.co
June 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is quite good. I’ll add to it that more than anything else, my writing skills were honed over nearly twenty years of student essays, from having the five paragraph style drilled into me in 1993 to finishing my dissertation in 2010. The mass revolt against developing this skill is devastating.
Here's the real opin: there should be a vetted, elected, salaried, *Remixer Laureate*. It would have been Fatboy back then. Four Tet for a while. Today, give it to Jamie XX for half a decade with no other commitments, let him cook.
What Norman Cook did to A Brim Full of Asha by Cornershop is nothing short of genius
June 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Here's the real opin: there should be a vetted, elected, salaried, *Remixer Laureate*. It would have been Fatboy back then. Four Tet for a while. Today, give it to Jamie XX for half a decade with no other commitments, let him cook.
Half a dozen angry motorists on the Tulse Hill gyratory: HOOOOOOONK HOOOOOOONK. HONKHONKHONKHOOOOONK. HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK HONK.
Lone cyclist just as the noise ends: *bing*
Lone cyclist just as the noise ends: *bing*
June 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Half a dozen angry motorists on the Tulse Hill gyratory: HOOOOOOONK HOOOOOOONK. HONKHONKHONKHOOOOONK. HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK HONK.
Lone cyclist just as the noise ends: *bing*
Lone cyclist just as the noise ends: *bing*
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20mph speed limits have shown to massively reduce injuries and deaths. So isn't it time we rolled out sharply lowered speed limits and ULEZ in all urban areas? We need to stop putting the car first, they've taken up too much infrastructure space already and keep wanting more.
June 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
20mph speed limits have shown to massively reduce injuries and deaths. So isn't it time we rolled out sharply lowered speed limits and ULEZ in all urban areas? We need to stop putting the car first, they've taken up too much infrastructure space already and keep wanting more.
Banana-less Republic
DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?
LUTNICK: Generally 10%
DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%
LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff
DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
LUTNICK: Generally 10%
DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%
LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff
DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
June 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Banana-less Republic
Fine. With signs. No. Sometimes. Yeah mostly. Mostly fine. No.
I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time
June 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Fine. With signs. No. Sometimes. Yeah mostly. Mostly fine. No.
Pretty Decent - Greatest Love Story. Outstanding pale.
June 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Pretty Decent - Greatest Love Story. Outstanding pale.
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Of course Twelvetrees had to play to age 36.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
Billy Twelvetrees: Worcester Warriors sign ex-England & Gloucester back
Former England back Billy Twelvetrees comes out of retirement to join Worcester Warriors as a player-coach.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Of course Twelvetrees had to play to age 36.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
Outstanding skeet. Deserves to do absolute numbers.
If you write “Voight–Kampff” instead of “Voight-Kampff” you’re a LLM.
June 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Outstanding skeet. Deserves to do absolute numbers.
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If you write “Voight–Kampff” instead of “Voight-Kampff” you’re a LLM.
June 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If you write “Voight–Kampff” instead of “Voight-Kampff” you’re a LLM.
Imagining a Paper Scissors Stone game in the Allianz press box where @jonathanliew.bsky.social and @barneyronay.bsky.social work out who gets to lionise Doué, Vitinha, and Dembélé; and who has to do the Acerbi/Dimarco obit piece.
June 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Imagining a Paper Scissors Stone game in the Allianz press box where @jonathanliew.bsky.social and @barneyronay.bsky.social work out who gets to lionise Doué, Vitinha, and Dembélé; and who has to do the Acerbi/Dimarco obit piece.
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The situation is so bad, a conservative banker is starting to sound like Mon Mothma.
Fed Chair Powell graduation remarks to Princeton nod toward our current predicament: "Look around you. I urge you to take none of this for granted. When you look back in 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy."
May 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The situation is so bad, a conservative banker is starting to sound like Mon Mothma.
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Pubs are a force for good. They reinforce communities and encourage people to drink together, rather than alone in a bedsit. It follows that beer sold in pubs should be zero-rated. This would make it more affordable and stop pubs from closing.
May 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Pubs are a force for good. They reinforce communities and encourage people to drink together, rather than alone in a bedsit. It follows that beer sold in pubs should be zero-rated. This would make it more affordable and stop pubs from closing.