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The Abominable Dr. Vibes

@benmckenna.bsky.social

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Founder and CEO of @solidaritech.com, digital information and infrastructure consultant. Southerner in the north, builds things both virtual and real, accidental gardener and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇸 mongrel. North London is red, and so am I. ¡Venceremos!

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The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 3m

I wish they'd just be honest and say 'Being a comedian is mostly really badly paid, and I would very much like to retire in the next few years'.

The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 23m

Things have really moved on since Colin Powell stood up in the UN and made (up) the case for invading Iraq via Powerpoint.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 1h

"The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress."

donald duck is holding a bunch of money and pointing .

ALT: donald duck is holding a bunch of money and pointing .

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The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 1h

I saw Louis CK (LOUIS BLOODY CK!) come out with this obviously prepared-in-advance line the other day, and I lost more respect for him then than I did when I found out he used to make women watch him fiddle with himself.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 1h

a man in a black jacket and white pants is standing in the dirt .

ALT: a man in a black jacket and white pants is standing in the dirt .

media.tenor.com

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 2h

The rhetoric of the far right is escalating.
Look at ICE in the US. Armed militias kidnapping people off the streets.

We’ve seen this before.
It’s fascism. Imported from the US to British shores by the likes of Farage and Tommy Robinson.

Will you help us fight it?

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The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 2h

Finally, after all these years, I’m in the top three percent of something.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 2h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 2h

A week of hard decisions and tough conversations.

Thank Christ for the good people around me.

The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 3h

People that say "myself" and "yourself" too much.

Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 5h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 4h

We have mandatory e-visas, and before that biometric British Residency Permit (BRP) cards now.

Quite a lot of this stuff has already been tested out on migrants, and quite a lot of the time been found wanting. Which hardly gives me much hope this wont be a mess.

Also, Liz Kendal doesn't either.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 7h

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The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 4h

I know what you mean. My cats are actually net importers of mice.

And that's not even mentioning how one of them brought a live magpie in the other week, and how it was flying around my kitchen.

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The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 4h

Cats?

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The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 5h

It was Bibi who stopped elections 🤷🏻‍♂️

You can point to Israel being as modern and democratic as you like, but the whole world can see them committing a genocide in real time.

Have you called for the release of the thousands of people detained without trial?

The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 5h

Well Hamas are the legitimately elected government of Gaza, propped up by Bibi no less, so calling for them to surrender is as pointless as calling for the IDF to surrender.

Feel free to answer my question any time though.

The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 6h

Calling for the hostages to be released is fine, but it's pretty hollow if you dont also call for the ~10,000 Palestinians held without trial in Israeli jails where abuse, starvation and maltreatment is rife, no?

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The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 7h

Which is wild considering his ancestors changed their name from Polanski to avoid antisemitism.

The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 7h

My first season going was 1988/89.

So yeah, whilst I’m old as the hills, it does have one advantage.

The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 7h

Ben Kentish is a spelling mistake

The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 7h

This was pre-seating, back in the day when the runoff from the leaky bogs would run down the stairs and freeze in the winter.

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Sleaford Gooner @sleafordgooner.bsky.social · 7h

Ernest Hemingway might have seen Tottenham Hotspur win their last league title.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 7h

I wonder what other officers used the "I was just following orders" defence.

The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 7h

Key to the conservative outlook is the ability to look at the damage austerity (and everything that followed it) did, and blithely dismiss the idea that your policies had anything to do with that.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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The Abominable Dr. Vibes @benmckenna.bsky.social · 7h

Exactly. And don't get me started on that word.

I remember as a kid on the north bank, as soon as that Rangers "hello, hello..." chant went up we'd all awkwardly look at the bloke from Finchley next to us and embarrassedly do an apologetic look.