Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Ben 🏳️‍🌈

@benrattigan.com

590 followers 1K following 5.5K posts

I wish this Government would do something. also Abolish the Treasury. 📍 Hartlepool, UK 🖖🏳️‍🌈🕹️💻🚝 🐶 🌳 he/him

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 14h

Yes, more Trek!

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 14h

For anyone outside the US, here’s the non-region locked version:

Official Trailer | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | NYCC 2025

YouTube video by Star Trek

youtu.be

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 14h

Ok he’s also been done for shoplifting by look of it in Gateshead.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 14h

I don’t get the second photo, why is it overlayed on a picture of Gateshead Metro Centre?

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 14h

Christ, it’s awful to hear these but also glad these fuckers aren’t getting away with it.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 14h

Ridiculously that’s where the department store I worked in stored the TVs, 32” ones were brutal.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 14h

I’m not, I used to sell them when I was younger and yes my back knows all about it.

a man is sitting in a chair with his arms outstretched in a living room .

ALT: a man is sitting in a chair with his arms outstretched in a living room .

media.tenor.com

1 1

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 14h

It’s usually worse if they have a market on, but all shops seem really busy today, Hartlepool Marina was rammed more than normal especially middle of the month.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 15h

It’s always been a bloody nightmare.

1 1

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 15h

Imagine waking up and thinking, the things I’m doing, the money I’m making is destroying lives, killing people, destroying the very fabric of society and ruining the economy.

But I’m adding to my personal billions and delivering shareholder value which is more important.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 15h

I hope his victims get some sort of closure but I appreciate it’s not that simple.

Reposted by Ben 🏳️‍🌈

The Cave (Neil) @visitthecave.bsky.social · 17h

Catch the latest on our Pump House to retro repair shop restoration series now at youtu.be/ZyBQRwNgzvk?...

#retro #tech #renovation #trashtotreasure

2 4 41

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @benrattigan.com · 20h

There’s some Jesus salesman hovering around and I’m not in the mood.

Reposted by Ben 🏳️‍🌈

RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 1d

RMT welcomes Greater Anglia into public ownership

Rail union RMT, has welcomed Greater Anglia returning to public ownership this Sunday and hailed a breakthrough agreement with the company that brings previously outsourced staff back in-house.
rmtunion.org/4ocYFEv