Ben Adam Sohawon
@bensohawon.bsky.social
Singer, linguist, berk. Also treasurer for @allgoodbookshop.co.uk The opinions expressed here are nobody's, not even mine. Banner art: James Gurney ( @jamesgurneyart.bsky.social ), "Amtrak Station Rhode Island", 2014
An intriguing and thought-provoking thread. Well worth a read.
Small Robots@smolrobots.bsky.social · 19h agoThere a million things wrong with the EHRC guidance, as you all know, but for me the weirdest thing about it all is that its authors don't even seem to be aware of the possibility that someone asked to leave a "single sex" facility might refuse.
First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.
The rule of headlines: ➡️ If they use a number, the percentage is low ➡️ If they use a percentage, the number is low Actual percentage of non-doms that have moved: <2%
Cremation sounds like a really delicious non-dairy coffee additive.
Companies realized profitability goes up when you just fire employees and let quality die. Private equity makes more money destroying industries with enshittification. Silicon Valley makes more money selling empty hype than products. There's now more money in destroying our world, not building it.
Just a reminder, this is what Westerners think is fun. Smashing an animals head in with a baseball bat. Repeatedly. This is what excites them. Remember that next time you think your troops are “moral” or “ethical” or in foreign lands for “justice”.
Socialists seeking to sabotage other socialist organizations instead of working to improve them or just showing their own organization to be organized correctly through practice are useful idiots for the ruling class
Ruin a book by adding a word: The Sperm Count of Monte Cristo
🎃 Agent Pumpkin 🎃@agentpumpkin.bsky.social · 2w agoRuin a book by adding a word: Pillow Fight Club
She was the "anti-Attlee". Where Attlee's government created a social revolution of government providing for the nation's health, public services and housing, Thatcher initiated the complete dismantling of it, promoting selfishness, and gave us Johnson, May, Truss and Badenoch. And Reform.
Broken Politics 🌍@landofbritain.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat the Tories did to Britain 40 years ago... then austerity and #Brexit later... is why we're in the state we're in now. It won't be undone overnight by Labour, LibDems or Greens, but it has to be undone as soon as we can. #Badenoch and #Farage would finish us off for ever #r4today #ukpolitics
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Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
I will never unfairly criticise Ethiopian cuisine. That would be adding insult to injera
Samuel Henderson, the autistic student with Tourette syndrome who has a knack for perfectly imitating the sounds of over 50 types of birds. Original post
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
It's weird to me that discussions of JK Rowling always being a dick never being up the fact she spent her time at Amnesty International drafting books when she was supposed to be documenting war crimes in Africa.
England are losing, and John Stones is down injured. The camera cuts to Mick Jagger. Guy Mowbray says some pre-scripted thing about "He won't be feeling much satisfaction." YES BUT THERE'S A PLAYER CALLED 'STONES' DOWN INJURED. MOWBRAY! YOU HAD ONE JOB.
This was such a fun night. Thank you to everyone who came along to listen. And remember... order a copy of The Iron Code, edited by the magnificent Ian Whates, and published by NewCon Press. It's out on 28th July. The list of contributors is amazing.
Ben Adam Sohawon@bensohawon.bsky.social · 3w agoPanel discussing David Gemmell & his work, with Ian Wates: @worrad.bsky.social @barculator.bsky.social @julietemckenna.bsky.social @karisperring.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social Stephen Deas @mikecarey.bsky.social #BookSky @srfantasyclub.bsky.social @allgoodbookshop.co.uk
Despite what people might say, I am the FIRST person to be sat in a lotus position at a sci-fi panel
Ben Adam Sohawon@bensohawon.bsky.social · 3w agoPanel discussing David Gemmell & his work, with Ian Wates: @worrad.bsky.social @barculator.bsky.social @julietemckenna.bsky.social @karisperring.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social Stephen Deas @mikecarey.bsky.social #BookSky @srfantasyclub.bsky.social @allgoodbookshop.co.uk
Special edition of @srfantasyclub.bsky.social this month, celebrating David Gemmell, 20 years since his passing. In his honour, an anthology has been published, called "The Iron Code". Editor Ian Wates opens proceedings. #scifi #fantasy #sciencefiction #BookSky #books @allgoodbookshop.co.uk
well okay so the english won against the norwegians but in only a few days theyll have to face the french. anyway thats quite enough about September 25th 1066, lets look at some football news
This Monday 13th July is #Music Jam at the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk Bring yourselves, your instruments, your voices, and your passion. #BookSky Suggested donation £5
Every single time I go past this pizza takeaway I get irrationally angry that the pizza slice on their sign is upside down. WHAT KIND OF SOCIOPATH WOULD DO THIS IT READS PIZZ BOX FFS
Everything is such a lark! She had very firm views, you see, but they existed amorphously, disconnected somehow from what she actually thought.
