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Ben Van der Velde

@vanderlaugh.bsky.social

Half-man, Half-beast, Half-Mop. Terrible at fractions. Have a gander here: www.benvandervelde.com Photo (c) Andy Hollingworth Archive

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Ben Van der Velde@vanderlaugh.bsky.social · last wk.

Fuck me sideways, this is one of bleakest, most exploitative, morally repugnant stories I've ever read. The fact that there hasn't been a root and branch reform of press standards - including Piers Morgan being hung upside by his ankles indefinitely - is a shocking dereliction of duty.

Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 6mo ago

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter - PAUL McMULLAN: Oh, yeah - BROOKE GLADSTONE: - which is one case that you truly do regret. PAUL McMULLAN: I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station. Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.
Ben Van der Velde@vanderlaugh.bsky.social · 2w ago

So, how are we all explaining the climate crisis to our young children? My 8 year old has been getting increasingly worried about the hosepipe ban. I've reassured him that we're not running out of water, but I reckon he can tell I'm hiding the big picture bad news from him...

Ben Van der Velde@vanderlaugh.bsky.social · 2w ago

<Opens podcast app> "Hi, I'm Andy Burnham, let me squeeze around this elephant to talk to you about bus fares." <Opens TikTok> "Andy again. Don't mind this massive trunk, here's a handy money-saving tip." <Opens sock drawer which is 99.9% elephant> "Hallo citizen..."

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2w ago

Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it

J¡m Vaughn@jiminyspigot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

*skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* -me, in the car, after starting my favorites playlist

merritt@merrittk.com · 3w ago

today's youth will never have the experience of scrolling the 40 or so channels you had at 1 AM on a friday night looking for something interesting or horny and catching the back half of eXistenZ without having any idea what it was

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 3w ago

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

Kory Bing@korybing.bsky.social · 3w ago

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 3w ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

TheRaw_D@therawd.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rod Liddle was a cunt. Not divisive, not controversial, not "trying to open the debate." In life or death, that should rightfully haunt you. We need less of his kind and more structured societal debate. Deliberately vilifying all kinds of people for cheap shots and cash is twatful. Full stop.

Patrick King@patrickkingart.com · 3w ago

Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve wearing a "Trans Kids Belong" shirt while her team played against (and beat) Sophie Cunningham and the Indiana Fever is such a big "hell yeah fuck you TERFs" moment.

WNBA Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve wearing a "Trans Kids Belong" shirt
Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 3w ago

The EU will require AI labels on any authentic-looking online content. Text, images, video and audio designed to look truthful must be visibly marked as AI-generated and contain a digital watermark to show the artificial origins of the content. Please can the UK have the same?

AI labels to be compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules

Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real

theguardian.com