Ben Sixsmith

Anglo writer in Poland. Online Editor and podcast critic for @TheCriticMag. Subscribe to THE ZONE.

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

“It’s a kind of moral outsourcing. Their improvement will purge us of our sins.”

@BDSixsmith writes on the problem with the campaign to kick young people offline
https://t.co/5lYG6wb9rg

[Eastern Bloc Visuals @eastblocvisuals]

Kosmos Cinema, Katowice, 1970s.

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

Whatever our views on data centres, I hope we can all agree on how funny it was to photograph her next to the abandoned shopping mall as if it's some lush forest that has been saved from destruction.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Maryland activist helps block a $5B AI data center planned for the site of an abandoned shopping mall that closed 24 years ago, after gathering over 25,000 signatures.

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

@the_midwits For sure!

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

"I don't think we should be publicly speculating about which famous people are and are not 'suspect'."

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

@AndyMpolitics I am NOT famous

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

@TonyFelonius No, that's fine.

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

Addressing the unhealthy use of the internet requires a broad cultural change, writes @BDSixsmith, and not just excluding kids
https://t.co/IG7RAbTK6q

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

@disco___cat Thank you

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

As the government reportedly prepares to ban young people from eBay and Spotify, I wrote about how we as a society want to exclude teenagers from the internet as a means of moral outsourcing
https://t.co/M1L5GXKuan

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

This is insane, and will justifiably make teenagers hate the system more than they already do.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: The government is now expanding it's proposals for an Under-16s social media ban to include Spotify, Lego Play and YouTube Kids

[@guardian]

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

My collection of short stories about noughties culture came out almost five years ago
https://t.co/Lvl8YKUboB

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

I'm seeing people claim that the mid-noughties was the cultural nadir of Britain, but what they are forgetting is ... Er ... The, erm ... Peep Show! ... And ... Uh.

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

@thmstern Hahaha

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

@JamesLear99 Valid

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

@CussenFerg18123 Good one. This is true.

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

@WillMestonUK Absolutely not

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

@Gitgitgitgit 1999

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

@CageFooName Hey, some of us are just trying to make a few extra bucks over here.