Ben Tracey

Professional chef, occasional voice performer, and sometime writer and illustrator. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him. AASB.

[CJ @UnderSneege]

I’m a fairly measured guy in real life but Alistair Campbell criticising others for bullying a man to death has actually made me seethe with a white hot rage

[Ben Tracey @BennTreysee]

@RebecTV You walk a dangerous path, should you decide to find out what happens either side of this volume. 😂

[David Cousens @DavidCousens]

Hell with it! I’m tagging @Shout_Studios in this, hire ME to make a Transformers cover! I’ve been a massive fan for decades, and I can draw the hell out of them!

RT, share, comment etc to show them I should do it!

[English Giraffe @english_giraffe]

This one hurts. He was showrunner to my favourite run of Doctor Who (Second half of EDA's/The Burning-Gallifrey Chronicles), and I grew up on his New Series Books. He was such a great, economical yet imaginative writer especially in prose. RIP and condolences to his family.

[Ben Tracey @BennTreysee]

@AyoCaesar Putting the (crumbled) feta in the freezer for a little bit prior is a game changer.
Alters the whole mouth feel/texture.

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

Lorenzo Music was notorious for missing his cues during voice recording on The Real Ghostbusters. So one taping, he was again distracted, so Frank did Lorenzo's line, imitating his voice perfectly.

Lorenzo never missed another cue.

[Ben Tracey @BennTreysee]

@TobyHadoke Marvelous tribute.

[Ben Tracey @BennTreysee]

@Dr_Lockdown Closest recent example which comes to mind is that bull he turns into in 'Cyberworld'? But the figure is rather lackluster for older fans, so I hear. Good for the wee ones, I suppose.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Taking our seats for the 1st time @Catherinewest1 & @wesstreeting

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

My reaction to Keir Starmer's last ditch press conference - an unsurprising reaction but possibly a helpful one (at least to those who, like me, consider him an abysmal PM).

Like many, I approached Keir Starmer's prime ministership with deep-seated pessimism, my expectations already set at rock bottom. Yet, I confess: I failed to foresee the clinical precision with which he and his inner cabal would sabotage their own administration and scar Britain.

The crux of their debacle lay, first, in a distinctly dictatorial, authoritarian reflex. And second—crucially—in a seething contempt for those who lent them their votes, while simultaneously performing a grotesque pantomime of flattery toward those who never would, and never will, support them.

Having exorcised from the Labour Party its most authentic voices—people of unimpeachable integrity, such as Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, a purge that eluded even Tony Blair’s repertoire—Starmer embarked on a rampage:

He slashed disability benefits; armed and fed intelligence to the Israeli government as it executed genocide in Gaza; channeled his own inner Farage, perhaps his inner Enoch Powell, to vilify migrants and treat refugees as vermin; gutted international aid to masquerade as a defender of defence spending; bulldozed wildlife and their habitats; unveiled a new lexicon of draconian anti-protest laws; left trans people suspended in legal limbo; clung with religious fervour to absurd, socially ruinous fiscal rules; allowed Rachel Reeves to squander £100 billion covering the Bank of England’s outrageous and wholly unnecessary Quantitative Tightening losses—a gift that keeps giving to the City’s banks—while imposing yet another round of austerity on government departments and public services.

Once the great hope of the downtrodden, Starmer’s Labour has become the villain - the genuinely nasty party.

Once a human rights lawyer, he has single-handedly plunged Britain into a shoddy, incompetent authoritarianism.

https://t.co/wIjnc9NfmJ

[Ben Tracey @BennTreysee]

@SixoTF Still have my Tri-Rex. Say what you may about the individual figures, but the combined t-rex is gorgeous. The colours are striking!

[Ben Tracey @BennTreysee]

@joseph_lidster @bigfinish I NEVER CLOCKED THAT!

[Chaos City Comics @ChaosCityStA]

A restock of all the best and boldest DC Compact Editions! Come read all the classics!

#DCComics #Batman #Superman

[Grimlockimus 🔜 TFCon Orlando @ChromeTyranno]

"Transformers Studio Series: Universe Acid Storm"
New Seeker Mold. New Acid Storm
(Reposts appreciated as always!)

[James Roberts @jroberts332]

Gen Mechs, subtitled “Transformers Fan Culture in the 90s”, is available to buy until the end of this month — see my pinned tweet for more details. (Every time I promote it on the ~socials people get in touch, hence messages like these. Signal boosts appreciated)

[James Roberts @jroberts332]

25 years ago I published a Transformers novel. 23 years ago it was reviewed in the Harvard Crimson. And zero years ago (i.e. now) you can buy Generation Mechs, about TFs and fan culture

Eugenesis Transforms a Childhood Classic | Arts | The Harvard Crimson https://t.co/FGxSlJQBZe

[bat020 @bat020]

do you remember that episode in the 2019 GE campaign when Corbyn unveiled a load of docs about how the govt was planning to sell our NHS data to US tech firms and all the mainstream coverage was about the provenance of the docs and Russian Hackery and not about their contents.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

That’s odd because here is David Lammy describing Peter Mandelson as a “man of considerable expertise” and the “right man” to be the US ambassador.

Looks like he is trying to save his own skin.

[Ben Tracey @BennTreysee]

@CTropes @LSaddler13 This is fascinating. I never knew that about the casting of Doom in that movie. Just assumed McMahon was a shoe-in because Nip/Tuck (another Fox thing if I recall) was big and he was a lead in that. What might've been, eh?

[Ben Tracey @BennTreysee]

@ChaosCityStA Always missed. Such a lovely man.