P. J. Benney 💙

Writer · Proofreader · Synaesthete · DÉJÀ MOO (2016) · BOVINE INTERVENTION (2020) · HERD MORTALITY (WIP)

[P. J. Benney 💙 @pjbenney]

Time is relative.
Fame is fiction.
Witches beget witches.
Déjà Moo: A Lawnmowers, Inc. Novel, out now on Kindle.
https://t.co/kJ0pb78dfQ

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Read this open statement by Signal and your jaw will hit the floor.

Govts always use “protecting children” as their guise for more control and censorship.

I interviewed a prev Govt minister, who wrote the Online Safety Bill, and asked if they could tell me how a VPN worked. They couldn’t. These are the people writing these laws.

This new tool is another dangerous form of silent oppression that once again uses children’s safety as a guise to control the masses.

We can protect children online, but that starts at home, with parents, not in the Home Office, GCHQ, Apple, Google, Microsoft or Samsung.

[Utkarsh Sharma @techxutkarsh]

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

A (relatively) quick note to respond to the (much appreciated) scores of (very nice) notes online regarding today's news about Doctor Who. My interest and record is well-established; the only real question I think the BBC would (very fairly) ask is: would British fans be open --

[P. J. Benney 💙 @pjbenney]

@straczynski I'd be thrilled if you were attached to the show in any way.

[Doctor Who @bbcdoctorwho]

Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who. Read all about it on the Doctor Who website ➡️ https://t.co/G93OPLuur0

[KINGDOM HEARTS @KINGDOMHEARTS]

Presenting another look at the latest instalment in the Kingdom Hearts series.

Kingdom Hearts IV will launch simultaneously on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Epic Games Store and Steam!

Stay tuned for more updates.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

If you want to push back against tech’s encroachment into every corner of our lives, you need to be reading books. They’re keen to create a world in which most people are illiterate & addicted to slop, a world without poetry, imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

[jamie ▴ @linkkling]

how are you gonna ban social media for kids and then hand them ai teachers😭

[Doctor Who @bbcdoctorwho]

💥 Get your first look at the Fugitive Doctor in action in ADVERSARY OF THE DALEKS, the upcoming Circuit Breaker adventure from Titan Comics - available to pre-order now until 15th June! 🔗➡️ https://t.co/0gj2yPPrtm

🎨 Cover artists:
Jay Anacleto / Flops! / Robert Sienicki

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

📱A social media ban for children means ID checks for all of us to post online

Free speech online is vital for democracy to thrive & it's under attack.

We've launched a speedy tool for you to tell your MP to reject plans to create digital checkpoints⤵️
https://t.co/8TBWFeVxNB

[Spyro @SpyroTheDragon]

Take flight on a bold new adventure.

Spyro: A Realm Beyond, coming Spring 2027.

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.

They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.

Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

[lane🚂💌 @ghostysapphic]

people over 16 saying this won’t affect them it WILL it’s a way for them to get our id and is a mass form of censorship the real intention here is not to protect children and it never was

[Georgina Hollifield 💚 @sp4rkl3jumpr0p3]

This will be a complete disaster for any teenagers living in abusive households or for LGBT+ youth

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

No, Keir Starmer will announce mandatory ID checks for all social media in the next two weeks.

Let’s not be naive about what this is really about. They want to be able to track down anons and send the cops round.

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

An Arkansas woman was left bleeding out while suffering a miscarriage after doctors were unable to properly treat her due to the state's strict abortion ban. Emily Waldorf survived and is now suing the state challenging its abortion ban, citing its danger to women's health.

[Chris Wick @ChrisWickNews]

They told you the planet is dying… and you’re the problem.

Your food.
Your habits.
Your existence.

Meanwhile, behind closed doors, something else is growing.

AI data centres in the UK alone could pump out 123 million tonnes of carbon emissions — the equivalent of millions of human lives over a decade.

But where’s the outrage?

Instead, they blame cows… tax farmers… and squeeze the people who actually feed you.

While tech giants expand quietly… signing deals… building systems that never sleep… and never get questioned.

Different rules.
Different targets.
Same script.

So let me ask you…

Why are everyday people being punished…
while the biggest emitters keep getting rewarded?
Is this really about saving the planet…
or controlling who pays the price?
Drop your thoughts below — I want to hear what you think.

And if this made you stop and think for even a second… share it.

More people need to see this.

[Tatiana Walk-Morris @Tati_WM]

For the love of God, bring back fact-checkers. Bring back copy editors. Bring back public editors. Bring back standards. Everybody tighten TF up.

[🦁 Luka (Voltron TWT) 🌞 @twithesquire]

In honour of Anthony Head here's my favourite pictures of him on set of BBC Merlin in full Uther attire, playing on a pink Nintendo DS

RIP Sir 🕊