Benedict Townsend
Comedian, 350K on TikTok, and host of @scrolldeep.bsky.social. That’s tennis.
- feels great being literally the very first year to pay £9K a year for uni and having a massive graduate tax (disguised as loan) draining my bank for decades which people six months older than me don't have
- Delighted to say I've joined Substack where I'll be mostly writing about, let's be honest, The Simpsons
- Just been using my laptop on my lap and have to say, it’s a classic move. Feels right. Can see why it earned the name
- Twitter is a great place to see interactions so dumb you couldn’t even dream them
- Ralph Fiennes has the greatest range of any working actor, right? Can anyone else be THAT scary and THAT funny?
- The crazy-making thing about all of this is that there is no need for it, no demand for it, no consent from the civilian populations and, no practical use whatsoever. These people just love war!
- kitten don’t throw a blue shell at daddy
- I honestly wonder about the long term effects of people offloading all their thinking and mental workload onto AIs. Your brain is a muscle and it will be goo if you refuse to use it
- There’s actually very few words that Americans use that British people don’t know, but every single one of them is used by Wordle
- The wildest part of this is Onion story is that it was published in 2013 lol
- this is so fun. I'm afraid I need them to make this now
- Look I know it’s been said but it’s so on the nose that they’re called ICE. If a YA novel did that we’d all roll our eyes and yet here we are
- We’re very rapidly gonna have to deal with people who have cameras built into their glasses that are filming you without telling you
- heads up that if you do this, I will simply never remember my password again
- 'we're trying to stop people accessing your account!!' - yeah, me!!!!!
- Wait I know this one
- Never clocked ‘An Ethanol Picture’ until now
- As someone who used to get South West Trains to school for years, and then (after it was renamed) get South Western Railway to work for years, I cannot tell you how happy I am to dance on its useless grave now that it’s nationalised. My least favourite company ever. May they cancel trains in hell
- I came up with a phrase on Scroll Deep today that might be the best line I’ll ever say
- Can anyone confirm this?
- @benedicttown.bsky.social idk how to tell you this but there's a character (a dead deacon) named after you in the game Kathy Rain 2
- I NEED this vest
- Hells Librarians🔥 #LibrarySky #ReadToLive
- I couldn't help myself and read an article from one of those right wing outrage comic book websites and this bit really cracked me up:
- heaven forbid superman might be 'about something else' loool
- On the train. Young girl across from is explaining to her younger sister what 9/11 is (already interesting) and her mum just interjected to tell her ‘it was 2011, not 2001, that’s why it’s called 9/11’
- The mum’s just said ‘wait, I actually think it’s 9/11 because it was November, the 11th month’ I’m losing my mind
- Andor Ep 8 is so good it’s insane
- [lenny kravitz voice] american pope!
- chicagope
- I wish I was as dedicated to anything as wetransfer is to never keeping me signed in
- Very few TV shows take place ‘in da bungalow’ anymore, due to woke
- Under Biden, GTA 6 was coming out in 2025. Trumps owns this delay.
- The next three episode of our podcast about Vine are now live!! That’s six episodes you can listen to right now on your podcast platform of choice 👌 vine-six-seconds-that.captivate.fm/listen
- There’s an exact perfect length for men’s shorts. Anything longer or shorter, even by a millimetre, looks bad. The problem is the perfect length is An Unknowable Secret
- (To the tune of ‘Many Men (Wish Death)’ by 50 Cent) Mini Moons
- Would a guilty man plead not guilty?? I’ve seen enough, let him go
- Parents love Portrait Mode
- It's launch day!!! I can't wait for you to hear this 😊
- Vine will rise again 🔥 Listen to 'Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World' right now on @globalplayer.com or wherever you get your podcasts: vine-six-seconds-that.captivate.fm/listen
- Back to work after a long weekend
- this was the best Big Brother eye. No contest
- Look I’m no Christian conspiracy guy but surely the ‘Trump is the antichrist’ evidence is mounting up so much even those guys can’t resist it
- 🇬🇧 in 2025: Fixing this country’s myriad problems: ❌ 😡 Continually attacking 0.5% of the population for simply existing: 🤩 💕
- BIG NEWS!! Introducing a podcast series about the rise and fall of Vine that I have been working on for YEARS 💥 I spoke to Viners, tech experts, a Vine founder - I left no stone unturned. The podcast feed is live NOW wherever you get your podcasts!!! vine-six-seconds-that.captivate.fm/listen
- I’ve never seen so many ads for US tourism in London LOL. It’s like buddy you’ll need more than a nice poster to convince us it’s a good idea
- what's happened to my work computer, onedrivedly, can never happen again
