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Benedict Evans

@benevans.bsky.social

Medicine, markets, motion

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I won’t lie I needed to hear this today lol x πŸ’žπŸ₯° πŸ™

07.10.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

🧡

06.10.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 384    πŸ” 174    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 26

This is the clip the BBC did not think worth showing on the 6 o’clock news. Disgraceful.

03.09.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

At the risk of quibbling, if we focus on this season for PL games when both played together for the full 90 mins, I make it an average of 1.43 points which equates to 54 points. On balance I think Ange should stay but let’s not pretend all was rosy when we had a full complement of players

28.05.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also this away game was a short walk from Fulham Broadway tube station

04.04.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Isn’t that the strategy? Basically a protection racket

02.04.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No specific hotel rec, but a shoutout for Poblenou. 5-10 minute metro ride north of the centre of town (easy with an infant). It's a bit more chilled, cheaper, with some great hotel/ Airbnb options. Close to beach, good restaurants, plus a really nice rambla

27.03.2025 08:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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JD Vance in the oval office

01.03.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 689    πŸ” 142    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 7
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Great anecdote here from former FT editor Richard Lambert on the time Manmohan Singh came to the FT to talk with him and Martin Wolf. H/T @andymukherjee70.bsky.social

31.12.2024 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 659    πŸ” 192    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 9
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This is apparently from the New York Times 100 years ago this week. History is full of these forgotten characters but it would be fascinating to know what if anything happened to this Hitler character.

21.12.2024 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
Time magazine cover for their β€œperson of the year” issue with Ange Postecoglou

Time magazine cover for their β€œperson of the year” issue with Ange Postecoglou

Finally, a sensible choice.

21.12.2024 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

screw you winter, the days get longer from here onwards #solstice

21.12.2024 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 461    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Star Spangled Banner (feat. The Florida Orchestra) - Live from Super Bowl XXV Whitney Houston, Florida Orchestra Β· Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances Β· Song Β· 2014

Plus this open.spotify.com/track/5qByPJ...

15.12.2024 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Creep - Live At MTV Studio, NYC, 2006 Korn Β· MTV Unplugged (Live) Β· Song Β· 2007

open.spotify.com/track/3Ieq1F...

15.12.2024 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

21 off 14, great platform, really sets things up for overs 6-10

14.12.2024 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Business is business

14.12.2024 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My take on the green belt? What seemed a good idea at the time has become counter-productive.

Instead of preventing suburban sprawl, it's encouraged exurban sprawl. Commuters now simply leapfrog over the green belt into what should have been deep rural beyond.

12.12.2024 09:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This could be interesting. AI has the potential to transform healthcare. Question is, does healthcare want to be transformed? Plenty of traditional players with a lot to lose…

11.12.2024 07:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Garryowen Football Club - Wikipedia

Surely a day for the Garryowen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garryow...

24.11.2024 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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reminder of the time john prescott was given a state banquet on a trip to Beijing and then told them it wasn’t as good as Mr Chu’s in Hull

(source: hull daily mail)

21.11.2024 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1092    πŸ” 249    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 18
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Silly I know but I’ve penned an ode- or poem if you will- to my new favourite app, bluesky. Be kind in your judgement I beseech you my liege!. lol πŸͺΆ

20.11.2024 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1202    πŸ” 180    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 48

Bentancur gets a seven-game ban for his comments about Son in the summer. This is obviously a blatant case, but you see so much subtle and not so subtle racism towards Son (and east Asian players in general) and it really really has to stop.

18.11.2024 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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bird sounds

16.11.2024 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 29328    πŸ” 5983    πŸ’¬ 203    πŸ“Œ 227

Great to see a proper debate re. England progress between Courtney Lawes and Ugo Monye on TNT post #EngvsRSA game. Beats the usual bantz and platitudes we get from sports pundits

16.11.2024 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An erotic short story in three acts

14.08.2024 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5299    πŸ” 1133    πŸ’¬ 66    πŸ“Œ 35

NEW: RFK is Trump’s nominee for Health Secretary.

Buckle up.

14.11.2024 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 963    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 127    πŸ“Œ 47

If I ever refer to Twitter as β€˜the other place’ can someone please shoot me in the head. Cheers πŸ‘

14.11.2024 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t want to get too hopeful but I really believe this app could become the new mastodon

12.11.2024 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 184    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1
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Meta's Threads is 'overrun' with liberal election fraud conspiracies Thousands of users have amplified baseless claims of hacked voting machines as Democrats become more comfortable embracing denialism

I think it's interesting and instructive that Threads has been overrun by liberal election fraud conspiracies and Bluesky just... hasn't. (h/t @taylorlorenz.bsky.social)

I suspect that's because Threads is 100% algorithmic media, and Bluesky has no algorithm to game.

www.usermag.co/p/metas-thre...

11.11.2024 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2844    πŸ” 562    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 103

congrats everyone, Bluesky is now the dominant social network for complaining about Twitter

11.11.2024 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 373    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 1

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