Joe Benge

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East Londoner in North Wales. Used to teach under 5s, now a stay-at-home Dad and EY Masters student. He/Him.
Joe BengeDec 18, 2022
Taylor LorenzDec 18, 2022
Mediaite right wing writer Isaac Schorr misread the Twitter account @joinmastodon as "John Mastodon," and referred to him as the founder of the platform in his article https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/hypocrisy-and-fear-all-the-way-down-at-twitter/ #tech #twitter #twittermigration #twitterexodus #news #media
Hypocrisy and Fear All the Way Down at Twitter

After you’ve drawn such a strong distinction on speech and human freedom, you can’t make any mistake about the side on which you belong.

Mediaite
Joe BengeNov 22, 2022
Some recent #Defaidodon encounters. I'm pretty sure they're not supposed to be in that field of crops.
Show threadJoe BengeNov 22, 2022
Here's some in colour from the same day. I was a bit happier with how these came out.
Joe BengeNov 22, 2022
I spent a day walking around Holyhead a month or so ago. Took these pics on #KodakPortra160 but I really didn't like the way the colours came out on most of them, so I've edited them a little and converted to B&W.
Show threadJoe BengeNov 19, 2022
There's some interesting stuff online about the Apapa. Turns out many of its crew were from Nigeria and other parts of the British Empire.
https://uboatproject.wales/wrecks/apapa/
APAPA – Prosiect Llongau-U 1914-18 | U-boat Project Wales 1914-18

Joe BengeNov 19, 2022
I live just over the road from Glanadda cemetery in Bangor. I read yesterday that there's a grave there belonging to John Thomas, a Nigerian sailor who died on the SS Apapa when it was torpedoed by a U-boat in 1917. The ship sank off Anglesey. It took me a couple of hours to find the grave. Here it is, next to Isaac Peppel's, a sailor from Sierra Leone who also died when the Apapa sunk. Thomas is a very Welsh name, of course, so there are several war graves marked Thomas in the cemetery.
Joe BengeNov 13, 2022
I got a new camera a couple of weeks ago, after selling all my film gear. It's a compact but it has IBIS, and I've really enjoyed messing about with slower shutter speeds. I took these today at Swallow Falls and Pont-y-pair in Betws-y-coed, all taken at 1 second. #photography #Snowdonia
Joe BengeNov 11, 2022
Eugen RochkoNov 11, 2022
Having been here since 2016, I can tell you there is definitely no such thing as a consensus on usage of content warnings on the fediverse. It's a decentralized network that doesn't belong to any one party, so by definition there is no single culture on it. Different corners have different expectations and customs.
Joe BengeNov 9, 2022
ʎllnɔsNov 9, 2022

Some more photos of our small flock of #sheep (#defraidodon).

1. Phoebe. Another former show sheep who thinks she’s a dog.

2. Camisa. Our eldest and the last we have to have been born on the farm.

3. (LR) Annie, former show sheep and sweetheart. Lucy, mother of quads — and her two yearlings, June and Jane. The troublemakers.

4. Doríe. A skittish #Shetland who would prefer you stop looking at her now.

Joe BengeNov 9, 2022
One of my favourite things to do in London was to follow #HiddenRivers like the Fleet, the Hackney Brook, and the Moselle. When we moved to Bangor, the guy we bought our house from told us about the river Adda, which flows underground through the middle of the town. I've walked almost all of it, I think, and there aren't many spots where you can see or hear it. Today I noticed this waterfall on Caernarfon Road that must flow into it.