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Libby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk · 29/06/2026

Come to our picnic. We've got a bubble machine.

Graphic advertising an event. Over a semi-transparent photo from a previous event is a graphic of a tree strewn with bi flag coloured bunting. The text at the bottom reads "Sixth annual bi+ community pride picnic". In the top left corner reads "Saturday 18ty July, 2026. 2pm onwards. Hyde Park"

The back of the flyer which reads

Bring something to sit on, food, drinks, outdoor games, your guitar, your mates and your water bottle (it'll be hot!)

Wear anything you want, as long as you remember your sunscreen

Get there vy entering the park at the Albert Gate, crossing Rotten Row and Serpentine Road with the Serpentine Bar and Kitchen on your left, and looking for the bi and pan flags.

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BiCon @bicon.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

On a quick visit to sign the contract today, what is in the entrance hall used by the pupils? Why, it's the bi and trans pride flags (and, not in the photo, including the pan, asexual, lesbian and a bunch of others...)

The trans and bi pride flags in the entrance hall used by the pupils at the venue for BiCon 2026

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Thomas Tuchel began to regret selling his soul in exchange for the Devil guaranteeing that England would be in the 2026 World Cup longer than Germany and the Netherlands...

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Argh, R4 Today, don't have a 'he gave us Blazing Saddles etc' headline without saying it's Mel Brooks' 100th birthday today first. It sounds too much like the start of an obit otherwise.

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BiCon @bicon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It's eight weeks to BiCon 2026! A 'by the community, for the community' gathering of people under the bi+ umbrella (attracted to more than one gender, whatever they call their sexual identity) and their friends. 21st-23rd August in Nottingham & online. Sliding scale, trans inclusive for decades.

Two of the circular BiCon logos make a figure eight, with the message that it's 8 weeks to BiCon 2026

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Scotland men's international football is summed up by BBC commentary saying 'if the score stays as it is - losing 1-0 to Brazil - then there's still a chance' (they'll get out of the group stage of a major competition for the first time ever...)

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

No, Guardian, it is not possible call Quantum of Solace "underrated". If they'd just filmed the opera that's used as a location for villains to talk, it would have been a much better film.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

But yeah, the idea that Grok - fucking Grok - is ever going to turn a profit is hilarious stupidity in a market where the prize for being the runner-up frontier model is losing $20bn and Grok isn't close to even being the runner-up.

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I always wanted to be a theatre set designer...

An almost completely bare stage has seven chairs arranged in an arc facing the audience

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BiFuriosa @bifuriosa.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Me: "I see Russel T Davies has a new 'gay life' series coming soon. I wonder if it will be another case of the direction, acting and cinematography being great, but the scripts being a pile of biphobic and bi-erasing shit, like Cucumber & It's A Sin..."

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/05/2026

Okay let me summarise the English voter ID discourse for everyone not resident here: For literally centuries: no voter ID required The Tories, a couple years ago: “voter ID is now mandatory! We are only accepting forms of ID statistically carried mostly by old white wealthy citizen men”

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The economics of the Star Wars series are even worse than the absolutely terrible physics.

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BiCon @bicon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

BiCon 2026 bookings now open! When: 21st-23rd August 2026 Where: Nottingham, UK Why: because it's a wonderful weekend of talking and socialising. It's the UK's longest continually running annual LGBTQ+ event for a reason... How: 2026.bicon.org.uk Who: you?

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BiCon 2026 – A highlight of the bi+ year!

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This year's is also in Nottingham: 21st-23rd August. It's non-residential, so you will have to outrage other cleaners though. 2026.bicon.org.uk

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BiCon 2026 – A highlight of the bi+ year!

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 27/02/2026

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

And in a result that was highly likely from the second Starmer blocked Andy Burnham from standing, the Greens have won the Gordon and Denton by-election.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

A reminder that white nationalism isn't just abhorrent, it's stupid.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Nazi supporting paper says what?

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Well, this will be another easy to remember birthday for Andrew, and without having to go to a Pizza Express too.

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"Eins, zwei, drei, vier Fünf, sechs, sieben, acht One, two" More meaning than the whole of Bob Dylan's output, and the song is why I can count to four in Japanese.

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Today's discovery - Firefox's British English dictionary doesn't know the word 'carabiner'.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 27/01/2026

I'm trying a new "see how well AI image gen is" test. This time I'm going to ask it to draw a map of the world, and then zoom in to Europe, the UK, Yorkshire and York to see when things start to get hazy. All of these are with the free models using the smart/thinking variants. 1/n

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Ari Marmell @mouseferatu.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord. You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

As well as the failed attempt to make it more interesting by adding a fan game show, whoever picks the games it will show has no clue. Final weekend of the regular season: "Let's have a game with no playoff implications whatsoever, where one side will be resting key players..."

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Not what everyone else has done with this, but given Keith Moon and John Entwhistle of The Who have both died, I did think that the drummer and bass player in The Beatles are still with us, and the results of Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney joining would be *interesting* either way...

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Sherry CD-ROM 🏳️‍⚧️ @sherrycdrom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

"you're a man" ad hominem "you were born a boy" sunk cost fallacy "you're amab" false dichotomy "you have xy chromosomes" false equivalence "trans people are mentally ill" non sequitur "changing your sex isn't possible" skill issue

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 03/12/2025

Opportunities to transform nature don’t get much bigger than this! We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.

Aerial view of the Cerne Abbas giant - a landscape feature showing the white chalk outline of a naked man with a club raised in one hand. There is text over lay which reads 'It's a big one!'

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

It's the best time of the year to buy CameraBag, a fabulously easy and powerful photo manipulation program. www.nevercenter.com/camerabag The Pro version adds the ability to do this to videos too. It's just cost me less than a tenner to extend & get all the updates over the next year.

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CameraBag - Ultra-intuitive tools for editing photos and videos.

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Screamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 25/11/2025

You could argue that, in the interests of accuracy, editorial policy should dictate that when prominent "gender critical" people are quoted, they should be described thusly: - "<GC name>, a middle-aged woman with no relevant qualifications or expertise and an obsession with other people's bits"

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Was the NFT showing of Stalker that had an audience member complaining about the bum ache that resulted during the talk afterwards just in my imagination? Some stunning work, but could do with a fast forward button, eg the driving sequences of Solaris.

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

My name is Harry Smith. Richer than Percy Bysshe Shelley, I outlived him by decades. He called me the "only truly generous" wealthy person he ever knew. But it's his version of Ozymandias you all know, not mine. At least it now has its own Wikipedia page.

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

There is a serious business opportunity renting children to people in the passport checking queue for people arriving at London Luton. Rejoin the EU, join Schengen.

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StephenCox Wiz-4 "funny raunchy romantic, satisfyingly twisted" @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

In a decent country, Starmer or the King would have visited an asylum hostel by now.

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Favourite film seen in a cinema on opening day (& first showing): Terminator 2. Never seen in a cinema: Tar. I wish there was a DVD with director's & actors' commentaries. Bonus 'seen at film festival before release': tie between Re-Animator, This is Spinal Tap, & Mishima.

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Chatting to a (very good) magician after a show, he talked about "chance" in relation to one bit of a most impressive trick. I am still laughing at that: none of the bits were "chance", they were loads of practice and lots of skill.

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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

16% of the UK population was born overseas (21/22 census) 12% of UK prisoners were born overseas Therefore people born overseas are less likely to be in jail than people born in the UK. That should be the headline.

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Guess which is getting more money from the govt: * Reducing child poverty spread over a decade * Enabling drivers on the A46 to possibly go around Newark about five minutes faster at a few times a week It's the second one, of course, getting over £650m rather than £500m.

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Crystal Palace chairman says, according to the BBC, that their relegation from the Europa League to the Conference League over ownership rules is the "biggest injustice in the history of football". I know some Germans (and Scots) who would disagree...

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BiCon @bicon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

It's two weeks to BiCon 2025. If you're coming - for the whole thing, for a day, or as part of the online bits - but haven't registered yet, it will make both of our lives easier if you do so in the next couple of days.

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BiCon @bicon.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Three weeks to BiCon 2025! I will be giving out flyers at Pride in London tomorrow...

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The Daily Telegraph: here’s Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine 9 months later: We regret to inform you that Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine are political

Bob Vylan: here’s Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine

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BiCon @bicon.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It's a month to go to the start of BiCon 2025! Bookings are now open for day tickets and Online BiCon. 2025.bicon.org.uk/bookings-ope...

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Bob Geldorf joined the early evening queue for food at the student union's bar seconds after I did when the Boomtown Rats were playing there later that night.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

*uses time machine to burst into a room ten years ago* "I don't have much time, but for the love of god choose Chaos with Ed Miliband™ "

David Cameron's "chaos with ed Miliband" tweet

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