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Well worth spending £500* on for the publicity. * The 'deposit', refunded if you get 5% of the votes. For once, Count Binface is almost guaranteed to get it back this time.

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Admittedly it was also a drug dealing area after dark - I think it was where Chris Morris was filmed trying to buy Cake. Alas, even the dealers hadn't heard of it.

In the 1988 Kensington by-election, the rump SDP claimed that All Saints Road was a dangerous 'no go' area the police were afraid to visit. They then sent out a lone female leafletter to deliver their leaflets saying that to... All Saints Road. Very good bike repair shop there.

Correct answer is 'both', provided you pick the right people.

I was having more fun working out how the rook got there than from the official joke.

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

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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

Particularly when it turned out that his birthday is tomorrow.

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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.

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

The exception is when you are asked a quiz question about which country whose name begins with C is first alphabetically and doesn't accept 'Cabo Verde', its official name at the UN. In the list that says "Germany" rather than "Deutschland" etc.

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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 · 26/06/2026

Totally has - she was rabidly biphobic years before the rabid transphobia.

Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Lucky" was more like it - if Brazil really needed to, they could have scored a bunch more goals than the four* they did. * As I say, lucky because there was nothing wrong with the one that was disallowed.

Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Commentators giving the chances of going through with a 3-0 and a 4-0 defeat. "So you're saying there's a chance?!?"

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

On the plus side, they can't finish worse than third out of four, thanks to the scrappy 1-0 win against Haiti.

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

"It might be a heavier defeat and they still get through..." they say just before it's almost 3-0.

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

Now 2-0 seconds before half-time.

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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.

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

Obviously there are some terrible, terrible remakes, but you'd lose True Lies (La Totale!), The Thing (The Thing From Another World), A Fistful of Dollars (Yojimbo), & many other favourites. Plus all but the original silent version of any Jane Austen / Shakespeare / similar classic or fairy tale.

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

In any car park, small cars have to park so they're visible when looking along a row, and not pull back so it looks like there is a space there until you get close enough to see them.

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

How do you turn it off? Zero isn't prime or odd...

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A Nadine Dorries appointment? Going wrong? Who could have predicted it?

Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It does, but you get to choose which signal. You can also choose a name for the booasted network, so presumably they changed the name to something other than CafeWiFi-2.

Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

That reminds me - has anyone got the Madonna track that has a few seconds of the real thing, then the rest is her swearing about how awful downloading from Napster is?

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Look up the difference between a router and a WiFi repeater.

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I think that if I had been in charge of the evil that is FB and I was asked a while later what my greatest regret was, 'playing a "determining role" in a genocide' would be higher in my mind than 'not doing wrestling in high school'.

Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

My thought too. I hope it shit on them too.

Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Loved the acting, direction etc of his previous GGGGay series, absolutely hated the scripts.

Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Did you ever play SPI's board wargame, Empires of the Middle Ages, or the 'gosh, I recognise where lots of this came from', SSI's Medieval Lords?

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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 · 30/05/2026

There was a 1950s SF film that had a long explanation of how long it took their spaceship to accelerate to the necessary velocity. It then did a 90 degree turn in a second.

Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Given the entire saga's attitude to physics, having stuff burn in a vacuum is one of the minor failings. (Too many favourites to mention, but going from near light speed to almost zero relative to a planet, I think in it's atmosphere, in a tiny fraction of a Earth second with no ill effects...)

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Woody Guthrie: "This machine entertains fascists".

Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

My version of their beliefs is "I wouldn't, therefore you mustn't".

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Where the set is more than it appears...

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Better than shagging the animals themselves.

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

'Stage Kiss' at London's Hampstead Theatre.

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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

Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Could be one of the male cabinstaff...

Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Pity about the last series though.

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Ian @lovingboth.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Well, if Labour can't win a NW by-election with Burnham as the candidate - effectively stealing the 'Starmer out' campaign from evilReform - they are so completely stuffed, nothing would work.

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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.