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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I wonder if it's because we have a long and successful tradition of camp comedy, from Kenneth Williams to Are You Being Served to Julian Clary (i feel like that may have been how I first learnt of it)

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We have several of these period terms - nelly is another - that have a Wildean quality about them and have retained a sort of quaint/theatrical status. We tend to hold onto that stuff more Same goes for shirtlifter (though this one I suspect is more recent). Not in active usage but still well-known

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@drewgmackie.bsky.social a "whoopsie" is period UK slang for "gay man". While it's only used ironically today, if at all, people our age would definitely still be familiar with it

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Here at #TUCLGBT with @equityuk.bsky.social: @oliviabailey.bsky.social had the gall & audacity to claim in front of Conference that this Lab gvmnt wants to protect trans ppl & is innocent of increased hate crime. challenged on it, she had nothing but a patronising smirk and platitudes. We're fucked

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

@equityuk.bsky.social's LGBT+ Committee urges members to take action against ‘unworkable’ EHRC guidance: www.equity.org.uk/news/2026/eh...

equity.org.uk

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Done right... Good luck! That's how the UK selected Scooch and almost sent Katie Price

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

And 15 or 16 when she had her first hit in France

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

You're understating TAO massively there. We're talking about one of the most anti-palestinian racists in showbiz. She's literally tried to ruin pro-Pal colleagues' careers, publicly. God knows what she's done in private

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Because their centrist hero has turned out to be a complete dud and they don't want to be associated with him anymore

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Libs only discover their privilege when it's safe. If we had self ID, he'd be talking about how women are endangered. Just like they only become lefties when a right-winger is leading the Labour Party. But I'm happy to give him the benefit of the doubt. People can and do change. Sometimes.

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

You can't just make up shit. And no, doing your own legal research on YouTube doesn't qualify you to change how jurisprudence works I'm afraid

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Nope. You can't be found innocent. There's no such thing. If you can't be found guilty beyond any reasonable doubt, you are not guilty. Not innocent. But not guilty. You can't just rewrite the law because you don't like it. What cave were you educated in?

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

That's not how judgments work. How old are you? This is worrying

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Mandelson was on the outs during the Milliband and, obviously, the Corbyn years and then came back immediately with Starmer

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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

RIP to a real one

tweet by the late Dawn Foster from Sep 4th 2020

"Matt Goodwin once emailed me to accuse him of being racist when I called him a “racist whisperer” and I had to explain to him that horse whisperers aren’t horses."

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

It does get used for that. But it's mostly a cinema

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

People don't know it's a cinema for most of the year

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Va be', ci sono i froci Elettra e i froci Bresh. Sono le due principali correnti

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

And it's the TV and Web press, not the print music journalists

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

He should just accept his genes and focus on acting. It's always so unsettling to me when young artists sound so old

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

And then you realised that it'll do really badly, I presume

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Fausto has already released his first solo single

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Zero chance. Don't worry. It's not your curse. Decent chance to win the critics' prize, though

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Pur di non fare vincere i paladini della #manosphere Fedez Masini, accetterei persino una vittoria di Sal da Vinci. Vi rendete conto di quanto siamo caduti in basso? #Sanremo2026

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

A chi servono i Coma_Cose se abbiamo Maria Antonietta e Colombre #Sanremo2026 E non è nemmeno una battuta. Dico sul serio

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Credo sinceramente che solo una delle canzoni l'ascolterò per scelta e non per caso. E la cosa orrenda è che non c'è nemmeno una canzone che faccia proprio schifo schifo. Almeno ci si divertirebbe un po'. È tutto un 6 e mezzo dimenticatibile

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Sì, l'ho scelto appositamente l'anno. Era proprio l'anno di Cutugno. Purtroppo siamo nel 2026

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Ma non bastavano Fedez e Masini in quota #manosphere? Arriva anche l' #incel Eddy Brock a portare un po' di sana misoginia a #Sanremo2026 con il testo più brutto del #festival. Che poi si capisce perché questa non se lo tromba. Da usare nelle campagne di sensibilizzazione contro i #femminicidi

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 29/01/2026

BREAKING: WIN 🏳️‍⚧️ 💥 The High Court just refused Sex Matters' permission to ban trans women from the Hampstead ponds. We're relieved that the ponds can remain a place where trans people have always belonged. Thank you to the all the people that pushed back against division.

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We'd be more racist than Robert Jenrick is not the flex you think it is. Honestly, there's people in the Tory party who are to the left of this guy

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Going around the rules and threatening members with not even having those useless "tinker round the edges" new rules, all in order to avoid a vote that enough members asked for - and all this to protect a rogue state - is democracy?

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a bald man making a peace sign with the words sure if you say so

ALT: a bald man making a peace sign with the words sure if you say so

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

@drewgmackie.bsky.social I'm sad I'll never get that Webster episode, but I'm also very grateful for the years of content (I genuinely think I discovered you pretty much when you started) and for getting to hear someone else have the conversations I was mostly having in my head. Thank you!

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I looked up Chicken Caprese. It exists. I'm Italian. I don't claim it

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

If you know, then why do you spout idiocies? I'm not the one thinking that a TV broadcaster is the same as a country. That's you, sweetie. All the best

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Broadcasters! They got together to collaborate and to save money on things like sports' rights and allow smaller broadcasters to be able to show events they otherwise wouldn't be able to afford. What did you think EBU stood for? Also, Wikipedia is your friend

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

So it's got nothing to do with a political entity or a geographical continent.

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I agree with that. But you were talking about geography. You understand what the EBU is right? And that it's the EBU organising Eurovision. It's not the EU

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