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What's in the Box? @whtsnthbx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

WHAT'S IN THE BOX? returns to the Cosy Club on Sunday November 1st at 4pm as part of Nottingham Comedy Festival. Your contestants are: 📦 LIZZY LENCO 📦 KITTY MESSALINA 📦 JONNY BROOK Get your tickets HERE! wegottickets.com/f/23687

Kitty Messalina, Jonny Brook and Lizzy Lenco emerging from boxes.

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What's in the Box? @whtsnthbx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Our next show is Sunday 1st November as part of Nottingham Comedy Festival and boy howdy do we have a lineup for you. Details soon!

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But there are problems: currently, most media outlets are far more interested in buzzy, counterintuitive, controversial takes rather than measured nuance. It's hard to bait rage-clicks with an article called: 'Autistic People are Pretty Cool & Deserve Small Changes to Make Work A Bit Less Grim'.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At my middle school. If a class had perfect attendance for a week, the head would give that class a big bag of sweets to share. BUT ONLY IF they wrote a sycophantic letter to the head, to be read out in assembly. It was all very tongue-in-cheek, but God knows what we were supposed to learn from it!

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Anyway. If you're in Edinburgh and want to catch my spooky folklore nonsense this year, you've 2 chances left.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I love it when non-folklore nerds enjoy it anyway. I even love the people who didn't get it, AT ALL, but gave it a chance.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My god, that's flown. Learned a lot about the show, what works, what doesn't, and how it goes over with audiences. I love the way I can spot the folklore nerds in the audience by the way they get excited when they figure out who "Mrs B" is, or go "Ooohhh" when I mention the Barguest.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Two Waiting At Eldridge shows left at the Edinburgh Fringe! Tomorrow and Tuesday. (I have Mondays off. Don't come on Monday. Or rather, do, but don't expect to see me!)

A poster for Waiting At Eldridge, a story with poems by Tom Juniper.

A painting of a steam train, and a silhouetted figure with a peaked cap and slightly spectral antlers.

Rest of text reads:
What is waiting for you in the waiting room?
"A brilliant poet." - Ian McMillan, BBC's The Verb.
Departs 7pm, The Banshee Labyrinth Banqueting Hall
8th-18th August (Mondays excluded)
Winner of the Step Up Commission 2024
Free Entry
Donations Welcome
18+ Venue

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yeah, I won @theacms.bsky.social Best Song last year. What of it.

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In a move people are calling "Stupid", did my 4pm solo show 4 hours after major eye surgery. Full house, standing room only. Will likely be blind for a couple weeks, come see me as I can't see you.

Friz Frizzle blind, on stage wearing chic charity shop sunglasses.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

RW Netflix shouters and court jesters to bone saw killers: I'm actually incredibly brave. Maybe the bravest comedian there is Friz: oh hey, I've gone blind, could you whop a knife in my eye in time for my show this afternoon?

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What's in the Box? @whtsnthbx.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

WHAT'S IN THE BOX TUESDAY 11TH AUGUST Featuring... 📦 Katie Pritchard 📦 MARA Joy 📦 Adam Larter 12pm, Southsider, W Richmond St. Bring something! #edfringe

Friz Frizzle's What's in the Box lineup announcement. Purple background, yellow text, three boxes with the faces of Katie Pritchard, Mara Joy and Adam Larter popping out of each very cheekily

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Well this is how my Fringe has been going...

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The name's Bon. JON Bon. Jon Bon JOVI. JON BON JOVI FROM BON JOVI.

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Last July I went to hospital with a blood infection and gangrene after staying at that exact YMCA. Had a finger amputated. Whilst in hospital, the YMCA evicted me as I was now too disabled to live there. Was made homeless for three months. They probably didn't tell you that bit.

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

EMERGENCY! Friz currently in A&E, due to waking up blind. Fringe shows should be going ahead - unsure how, but Friz loves a challenge!

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Big Difference who run Leicester Comedy Festival have sank. Do not be mad at Leicester Comedy Festival's social media team: they have also been left unpaid. Even more so than the acts in most cases. I want to know where the money went, because it sure seems like it rhymes with schlembezzlement.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm rewatching Baz Luhrnan's Romeo and Juliet. It generally holds up. But friar laurence's opening monologue... Its supposed to be him musing to himself about botany, but here... Like, for no reason at all, he's topless, and talking to 2 altar boys. about drugs. Was Baz calling the friar a nonce?

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

You've cooked lentils in fat? Well, lardy dahl.

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Another gpod birthday present would be for anyone who has the capacity to write a piece about What's in the Box? and how it's been a secret hideaway gem of the Fringe for the last nine years because I do not enjoy tooting my own trumpet.

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

For my birthday I would like to give you the opportunity to be better than the DWP. Being disabled with zero income fucking sucks!

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I have come to respond to the sight of rain (or even promising-looking cloud cover) the way I used to respond to snowfall as a child.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Not my photo, but I saw this ad on a bus earlier today, and was VERY confused, until I realised that the word *I* was thinking of was "packers".

A bus with an ad for vitamin supplements. Main text reads NO FILLERS! NO BINDERS! 100% ACTIVE INGREDIENTS!

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Just got an NHS letter inviting me to take part in a prostate health survey. But don't worry, there was a trans inclusive footnote. It's "open to men, trans women, and non-binary people who were assigned male at birth." So... Open to trans men, then? You sure about that, hon?

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Me: "OMG not everything has to be anthropomorphic. It's a car, not your kid🙄" Also me; "I can't throw her out! I forgot about her! And she was all by herself in the back of the cupboard! And she grew LEAVES 😭😭😭 You're gonna be OK, sweet potato child of mine!"

A sweet potato that has sprouted in the cupboard.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

For hospital wards, you know those curtains they have around the beds? The ones the NHS already believe have magical soundproofing abilities? Why not go the extra mile and rebrand those as wards? Suddenly you've got a single gender hospital ward ready for every gender imaginable!

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I'm happy for venues to adopt this model, if "trans people can't use gendered spaces" legislation is actively enforced. Another option for venues is to make almost all your toilets and changing spaces gender neutral. One (single occupancy) stall per venue designated "cis only" should be fine.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Oh, in the dream, it wasn't always the venues doing this. If venues weren't maintaining the mandatory trans bogs, because the staff "didn't want to go in there", the trans community were secretly gussying them up, maintaining them, and getting trans friendly venues to donate promotional freebies.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Oh, and the cis toilets were godawful: no loo roll, no working flush, no soap, certainly no complementary post-poo chocolates or champagne*. BUT you only had to use them if you minded people thinking that you were trans/were a dickhead about it. *I was asleep. Don't @me about the hygiene logistics.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

In my dream, you had to go and ask for "the trans key", which was awkward but once you got in, it was beautiful; you got a gift bag, vouchers for other "participating venues" and a map of all the other luxury trans only facilities in town. But I guess I'm just Cartman with a fucking bow on his hat.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Dreamt a workaround to the "Third Space" argument for venues to provide segregated toilets for trans people: Make the trans toilets way nicer than the cis toilets. Felt like a goddamn genius. Then I woke up and @frizfrizzle.bsky.social informed me that that's literally a plotline in South Park

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Charlotte the Procrastinator @catsbearsandme.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

#Poetry #BlueskyPoetry #WendyCope Differences of Opinion I: He Tells Her by Wendy Cope

He tells her that the earth is flat —
He knows the facts, and that is that.
In altercations fierce and long
She tries her best to prove him wrong.
But he has learned to argue well.
He calls her arguments unsound
And often asks her not to yell.
She cannot win. He stands his ground.

The planet goes on being round.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

[politics understander just read the niemoller poem] oh hell yeah thats loads of people before they come for me that will buy loads of time , sick

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If you thought that saying "Actually, it's not*a* panini? The singular form is paninO?" made you sound intellectual, then check me out unironically referring to a peperamo.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

a dream realised, an ambition achieved. My partners were doing a crossword the other day and needed to know what a citizen of Belgrade's called. I GOT TO USE THE CAPITALS OF EUROPE SONG TO FIND THE ANSWER! @johnfinnemore.bsky.social - thank you.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Well now. There's a name I ain't heard in a while..."

A grey metal box attached to a wall, for people to put their cigarette ends in. It has two square holes near the top, and a picture of a smoking cigarette near the bottom, so that it looks like a jaded (square, grey) guy smoking a cigarette.

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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I think we just passed oops.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Full disclosure: @bibufflizardwizard.bsky.social originally said this a few years ago, and we've been applying it to everything ever since. (EG depressemdy, doomdy, climate changemdy apocalyptictmdy.)

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

What a glorious month to increase my mirtazipine dose.

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I don't even have them anymore and I felt this in my soul.

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Starmer's resignation speech

Mayor Quimby: "No, no. I truly do want to stay home
with the... (sighs) wife."

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

There's never been a better time to share this stunning artistic collaboration between myself and @robertgalbraith.bsky.social

a life size black and white photo of Keir Starmer's grinning face (taken from a poster sent out as part of his Labour leadership campaign), which has been cut out and is being worn (by me) as a mask. The eyes have been replaced by the eyes of Bob from Twin Peaks (in full colour).
Mixed Media, Juniper & McKenna, 2020.

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I guess 0.16 years is a plural

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

TMI post I just did a shit for the entirety of Starmer's resignation speech, while receiving live updates from my partners in the next room via messenger. One such message was "...He's got fucking inspirational backing music!" That he had, gentle reader. That he had. *Parp*

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Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️ @tomjuniper.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Trying to find your partner at pride feels like a Lucy and Yak sponsored edition of Where's My Cow. Where's my partner? Is that my partner? They're wearing dungarees! The dungarees have sunflowers on them! That's not my partner!

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