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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 15m

I want to play a game 🎯

Without searching or asking an assistant/chatbot…

Take a guess, which dead musician said:

“You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules.”

a picture of a puppet with the words " i want to play a game " below it

Alt: Saw: a picture of a puppet with the words " i want to play a game " below it

media.tenor.com

Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 11h

“During a game of truth or dare, when asked about your least favourite qualities of other housemates, you said the following, ‘Sam, um too…,’ you then went on to mimic Sam using both noises that mocked the way Sam talks and body language that included limp wrists.”

Big Brother contestant removed for ‘use of unacceptable language and behaviour’

George Gilbert, whose comments will not be aired, had been warned that his actions could ‘cause offence’

www.independent.co.uk

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 11h

Hopefully it turns out to be a blessing in the long term, that you find something better

Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 12h

Given his support of Lucy Connolly it seems Farage's policy is that death threats are fine so long as they're not directed at him

Asylum seeker charged with threatening to kill Farage said 'he's going to shoot me' in TikTok video, Reform leader tells court

Fayaz Khan, 26, is charged with making a threat to kill the Reform UK leader between 12 and 15 October last year in a social media post.

news.sky.com

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 12h

Evidence collected from Jonathan Rinderknecht's digital devices included an image he generated on ChatGPT depicting a burning city

Pacific Palisades fire suspect snared by ChatGPT image, say investigators

Investigators say evidence collected from the 29-year-old's devices showed an AI image of a burning city.

www.bbc.co.uk

Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 12h

"Why are you doing this to me?" Julia Wandelt really believes that she's Madeleine McCann.

Alleged McCann stalker contacted Madeleine's sister, court told

Mrs McCann says she also received a letter signed off with her missing daughter's name and a kiss.

www.bbc.co.uk

Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 22h

This talkshow episode from 1986 is a fascinating watch. It almost doesn't feel real because it's so gentle and non-confrontational.

Bless archivists for making things like this accessible on YouTube because it's such a good reality check for the hysteria and toxicity of today.

Phil Donahue 1986 coming out as gay to heterosexual spouse and children

YouTube video by hiroforce

youtube.com

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 1d

This is the first time someone's admitted to their part in Stephen's murder 32 years ago

Stephen Lawrence killer admits role but refuses to name accomplices

David Norris, speaking at a parole hearing, becomes the first of the teenager's killers to publicly admit his role in the 1993 attack.

www.bbc.co.uk

Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 1d

Hackers were said to have stolen the photographs, names and addresses of about 8,000 children

Two arrested over cyber-attack on nursery chain

Hackers were said to have stolen the photographs, names and addresses of about 8,000 children.

www.bbc.co.uk

Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 1d

National Hate Crime Awareness Week is 11–18 October.

This annual observance is now led by a charity called 17-24-30, whose name comes from the dates in April 1999 when 3 London communities were targeted.

This documentary examines the 1999 London bombings that targeted Black, Bangladeshi and gay communities, and the race to find the far-right perpetrator.

Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 1d

Also “Christmas light switch-on” makes it sound like Marple only has one festive lightbulb

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure it's not random that this is what Google Arts & Culture's editors picked for this week

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 1d

Where are all the patriots in Marple to serve in preserving tradition? Volunteering time takes some actual doing.

Greater Manchester town forced to cancel Christmas light switch-on

Organisers shared the 'disappointing' update but have reassured visitors that the event 'isn't going anywhere'

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 1d

It took Ofcom 10 months to decide that calling people paedophiles is bad and take no other action against the broadcaster

Ofcom takes no action as GB News breaches broadcasting rules with homophobic slur

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

Some advertising you just can't buy

MAGA Congresswoman: Bad Bunnys super bowl halftime show a demonic sexual performance

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 2d

The decision not to interview Polanski this week came after the Green Party also requested a previous interview on the show following Polanski’s election as leader on September 2.

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 2d

Wikipedia article about the Southport shooting

2025 Southport shooting - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 2d

Oh not a mass shooting but multiple shootings

Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 2d

I went searching to find info about last week's shooter in North Carolina and it brought up this newer story about South Carolina.

So many mass shootings that they don't even register as news in the noise of everything else that's going on.

1 person killed, another injured, in separate shootings at South Carolina State University

South Carolina State University was under a lockdown Saturday night following a reported shooting at a campus dorm, according to a notice on the university's website.

abcnews.go.com

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think they'd have these false beliefs without the sustained demonisation of LGBT people.

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 2d

This unwell man has delusions about the LGBT community.

Separately Nigel Edge, a man who shot dead three people in Southport, North Carolina, on 28 September has delusions that LGBT people are a conspiracy and a weapon of mass destruction.

Plane makes emergency landing after what passenger 'wearing 15 face masks' did

A plane was forced to land after a passenger is said to have gone on a mid-air rampage, telling others 'Trump is here' and blaming LGBTQ people for 'cooking' him

www.mirror.co.uk

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 2d

Ofcom has found GB News in breach for associating LGBT+ people with paedophilia

Ofcom finds GB News in breach of code | Good Law Project

More than 70,000 people complained over GB News’s use of a hateful, homophobic trope. Now the regulator has finally acted and declared the channel in breach.

goodlawproject.org

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 3d

Hard to believe six months have passed since Ben died

Benji W 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @benjiw.bsky.social · Mar 24

Good morning! Happy Monday.

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 3d

'Tis the season for some digital housekeeping in preparation for Spotify Wrapped, which is expected around November's end.

Be sure to make use of the 'exclude playlist from your taste profile' option for stuff you don't want in your annual report.

Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 3d

Foreign* Secretary, darn it