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Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥

@prismaticpuffin.bsky.social

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European Person ™️, 🏳️‍🌈, He/him. Dogs. 🚶🚲 🚌 🚃 🚊. Trans rights are human rights. SWE @BBCStudios, opinions are my own.

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Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · Jan 8

I've neglected my presence here and now seems like an excellent time to rectify that:

🐕 (especially my GSD Tally)
🏳️‍🌈 (still figuring stuff out!)
💃 Gender nonconforming
🔧 Software Engineer
🌆 East London
📺 Cult TV, especially #GerryAnderson
🎹 Published noisemaker in another life

Tally my German Shepherd looking very sweet on an armchair

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Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 4h

At a cheesy gay (very much that not queer) bar in Madrid and the DJ’s transitioning off each record after ninety seconds or so. Not instrumental grooves you understand, pop records like Don’t You Want Me and Because The Night. Don’t be like this guy, it’s fucking appalling.

Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 4h

It’s absolutely wild cash is still accepted on NYC buses, this slowed things so much when one person operation originally came in in the UK.

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𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔪 ☾🔞🏳️‍⚧️ @w0lfertinger666.bsky.social · 10h

Robert Valley study with Luna tgirl panther

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Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 7h

So do I know anyone who can recommend #queer bars/clubs in #Madrid? Obviously I know about Chueca (and am close) but on reconnaissance so far not discovering anything that seems exactly my vibe. I guess I’m searching for that Dalston feeling… @marcusjdl.bsky.social maybe???

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Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 12h

I have no done no homework, I suppose I should do some. I usually end up visiting a modern art museum. Chueca seemed a bit underwhelming (that is to say less queer than expected) but I probably didn’t explore it properly. I’m close by so I’ll keep trying…

Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 13h

My holiday mode is spot something interesting and walk towards it.

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Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 14h

My ex wife says I’m a good bit of crumpet in a skirt.

Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 14h

Edificio Pirámide, Madrid. Definitely a spiritual sister to Hamburg’s Postpyramide, the demolition of which the city shamefully permitted in the previous decade.

Corner block view of Madrid’s Edificio Pirámide.

Oberpostdirektion Hamburg, aka Postpyramide.

Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 15h

Dear citizens of #Madrid please stop being so hot kthxbai

Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 16h

Sorry this is proving so hard 🫂

Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 16h

I can’t put it any better than that 🩷🩷🩷

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What a week, huh? all Wednesdays @whataweekhuh.bsky.social · 16h

Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?”
Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.”
Snowy is very excited about the drink he has found.

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 18h

How fucking embarrassing is it for the entire political establishment that they're being outflanked on the left by MICHAEL FUCKING HESSELTINE

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 16h

I probably should have spent slightly more on the hotel.

WhatsApp message screenshot with photo showing the inadequacy of the mains power situation. The text reads:

“Hi, can you provide some trailing sockets please because at the moment I can’t have my phone charger and the lamp on at the same time and also the socket is behind the bed so it can’t rest against the wall.”

Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 17h

If anyone wants to date that back of head it is single btw.

Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 17h

Spray in Aldwych last week with guest appearance from the back of my head.

SPRAY @spraypopmusic.com · 4d

Never have we been summed up so succinctly in an image

Pop group Spray, pictured between songs.

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Jack Charnista @jackcharnista.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of my favourite joke: Guy goes to the doctor for his annual checkup. Part way thru, Doc says: “I’m sorry, but you’re going to have to stop masturbating.” Guy: “why, is it affecting my health?” Doc: “no, it’s so I can finish the exam.”

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Teenage life, above Shaw, Lancashire, 1957, photo by Bert Hardy.

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Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know but congratulations!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 2d

Great look, love the top (dress?)

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Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 2d

For some reason… youtu.be/IsvkIKtHp6A?...

Can you believe it? I'm vomiting on June 29th again!

YouTube video by pagzamaphone

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

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

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Ben TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible