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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · 2d

Join us at the "Spotlight Conference": End the Tax on Hope www.megaphone.org.uk/events/spotl...

Could you spare an hour to join your fellow Equity members next Tuesday 21 October to help end Spotlight’s tax on hope?   Together we will hand out leaflets to attendees at Spotlight’s one-day co...

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · Sep 1

Starmer is too busy enjoying playing at statesman and forgetting he used to be a human rights lawyer to even know what's going on

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · Sep 1

I know. He already has. But the labour right are so convinced of their moral superiority. This was predicted as early as 2020, but nobody ever gets credit for being right🤷🏻‍♂️

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · Sep 1

Don't worry. After next May, the new MPs are going to start freaking out

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

Oh, but those are Europeans. Not from them 'forrin' countries where they do 'forrin' things

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

And the British public will choose... Scooch

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thankfully, there's other ways

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · Aug 2

Yes, because self-proclaimed rational adults are doing so well for the majority of us.

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

That's a very very cautious statement, though. I mean it's a start, but if it's a marathon, this is not even Km 5

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

Self-taught (!) computer scientist applies to uni in the UK from the tents under the bombs in Gaza on his mobile, grabbing power and phone signal whenever he could (imagine doing UCAS intermittently on your phone), and gets accepted by Glasgow Uni! Help him out

chuffed.org/project/1377...

GAZAN BOY NEEDS LIFE-SAVING SPONSORS TO HELP ACCEPT UK UNI

LOOKING FOR SPONSORS FOR GAZAN MAHMOUD TO ACCEPT A LIFE-SAVING UNIVERSITY PLACE HE HAS AT GLASGOW THIS YEAR.

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

Morocco and Tunisia are members of the EBU and could take part tomorrow if they wanted to. Of course, they won't for the reasons you can imagine. But they could (and Morocco indeed has and Tunisia almost did)

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

Ma fatemi capire un attimo... Questi se spaccano la mobilia gli fanno pagare la penale o gli danno un bonus? perché non mi è chiaro
#TemptationIslandITA

Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is genius

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · Jul 23

I honestly love it

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · Jul 6

They're often worse than the bad.... They're bland. Which is the arguably worse

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · Jul 5

He made the right decision for his career, though. The tour was an enormous success. The album has been Top 5 since Sanremo and he's probably the biggest young singer in Italy at the moment. I mean, listen to that crowd!

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · Jun 28

Please tell me #Marita from #UltimatumQueerLove is developmentally delayed. There's no way a grown woman of 25 behaves like that otherwise? Right?... #Ultimatum

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

It would be horrific, but enough people would go anyway

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

And thank you, @extrahotgreat.com Dave, for having my favourite mega flop "Supertrain" and playing us out with one of the most undersung TV theme songs!

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

I guessed "Jennifer Slept Here" and "Man from Atlantis" @extrahotgreat.com's Game Time. I'm disappointed "Bridget Loves Bernie" didn't come up. This is all anyone needs to know about me. Feel free to slide into my DMs

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

I guessed "Jennifer Slept Here" and "Man from Atlantis" @extrahotgreat.com's Game Time. I'm disappointed "Bridget Loves Bernie" didn't come up. This is all anyone needs to know about me. Feel free to slide into my DMs

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Jun 9

A cis women's rugby team played a trans women's rugby team and won 34-7.

Naturally, Oliver Brown, who likes that his job gives him free reign to attack women, is not pleased, perhaps because he's spent years telling us how shit cis women are at everything

Red Roses players support game against trans team
The Daily Telegraph3 Jun 2025

Protesting ban: Alycia Washington and match organiser Sasha Acheson
Red Roses players have voiced their support for a rugby match in which a team of transgender women played a side of biological females.

The “Ruck You” match took place in Oslo to challenge the perception that transgender women have physical advantages over biological women.

The game began with seven trans women playing against seven former female internationals, before players from the two teams mixed to protest against the sport’s ban on transgender women.

The match finished 34-7 to the biological women’s team, with a post on the event’s social media feed claiming the team of trans women scored their try only after “one pivotal change ... when trans women and cis women mixed teams and came together”.

The event, which was organised by former England prop Sasha Acheson, was also supported by past and present players from Wales and Scotland. Current Red Roses players Meg Jones and Poppy Cleall were among several biological females who sent messages of support that were shared on the

event’s social media feed ahead of the match on Sunday.

Jones, one of England’s standout players in recent seasons, said: “I’m supporting the Ruck You match because this game is built on women of all shapes and sizes, different backgrounds, different stories and I know sport has the power to make this change. On June 1, hopefully we get to see the change we want to see in this world.” #TransAgendaClips

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · Jun 9

BREAKING: The brave commandos who took on Greta Thunberg and her terrorist army are being treated in hospital for exposure to baby formula. Praying they pull through 🙏

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · Jun 8

Ferguson was in 2015. But of course, you didn't even notice it before 2020. That tells us EVERYTHING we need to know about you. Do better. Think better. Listen better. Be better. Muted

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Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · Jun 8

We're the GOOD sort of conservatives, dammit! *has a meltdown on the floor

Giovanni Bienne 🔻🍉🌹(he/him) @neonsunset83.bsky.social · Jun 8

1986 should not have been in Norway. Still bitter about that. I remember it keenly