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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 · 4d

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About me:
🏳️‍🌈 Queer
🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Questioning
💃 Skirt Addict
💅 Nail Obsessive
🐾 Tally the GSD. Also any dogs
⚡️ Underground Dance (produced it in the 90s)
🔧 SWE
🌆 East London

Expect:
- Documentation of my queer journey in a way everyone agrees is hilarious
- Fit checks
- Reposting 🏳️‍⚧️ things

Mirror selfie in a public bathroom. The lighting is pretty flattering and makes my blonde hair glow. I’m wearing a pop punk heart choker and a Stooges T-shirt and holding the phone in a way that shows my long milky pink nails very prominently.

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Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 15m

My dear mother today warned me to be on the lookout for “romance fraud” on the apps so I’m feeling tip top.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11h

In today's least surprising news

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Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 20h

She is an absolutely awesome person btw.

Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah I understand, just a name that popped into my head because I was a minor member of the (London) Perl community at one time. But wait! Maybe @wgavandijk.bsky.social might have an idea?

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Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 20h

This might be a silly suggestion but you could try reaching out to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_... for ideas.

Audrey Tang - Wikipedia

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Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 22h

I was trying to be funny because the guy put his weight in his bio, but perhaps with hindsight a misstep.

Message bubble in a dating app: “You weigh as much as my German Shepherd and I combined. I am not saying that's unwelcome.”

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Danny Jones @adeptusanxietus.bsky.social · 1d

Never thought I’d join a political party, but I will be paying to join the Greens

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is fantastic

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

TIL the Slack API uses either Markdown or Mrkdwn, their own variant, to accept formatted text – depending on context!

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

i’M nOt iNto pOLiTicS

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

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

Has to be this for me – it’s so clean and purposeful and the music’s fabulous. youtu.be/CrIH_EYhfHk?...

London Weekend Television Logo (1970's)

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 3d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

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Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 3d

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Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 3d

Airport coffee place. I am
tired. People await coffee while others prepare it. No-one’s taking my order.

Me: Hi, can I give you a coffee order?
Barista: You mean you want me to put an order through for you?
Me: I don’t know what that means, I just want a coffee.
Me: (noticing touchscreen) nm.

Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 3d

Does anybody like those businesses where you have to order using a touchscreen? I just want a coffee ffs.

Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 3d

Obligatory share youtu.be/pM1RrkW_vSs?...

(Austin Ambassador) Y Reg - John Shuttleworth | Extended Music Video

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Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 3d

I meant to put in the image’s alt text that the bathroom has an extremely early 80s pop video vibe.

Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 3d

At the risk of stating the fucking obvious the web wasn’t supposed to be like this. I shouldn’t need to be indulging in behaviours that train a system to show me what I want, this is what search queries are for! [EOM]

Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 3d

Only since returning to my Instagram account and quickly being flooded with posts about queer parties in London has it dawned on me how much the platform dominates the information space for this kind of thing. And that sucks if you’re visiting a city and want to discover fun things to do [1/N].

Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 3d

I think we can all agree that the arm touch is devastating munition 🫠 . Some of others seem a little esoteric but who am to question JACKIE magazine?

Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 3d

The Jackie guide to flirting - from 1975. Would you still follow these top tips 50 years later?

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Just in case you don't know how, here's our JACKIE GUIDE TO FLIRTING - or The Ancient Art of Showing A Boy You Fancy Him
Look deep into his eyes and then quickly look away as if you didn't want him to notice you staring.
Droop your lower lip, put your head on one side and look fragile and vulnerable when he's speaking to you.
Speak softly so he has to bend nearer to hear you.
Accidentally brush his arm with your hand.
Fix him with your eyes and give a heavy "if only" sigh.
Whisper a secret in his ear.
Flatter him. Tell him what smashing teeth he's got! Ask him where he bought his T-shirt. Say you wish your fingers were as long and thin as his. Don't criticise him even in fun.
Get a deep, sexy voice. If yours is too high and squeaky - lower it, practise on a tape recorder.
Look ALIVE-eyes sparkling, lips parted, teeth gleaming, alert and ready to laugh.
Move about with other boys, show him what a superb flirt you are.
Say what a poor little lonely girl you are and how you never get any dates.
Smile with your eyes, be witty and make him laugh.
Look at him sideways from behind your hair.
Cross your legs and let one shoe dangle dangerously from your foot.
Confide in him. Ask him if he thinks you'd suit your hair permed.
Have fun!

Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 3d

I think this is why Maggie hired Gordon Reece.

Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 3d

I meant to put in the image’s alt text that this bathroom has an *extremely* 80s pop video vibe.

Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 3d

See it’s not hard to call the play – unless of course you’ve already backed yourself into a corner by pandering to bigots.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Lower bills.

Fund our NHS.

Not their culture war nonsense.

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Zack Polanski HUMILIATES Piers Morgan LIVE On Air!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Lower bills.

Fund our NHS.

Not their culture war nonsense.

youtu.be/1CbN6TUTRZs?...

Zack Polanski HUMILIATES Piers Morgan LIVE On Air!

YouTube video by Antony Jones

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Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · 4d

Always guys, usually cishet.

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