Ben Tisdall
@prismaticpuffin.bsky.social
European Person ™️, 🏳️🌈, He/him. Dogs. 🚶🚲 🚌 🚃 🚊. Trans rights are human rights. SWE @BBCStudios, opinions are my own.
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Ben Tisdall
@prismaticpuffin.bsky.social
· Oct 12
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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
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
Guy who got on at Mile End and did your makeup all the way to Lancaster Gate: you’re awesome.
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Guy who got on at Mile End and did your makeup all the way to Lancaster Gate: you’re awesome.
Damn, telling your crush that yes you’re totally fine with just being friends and meaning it doesn’t turn the crush off does it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Damn, telling your crush that yes you’re totally fine with just being friends and meaning it doesn’t turn the crush off does it.
Stunning doll complimented my skirt at the club so I should probably just cash out now.
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Stunning doll complimented my skirt at the club so I should probably just cash out now.
Queer Ben is by far the best version of Ben.
November 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Queer Ben is by far the best version of Ben.
I guess one brings something to a #Thanksgiving party? Is a bottle ok?
November 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I guess one brings something to a #Thanksgiving party? Is a bottle ok?
What somebody in the bar was just doing to Won’t Get Fooled Again merited an intervention.
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
What somebody in the bar was just doing to Won’t Get Fooled Again merited an intervention.
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Labour were broken a long time ago.
Time to replace them with a party that actually represents everyone - not just the billionaires.
A party that rejects Reform - rather than copies them.
Time to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Time to replace them with a party that actually represents everyone - not just the billionaires.
A party that rejects Reform - rather than copies them.
Time to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Labour were broken a long time ago.
Time to replace them with a party that actually represents everyone - not just the billionaires.
A party that rejects Reform - rather than copies them.
Time to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Time to replace them with a party that actually represents everyone - not just the billionaires.
A party that rejects Reform - rather than copies them.
Time to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Well Edmund "failed Think Bike campaign" King of the AA doesn't like it so it must be a good idea.
If you look at the detail, EVs users still pay less, but EVs do actually cause congestion, and in a place which is bursting with public transport.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you look at the detail, EVs users still pay less, but EVs do actually cause congestion, and in a place which is bursting with public transport.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Electric vehicles set to pay London Congestion Charge
Electric vehicles will no longer be exempt due to their rising numbers, Transport for London says.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Well Edmund "failed Think Bike campaign" King of the AA doesn't like it so it must be a good idea.
If you look at the detail, EVs users still pay less, but EVs do actually cause congestion, and in a place which is bursting with public transport.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you look at the detail, EVs users still pay less, but EVs do actually cause congestion, and in a place which is bursting with public transport.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Remembering the time I composed a text asking a friend for advice about someone I liked and then sent it to the object of said affection by mistake.
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Remembering the time I composed a text asking a friend for advice about someone I liked and then sent it to the object of said affection by mistake.
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Cuomo gave a fairly graceless concession speech, and Mamdani rips his skin off:
"My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life. But let tonight be the last time I mention his name."
"My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life. But let tonight be the last time I mention his name."
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Cuomo gave a fairly graceless concession speech, and Mamdani rips his skin off:
"My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life. But let tonight be the last time I mention his name."
"My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life. But let tonight be the last time I mention his name."
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I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
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Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
Someone in a motor vehicle started to slowly but deliberately pull out of a side road before I’d cleared their path, coming to within half a metre of me. They seemed surprised when I stopped in front of them to point out the problems over several sentences replete with robust Anglo Saxon. #carbrain
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Someone in a motor vehicle started to slowly but deliberately pull out of a side road before I’d cleared their path, coming to within half a metre of me. They seemed surprised when I stopped in front of them to point out the problems over several sentences replete with robust Anglo Saxon. #carbrain
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
The crush lives on to fight on another day. Apparently I’m fifteen years old again, except when I was actually fifteen years old this kind of thing wasn’t part of my world.
November 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The crush lives on to fight on another day. Apparently I’m fifteen years old again, except when I was actually fifteen years old this kind of thing wasn’t part of my world.
Week 8 approaches – everyone else is getting the choreo and I’m only just managing a passable catwalk. Don’t mention duck walk 🙈. I did at least make a breakthrough last week by managing to have a good laugh in spite of everything – “just enjoy it” doesn’t come easily to me.
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Week 8 approaches – everyone else is getting the choreo and I’m only just managing a passable catwalk. Don’t mention duck walk 🙈. I did at least make a breakthrough last week by managing to have a good laugh in spite of everything – “just enjoy it” doesn’t come easily to me.
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Non-existence of ‘gender ideology’
‘Gender Ideology’ is a term used by bigots to attempt to frame the diversity of sex, gender, and presentation of diverse humanity as ‘just ideas’. 1/4
‘Gender Ideology’ is a term used by bigots to attempt to frame the diversity of sex, gender, and presentation of diverse humanity as ‘just ideas’. 1/4
November 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Non-existence of ‘gender ideology’
‘Gender Ideology’ is a term used by bigots to attempt to frame the diversity of sex, gender, and presentation of diverse humanity as ‘just ideas’. 1/4
‘Gender Ideology’ is a term used by bigots to attempt to frame the diversity of sex, gender, and presentation of diverse humanity as ‘just ideas’. 1/4
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Greens - Lower bills through nationalising our public services, wealth tax on assets and huge increase in investment in our public services.
Labour - ID Cards, random statements about flags and Austerity 2.0.
But apparently the Green Party are the "vibes era?"
Make it make sense!
Labour - ID Cards, random statements about flags and Austerity 2.0.
But apparently the Green Party are the "vibes era?"
Make it make sense!
Politics is in a vibes era. Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski are proof of that. But maybe Keir Starmer can take positivity from Ruben Amorim.
What Keir Starmer can learn from Ruben Amorim
www.bigissue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Greens - Lower bills through nationalising our public services, wealth tax on assets and huge increase in investment in our public services.
Labour - ID Cards, random statements about flags and Austerity 2.0.
But apparently the Green Party are the "vibes era?"
Make it make sense!
Labour - ID Cards, random statements about flags and Austerity 2.0.
But apparently the Green Party are the "vibes era?"
Make it make sense!
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haven't done one of these in a while
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
haven't done one of these in a while
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It is not true “England cannot effectively subsidise travel costs”. Retired people get free travel. By freezing the fuel duty escalator we are subsidising car drivers, which compounds inequality. See more here: bettertransport.org.uk/media/groups...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No free bus passes for under 22s, says goverment
The Commons Transport Committee recommended scrapping bus fares for young people in August.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It is not true “England cannot effectively subsidise travel costs”. Retired people get free travel. By freezing the fuel duty escalator we are subsidising car drivers, which compounds inequality. See more here: bettertransport.org.uk/media/groups...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who could possibly have predicted that I, a recently out #queer person, would join an LGBTQ+ dance class and develop a crush on a classmate.
November 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Who could possibly have predicted that I, a recently out #queer person, would join an LGBTQ+ dance class and develop a crush on a classmate.
Hamburg Feldstraße U-Bahn station, November 2013.
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Hamburg Feldstraße U-Bahn station, November 2013.
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Well done Glamour Magazine!
Brilliant response! 😂👏
Brilliant response! 😂👏
November 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Well done Glamour Magazine!
Brilliant response! 😂👏
Brilliant response! 😂👏