James Lydon
@jambong.bsky.social
Bakes a bit. Creates stuff. Manages systems. Numquam scienter sub eisdem. 🏳️🌈🇬🇧
https://www.redbubble.com/people/xenonbase/shop
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November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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It’s two months away todayyyy! 20% of tickets already sold which blows my mind coz it’s big in there. Anyway. January 30th 2026.
TL;DR....Friday 30th January 2026 @ Royal Vauxhall Tavern
An Evening with Sooz Kempner. All funds go towards lead-up and recovery from an operation on my damn larynx.
£10 TICKETS: www.outsavvy.com/event/31688/...
An Evening with Sooz Kempner. All funds go towards lead-up and recovery from an operation on my damn larynx.
£10 TICKETS: www.outsavvy.com/event/31688/...
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It’s two months away todayyyy! 20% of tickets already sold which blows my mind coz it’s big in there. Anyway. January 30th 2026.
Ironically looking down their nose at the Concorde fan.
A guy in my office is obsessed with Concorde, and gets upset every year on the anniversary of the last flight. He even has a mini Concorde on his desk. Seriously tempted to chuck it when he pisses me off.
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Ironically looking down their nose at the Concorde fan.
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The louder they shout about "biological reality", the more I can hear the "gay sex is unnatural" echoes from the 1980s.
Reactionary cunts, the lot of them. Then, and now.
Reactionary cunts, the lot of them. Then, and now.
November 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The louder they shout about "biological reality", the more I can hear the "gay sex is unnatural" echoes from the 1980s.
Reactionary cunts, the lot of them. Then, and now.
Reactionary cunts, the lot of them. Then, and now.
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For the many (arseholes), not the few (trans people)
I hear the YP conference convener just called out someone using 'transphobic' and said they want to keep things respectful
There it is, lads.
There's your party.
There it is, lads.
There's your party.
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
For the many (arseholes), not the few (trans people)
People should never forget what a banger was the Eldorado theme tune, too.
Marcus Tandy and Pilar! Bunny and Fizz! Trish Valentine! I'm on the new episode of @boxdelightspod.bsky.social, talking about my strange fondness for flop early 90s sun-soaked soap Eldorado with the ace @jnraeside.bsky.social shows.acast.com/boxofdelight...
Short-lived BBC soap Eldorado | Box of Delights
Author and TV critic Michael Hogan plays the last post for the nineties flash-in-the-pan sunn-soaked soap.
shows.acast.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
People should never forget what a banger was the Eldorado theme tune, too.
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Anyway from now on we can all legitimately call Reform the "Black Shirts" - given they're flogging them to their actual members.
What an own goal!
Geddit?
What an own goal!
Geddit?
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Anyway from now on we can all legitimately call Reform the "Black Shirts" - given they're flogging them to their actual members.
What an own goal!
Geddit?
What an own goal!
Geddit?
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The biggest con in contemporary politics is Gender-Conservatives calling trans women perverts and rapists while constantly, and I mean constantly innovating new ways to sexually harass us on a mass scale.
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The biggest con in contemporary politics is Gender-Conservatives calling trans women perverts and rapists while constantly, and I mean constantly innovating new ways to sexually harass us on a mass scale.
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Look, I'm genuinely sorry for the Graham Linehan posts. I really am. But this is just too fucking astonishing not to share. The last paragraph of an Observer interview with him. Absolutely beyond parody. He's gone. He's absolutely fucking gone.
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Look, I'm genuinely sorry for the Graham Linehan posts. I really am. But this is just too fucking astonishing not to share. The last paragraph of an Observer interview with him. Absolutely beyond parody. He's gone. He's absolutely fucking gone.
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A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine
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It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Want.
(but won't... I get why shipping to the UK has to be $20 - customs fees tbd - but it makes it difficult to justify when I own about three versions of it already 😂)
(but won't... I get why shipping to the UK has to be $20 - customs fees tbd - but it makes it difficult to justify when I own about three versions of it already 😂)
James Horner's score to Star Trek II – The Wrath of Khan is back in stock from @lalalandrecords.bsky.social. Better still, order it by December 8 and you'll get 12% off your order. Details are on the site.
lalalandrecords.com/star-trek-ii...
lalalandrecords.com/star-trek-ii...
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Want.
(but won't... I get why shipping to the UK has to be $20 - customs fees tbd - but it makes it difficult to justify when I own about three versions of it already 😂)
(but won't... I get why shipping to the UK has to be $20 - customs fees tbd - but it makes it difficult to justify when I own about three versions of it already 😂)
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this has lifted my mood
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
this has lifted my mood
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A good summary of many of the lies told by people like Wes Streeting and the rest of the political far right about puberty blockers.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/p...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/p...
Six lies transphobes tell about puberty blockers - debunked
Ahead of the NHS PATHWAYs puberty blockers trial, PinkNews debunks six lies commonly told about puberty blockers.
www.thepinknews.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A good summary of many of the lies told by people like Wes Streeting and the rest of the political far right about puberty blockers.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/p...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/p...
Not now, Madeline! 🤣
Hello, computer.
Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (aka The One With the Whales!) was released 39 years ago today.
One of the most popular Trek films, the Whale Movie is indeed one of my fav. Fresh, funny, with a fine environmental message, it completes an overall successful trilogy.
Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (aka The One With the Whales!) was released 39 years ago today.
One of the most popular Trek films, the Whale Movie is indeed one of my fav. Fresh, funny, with a fine environmental message, it completes an overall successful trilogy.
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Not now, Madeline! 🤣
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"Farage repeatedly... said Hitler was right and 'gas 'em', and that was frequently followed by a 'sssss'... the sound of escaping gas.
"He said Farage's words had "hit hard" because his grandparents had escaped Nazi Germany and much of their family had perished in the Holocaust"
"He said Farage's words had "hit hard" because his grandparents had escaped Nazi Germany and much of their family had perished in the Holocaust"
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"Farage repeatedly... said Hitler was right and 'gas 'em', and that was frequently followed by a 'sssss'... the sound of escaping gas.
"He said Farage's words had "hit hard" because his grandparents had escaped Nazi Germany and much of their family had perished in the Holocaust"
"He said Farage's words had "hit hard" because his grandparents had escaped Nazi Germany and much of their family had perished in the Holocaust"
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I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
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That Enoch Powell fandom is really telling. I'm surprised that's not the story actually because it's firmly on the record.
At some point Farage stopped talking about Powell - presumably because it became politically inconvenient to do so. No evidence of some Damascean conversion to reality.
At some point Farage stopped talking about Powell - presumably because it became politically inconvenient to do so. No evidence of some Damascean conversion to reality.
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
That Enoch Powell fandom is really telling. I'm surprised that's not the story actually because it's firmly on the record.
At some point Farage stopped talking about Powell - presumably because it became politically inconvenient to do so. No evidence of some Damascean conversion to reality.
At some point Farage stopped talking about Powell - presumably because it became politically inconvenient to do so. No evidence of some Damascean conversion to reality.
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It feels worth mentioning that Graham Linehan’s harassment literally continued in the courtroom, as he repeatedly misgendered Sophia, and referred to her as “Tarquin”, a fictional deadname he made up for her as part of his harassment campaign. The judge was complicit in this harassment happening.
I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It feels worth mentioning that Graham Linehan’s harassment literally continued in the courtroom, as he repeatedly misgendered Sophia, and referred to her as “Tarquin”, a fictional deadname he made up for her as part of his harassment campaign. The judge was complicit in this harassment happening.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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As usual, property is placed in a pedestal over people.
Some man-bear-pig like Lineham harassing a then 17 year old trans minor is perfectly fine and acceptable, but god forbid you do any property damage!
Some man-bear-pig like Lineham harassing a then 17 year old trans minor is perfectly fine and acceptable, but god forbid you do any property damage!
Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been cleared of harassing a transgender activist, but was found guilty of criminal damage to her mobile phone.
Father Ted’s Graham Linehan cleared of transphobic harassment
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
As usual, property is placed in a pedestal over people.
Some man-bear-pig like Lineham harassing a then 17 year old trans minor is perfectly fine and acceptable, but god forbid you do any property damage!
Some man-bear-pig like Lineham harassing a then 17 year old trans minor is perfectly fine and acceptable, but god forbid you do any property damage!
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I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
Australian version of Ghosts is very sweet, in an acidic and quite filthy way 😍
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Australian version of Ghosts is very sweet, in an acidic and quite filthy way 😍
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Reminder that In the 1990s Farage sought the backing of the disgraced former Conservative MP and notorious racist Enoch Powell and twice asked him to stand as a candidate for UKIP.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Nigel Farage asked former Conservative MP Enoch Powell to back Ukip
Despite his ‘rivers of blood’ speech, the Ukip leader has said the central thrust of Powell’s immigration arguments hold true
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reminder that In the 1990s Farage sought the backing of the disgraced former Conservative MP and notorious racist Enoch Powell and twice asked him to stand as a candidate for UKIP.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...