Tom Juniper 🏳️‍⚧️

Sexy Tina, Train Conductress!

Absolutely fantastic. I was grinning from earlier to eat throughout the show (apart from at the sad bits). I loved this show and would happily see it every day that I am here in Edinburgh during my 6 day stay. Brilliant. I can't praise this show enough. The only downside side is that the venue smells of piss, but I don't think that is anything to do with Friz. ❤️

This might be the best review I've ever received

Friz Frizzle performing on stage.

Another nice full room for FUNNY TURN. Find out why it's so popular, 4pm, Whistlebinkies #EdFringe

Happy #QuickFlyerFriday! If you're at #EdFringe this year, and fancy an unnerving hour in a dark room with me, come along to Banshee Labyrinth on 2-9 August for YOU OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES.

slurpee machine with one crashed screen

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

Pianist-comedian loses a finger just before the Fringe Friz Frizzle's latest health woe

Pianist-comedian loses a finger just before the Fringe

A cartoon showing three angry looking pigeons and a squirrel sitting on fluffy white clouds, wearinghalos. In the background, a signpost points the way to the pearly gates. In the foreground man's head in silhouette, faces them. Caption "Not fast, Mr Lehrer".

A tribute to my namesake: the late, great #TomLehrer

Tom Lehrer: fuck it, I'm out.

When I first read that you were
Dead, I hoped it was a rumour,
But since now it's in the New York
Times, I guess it must be true...
I'll shed a tear as I'm softly singing
Of doing in a squirrel or two.

So long, Tom,
It seems you're really gone.
It's quite a blow for me. But thanks for the songs
That you made sure belonged
To everybody,
Royalty free!

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

End of a Lehrer :(

Hello, A while back, I posted about my partner, Friz Frizzle, and their relentlessly dire housing situation, compounded by their increasingly esoteric and disabling health conditions. Many, many people stepped up with offers of practical support, advice, and suggestions of other avenues for help, as well as much needed financial assistance to keep the wolf from the door. Thank you. This is not exactly the update I hoped to be providing, but I can at least say that as of now, Friz will no longer be living in the YMCA shelter!

Not because they have been rehoused somewhere more accessible and less depressing, but because Friz added gangrene to their collection of weird vintage ailments, along with a cameo repeat appearance of the mysterious blood infection that we think caused the infamous "big knee" incident. This landed them in hospital for 17 days, and led to the amputation of a finger. The YMCA decided that this would be the perfect time to change the locks on the door to Friz's room, and inform the HOSPITAL, not Friz, that Friz had a month to remove their belongings before the YMCA chuck them out. We found out from a (horrified) discharge nurse.

The good news is that this situation HAS finally prompted Nottingham Council to somewhat prioritise rehousing Friz. They are currently being put up in hotels for a few days at a time. We're still going up to the Edinburgh Fringe in August, and with any luck, the Housing Solutions people will have something more permanent to offer when we return. We have no guarantees on that front, but lots of hope.

So you know where this is going. Keeping to a healthy, diabetic friendly diet when you live in a hotel is EXPENSIVE. If you can afford it, a contribution to the Feed Friz Fund would be appreciated. Any offers of reputable free legal advice regarding: 💥Disability discrimination and the legal rights of homeless shelter residents, and 💥Potential medical malpractice (Friz seems to have been prescribed entirely the wrong treatment for their diabetes for some time, which we think led to many of the complications they have experienced, including the gangrene finger) are also extremely welcome.

My boyfriend @tomjuniper.bsky.social putting my situation with more details than I am usually too embarrassed to say. Do give it a read. Imagine sad music playing whole you do and please consider donating to a disabled, diabetic and homeless comedian that you like.

paypal.me/frizfrizzle

Bye, weird fruit! You were fun!

corporations on july 1st:

It's me. I'm the boyfriend.
I dusted off my best public sector professional pain-in-the-arse voice & POLITELY broken-recorded that Friz signing a document that contained outright lies WASN'T HAPPENING

So yeah, my partner is extremely homeless right now. All help appreciated.

paypal.me/frizfrizzle

And if someone asks me the very same question, but with a snide undertone, bonus! I get to have some fun pretending to be oblivious, and thanking them effusively for being so honest and open to learning!

I can't speak for all trans people. For some, and in some contexts, a direct "are you a boy or a girl?" query might be a stressful thing to field.
But for me, personally?
An honest, well meant request for information about how I like to be addressed is FAR more welcome than awkward guesswork.

"But gender identity is so confusing! Pronouns are hard!"

Only if you want them to be.
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And what comes out of my mouth, for some reason, is:
"OBVIOUSLY I'm a boy: I have BLUE nail polish!"

This got a laugh, and was accepted without issue.

My favourite bit, though: carnival performance workshop with 15-16 y/os with learning disabilities. Two kids are having a FURTIVE DISCUSSION.
Finally one of them goes "I'M JUST GOING TO ASK!"
turns to me...
"ARE YOU A BOY OR A GIRL?"

99% of staff and students read me as masc.
One PE teacher of the "jovial jock" persuasion confidently addressed me and my (enby, femme coded) colleague as LADIES, but that was more amusing than offensive.

Co-delivered some workshops in a SEND school this week.
First time working in a school since I started testosterone. I had a bit of anxiety about it. The anxiety was unwarranted.

She has never been a fave of mine, so I can't exactly say I'm disappointed.
However, regardless of her views on trans people (nothing good, clearly), my headcanon here is that she only took the role to boil Glinner's piss.

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We want to hear about experiences of discrimination, harassment, or challenges faced in single-sex spaces in the UK since the Supreme Court judgment on 16 April 2025 and EHRC guidance: tinyurl.com/SingleSexSpa.... Closing date is 5pm tomorrow.

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GOOD AFTERNOON!

My partner is still in hospital after having a finger amputated. Shit way to have to spend a birthday.
Good thing I'm here to cheer them up!

Poster for Friz Frizzle's Funny Turn. 4pm, Whistlebinkies, 2-24th August

FRIZ FRIZZLE'S FUNNY TURN

I love performing comedy, but a lot has happened this year to prevent it. A big knee. Hiccups. A disease from the 1800s. Find out how determined I am to do my silly ditties despite these illnesses this August at #EdFringe

www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Follow me for more David Attenborough-ish analysis of fascinating cishet behaviour in the wild, I guess.

Of course, I might be reading into things, but it sure felt like his internal monologue went something like
"Mustn't say filthy queer. Mustn't say filthy queer, Mustn't say filthy queer, I KNOW I WILL EXPLAIN HOW SOAP WORKS"
10/10 hospital lift interaction, no notes.

I think this was one of those times. My dude chimes in to point out that there's a stain on my shirt. There is. I got a smudge of orange acrylic paint on it a while back. It's pretty permanent. I say as much.
To no avail.
"You need to wash it!"
"I have."
"Have you tried SOAP AND WATER?"
"Er, yes?"