Terrific video. I knew this book would be bad but I was genuinely shocked at just *how* bad

Problem with Labour framing it as a binary choice between Labour and Reform is the growth of Reform shows it isn't. With Starmer only offering Reform Lite, and getting less "lite", Labour is hemorrhaging more voters to progressive parties, with ability to gain enough ground for a coalition. #r4today

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

✝️ Deny thy responsibilities, take up thy cross-stitch, and craft with me 🕊️✨ #Crossstitch #YarnJesus

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

I've moaned about parliamentary petitions (for debates) doing more harm than good for trans people. This is a petition I can get behind and have signed - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Feels a bit egregious to post about awards two days in a row, but I have just found out I was nominated for – and have won – an independent journalism award for my reporting following the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland for @wearequeeraf.com Thank you!

I vouch for this group and everyone involved and would encourage you to support them in any way you can as anti-LGBTQ+ hate ramps up in NI and the DUP/TUV target trans kids.

Dormitory-style night shelters tackling street homelessness are harmful. At best, they protect an already very disadvantaged group from some harms, while generating & deepening manifold others. Nor do they reliably lead to sustainable rehousing... ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/ij...

Seen in Glasgow but very appropriate for here, unfortunately 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

If you happen to be me and want to fall into a rabbit hole for a while, one lined with beautiful Japanese textiles for example, then try this: bsky.app/profile/iroa...

"the autism problem" "the migration problem" "the trans problem" Never the fucking "rich white guy problem"

look at this fucking framing. i am so mad at this.

The Green Party now has 78,000 members. Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line. I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

I know one of the parents who started this group. She took me under her wing after Alice died and earlier this year I made my first trip to Belfast to meet her irl. This group will embrace you and your LGBTQIA+ child and hold you fast in the storm. Reach out.

A little embroidery. Playing with gradients #blackwork #embroidery #handembroidery #pride

✨ We’ve Moved! ✨ Thank you to the 42,890 people who have signed, shared and supported our letter so far: Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community. 🌐 NotInOurName.org.uk

youtube.com/shorts/oCi_I... @blumineck.bsky.social

As a MUCH BETTER alternative to the garbage SciShow knitting video that's been going around: youtu.be/5btQokB32dQ?... As she says, now, of all times, is not the time for lazy science communication.

Belfast tomorrow

My little buddy is fixed! New treadle arrived from Lojan the other day. #spinning #spinningwheel This is some very pretty “pink lemonade’ merino/silk, which I will be giving in skein form to my son’s girlfriend if it comes out as hoped for Christmas

1. The commentary! 2. The HAIR!! 3. The tool belt and accessories!!! 4. Oh yeah. Pretty skilful, too 🙃

Look what happens when these empty suits are held to account. Lord Walney - former head of Labour Friends of Israel - can't even justify the existence of a proscription he has argued for. Excellent journalism from Isobel Yeung - the rest of the media should take note

(1) the lack of reference to Hansard, (2) the lack of on analysis wrt Goodwin, (3) the impossibility of ANYONE being trans under s7 by their analysis, (4) their analysis of s195 being based on folk taking performance enhancing drugs… Sorry, Lord Hodge, but someone needs to mark your homework.

I'd like to thank the media for creating an environment where people are still blaming the left for a fascist shooting a fascist for not quite being fascist enough. Great job you're all doing

Full page in the Sunday Life about the Kirk 'vigil' in Belfast. Not a single word in the paper about Trans Pride. "hundreds"

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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Get your butts to Writers Square! Trans Pride here until 3pm

Working on some ideas… #embroidery #blackwork

Hey dude can you pass me that video of the tall birds simultaneously getting knocked over by a wave thanks

One more chance to be cruel enough to brown people to appease the fascist mob we swear we dont wanna do this but we simply must, this is smart politics we’re not fascist i swear They are the Real Fascists you gots to be afraid of i swear guv

I’m working on this for the lovely man (shh). I bought it started but with no pattern- most of it I can work out from what was there when I got it because it’s symmetrical. However… I do need a couple of extra motifs and I’m having trouble finding something appropriate. #embroidery #handembroidery

Can we stop calling it 'gender affirming' and just call it healthcare?

A new #grannysquarefriend arrived ✨🌈 🧶 This one represents @queer-socialworker.bsky.social I was a bit nervous to find the right design for them, but they started asking and making suggestions. 🧶 #grannysquare #crochet #crochetsky #queer #lgbtqia+ #rainbow 1/3

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

There has certainly been more beautiful yarn, but this is the first off my wheel and the first I’ve made on a wheel. Hand spindles are, as it turns out, rather different! I have plans for it that will hopefully enhance its unique variety(!) #spinning #handspinning

My eco-friendly crochet kits make great little projects to feed your creativity. Find them all here: littleconkers.co.uk/product-cate... #LittleConkers #CrochetKits #CraftGifts

The NI mams are super excited to be working with, @causewaypride.bsky.social @meapride.bsky.social and Foyle Pride to bring support to the parents of the LGBTQIA community. If this is you and you want support or just tea and a hug, drop us an email.

Going from a hand spindle to a spinning wheel is like going from hand sewing to a sewing machine- terrifyingly fast and weirdly different. Learning all over again..! #spinning

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

It's 9pm .. and yet again BBCNews is once again leading the news agenda with a story about refugees - when there is no new 'news' on refugees... None whatsoever.

There will always be other ways and other days, but there will never be another you. #allontheboard #Positivity

41,000 signaturesfor now. There are over 500,000 trans people in the country. Trans people who may have supportive mothers and sisters willing to sign. We have colleagues, friends and neighbours who we should ask to sign. Can we get this to 100k? 200k? Are you doing your part to make it happen?

TW. Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...