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Lovely people of Bluesky! My amazingly talented wife @gailmyerscough.co.uk is a most talented artist/designer. Being a one woman band can be really tough, it’d be really great if you could go have a look at her fabulous website and online shop and have a look around! Please pass this on! Many thanks

First they came for a tiny minority of the population who just wanted to mind their own business, live their lives and have a wee without it being a drama... You know the rest. Let that inform your reaction

Interesting its not 'men in dresses' who are a problem. Its men in police uniform. Casey Review found the Met Police to be institutionally misogynistic and homophobic, with systemic failures in vetting, misconduct and protecting women. Still no systemic/institutional change.

I am so furious about the toilet BS, which creates a totally bizarre environment in which nosey people can stop anyone from having a wee. What sort of govt feels good about creating the means to stop people having a wee? We need more free public toilets, not ways to make it harder to go to the loo

Also (sorry, but honestly) if I had to make a list of places cis men couldn't go to because a cis man had made a women "uncomfortable" there, it would be very long and there would be literally nowhere for men to go.

New Pinchy the Lobster 🦞

And how the merry fuck are they going to police that then? I’m not going to carry a gender ID for anyone, neither am I going to show them my fanny. Leave trans women alone, ffs.

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@markhamillofficial.bsky.social Ich do hope you will pardon thys slightlye spammy post. Peraventure plese consider sharinge thys peticioun? Save the study of English. Thanke you verye much for your consideracioun: www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

I've bought (to date) 3 of Gail's A4 brutalist architecture notepads. They're really lovely quality, highly recommended.

By far my favourite bit of architectural ironwork in Glasgow, and possibly anywhere in the world! It can be found on D.B. Dobson's 1902 Art Nouveau commercial building at 50 Darnley Street in Glasgow. #glasgow #ironwork #dragon #architecture #glasgowbuildings #pollokshields

so! a 🧵 of Exciting New Things that are available in my shop today (extremely grateful for ✨all shares✨, did you know that sharing makes you especially handsome?) "JOIA" - varied edition hand-finished linoprint limited to 9 prints shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/joia... #art #printmaking #witchsky

It should be mandatory that they be fitted out like this.

A fox painted onto a Leicester City football ticket from 2005. Available from darrenhaymanart.com

I'd like a law making it mandatory for these glasses to be visually identifiable by other people in the vicinity of the wearer.

News | Five Scottish collections awarded national significance status by Museums Galleries Scotland Linoleum, photography and Iron Age collections among those newly listed under Recognition Scheme

I'm doing a story on cuts to the Universal Credit disability payments - I'm looking to speak to anyone who started claiming means-tested disability benefit (LCWRA, either in ESA or Universal Credit) for the first time when they were in their 50s or 60s My DMs are open, grateful for any reposts

Here's a strange fact I saw on Wikipedia: When the Edwardian writer Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) was 2 a cow chased his pregnant mother, frightening her so much she miscarried her baby and subsequently died. This is exactly the kind of bizarre plot point to be found in his very readable short stories.

The creatures waiting for homes are having a little tea party today.

This is why, more than ever, we need to stand with our LGBTQ+ sisters and brothers (or whatever community someone belongs to). The below disgraces this country. bsky.app/profile/bear...

Random memory: as a student midwife I was sent home with a 10 ml syringe and green needle to practice injections on an orange. IM or sub cut. I used it to inject brandy into the Christmas Cake..

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i’m about to save so much money you guys

Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia #IDAHOBIT We should be ashamed that this year, the UK has fallen again in the rankings for LGBT+ equality on the ILGA Rainbow map. 🧵

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

it's caturday, but i'm making an exception for Her

Pick a Bond from the media you already have on your phone [Alt text: a hamster trying to climb from a wrought iron telephone table onto a sofa, falling off and giving up]

#knitsky on the last stretch of this cardi jacket for granddaughter

Why were they called the Axis Powers? Because Stephanie was already taken.

“Gender-critical” transphobes in court: “gender-critical beliefs are worthy of respect in a democratic society.” Also “Gender-critical” transphobes at the Tommy Robinson fascist rally:

Nevermind the Guardian list, how many of the 93 books cited at one time or another by Mark E. Smith have you read

There has been at least some archeological verification, yeah, IIRC one of the big anachronisms in Homer is that the weapons and armor are described as being bronze, but there are regular references to other tools being iron because the context of the original descriptions was lost.

Oi! @wulfhelm.bsky.social This your sunhat?

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Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb

Fuxake Pepys, get a grip

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

This is what happens when you base your political philosophy on bants and retweeting Right Said Fred.

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Le Pen and Farage are old friends. They were both MEPs together. They took money from the EU, but did no work for it in return. Le Pen has since been convicted for embezzlement. It's time Farage's finances were put under the microscope too. #FarageOut

Just did a survey on my attitudes to AI and VR technology/Smart glasses. Very much enjoyed completing the free text boxes with sentences like "because I'm not a weirdo" or "because I'm not a pervert" or "because it's fundamentally untrustworthy" How's your day going?

After a close family member died in '98 I was given a most generous gift of £10k. The hoops, questions, proof of providence, money laundering checks, HMRC background searches I had to go through to just deposit the cheque was exhausting. Yat Farage can just have £5mil & no one bats an eye?

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Would you like to share your thoughts on the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP)? Disability Together have a short survey to gather evidence. #PIP #Timms #review #disability forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

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