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White poppies were first produced in 1933 by the Co-operative Women's Guild, made up largely of women who had lost loved ones in World War One. They were worried by the growing militarisation of Remembrance events and what they saw as a detachment between the red poppy and the need to work for peace

Choice wording in "overlooks" too. I'm sure they would describe Nige, also on a balcony as is convention, as "proximately respectful" or something.

I’ve decided that unless I have to I’m not going to cafes that charge extra for oat milk. I went to three different ones near the station today and the barista at the one I went with says they sell almost equal amounts of oat and cows milk, it being free probably helps

Whats extra baffling is that pregnant people/women has nothing to do with trans women either purposefully playing dumb from Phillips or he genuinely doesnt understand the most basic thing this is about

The far right went after Gender Critical as a 'worthy' belief becuase it was an easy target to push their agenda. Just as predicted, they've now got 'Islam Critical' & next will be 'Race Critical' - then people will be able to post whatever bigoted nonsense they want without fear of reprecussion.

New York, London, Paris, Munich, everyone talk about, poppy music. Off key #Respectival entertainment 👌

Just rewatched the highlights of the derby from last weekend cos I missed the second half, was just following the text updates, and that handball call on Ralston is completely baffling omg

What the Supreme Court have clearly failed to grasp is that the purpose of the Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999, Goodwin v UK in 2002, the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010 provisions was to integrate trans people in society, with a small number of exceptions where necessary.

We watched Frankenstein and during a scene where Victor is flirting with Elizabeth over a captive butterfly, my boyfriend said ‘I feel like I’m watching Elon Musk and Grimes’ 🥲 I can’t

I am a little late to this, but I have also requested my name and face to be removed from @cyclinguk.bsky.social publicity due to the decision to remove trans women from their awards. Trans women are women, gender is on a spectrum (and I did a genetics degree), and cycling is for everyone. 🏳️‍⚧️🚲❤️

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

As someone who's undiagnosed ND Labour are telling me that its overdiagnosed, as an artist they're saying tech companies can steal my work, as the parent of a dual heritage kid they are whipping up an atmosphere of hate towards anyone who isn't white, as someone with friends who are trans, on pip...

A reminder Kate Clanchy received justified criticism for what she wrote, tried to set a twitter mob on a Goodreads reviewer because of it, then denied that she'd written what she wrote, then accepted it while setting a Twitter mob on three women of colour who criticised her.

10/10 take. No notes.

Started using this knot on the day this was posted and it’s genuinely changed my life

The new series of Dreaming Whilst Black is on iPlayer now and it’s great. I really recommend the first series if you haven’t already seen it too

In Penny Lane, the beatles say that a nurse is selling poppies from a tray but then fail to make it clear that any of the other characters are wearing theirs, or that the beatles themselves all have one on as they should. MR MCCARTNEY MUST ANSWER FOR THIS

Rediscovering this innovation called racism.

Really fucked it today lads, I slept in til 11?! I have no idea how. Tbf I have work later but would have been good to get some more shit done today 😬

Rui is unfuckingreal like HOW

Completely and utterly gagged at the xlov comeback

This is the interesting and important bit, if you don't want to click on the BBC link. It won't be a surprise to anybody who enjoys paying attention to the motivations behind horrible actions.

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Haha just thinking about trying to run a quiz to 30+ teams later while the inevitable pub golf students come in and yell while an old fella gets increasingly angry, love my Wednesdays 😬😅 Some reading the room would be appreciated sometimes

Trying to decide whether to cycle in the rain to see Frankenstein at the cinema today. I didn’t realise it’s also 2 and a half hour long…

Here's what Mamdani's win means for the spoken word scene in Edinburgh 🧵

In particular, we can blame the collapse in CAMHS provision for the increasing number of young adults living with a mental health disability. If they aren’t treated early, mental health problems become chronic, debilitating and a lengthy sentence of misery

Given that about 10% of Covid cases lead to "Long Covid" maybe making vaccinations free again* might be a thing to try. * Or at least the same price as the fly jab, that would be something.

Seeing your fave player wearing a p*ppy on his shirt because he moved to a different club 😔

Anyone who's witnessed road behaviour of the average Uber driver will understand why this idea is terrifying to cyclists.

This pink madeleine tower on bake-off is so camp looking I love it

Kate Clanchy doesn't deserve any apology. What she wrote was racist, Islamophobic, ableist, and fat shaming. bsky.app/profile/snig...

The BBC are dragging up the whole Kate Clanchy affair, four years later, with a SIX part podcast. There is no public interest reason for this, and they are just going to retraumatise the victims: the people who criticised Clanchy. One of them has already started receiving hate mail again.

Yeah. This was my friend, and nothing she said (which she had the right to post on goodreads) was wrong. The whole sorry affair was awful. And the women of colour who 'dared' criticise a white woman were attacked and sent death threats. The BBC dredging it back up with a new podcast is pathetic

Ban Americans from replying to things in Discover when they haven’t read bios and don’t realise not everyone is in the US

Complemented the person taking tickets on the tram’s silver nails and immediately tripped them up by accident 😬 they were like ‘I don’t respond well to compliments’ hahaha

This is one of the things I hate about the newer series of bake off and the sewing bee. Some of the challenges are just way too short. I know they do it for the drama but I think it’s missing the point of why lots of people watch these shows? I don’t want to see people made to fail 🙃

The ecological impacts of "AI" are bad but if people only used it intentionally, they'd stay there. But with every provider, every search engine, every website firing up some chatbot or summarizer even when not asked it quickly turns from bad to monstrous.

Have to get a train just praying for scotrail WiFi to let me watch the rest of this match 🫣

My bf won’t stop going on about how much he loves Martin O’Neill’s ‘cunty top’ lol

Does Ralston not get to change his shorts? 😅

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

Christ, the train stabbing news is awful. Cannot imagine how terrifying it was for everyone on that train

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Hmmm

But the people of Myanmar still continue to resist (the ‘three finger salute’ being the symbol of resistance), and your support will help them keep going. Please visit linktr.ee/meemalee for ways you can directly help - signing petitions, sending emails, donating & more. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

It’s been 5 yrs since the coup in Myanmar and the military junta’s reign of terror continues - 7,427 people have been murdered and another 22,587 have been wrongfully imprisoned. Just this month, the junta bombed a Festival of Lights in Sagaing, killing 20, incl children 💔 #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Nicola Sturgeon and David Tennant being named Scotland’s most popular politician and actor respectively is going to be the inspiration for this week’s JK Rowling crashout