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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 7h

You would have expected them to intervene back at the first court date in July. Iirc Forstater was there so it wasn’t as if they weren’t aware of it.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 10h

I call it the tombliboo

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 16h

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Elizabeth Veldon @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 17h

Legend

Cara is the darkness that binds them 🇵🇸 @geekpie.bsky.social · 17h

good morning bitches

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Camestros Felapton @camestrosf.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes, but not always, the protagonist of a story does morally repugnant things precisely because the author is morally repugnant

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Ryu, a jolly dinosaur, is the mascot for Fukui Prefecture, where dinosaur bones were discovered and which often gets voted the happiest place in the country.

A round yellow dinosaur with glasses and a red jacket strolls through a shopping mall.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 1d

Over 1,000 letters sent in just 3 hours! 🤯🤯🤯
You guys are epic ❤️❤️❤️
Keep writing, keep sharing!

Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 1d

Here we go! 📝📝📝
🚽 Scrap the Bathroom Ban🚨🏳️‍⚧️

Our work so far is already working (see here: archive.ph/gaCN4)

Now we’re demanding that any new Code must outline how providers can lawfully *include* trans folk in their services.

✍️ Write to your MP with our easy tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

Scrap the Bathroom Ban

🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

actionnetwork.org

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 1d

This is it, the most unhinged literary opinion. I will be adopting it as fact immediately.

Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 1d

An important precedent set which I hope is wielded broadly

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 1d

More evidence of the top shortage.

Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 1d

Elected members of the Knesset. Good on them.

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Two MPs calling for Palestinian state disrupt Trump speech to Israel's parliament - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-address-israel-parliament-lawmakers-thrown-out

Two MPs calling for Palestinian state disrupt Trump speech to Israel's parliament

Ofer Cassif and Ayman Odeh dragged out by security officials as US president hails 'new dawn for Middle East'

www.middleeasteye.net

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 1d

“And, and THIRTEENTHLY…”

naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 1d

FLAG MAKE ADULT HUMAN FEMALE ANGRY.

ADULT HUMAN FEMALE SMASH FLAG INTO TINY PIECES, GRRRR.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 1d

God it's so gross hearing reporters talk about Israeli "hostages" but then refer to Palestinian "prisoners held without charge" like what's the material difference between these two categories?

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 1d

Wanted to say this. It brings me joy, and the next airport trip will be all the sweeter.

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🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 1d

Because we queers can't do this on our own.

The entire might of the establishment is against us. And we really are not all that many. And it's not that it's going to crush us, it's crushing us NOW.

Please help us?

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🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 1d

It's bloody exhausting living in grief and fear.

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Grief because I used to be a citizen of a continent and now I'm trapped on a little island.

Fear because the vast majority of the media and political establishment in the UK are hell-bent on removing the human rights of my loved ones.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 1d

(The three genders?)

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 1d

Friend has a theory that they look like Churchill, Mao, or a monkey. (And that at least one of hers was most definitely a monkey)

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 1d

Massive anxiety dream nightmare thing. Should try to get back to sleep

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 1d

There is now

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Porn addiction isn’t real
It’s just not
All of the ”science” about it comes from groups with religious ties, anti-sex worker ties, or grifting “therapists”

A compulsive relationship with porn is about the individual, not the porn

⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 2d

They’re talking about “porn addiction” on bluesky as if it’s real LORD GIVE ME STRENGTH

⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 2d

They’re talking about “porn addiction” on Twitter as if it’s real lord give me strength

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Sinéad Rhiannon (fae/it/he/they) @sineadthefae.bsky.social · 1d

with the interest i’ve already gotten, i’m gonna say i have space for 8-10 more alt text clients who want me to write for them on a weekly basis.

Sinéad Rhiannon (fae/it/he/they) @sineadthefae.bsky.social · 18d

would anyone be interested if i started offering, as part of my services, to write alt text for creators who want the engagement bump that having good alt text provides, but struggle to do it themselves?

would do this very low cost if i did, open to SWers & all types of artists… would anyone want?

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Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Jun 28

you have a right to be angry

Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 2d

Let's Get Badger Tattoos

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