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Andy Cowley

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Idiot from the Black Country with ADHD. Used to be crazygibbon on twatter a thousand years ago.

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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 2h

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Anti-abortion groups have received funds from the UK government

Taxpayer money has gone towards funding anti-abortion groups and crisis pregnancy centres in the UK.

www.bigissue.com

Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 4h

Every day Github Actions makes me die a little more inside...

What a dreadful, childlike, unfinished implementation of CI/CD

You can tell they don't dogfood it

Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 1d

The last three days have been maximum anxiety. I remembered yesterday was the six year anniversary of my old Da dying.

I miss the old git

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

Quite a bloody cheek, this, given the UK has the most hostile regime towards healthcare for young trans people and their families in the world (www.gov.uk/government/s...).

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 1d

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Emily Shepherd @emi.ly · 1d

Guardian headline writers be like...

A popular meme format showing two rows. The first row shows Drake holding his hand up and turning away to reject the text "The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights".

The second row shows a happy looking Drake, pointing towards the text "Anonymous 'rights expert'"

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Alexandra Billings @alexandrabillings.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 2d

Omg. I have a tonne of Octavia Butler on my list I just realised. I really should look at it... Thank you!

Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 2d

Oh I saw this the other day and added it to the to-read pile. Thanks!

Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 2d

Oh yeah. I mean, without forgiving anything, it's a product of its time right? I've added it to my list. Maybe not one for now, but another time!

Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 2d

Yeah I grew up on 60s-80s SciFi and when you go back and revisit stuff it can be... Grim 😅

Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 2d

I have not. StoryGraph is very keen I should though!

Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 2d

thanks you! StoryGraph is usually really good, but at the moment my recommendations are a mega sausage fest. Also, so much 80s and 90s dross with misogyny as the whole plot 😅

Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 2d

Bonus points if it's by a woman and/or non-white author.

Been revisiting Jeff Vandermeer, Ann Leckie, N K Jemisin recently for example

(Yes i know Jeff is a white dude, but for style)

Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 2d

#SciFi #book #nerds

Some help? I'm really in the mood for a SciFi book that is themed around alien archeology, mystery, a bit like how Prometheus could have been, or Halo or Mass Effect. If possible, less emphasis on military yawn and avoiding misogyny.

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 4d

this was on my wife’s timeline and she said to me, how long did it take you to realize it was a paw? and I said it is what

A FB post about a new tattoo that has a hand reading for a paw but the paw just straight up looks like a penis idk

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 4d

Men rape women all the fucking time and nothing gets done about it in this country but if a trans woman performs a sex act on a man who consented she'll be found guilty and locked up with men.

The judiciary hates all women.

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 4d

The evidence is extremely clear.

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Eleven transgender inmates sexually assaulted in male prisons last year
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 5d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7d

Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?"

Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 6d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 6d

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 6d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 7d

In this video I go to the Cotswolds and complain about the lack of integration

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 9d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".