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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · 7h

This is awesome.

A lesser, weaker organisation would have cowed to this and tried to quietly remove DEI. (And likely been discovered and called out anyway)

Well done PSF.

(Context in a nutshell: Applied for US Government grant, would have involved removing DEI policies, withdrew grant)

Python Software Foundation @python.org · 10d

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language

www.python.org

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Cordelius @cordeiius.bsky.social · Sep 11

fuck jk rowling ! #mlp #transrights

digital art of Trixie from My Little Pony with a transgender pride flag

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · 2d

I scored 80%

Trans Greens 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @transgreens.bsky.social · 2d

Fun little website we're happy to signal boost, where you need to determine if a headline is homophobia from the last century, or modern day transphobia. I (@melissa.green) scored 70%.

Check it out: haveigotphobiaforyou.com

Many thanks to @rormcgror.bsky.social for bringing this to our attention!

"Have I got Phobia for You" styled in the "Have I got News for You" look and feel.

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · 4d

Going analogue for my trip to Vietnam. Unfortunately the light meter doesn't work so I'll be winging it a bit...

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 10d

Listen to 🏳️‍⚧️ trans people.

84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people in a YouGov poll commissioned by @goodlawproject.org.

49% said they found it difficult to access appropriate toilets when out in public.

This is a shameful human rights (and public health) emergency.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 10d

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
goodlaw.social/ncfw

‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe

YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK

goodlaw.social

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · 10d

Kage: "Kah-ge."
Cunk: "No, it says Cage here. So anyway, have there been any fossils found of these so-called furries?"
Kage: "Well no..."
Cunk: "So how do we know they actually exist? Could they not just be like, people wearing elaborate costumes and pretending to be a fox or a dog?"

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · 10d

Cunk: "So who are these 'furries' anyway? And what do they want? To answer those questions and more, I'm here with resident furry expert, Uncle Cage"

Ringer @mmmatch.es · 11d

"It’s hard to believe I’m standing in the lobby where the first ever Midwest FurFest took place… because I’m not. That’s in Arlington Heights, which is miles away and hasn't been home to MFF since 2001."

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · 14d

Mad respect for Violent J.

Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 16d

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · 14d

As a Green Party member, you can influence policy decisions.

If everybody who said "I want to vote green but I don't like their stance on nuclear" joined the party and voted, they'd change their stance on nuclear.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 18d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · 26d

I saw the opposite of this meme a couple of weeks ago where it was a trans furry saying "hi guys" and them saying "Fourier Transform!"

But I can't find it now :(

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Elyon113 @elyon113.bsky.social · 28d

All my supporters boycott Chick fil a

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Andy Ayala @beezii.bsky.social · Oct 7

as promised, Diane Foxington 🦊

Diane Foxington from The Bad Guys wearing a grey suit because suits are cute. Also I promised I'd draw her on twitter for one like. I'm tough to bargain.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · Oct 7

Same! I'm flying to Vietnam in 4 weeks! Plus two internal flights (Hanoi - Da Nang - Ho Chi Minh City).

Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · Oct 2

It's a feature, not a bug.

news.stv.tv/politics/tea...

Teachers say trans pupils 'limiting food and drink' to avoid school toilets

The new guidance said students will be asked to use toilet facilities which correspond to their biological sex.

news.stv.tv

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · Oct 2

I wouldn't mind if people were just clear about the context. I see so many posts that are like, "This is an outrage, everyone should be writing to their MP NOW!" but you have to click through 17 layers of quote tweets and read 52 reply threads to actually figure out what it's about.

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Hellvetika @hellvetikaseraph.bsky.social · Sep 30

Oh look, it's that easy. 🤷🏼‍♀️

PN: If there was a Green government, would the Greens reverse the Tories, and subsequently Wes Streeting's, ban on puberty blockers for trans youth?

ZP: Absolutely.

It's really important that policy for trans people is informed by the National Health Service and is done in consultation with trans people. It seems like an abominable gap, particularly in the Cass review, that trans people were not included in the conversations.

It's a basic principle: nothing about us without us.

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · Sep 30

Same! Spring and Summer are going out and doing things weather.

Winter is "stay inside and try desperately to keep warm without spending a fortune on heating bills" weather.

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · Sep 28

At night she would hop on to my bed, ask to come under the covers by pawing at them, and she'd curl up on my chest and tuck her head into my neck and purr.

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · Sep 28

I have no doubt in my mind how much Phoebe loved me. Made it so dam hard to say goodbye to her.

debs 🏴‍☠️🩸 @edstede.bsky.social · Sep 27

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · Sep 25

I'm not "digging" for empathy.

I'm simply calling you out for being a bully.

Mocking victims for being victims and asking for better treatment is abhorrent, shameful behaviour.

Your next comment will show us exactly what sort of person you are. Make it a good one.

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · Sep 25

Yes! @jaynewolfie.bsky.social how about it?

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · Sep 25

No. You haven't made a point at all.

You've done nothing but shown a horrific lack of empathy.

You've put forward no ideas. No solutions. No contributions. Nothing.

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Alisha Reynolds @fionasapphire.bsky.social · Sep 25

Honestly... Accusing people who have fundamentally been proven to be victims of "playing the victim card" is as callous as it is pathetic.

I'm willing to bet trans people never had any credibility in your eyes from the start, because you've never once given it an ounce of critical thought.

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