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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 11h

Precisely. Living in fear is exactly what mask-refusers are doing: worldofwonders.substack.com/p/on-the-nat...

anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 11h

I'd be fascinated to hear more about life with your Bengal. He's extremely beautiful (I mean, all cats are, but ..) and his coat is quite stunning.
My accidental Bengal rescue does go outdoors, but after 12 years he has still not settled down!

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Richard Bates @discript.com · 17h

Where is this great bookstore, please?

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 18h

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 12h

it doesn't matter. we didn't calculate percentages when we established separate spaces for women 150 years ago, we didn't say "oh, well, it's only 1% of men that are dangerous". If we effectively abolish single sex spaces neither "cis" nor "trans" women will have any protection from men anywhere.

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 12h

blocked so I can't see this. it's tiring, though, isn't it, all this self righteous stupidity?

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 12h

extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. some men harm women.
why would one assume that none of the men that want to harm women would claim a trans identity?
it's not about trans people being dangerous, it's about men being dangerous.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 12h

indeed. the right to single sex spaces is and has been the law of the land, and it is neither segregation nor an attack on trans people or their rights.
those that say otherwise are twisting and redefining language. wanting to retain sex-based rights does not require or entail hate for anyone

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 12h

you think he paid any attention to anything anyone tried to teach him?

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Michael Girard, CA, PAA-NCGR @michaelmgirard.bsky.social · 15h

Needs to be repeated: "Anyone who gets COVID-19 can get long COVID."

Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 17h

🎯PSA by @nychealthy.bsky.social on Twitter (why not post it here on bsky too?):

"Anyone who gets COVID-19 can get long COVID. However, some people have a higher chance of getting long COVID than others because they are at greater risk...
Learn more: nyc.gov/longcovid

OP: x.com/nycHealthy/s...

Anyone who gets COVID-19 can get long COVID. However, some people have a higher chance of getting long COVID than others because they are at greater risk of getting COVID-19 in the first place or having more severe illness.

Learn more: http://nyc.gov/longcovid

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 15h

Censoring social media? Well I declare I thought the administration stood for free speech.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 15h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 15h

agh! correction - the journal is of course "Metaphilosophy"!

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 16h

A Maine senate nominee who can quote Andor, shuck oysters, and knock heads?

From my August profile of Graham Platner, the beefy scifi nerd who wants to put Susan Collins in the dustbin of history.

newrepublic.com/article/1996...

Platner draws a distinction between the Trump voters who might still be convinced to rise up against the real elites and the Trump enablers who’ve grown rich and powerful by backing him. “I’m not going to go down to Washington, have some conversations in a back room with somebody, and convince them that being a corrupt corporate scumbag is bad,” he says at the house party. It is his third campaign event ever and has about 50 people in attendance.

To him, persuasion is a dead end if the people you’re trying to sway have already torched the rulebook. Power, as he sees it, is the ability to ignore the referee and keep scoring. His goal isn’t to negotiate—it’s to demonstrate what a candidate backed by a real movement can do. “It’s not about getting me elected. It’s not about getting anybody elected in many ways. It’s about using all of this as a mechanism of building working-class power.”

“Individualism and hustle culture mean we’re always killing ourselves with work,” he says. “You’re too busy to talk to your neighbors.” Platner treasures the freedom that his disability pension gives him: He gets to choose to keep his company small, he gets to work the hours that make sense for him. Everyone should be able to.

Precarity can spark the political division that Star Trek–style post-scarcity might alleviate, but Platner thinks its most pervasive damage to our society is more subtle: We just don’t have time for each other. This is not just a political crisis. It’s an existential one.

He turns around in the front seat and stabs a thick finger at the notebook that I had set aside. “Write this down,” he says. “No matter which way it goes—taking the Senate or the fall of democracy—whatever the eventuality, the work remains the same.

“You have to build things for people to access. You have to build the apparatus for change, even if no one else shows up. If you don’t build the movement, it won’t be there when the day for action comes. It’s thankless. People live their entire lives building something they may never see succeed. And you do it anyway.”

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 16h

Just make sure that if you do this, it's with ornamental pumpkins, not pumpkins you intend to eat, because there's a risk of poisoning associated with seed-grown squash from saved seeds.
www.medicinenet.com/why_is_squas...
#TheArchers #ToxicSquashSyndrome

Why Is Squash Bad for You? Toxic Squash Syndrome

Although squash is rich in nutrients, it can make you ill if you’re not careful. Squash can contain cucurbitacin E, which can cause cucurbit poisoning or toxic squash syndrome.

www.medicinenet.com

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narceducator.bsky.social @narceducator.bsky.social · 22h

No human being, male or female, should be forced to have their hand held and restrained against their desire or will by a sick, exploitative, manipulative, dominating predator.

Some of us have already survived one of these narcissistic psychopaths, perversions of humanity, who exist amongst us.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

She's plainly repulsed by him, understandably so.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 16h

You might think Ryan is exaggerating but I used to go to a regular dinner that gradually got taken over by young Republican staffers and I promise you he is not.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 3d

"But to be reminded of the “primal” meaning of “woman”... is not some mystical conceit; rather, it's to recall the individual and collective history of menstruation, menopause, maternity, of sexual violence and discrimination and marginalisation, of struggle and empowerment."

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18h

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

ow.ly

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 16h

The Bluesky Department is closed for a few days now because we have a wee calf.

The library is open as normal and you can still contact us on 01856 873156 or email [email protected].

See you all next week 👋

A black and white archive photograph of a cow standing in front of a mill

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 17h

Figured out what this picture reminded me of...

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Lillard's Maximum Perception Control @junipersbird.bsky.social · 16h

It's irrational exuberance on bath salts, boys.

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 16h

www.yahoo.com/news/treatme...

Our treatment of gender-critical campaigner was ‘unacceptable’, police admit

Police have apologised over an investigation they mounted into a Newcastle United fan banned by the football club after expressing gender-critical views on social media.

www.yahoo.com

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 16h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Northumbria Police participation in Newcastle pride 'unlawful'

Linzi Smith argues police marching in Newcastle Pride would have been unable to remain impartial.

www.bbc.com

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 16h

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 1d

Clear evidence that Supreme Court clarification on sex in Equality Act did not stop trans people challenging experiences of harassment & discrimination. Trans identifying men can actually be protected under sex category *and* gender reassignment category.

Women *needed* sex category clarification!

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 17h

it's a double bummer for sure! bummer for us, bummer for the farmers.

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