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TaBelinda @tabelinda.bsky.social · 11m

I'm not going to lie I'm so scared of what the EHRC has sent in it will hurt so many including non trans

It will make the good I do for ALL the local community almost impossible to do

Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 22h

"The proposed Code of Practice is discriminatory and unworkable. It would lead to segregation, harassment and exclusion of trans and gender non-conforming people."

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 23h

www.scenemag.co.uk/jane-fae-a-d...

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 11m

The Proud Boys are already out there beating people up and abducting them, in ICE uniforms.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 17h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 19h

Over a quarter of them in the first inning!

slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 1d

The Mariners threw only 100 pitches, the fewest by a team to win a postseason game since the Dodgers in Game 2 of the 2018 NLDS against the Braves

h/t @Theo_DeRosa

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ACE @aceindc51.bsky.social · 20h

1) Raw Tomatoes
2) Blue Valentine
3) Most Rush

Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 20h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

1. Bananas
2. The Fifth Element
3. Eagles - Hotel California

it's charloween! (it/its) @charloh.online · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

1. [invalid entry]
2. Dancer in the Dark (we loved it but gods no never again)
3. Nine Inch Nails - Closer

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 20h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

1. Bananas
2. The Fifth Element
3. Eagles - Hotel California

it's charloween! (it/its) @charloh.online · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

1. [invalid entry]
2. Dancer in the Dark (we loved it but gods no never again)
3. Nine Inch Nails - Closer

DollaryyDoos @dollaryydoos.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

1. Pineapple
2. Old
3. Katy Perry- Swish Swish

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 21h

Hell hath no fury like a frustrated reply guy.

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 22h

"The proposed Code of Practice is discriminatory and unworkable. It would lead to segregation, harassment and exclusion of trans and gender non-conforming people."

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 23h

www.scenemag.co.uk/jane-fae-a-d...

jane fae, a director of TransActual, writes on the eve of launching a new campaign to get MPs to reject the EHRC’s bathroom ban

jane fae, a director of TransActual, writes on the eve of launching a new campaign to get MPs to reject the Equality & Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) bathroom ban. Scrap the Bathroom Ban🚨This is u...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

Eating more black pudding from now on. For the planet.

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

Feminism win! The 19th-century robber baron cat is a girl!
www.instagram.com/persian_lucy...

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

Grim, and completely unsurprising.

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 1d

Despite two different parliamentary committees expressing opposition to her appointment

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-critical-mary-ann-stephenson-named-as-new-ehrc-chair-as-government-overrules-mps/

Gender critical Mary-Ann Stephenson named as new EHRC chair as Government overrules MPs

Despite two different parliamentary committees expressing opposition to her appointment

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession understands:

"ChatGPT guided my analysis"

(actual quote)

Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession understands:

"Power's negative center pin"
"Why is it smoking?"
"Missing } Line 851"
"The editor wants revisions"
"Windows 11 installing updates"
"Part cost doubled: tariffs"
"Scarlett bringing cherry pie"

Spooky Scary Sarahtons 🎃 (they/them) @sarahndipity.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“the pharmacist is calling"

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

So that's coconut walnut cake next week, then.

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know you can be a multiple issue person, but that some issues are completely disqualifying? Human rights are not up for debate and yes that's disqualifying if you want to be president and you don't agree with that

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

The Cult of Newsom is such a weird little subculture!

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshot for posterity.

There's that Joined Nov '24 + BlueMAGA correlation again.🙄

1diane.bsky.social
Joined Nov '24
Are you a one issue person?

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

There are other issues, but my bare minimum is the survival of my community. If Newsom or any other Dems don't want that, they don't want my support and I'll respond accordingly.

Diane's one issue is trolling trans people with this same reply whenever they criticize St Gavin The Immaculate.

On a trans flag background:

There is no larger issue for me
than my right to exist and
participate in society as my
authentic self. If that's a
purity test, then so be it.

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

The season evolved from "ha ha Cubs-Mariners World Series how silly" to "holy shit Cubs-Mariners World Series might actually happen" and now to "well shit."

A Pilots-Mariners World Series would be cool though.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

"Transitioning later in life means you let yourself become who you are at a pace that honoured your life."

And according to my Most Accurate Watch in the World, it's still Never Too Late O'clock.

Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 1d

Some people know early. Others take the long road.

Both paths are valid.

Transitioning later in life means you let yourself become who you are at a pace that honoured your life.

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

🫂

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

Argentinians? That's some high-end political analysis.

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 2d

Bellingham's very cool

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 2d

It was contingent on the feelings of one person.

Anne and I exchanged war stories and virtual hugs during our divorces, which happened at the same time. Mine was rough. Anne's was off the scale.

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