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Robin Bird

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Pronouns em/em/eir (they're singular, nice and easy) Trainee counsellor, attempting to write eir dead father's memoir, bookish, lefty, nerdy, disabled and British. https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/skeletonrobin

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'm going to be writing about my experience of writing. Specifically writing The Book.
This first post is about deathbed promises, grief, and getting started.

Found over on Medium.

#writing
#nonfiction
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A Sword Would Be Easier

I now understand all those fantasy epics where the protagonist’s motivation is that they made a promise to somebody on their deathbed…

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Chronic Historian ♾️♿️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜🖤💛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🐺🐈‍⬛🧑‍🌾🌱🌳 @enbycriphistorian.bsky.social · 2h

Your ongoing reminder that small local coffee shops, restaurants and other venues are frequently less accessible than large chain ones.

Yes, there is absolutely a structural issue to this; large chains have the ready finances to build new locations, whereas small businesses very rarely do, and in many places accessibility in existing shop fronts is horrific.

But this leads into the fact that small businesses, while they do absolutely often have narrow profit margins, also make choices based on what they see their customers valuing. And they do not see abled people valuing accessibility.

If you have a physically inaccessible venue you like to visit, please *ask* them about accessibility. Mention that you are choosing not to spend time and money there with friends due to their inaccessibility.

Certain councils in the UK apparently *do* offer grants to help small businesses increase their accessibility, though the information I could find about it online was spotty at best.

If they specifically identify cost as why they are not providing an accessible bathroom or a ramp into their store or venue, it’s always worth volunteering your time to help set up a crowdfunding campaign. Remind them that small businesses live and die based on their local community, and that by inviting the community to help them become more accessible to more of the community they are increasing their engagement with them and showing who they value.

Abled people having these conversations with other abled people and volunteering to take on some of the work of increasing accessibility is praxis.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 2h

I might be wrong but i kinda thought that the whole point was "protect people from ICE" not "who is the toughest fighter". If their tactics work, if it's protecting people from raids, from "arrests", from harm, then it's working. That's the important part.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 17h

TV today seems so desperate to be that dreadful word: ‘cinematic’. ‘We’ve got new lenses to make it look cinematic’. ‘Our lighting will make this series more cinematic.’ 3/

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah the altus works, but it's clunky. In that "easy to break easy to fix" category. The next step or two up will make things way more fun.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 16h

I would like to just know more about your bike. For bike nerd reasons. You can often find lightly used groupsets/gears second hand because people have done upgrades to their bikes and are selling parts.

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 2d

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 3d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

Azza has had a campaign for a while and been able to raise no money on it- let’s help her rebuild ❤️

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Azza. Before this Azza worked in a kindergarten and her husband owned a small coffee shop. They lost their home in the first two weeks of the war. They are trying to survive with their children Nisreen, 16, Layan, 14 and Ibrahim, 11.

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mohammed abd alkarim @mohadajayab.bsky.social · 1d

I still believe in the generosity of people and that goodness exists in every heart.
I need your support during this short period. Even if I only participated in the Extermination League, I haven't received any donations in the past, and I need your support.
chuffed.org/project/gomo...

Help Mohammed Support His Family and Complete His Degree!

Mohammed is 22 years old and lives with his parents and two younger brothers in Khan Yunis, Gaza. Before the genocide escalated, he was a university student studying information technology engineering...

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

Would like input from UK folks on how to tell you're getting a happy little propogated specimen and not a smuggled poached plant. I'm guessing price is a factor?

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

i think this would make a good addition to my alt tango playlist. I've not heard it before.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

I did not go to any bookshops today for Bookshop Day because i was too fatigued and had to focus on unfucking my habitat.
But i am happy to know the books will still be there for me another day.

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 1d

Living in a tent will not be safe for tiny Talia, or for Julia, as the stormy season worsens and Gaza moves into winter. If you can, please help Samaa to get the $800 she needs to move back to Gaza City and rent a room there. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social #SkyAid 🍉

A Palestinian woman cradles a baby against her shoulder and holds hands with a small girl as they stand in a rubble-strewn street beside a bus packed full of belongings.

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Joy @joyfromghazza.blacksky.app · 1d

Hi!
Am Joy, a Palestinian poet & writer from #Gaza. All my accs on BlueSky were banned, so I have joined BlackSky,& I hope it’ll be a wonderful experience.
My campaign is verified by @mommunism.bsky.social lunched it to start my life anew after being faced #genocide

www.chuffed.org/project/evac...

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

The trick to finding all my lost lip balms, is doing a load of laundry.
I swear i check pockets before putting things in the machine. But here we are, an hour later, with a collection of damp little tubes.

Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1d

I'm really looking forward to it when i have a functioning brain not being packed full of theory and research and meta analysis

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