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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 1h

MPs are rightly concerned about the economic impact of the EHRC's Code of Practice. Businesses up and down the country have made clear that it's unworkable.

It's time for the Minister to send it back 🚮

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Dozens of Labour MPs warn of chaos for firms over gender recognition advice

Nearly 50 backbenchers write to business secretary over potential costs and legal ‘minefield’ of upcoming guidance

www.theguardian.com

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1h

Your article touched me deeply thank you for speaking honestly about Gaza and refusing to look away.
My family has been severely affected by this war we lost our home and loved ones, and we’re still struggling to survive.

If you can, please help by sharing our fundraiser so we can stay alive.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1h

Quick update on Covid in England - hospital data showing that the latest significant Covid wave is - thankfully - on its way down.

This chart by @bob-hawkins.bsky.social and his substack
bhawkins3.substack.com/p/covid-situ...

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A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 20h

Oh *interesting*

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jamie ‼️🏳️‍⚧️ @jamologies.net · 2d

gender expression fund at uni opened for the academic yr today :D £100 to trans students to cover non-medical transition costs

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R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · 23h

I know I'm late, ah well

Cold Morning

Will died in 2017. However he was cryogenically frozen and revived 200 years later.

He's just received a stack of letters from his widower. So he's writing back

(PS I love you but scifi and queer)

#SFPit #WIP #A #SSF #Sol

#SFPit @scifipit.bsky.social · Aug 25

Dear friends, writers, #agents, interstellar travelers, interdimensional aliens, and otherwise paradoxical time hoppers!

We would like to invite you to set your favorite time-traveling device to October 21st, 2025, for the pitch event dedicated to Science Fiction, #SFPit! 🧵

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A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah I think it's kinda short for 'farm labourer' in the US? Or is sometimes used that way

I'm remembering discourse about some kids' show or other where a non-US creator said a Black character 'looked like a farmer' and this apparently had slavery connotations

Or something along those lines

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Gnome @gnomedic.bsky.social · 23h

Dear Content Creators:

I've sent over 1000 emails this month reaching out to folks for opportunities.

Please make sure you have an email address visible somewhere, anywhere, please! I want to include you, too!

Sincerely,

A Community Manager

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 1d

Not to puff up my craft too much here, but I feel like not only the labor of the editor but the process of editorial itself are among the most underrated things in the writing world.

It used to be said "writing is rewriting." An editorial process is often as important as the drafting!

Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly the kind of thing a good editor will catch. Bring back editors. Give them human workloads so they can do what they do best—leave comments that poke holes in writers' nonsensical lines that they put in because they sound good, not because they make sense.

The Girl With the Green Ribbon (aka Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

weird reading gripe: I'm noticing an uptick in similes and metaphors that don't quite work. it'll be like "bitter as seawater" or "in constant motion, like a cockroach." like, I get the vibe the author is going for but on a mechanical level it doesn't make any sense.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 1d

Lubna needs your support. Donations have dropped off with news of the ceasefire, but the IOF is still choking off aid and making everything impossible, prices are still sky high, but now support is nowhere to be found. Please support Lubna! www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-es...

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 1d

trans people: passing the same 20 dollars back and forth amongst each other

tech companies: passing the same 2 trillion dollars back and forth amongst each other

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.”

@wsj.com $NVDA $ORCL
@justinhendrix.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone has any info on this 👇from the home office, government or police sources - please share them with us.

We have been distracted with urgent legal paperwork, very topical too - it’s re a Chief Constable and his policy to prevent his officers..

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 1d

I do some of the largest scale mutual aid work on the planet. You absolutely cannot mutual aid your way out of state capacity.

You can reduce some of the short-term harm via mutual aid. But that's a stop-gap measure, and here's why.🧵

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

ppl are bringing up food banks and yea absolutely you should give generously to food banks and panhandlers but like you cant mutual aid state capacity. If every food bank in the us got their annual revenue already, saved 100% of it, and no overhead besides food they might be able to provide 2 months

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

40 odd million people use SNAP. 7 million WIC. food banks are already way down because of funding cuts. It’s going to be catastrophic

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 1d

DO HARM TO YOUR ENEMIES; TREAT YOURSELF WITH KINDNESS!

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 1d

Now would be a great time to start a weekly dinner party. You can feed 20 people a healthy home-cooked meal for less than $100.

Invite all your friends on SNAP, but also some folks who aren't. And have a good time with it!

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A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 1d

We're agreed on that. I'm not quite sure what your argument is

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A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 2d

*front, not from

A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 2d

They've been so good at presenting a united from so far /s

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A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 2d

I do follow this stuff, although from the looks of it that specific incident happened during a time when I was very unwell and missed a lot of news.

But I didn't say that the police *do* take inciting violence against trans people seriously. I said they *should*.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

Curious how the Graham Linehan story is being spun, including by the BBC. He was arrested on suspicion of the criminal offence of inciting violence; but the BBC is now conflating his incitement with a "non-crime hate incident".

BBC story: "Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence in relation to his posts on X."

BBC story: "The Metropolitan Police says it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents to allow officers to "focus on matters that meet the threshold for criminal investigations".

The announcement came as the Met confirmed it was dropping a probe into Father Ted creator Graham Linehan after he was arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence in posts on X.

Mr Linehan was arrested by five officers on 1 September after arriving on a flight from the US, sparking a backlash from some public figures and politicians.

The Crown Prosecution Service said it had decided no further action should be taken in the writer's case following a "careful review" of the evidence supplied by police.

In a statement on Monday addressing non-crime hate incidents, a Metropolitan Police spokesperson said it "understands the concern" around the case.

"The commissioner has been clear he doesn't believe officers should be policing toxic culture war debates, with current laws and rules on inciting violence online leaving them in an impossible position," the spokesperson said."

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A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 2d

In Linehan's case it's not about the individual expression of hate. He encouraged a crowd of followers to do transmisogynistic violence. That *should* be taken seriously.

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A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 2d

If a trans person with a big following on here encouraged their followers to do violence to Labour MPs, and that post got a lot of attention, I'm pretty sure the police would treat it as incitement of violence.

There's a reason people use euphemisms on here instead of saying that kind of thing.