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Aerliss

@aerliss.bsky.social

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Talks to animals. Sometimes they listen. My crochet patterns can be found at https://madeleineandfriends.com/

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Aerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · May 7

One of my hobbies is rescuing #pigeons. City pigeons are prone to #stringfoot, where their feet get tied up in string, elastic, netting, & most often human hair. I catch them, de-string them, release them. I post with #CatchThePigeon over on Masto. Figured I should start a thread for it here.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 28m

Cherokee street magician.

Trying to preserve our Native American Magic Culture.

If you like my work, please, please, please help support it, any little bit helps a lot and is greatly appreciated.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 29m

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are no tyrant no king and pronounced tlah ooleeskawleeyah tlah ooguhweeyoohee

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23m

all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 8h

People are angry.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 9h

Good news! We just won a landmark case on gender recognition 🏳️‍⚧️

At a moment where things have felt particularly dark trans community, this is a huge victory ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/5k9b

WIN: Victory in landmark case on gender recognition

High Court rules that a trans man cannot be denied a Gender Recognition Certificate because he is trying to conceive, in an important win supported by Good Law Project.

Aerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · 12h

We still have one of those but it's a dumpy little shitzu thing and I'm amazed he's not yet been stolen or attacked.

Aerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · 12h

I am oddly nostalgic for the cigarettes and alcohol smell of some pubs. Cigarette smoke alone? Bleh. Throw in some lager and it's the smell of a cosy country pub 😅

Aerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · 12h

We had a huge surge in pet ownership locally during lockdown. The park became rank. By the end of 2024 it was mostly pristine again (if you don't count the fly tipping).

Nothing to do with picking up. People just discovered pets are expensive & hard work.

Aerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · 12h

Now we just need to work on getting people to bin the bags rather than tying them to trees, or flinging them off bridges or over walls onto private property... 😮‍💨

I just don't get it. They've done the gross part already??

Aerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · 12h

Yeesh.

Screenshot from the NYT article;

The armed man's motivations were murky.

But he was wearing a sign around his neck that said "anti-contact non-offending pedophile" and he told the audience he was going to die by suicide to protest what he called Wikipedia's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on pedophiles.

The site has a rule that editors “who identify themselves as pedophiles will be blocked and banned indefinitely."

Aerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · 12h

Archive org's got you web.archive.org/web/20251018...

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World’s Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.

web.archive.org

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 15h

Every minor failing you "admit" is just impetus for them to take it further. This lot won't be happy until every single trans or trans-supportive person is driven out of public life and public sector work entirely.

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 15h

It's really tempting for public service organisations to apologise to right-wing and anti-woke complainants to try and placate them, especially if they're high profile, but you should never do that because they'll just escalate and escalate and escalate.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2555212...

Disciplinary action 'must be taken by National Library' in gender book ban

The National Library of Scotland has been told it must consider disciplinary action after a review found 'threatening' conduct led to a gender…

www.heraldscotland.com

Aerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks for putting the work in for us. Always doing public service!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14h

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 1d

Work coaches do not belong in GP surgeries.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

"We need a sporting and cultural boycott of all Israeli teams, like we saw for South African teams under apartheid."

@mothinali.bsky.social responds to Maccabi Tel Aviv fans being banned from attending a football game against Aston Villa.

"These are not normal circumstances: these games are taking place in the context of thousands of civilians being killed in Gaza, the illegal occupation of Palestinian land, and the upholding of a system of apartheid."
Mothin Ali
Green Party Co-Deputy Leader
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party. both at PO Box 78066 London SE16 9QG

Aerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · 1d

Like people who flail around at wasps getting stung while I just sit there calmly waiting for them to go away.

Although I got stung a few weeks ago fishing one out of the bird bath 😣

Fortunately we've only got a handful of worrying animals in the UK. I think Australia got our share...

Aerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · 1d

Had an art teacher who was very, very odd, even by art teacher standards. He once told us that when people asked him "what do you do?" (with the "for a living" only implied) he would respond with anything but his job, including "breathe".

Aerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · 1d

Mosquitoes are the only insects I will squish in the house. But only the bitey ones. Because I have house rabbits & while they are vaccinated a myxo or haemorrhagic disease infection could still harm them.

Aerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · 1d

I hear a lot that snakes don't actually want to bite you? They want to scare you away and go back to whatever they were doing beforehand because venom production is resource heavy.

Aerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · 1d

Elephants similarly.

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Gillian Mackay MSP @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social · 1d

A movement for people, not for profits!

members.greens.scot/join

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

Write to your MP, urgently, with our new tool:

actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

Scrap the Bathroom Ban

🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

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

The EHRC has ditched its 'interim update'.

But their draft Code of Practice is a bigger threat than ever.

Here's what we need to do now 🧵

The EHRC have ditched their interim advice.

They are running scared from scrutiny, but their draft Code is a bigger threat than ever.