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Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 22h

I know I say this an awful lot on the podcast but please, please, please email your MP before this atrocious, anti-trans guidance is laid in front of parliament.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image has a pink background and scraps of torn blue and white paper behind the text. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban. Tell Your MP to say no to segregation. This is urgent. The EHRC Code of Practice could be laid in Parliament any day.

Act now. Tell your MP to stop this. Write to your MP:
tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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JewelKnifeStress 🎃🎲🖌️🎮 (She/Her) @jewelknightjess.com · 11d

Please do a good deed for a trans person in your life today. We're all so tired.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12d

Data indicates that dogs are considerably MORE likely to eat their owners after they die than cats are.

I like to periodically remind people of this

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12d

we spent thousands of years breeding dogs to like humans and collaborate with us - we have more of a “begrudging standoff between equals” thing going on with pigs

However to be fair dogs eat humans way more than most people know or want to know

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 11d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 11d

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

www.arc-humanities.org

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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social · 12d

(Taking "tabletop" to preclude boards)

Possibly original Adeptus Titanicus, but I'd have been about 10 and memory is hazy. Otherwise 2nd edition Space Marine.

(Turns out that at 13 or so you can get quite upset if your Weirdboy Battletower blows up and takes a big chunk of your army with it btw)

Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social · 13d

Fret not

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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social · 13d

Lovers watch their backs
While rats
In hats
Fire gats

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 13d

There are now TWELVE (possibly 13...) peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review.

I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible.

For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...

UnCommon Sense

Peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review (In chronological order) Horton, C (2024) The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the UK’s approach t...

uncommon-scents.blogspot.com

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 14d

The very colourful rood screen at the Church of All Saints in Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, has some unusual decoration…it was re-painted in 1935 by Henry Bird, who happened to be a lepidopterist and incorporated hundreds of butterflies into his design!

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 14d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 15d

Happy discovery while searching for teaching materials for early medieval Bible week: the Stockholm Codex Aureus is online and freely downloadable as a very high-res PDF from the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/urn-...

#medievalsky #paleography #bookhistory

Codex Aureus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

MS. A 135, Royal Library, Stockholm, Sweden

archive.org

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Izolde Fishman @izolde.bsky.social · 15d

sorry (again) but i am boosting this (again) because i am going to have a check in the box tomorrow (i cannot delay any longer than that) and it is probably gonna come out monday or tuesday and when it does it needs to clear. please please help if you can; i need to keep us housed until i'm working

Izolde Fishman @izolde.bsky.social · 17d

hi, sorry, but we are still behind the curve on rent and i need to have a check in the box on the 5th so i have shifted tracks to a ko-fi goal for immediate-access-to-funds reasons. very urgent. please help if you can

ko-fi.com/iafishman/go...

Support Izolde Fishman

ko-fi.com

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 15d

"Protests Are Highly Effective, Met Police Confirm"

Itsalladeepend @itsalladeepend.bsky.social · 15d

This article is absolutely bananas - 'There aren’t enough of us. Hard-working police officers are continually having days off cancelled, working longer shifts and being moved from other areas to facilitate these protests.' - Paula Dodds, chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation.

‘Enough is enough’ says chief of police federation over Palestine Action rally

Met Police said many of those arrested needed carrying away after they refused to walk from Trafalgar Square – but Amnesty International says arresting hundreds of people at the demonstration is ‘not ...

www.independent.co.uk

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Wuchta @wuchta.bsky.social · 16d

Comic

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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social · 15d

Kind of surprised they've got that much of her blood left after all these years

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evil matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 15d

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

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Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social · 15d

A startling shot of colour in an increasingly brown woodland.

🍄 #FungiFriends #UKFungusDay

Looking straight down at a Fly Agaric mushroom. It is bright red-to-orange with white spots against brown leaf litter.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 25d

Look what we have here then.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 16d

The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.

The Verge @theverge.com · 16d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 19d

Composition 8 by Vasily Kandinsky, 1923
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137438

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social · 19d

Who's your favourite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)

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Mohamed Qassiti @mqassiti.bsky.social · 19d

Here, on the occasion of #InternationalTranslationDay, MS Reykjavík, GkS 1812 IV, 4°, fol. 34v with Arabic star names in Latinised form and Old Icelandic translation. The glossary is the oldest Scandinavian source containing Arabic terms.
#medievalsky #histsci
handrit.is/manuscript/v...

page from manuscript Reykjavík, GkS 1812 IV, 4°, fol. 34v.

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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social · 19d

Relatable

A sign attached to a wooden door, reading "This building is alarmed"

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