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Carrie plays guitaaargh 👻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Writer, parent and guitar wrangler from Glasgow. Author of Small Town Joy and Carrie Kills A Man, singer in Unquiet Mind. Trans, she/her. https://linktr.ee/carrieplaysguitar. Pic: Omar Salam

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Carrie plays guitaaargh 👻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · Jan 14

I'd like to play you some music that my band and I have taken far too long to finish. We gigged this one over a year ago; it's about the retreat of corporate pride, and it's given me an opportunity to indulge my Talk Talk obsession a little bit.

unquietmind.bandcamp.com/track/closer...

Closer To The End Than The Beginning, by Unquiet Mind

from the album The Nest That You Have Flown EP

unquietmind.bandcamp.com

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 3h

Hello~ i wrote something for @theverge.com about the surreal horror of online transness in a fascist surveillance state.

it’s time to change tactics and make ourselves less legible to this machinery of death — but *without* sacrificing our connection and community.

The return of the trans underground

The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it’s a dangerous liability. What comes next?

www.theverge.com

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 1h

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It's Helga Again @helgaastrophysics.bsky.social · 2d

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BREAKING🚨: It's Official. There's a Black hole on the loose in the Milky way galaxy
Astronomers have officially confirmed the first-ever rogue black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy!

Using data from Hubble and Gaia, scientists spotted this cosmic ghost not by its light (it emits none)

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Carrie plays guitaaargh 👻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 53m

If you’ve read Small Town Joy you’ll know that Sunny G Radio is one of its stars, and that I found Steg and Delaina to be really inspiring. So I’m delighted to be the guest for this free Book Week event on 20 November at Sunny G HQ. Come along!

Meet the author promo image for me, Carrie, at sunny g radio at 7pm on 20 November. Tickets are free, email steg@sunnyg.org

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Carrie plays guitaaargh 👻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 58m

Discotheque by U2. Back when leaked mp3s made headlines.

www.u2interference.com/threads/in-1...

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1h

Graeme’s imagination and talent is of the sort that AI will never even begin to threaten.

Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 6h

Yesterday my etsy shop had preciously one view. (And i think that was probably me) If you like my stuff please repost. An eccentric millionaire with lots of empty wall space could be scrolling your timeline right now. marswasrubbish.etsy.com/listing/1579...

One of my prints “And now we’ll abseil down the other side” Shows a mountain that’s actually a monster with abseilers on top of it.

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naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 1h

Terfs went from ‘no trans women in our spaces,’ to ‘no Muslim women in our spaces either,’ in just under six months.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 2h

Something from Sonia Sodha I AGREE with, but not perhaps in the way she intended.

We do not rise by stamping on others.

The ‘childish and parochial campaign’ is the one that suggests women will be advanced by fitting us all into a patriarchal pro forma.

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 2h

Oh my god D’Angelo dead, no!

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Maggie Chapman MSP (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 2h

Why do we keep talking about trans healthcare?

Because of statistics like this.
Because every day waiting, in this world obsessed with harassing trans people, is a battle that many don't survive.

So, we keep talking about it, and keep fighting back against systemic transphobia.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 4h

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 5h

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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Carrie plays guitaaargh 👻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 5h

“We’re choosing mental health over visibility, safety over impact. It’s a sensible choice, but it means ceding the larger platforms to those who drove us away.”

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 5h

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sad news everyone, I’m officially pulling the plug on Brightsiders, my super fan podcast for the 2017 movie Bright. I still feel like there were many interesting topics left to discuss but after 7 years of weekly episodes I’ve learned that no one has ever listened to the show.

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 6h

If the review says anything other than "we are not providing any care for the vast majority of adult trans people", I might actually lose my mind.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 6h

NHS England will soon be publishing its review of adult gender services. Trans Healthcare Coalition have created a breakdown of what the review is about, what outcomes we’d like to see, and more.

Find the full breakdown here: tinyurl.com/LevyExplaine...

#transhealthcare #NHS #LevyReview

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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 7h

"We need to future proof now, against an increase in unnecessary prosecutions, as has been seen in England"

Scotland’s abortion law demands urgent modernisation – we speak to the campaigners behind Let’s Change the Act about decriminalisation

Changing the Act: Decriminalising abortion in Scotland – The Skinny

Outdated and harmful, Scotland’s abortion law demands urgent modernisation. We speak to the campaigners behind Let’s Change the Act about the importance of decriminalisation.

www.theskinny.co.uk

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 7h

Who could have guessed that demonising trans people would impact on their rights?

The moral panic was never about 'legitimate concerns' or protecting women or children, it was always about vilification, oppression and the mainstreaming of reactionary politics
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...