Yep, this is Girlguiding. We can organise anything, we know how to make a noise, and we promise to be true to ourselves. It's quite the combination 🏳️⚧️❤️🏳️⚧️
Seeing my parents organise camps and other activities week in, week out. These leaders know how to do logistics.
And I'm fascinated to see how that translates to protests and further work in their movement to fight against this ban.
Girl guiding has a protest badge for a reason.
And I'm fascinated to see how that translates to protests and further work in their movement to fight against this ban.
Girl guiding has a protest badge for a reason.
December 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Yep, this is Girlguiding. We can organise anything, we know how to make a noise, and we promise to be true to ourselves. It's quite the combination 🏳️⚧️❤️🏳️⚧️
Ugh, I am so gutted that Girlguiding has had to capitulate to hate and will no longer be open to trans girls and women. The one thing giving me hope is the sheer reluctance with which they have done this. We have always been for all girls, and for all girls we should remain.
December 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Ugh, I am so gutted that Girlguiding has had to capitulate to hate and will no longer be open to trans girls and women. The one thing giving me hope is the sheer reluctance with which they have done this. We have always been for all girls, and for all girls we should remain.
We have a local gelato farm (it's Derbyshire, that's how we roll) that has been flying the English flag for the last while. Now they're displaying this email on the wall, no reply, with the full email of the customer visible. I'm... not sure there's a pleasant explanation for this, is there.
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We have a local gelato farm (it's Derbyshire, that's how we roll) that has been flying the English flag for the last while. Now they're displaying this email on the wall, no reply, with the full email of the customer visible. I'm... not sure there's a pleasant explanation for this, is there.
This week has featured both a shitty hospital experience (St Mary's) and a surprisingly delightful one (Stepping Hill A&E). All of which is to say, I am full of drugs but no longer have a uterus or a pelvis full of deep-infiltrating endometriosis, and I love the NHS.
November 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This week has featured both a shitty hospital experience (St Mary's) and a surprisingly delightful one (Stepping Hill A&E). All of which is to say, I am full of drugs but no longer have a uterus or a pelvis full of deep-infiltrating endometriosis, and I love the NHS.
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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I love our GP surgery’s triage form, which includes the question, “Is there anything you are particularly worried about?” It doesn’t SAY it has to be related to the medical problem, so I think I did v well not to list rise of fascism etc as well as more relevant concerns.
November 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I love our GP surgery’s triage form, which includes the question, “Is there anything you are particularly worried about?” It doesn’t SAY it has to be related to the medical problem, so I think I did v well not to list rise of fascism etc as well as more relevant concerns.
Trying to pay the power bill for a house that stood empty (so minimal power used). EDF have used half a tree to post me repeated incorrect bills, all based on estimates for an occupied property, despite me giving them regular meter readings. Why world why.
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Trying to pay the power bill for a house that stood empty (so minimal power used). EDF have used half a tree to post me repeated incorrect bills, all based on estimates for an occupied property, despite me giving them regular meter readings. Why world why.
I was off work for 7 weeks recently, because The Departmental Bully turned his attentions to me. I am in.fucking.awe of the colleague who reported him for same, because her bravery means that I was believed immediately and I now don't have to work with him (and not because I've been moved sideways)
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I was off work for 7 weeks recently, because The Departmental Bully turned his attentions to me. I am in.fucking.awe of the colleague who reported him for same, because her bravery means that I was believed immediately and I now don't have to work with him (and not because I've been moved sideways)
Not quoting because too many characters, but the "significant number" of people who were not granted asylum and whose accommodation is being funded: how many people is this, actually, and why is it so hard to find out?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Not quoting because too many characters, but the "significant number" of people who were not granted asylum and whose accommodation is being funded: how many people is this, actually, and why is it so hard to find out?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Ah, it's time for my annual refusal to take part in the village Remembrance parade. Great stuff.
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Ah, it's time for my annual refusal to take part in the village Remembrance parade. Great stuff.
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Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?
I had a really great work-related experience yesterday. It may come to naught; but even if it does, I felt really appreciated and recognised for what I do and what I have the potential to do in the future. So that's nice.
September 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I had a really great work-related experience yesterday. It may come to naught; but even if it does, I felt really appreciated and recognised for what I do and what I have the potential to do in the future. So that's nice.
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Exclusive: Marks & Spencer confirms to QueerAF that bra fitting has not been limited to cisgender women only, despite claims in the Scottish Sun that the brand said it would only provide them to 'biological women'.
Marks & Spencer has not banned Trans people from bra fittings
Exclusive: Marks & Spencer confirms to QueerAF that bra fitting has not been limited to cisgender women only, despite claims in the Scottish Sun that the brand said it would only provide them to 'biological women'.
www.wearequeeraf.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Exclusive: Marks & Spencer confirms to QueerAF that bra fitting has not been limited to cisgender women only, despite claims in the Scottish Sun that the brand said it would only provide them to 'biological women'.
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Great historical bilingual pun. Last week I learned that the French left wing would caustically refer to the appeasement-pushing British PM as “Monsieur J’Aime Berlin”. I mean, that’s classy.
FACT OF THE DAY. 3 September 1939. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced on BBC radio at 11:15 AM that Germany had not responded to the British ultimatum to remove its troops from Poland and so “this country is at war with Germany”.
September 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Great historical bilingual pun. Last week I learned that the French left wing would caustically refer to the appeasement-pushing British PM as “Monsieur J’Aime Berlin”. I mean, that’s classy.
Fa la la la la, just joined the Greens.
September 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Fa la la la la, just joined the Greens.
Bad thing: MOAR TERRIBLE EMAILS from dreadful not!boss, who claims I have ideas above my station
Good thing: formidable women telling me exactly how great I am
Great thing: invitation to do a guest lecture next semester whoop whoop (bet he'd think that was above my station, too...)
Good thing: formidable women telling me exactly how great I am
Great thing: invitation to do a guest lecture next semester whoop whoop (bet he'd think that was above my station, too...)
September 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Bad thing: MOAR TERRIBLE EMAILS from dreadful not!boss, who claims I have ideas above my station
Good thing: formidable women telling me exactly how great I am
Great thing: invitation to do a guest lecture next semester whoop whoop (bet he'd think that was above my station, too...)
Good thing: formidable women telling me exactly how great I am
Great thing: invitation to do a guest lecture next semester whoop whoop (bet he'd think that was above my station, too...)
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An absolute masterclass from UK Quakers on how organisations of all kinds can stand up for the rights and safety of trans people, even post Supreme Court ruling and with all of the EHRC's cruelties:
www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
www.quaker.org.uk
August 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
An absolute masterclass from UK Quakers on how organisations of all kinds can stand up for the rights and safety of trans people, even post Supreme Court ruling and with all of the EHRC's cruelties:
www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
In the last week, we've started a homemade cake swap with my stepkids' dad whereby we use the (adult) kids as cake mules when they go to and from his house for dinner. This is the sort of queer familying that makes my heart sing.
August 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In the last week, we've started a homemade cake swap with my stepkids' dad whereby we use the (adult) kids as cake mules when they go to and from his house for dinner. This is the sort of queer familying that makes my heart sing.
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Really sucks that the term "AI" gets used for both genAI hyped by tech bros and rigorous ML tools made by researchers & used in applied epi, healthcare, weather modelling etc. that can actually save lives
August 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Really sucks that the term "AI" gets used for both genAI hyped by tech bros and rigorous ML tools made by researchers & used in applied epi, healthcare, weather modelling etc. that can actually save lives
This bank holiday weekend, I discovered that there's a whole group of people who are extremely keen to defend cis men's rights to be naked in public in a way that makes me super uncomfortable to witness when I have a 10yo in tow.
August 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This bank holiday weekend, I discovered that there's a whole group of people who are extremely keen to defend cis men's rights to be naked in public in a way that makes me super uncomfortable to witness when I have a 10yo in tow.
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Makes me think of some birdwatching advice I once got: If it's a bird? It's a crow. If it's a beak with a bird attached? It's a raven.
July 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Makes me think of some birdwatching advice I once got: If it's a bird? It's a crow. If it's a beak with a bird attached? It's a raven.
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The arrogance of saying "Labour needs to actively cause harm to marginalised communities because that's what ordinary people want" is astounding. They don't. When you look at their policies in context, they chose to push them. It is not "aloof" to call out bullshit.
July 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The arrogance of saying "Labour needs to actively cause harm to marginalised communities because that's what ordinary people want" is astounding. They don't. When you look at their policies in context, they chose to push them. It is not "aloof" to call out bullshit.
They've finally demolished OP! I'm actually really sad that they didn't swing an actual wrecking ball through it.
www.youtube.com/shorts/aiVk-...
www.youtube.com/shorts/aiVk-...
Goodbye, Owens Park Tower! 💜
YouTube video by The University of Manchester
www.youtube.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
They've finally demolished OP! I'm actually really sad that they didn't swing an actual wrecking ball through it.
www.youtube.com/shorts/aiVk-...
www.youtube.com/shorts/aiVk-...
I note @jon4highpeak.bsky.social isn't one of them. Why not, Jon?
108 Labour MPs have signed the reasoned amendment, including key figures like Meg Hillier (Treasury select committee chair), Debbie Abrahams (Work and Pensions select committee chair), and former transport secretary Louise Haigh. This is over a quarter of Labour's MPs. So far.
June 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I note @jon4highpeak.bsky.social isn't one of them. Why not, Jon?
I am no longer of the lab, but most of what I have done over the last two days is procure ice cubes for 100 people.
During heatwaves it’s important to get creative to keep cool in the lab
June 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I am no longer of the lab, but most of what I have done over the last two days is procure ice cubes for 100 people.