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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 3m

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 11m

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Tin Whistle
13th of the #Emberlings of Oct.
Originals £35 (plus post) each, in UK because people should be able to afford human art.
Message or reply to claim. First come, First served. She is A5. All will be collected in a book with words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social. #witchsky

Witch on a winding cliff path playing a whistle in the moonlight. Behind her, acorn headed creatures dance.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 34m

Criminalising a demographic is unacceptable.
Individuals in any group may do wrong things. That's on them, not on the group.
Fear isn't evidence. Assumptions aren't evidence. Saying 'it's common sense' is assumption, not science.
Trans women are women, trans men are men. Everyone is biological.

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 3h

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1h

TWO articles about you in the Spectator today? They must in a real tizzy, poor things.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1h

Yes! Hurrah! I thought it was going to be the following week (in which case I'd have missed it). Great topic - looking forward to it. ✍️❤️

Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 16h

Renaissance Chloë? I have this in my garden. Very fragrant. (Not my photo as I have none in bloom right now. Lifted this one from the Garden Rose Company. thegardenrosecompany.co.uk/product-cate...)

Pink-hearted rose, fading to almost white in the outer petals, against a background of green rose leaves.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 18h

Suddenly overwhelmingly sad. There's an absence in the air, a void so stark that breathing it feels useless.

17 years old.
We pay these people. Their job is to serve us.
Instead they sell our assets and their own souls, and murder our children.
RIP, Leia.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 19h

And the evidence is generally against them...

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 20h

Mood.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 21h

Reform still claims to be the 'fastest growing party' on their membership ticker page. But the evidence is against them.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 21h

I'm jealous. What an experience.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 21h

I've always imagined he would be nice. I've never moved on from I, CLAVDIVS, to be honest.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 21h

Well. I'm impressed.
I've done some acting. Not with Derek Jacobi, though, sadly.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 21h

Post you from a different era.

( Me as 'The Postmistress' from my little stories-for-children-by-post business. That was a fun time. More in alt text.)

Me dressed in silly Edwardian style clothes with a pith helmet and string of pearls, at a storytelling event. My job, as far as the children were concerned, was to manage postal deliveries for a whole range of magical creatures who were eager to tell stories of their adventures to penpal friends. It was a crazy few years, but I'm so very glad I did it.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 22h

I've heard this too. I've never found anyone who could substantially explain the charge of antisemitism - just very vague, and possibly more about failings as a leader than bigotry. Having said that, he is now teaming up with transphobes and misogynists, and that's hard (impossible) to take.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

Wild.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

Phillipson is as unpleasant a politician as any in this government, and she has some stiff competition.
Calculated cruelty is her stock in trade, and it seems she knows it.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

“Labour members have begun voting in the deputy leadership race. The vote will close on October 23 and the result will be announced on October 25.”

So I guess Bridget Phillipson will drop the trans-exclusionary legislation without discussion on 24th October then? 😣

Bridget Phillipson 'delaying trans guidance to help deputy leader bid'
The equalities minister is accused of pushing back publication of a code on single-sex spaces until after the Labour election ends

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

Good to hear.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

I write best in quiet coffee shops - a bit of buzz and rustle around me but I'm my own little island, except that lovely people bring me coffee. Shaking it up from time to time is good for me, though. If a thing is too much of a habit I get complacent and it stultifies. Solo retreats are great.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

She's a powerful one. 🖤💚🤎
So sorry you're not well.

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 2d

"Persuasion UK presented DeSmog’s findings that the party raised £2.3 million between the 2019 and 2024 elections from climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests – equivalent to 92 percent of its funding over the period."

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds

Reform UK’s oil industry interests are a major turn-off for voters, new research reveals. The think tank Persuasion UK tested five anti-Reform messages on 6,000 adults. According to the research, “by ...

www.desmog.com

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

I love acers. I have one, it was very small 5 years ago when I moved in but has been growing like mad. Now I'm torn because 1) my garden is tiny, and 2) I can't see through it to the view of the valley anymore.
But the leaves are so lovely.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

Sudden surge of jealousy. Look at all those focused brains turning their thoughts into words and narratives.
Me? I'm off on a solo retreat in about 10 days. Overdue, but I'll miss this kind of companionship. ✍️

Veronique Kootstra @vkootstra.bsky.social · 2d

The Edinburgh @writershq.bsky.social Retreat is in full swing with an amazing bunch of writers! Loving the soothing tap-tap-tap sound of fingers on keyboards.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

So funny that he doesn't seem to have heard of the Green Party, who are already doing these things that he says no party is doing.

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