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ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally.
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Salopian. Welsh Marches. Cat lover. Trans ally. She/her. CSA survivor. 'We do not forgive to change the other person. Forgiving means not even seeking to know what the other person will do with that forgiveness.'
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ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · Dec 13
I will repeat my ongoing statement as a survivor of childhood sex*al ab*se.

Never, in the many years I have been involved with online support of other survivors, has ONE single survivor said their ab*ser was a male predator pretending to be a trans female. It's not just a fantasy stirred up
ciara2001.bsky.social
ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · Dec 13
One of the things about the "GC" movement is that at the start it was all trying to be reasonable and "of course I support real trans people, but what if a predatory man takes advantage?" and along the way it morphed into "all trans people are predators and must be identifiable and kept separate"
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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · Dec 13
The cornerstone of modern transmisogyny is a complete denial of the harm trans women are subject to at the hands of society.

Politicians and gender-conservative activists revel in fictions of us as predatory men while erasing our elevated rates of assault, impoverishment, and hyperscrutiny.
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ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · 4h
Row over bringing back military service splits German government
Plans to re-introduce military service have been thrown into chaos because of an 11th hour disagreement.
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ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · 4h
Vets should be made to publish prices, competition watchdog says
Vet prices have risen at nearly twice the rate of inflation, the Competition and Markets Authority found.
www.bbc.co.uk
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ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · 4h
Why Shropshire's agricultural drones could be the future of farming
One farmer says using a drone is
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 7h
It's been largely dry and cloudy recently. But change is on the way, with wet and windy arriving 🌧️

Watch our latest 10 Day Trend for the details ⤵️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lce_...
10 Day Trend 15/10/2025 – Big change on the way – Met Office weather forecast UK
YouTube video by Met Office - UK Weather
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ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · 7h
My sister & I collect books. It's our hobby. We especially love limited editions or signed editions.

We've made out like bandits in Oct. Books by Jodi Taylor, C.K. McDonnell, & Richard Osman have all arrived, with books from Kathy Burke, Tony Moyle, and Janina Ramirez all due for release soon. ❤️📚
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Deb Fielden @debfielden.bsky.social · 1d
This was a first for me! I came across this adult wood pigeon feeding its squab by regurgitating its crop milk in Shrewsbury’s Quarry this afternoon. I knew that’s what they did but had never seen it happening - amazing! 🐦 #wildlife #Britishwildlife #birds #Shropshire
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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 10h
List of Labour MPs who are openly transphobic nowadays and who to vote for to unseat them.

1) Tonia Antoniazzi

Transphobic for years. Open GC. Behind the "Women's Dec" for Labour

Constituency: Gower
Maj: 11567

Suggested vote: Plaid Cymru
Tonia Antoniazzi
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 9h
Statutory or not, it still is not the law: A statutory code of practice is not a law itself, but it is a form of guidance issued by a statutory body.
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Equality and Human Rights Commission @equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h
We've written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to request the government to revoke the 2011 services code and make our updated version statutory. It accurately reflects the law and updated guidance is urgently needed: www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 7h
Irene C Peden is an electrical engineer & was the first woman scientist to live and work in the interior of the Antarctic, developing techniques for studying deep glacial ice using radio waves. Cliffs in Antarctica have been named after her. Find out more: adalovelaceday.subst...
Prof Irene C Peden, Electrical engineer
Irene C Peden is an electrical engineer who was the first woman scientist to live and work in the interior of the Antarctic, developing techniques for studying deep glacial ice using radio waves.
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ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · 7h
Red Tractor ad banned for misleading environmental claims
The Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint by environment charity River Action.
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Shropshire Live @shropshirelive.bsky.social · 8h
Shrewsbury Town Council has formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Shropshire Council, marking a significant step forward in strengthening partnership working and exploring new opportunities for local service delivery.
Shrewsbury Town Council signs Memorandum of Understanding with Shropshire Council
Shrewsbury Town Council has formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Shropshire Council to strengthening partnership working.
www.shropshirelive.com
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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d
Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.
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shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social
ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · 1d
Another surprise. Not. It (economic growth) has been on a downward trend ever since Brexshit. 🙄🤷‍♀️

Therefore, inflation will rise as a result. It's not rocket science.
UK to have highest inflation in G7, IMF says
Economic performance has been upgraded this year, but downgraded for next.
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ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · 1d
'However, the NAO found there were "clear failures" in the design of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme, which resulted in "poor-quality installations as well as suspected fraud".'

'Suspected fraud.' How surprising. Not. 🙄
Tens of thousands of homes insulated under government schemes need repairs
Insulation programmes costing billions of pounds have led to widespread problems with damp and mould.
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ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · 1d
In the footsteps of giants - BBC News
One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quarry near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.
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Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre @sh-discoverycentre.bsky.social · 1d
Chicken meatballs with yogurt sauce - a light, delicious meal using minced chicken in flavourful meatballs with warm spices, paired with a lemony yogurt sauce. I paired it with pearl barley this time.
You'll find the recipe on our website shropshirehillsdiscoverycentre.co.uk/recipes
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d
And without rushing to blow my own trumpet, this is a much more fun explanation of what's going on than the BBC will give you:
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · Jun 26
To the layperson aerodynamics might as well be witchcraft.

And these tubes here, designed to set Matthew Hopkins running to the nearest haberdashery, are the peculiar abuse of physics known as the Flettner rotor.
You can tell this is a Flettner Rotor ship by the way it says "Flettner Rotor" on the side. Two huge cylinders stick out the top of a surprisingly small vessel.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d
I see Flettner rotors are doing around again...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The century-old ship sail technology finally catching on
The rotors, first used in 1925 on a journey to Scotland, are being revived to help emissions in shipping.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 2d
The photographer deserves a medal.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d
When people talk about "bad" books it is purely their subjective opinion.

So long as people enjoy what they are reading they shouldn't be made to feel like what they read has "less value" than something else which they don't enjoy reading.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 2d
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757 8248

I haven't called either of those numbers in at least two decades
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
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ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · 2d
Glad we're not with Vodafone.
Vodafone down: Thousands of UK customers report internet issues
Vodafone claims to have more than 18 million customers in the UK, including nearly 700,000 home broadband customers.
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ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · 2d
This is what concerns me. 👀😬🤷‍♀️😹
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 2d
A week of anticyclonic gloom for many of us as a stubborn high traps a thin layer of low cloud. But some areas will be more favoured than others to see prolonged cloud breaks.

Bringing you this week’s weather forecast is Aidan McGivern 👇👀
youtu.be/_zpQkyiWjr0?...
Week Ahead 13/10/2025 – Cloudy high sticks around – Met Office weather forecast UK
YouTube video by Met Office - UK Weather
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ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · 2d
Always love seeing your smiling face. It never fails to brighten up my day. ❤️🫂
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