Penny Homer
@socialsoprano.bsky.social
Usually found in or in front of the choir. More of a menopausal mezzo these days but gotta keep the brand identity. When not singing I'm usually Trekking to a Star or drinking a beer (or both). West Brom sufferer. Trans rights are human rights. She/her
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I think it is important to know WI and Girl Guides have not voluntarily moved into excluding trans girls and women they have been pushed into by bigot zealots and the law being an ass
I wonder how many cigars JK Rowling smokes as she mumbles “I love it when a plan comes together” as she giggles, picturing all the children she has made feel sad and more alone today
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I think it is important to know WI and Girl Guides have not voluntarily moved into excluding trans girls and women they have been pushed into by bigot zealots and the law being an ass
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but tell me more about how it is simply an apolitical contest between broadcasters
📡 According to Ynetnews, Israel's #Eurovision 2026 participation was secured after a "months-long diplomatic campaign that unfolded largely behind the scenes".
A coordinated effort involved KAN executives, government advisers, and Israeli president Isaac Herzog's residence.
A coordinated effort involved KAN executives, government advisers, and Israeli president Isaac Herzog's residence.
December 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
but tell me more about how it is simply an apolitical contest between broadcasters
That Starfleet Academy poster is giving big "One Tree Hill in space" vibes and I am very here for it.
December 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
That Starfleet Academy poster is giving big "One Tree Hill in space" vibes and I am very here for it.
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Also my controversial(?) take is that ADHD diagnoses are partially up due to improved recognition but also because we have created a world that is perfectly fine-tuned to make coping with normal life really, really difficult if you have any ADHD adjacent tendencies.
This just seems like the wrong end of the telescope to me. Review should be into barriers to employment, not diagnosis.
I really *do* have a fine motor condition, but in the 21st century this poses absolutely no barrier to me working in 90 per cent of jobs in the UK.
I really *do* have a fine motor condition, but in the 21st century this poses absolutely no barrier to me working in 90 per cent of jobs in the UK.
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Also my controversial(?) take is that ADHD diagnoses are partially up due to improved recognition but also because we have created a world that is perfectly fine-tuned to make coping with normal life really, really difficult if you have any ADHD adjacent tendencies.
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What UK farmers claim will destroy their livelihoods: inheritance tax
What might actually destroy their livelihoods: climate change
What might actually destroy their livelihoods: climate change
UK grain harvest wrecked by climate impacts in 2025, @eciu.net analysis finds
- Record heat and drought cost arable farmers £800m with many now concerned about their ability to make a living in a fast-changing climate
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Record heat and drought cost arable farmers £800m with many now concerned about their ability to make a living in a fast-changing climate
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
What UK farmers claim will destroy their livelihoods: inheritance tax
What might actually destroy their livelihoods: climate change
What might actually destroy their livelihoods: climate change
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I think it says a lot about how our attitude to welfare has changed that the Christmas Bonus was brought in by Barbara Castle so that even the poorest families could afford a turkey and a few presents and now removing it would prompt protests and rising it would give the Telegraph an aneurism.
Remember, the UK is a country which has been paying a £10 Christmas bonus to pensioners since the 1970s, and yes, it was £10 in the 1970s and is still £10 today, and no, obviously it would be political suicide to take this increasingly meaningless sum away.
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I think it says a lot about how our attitude to welfare has changed that the Christmas Bonus was brought in by Barbara Castle so that even the poorest families could afford a turkey and a few presents and now removing it would prompt protests and rising it would give the Telegraph an aneurism.
There are so many reasons I hugely dislike Rachel Reeves but this chess thing is just absolutely pathetic from the media, like you could actually go after her record in office instead of an absolute nothing from when she was *a child*
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
There are so many reasons I hugely dislike Rachel Reeves but this chess thing is just absolutely pathetic from the media, like you could actually go after her record in office instead of an absolute nothing from when she was *a child*
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You don’t actually gotta hand it to the people complying in advance
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
You don’t actually gotta hand it to the people complying in advance
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Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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and the irony of that belief, during the ongoing mass-disabling event that is the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Absolutely this. The idea that 20% of a student body couldn't be disabled is an expression of ableism (not understanding disability) but also an implicitly normative statement -- that 20% of students shouldn't be disabled.
We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
and the irony of that belief, during the ongoing mass-disabling event that is the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
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How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?
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The first gender reassigned surgery in the UK was in 1951. She would be over 100 today and lived as a woman for 60+ years. Telling these women they are no longer welcome in the WI is brutal, as they themselves admit. These are our regressive times. #transrightsarehumanrights
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
The Women’s Institute will no longer accept transgender women as members from April following the UK supreme court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, the Guardian can reveal.
Melissa Green, the chief executive of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, said the organisation had taken the decision with the “utmost regret and sadness”, adding it had “no choice” but to exclude trans women from its membership. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The first gender reassigned surgery in the UK was in 1951. She would be over 100 today and lived as a woman for 60+ years. Telling these women they are no longer welcome in the WI is brutal, as they themselves admit. These are our regressive times. #transrightsarehumanrights
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This is exciting polling - not just for London, though.
Right across England and Wales - people are ready to vote Green for the very first time.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Right across England and Wales - people are ready to vote Green for the very first time.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
This is exciting polling - not just for London, though.
Right across England and Wales - people are ready to vote Green for the very first time.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Right across England and Wales - people are ready to vote Green for the very first time.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Disgraced former anti corruption minister Tulip Siddiq saying her trial in Bangladesh was unfair as it was heard by one judge lmfao
December 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Disgraced former anti corruption minister Tulip Siddiq saying her trial in Bangladesh was unfair as it was heard by one judge lmfao
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For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
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Everyone shut thefuck up in that they discovered ribose and, for the first time in any extraterrestrialsample, glucose on Bennu.
This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples - NASA
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As
www.nasa.gov
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Everyone shut thefuck up in that they discovered ribose and, for the first time in any extraterrestrialsample, glucose on Bennu.
This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
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which one of you did this??? (nice) www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
which one of you did this??? (nice) www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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For context this "independent voice" is a former Conservative candidate and the sister-in-law of David Cameron
If Kemi Badenoch carries on like this she’ll be elected prime minister | Emily Sheffield
www.independent.co.uk/voices/kemi-...
www.independent.co.uk/voices/kemi-...
If Kemi Badenoch carries on like this she’ll be elected prime minister
The leader of the Conservative Party has rediscovered a clarity and verve that will have Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves – and Nigel Farage – worried, says Emily Sheffield
www.independent.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
For context this "independent voice" is a former Conservative candidate and the sister-in-law of David Cameron
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Just unsubscribed from TREK WORLD on YouTube for their continued use of AI Slop. Now they’re using gen AI to create set construction photos that never existed. This shit muddles the historical waters and erodes visual evidence.
This is from their latest vid on the TMP bridge. #StarTrek
This is from their latest vid on the TMP bridge. #StarTrek
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Just unsubscribed from TREK WORLD on YouTube for their continued use of AI Slop. Now they’re using gen AI to create set construction photos that never existed. This shit muddles the historical waters and erodes visual evidence.
This is from their latest vid on the TMP bridge. #StarTrek
This is from their latest vid on the TMP bridge. #StarTrek
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Doing PhD work all afternoon, I come realise that Gen AI is a slake-moth
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Doing PhD work all afternoon, I come realise that Gen AI is a slake-moth
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Suddenly occurring to folks it’s conceivable Trump won’t be president forever and anti-corruption laws might ever again be enforced….
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Suddenly occurring to folks it’s conceivable Trump won’t be president forever and anti-corruption laws might ever again be enforced….