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Anna Nicholson
@transponderings.bsky.social
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AuDHD trans dysfunctional human being. She/her. Scribbler of words, music and pictures. Meds reminder. Erstwhile linguist etc. *Please connect if we knew each other on the bird site.* Blog: transponderings.blog Mastodon: @[email protected]
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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 5h
This shit is going to kill trans people. Which is of course the point.
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Jenn @jennralize.bsky.social · 1d
Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.

My records have been altered, which is upsetting.
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 3d
Here we go! 📝📝📝
🚽 Scrap the Bathroom Ban🚨🏳️‍⚧️

Our work so far is already working (see here: archive.ph/gaCN4)

Now we’re demanding that any new Code must outline how providers can lawfully *include* trans folk in their services.

✍️ Write to your MP with our easy tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Scrap the Bathroom Ban
🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...
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Theresa Davis @helresa.bsky.social · 3d
I've just done this, please send a letter to your MP. They are our voice in the government and they need to know the anger we feel over this and how it will affect us.
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 3d
🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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#ScrapTheBathroomBan
Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
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Anna Nicholson @transponderings.bsky.social · 3d
I missed this post yesterday.

Ironically, I had what I thought was a uveitis flare – though it seems to have gone today – so maybe that was just my body celebrating in its own special way. 😉

(I have AS, and uveitis comes for free with that.)
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Susi M. Rose @susimrose.bsky.social · 4d
It’s World Arthritis Day, so it’s only appropriate I woke up in a flare, right? (This storm battering the NE coast of the US has been brutal for my joints.)

For more World Arthritis Day information, visit www.newhopephysio.com/blog/world-a... (page is source of graphic)
WORLD ARTHRITIS DAY 2025 RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT JOINT PAIN: —EDUCATE THE PUBLIC —PROMOTE EARLY DIAGNOSIS —SUPPORT RESEARCH —ADVOCATE FOR BETTER TREATMENTS COMMON TYPES OF ARTHRITIS: —RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS —OSTEO-ARTHRITIS —ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS —PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Anna Nicholson @transponderings.bsky.social · 6d
🎵 And we all… stand… together! 🎵

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVfa...
Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by PaulMcCartneyVEVO
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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 8d
Yeah this sounds fine
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12d
Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

#r4today
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15d
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 16d
‘So the rumours are true … time to ask some serious questions about Reform and Russia’

My column on Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales, admitting taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia while a member of the European Parliament

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay
As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…
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Anna Nicholson @transponderings.bsky.social · 19d
I’ve just learned another sense of the phrase ‘glory hole’. 😬
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Anna Nicholson @transponderings.bsky.social · 22d
Slovenian president Nataša Pirc Musar addressed the UN earlier in a powerful speech on multilateralism and the rule of international law.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUpK...
Slovenian President’s extraordinary attack on Trump, Netanyahu for Gaza complicity|Janta Ka Reporter
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Gillian Mackay MSP @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social · 23d
Imagine the kind of nation we could build if we had all the powers of a normal, independent country.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 23d
🚨 NEW POLL

🟢 Yes: 52%
🔴 No: 48%

With the powers of an independent country, Scotland could do far more tackle inequality, build our public services, protect our environment, and defend human rights.

👉 Help us make it a reality: www.greens.scot/join
Should Scotland be an independent country? Yes: 52%. No: 48%.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 23d
it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like

"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."

fuck yeah
Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23d
Journalists need to stop looking for 'balance' and get back to informing the public. Make a judgement ffs. Help people understand, don't just throw bullshit at them and go 'work it out'.

That is your job.
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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 23d
“Some say”, “controversial”, “experts disagree”. Just say they’re talking bollocks, man, the world is ending and we haven’t got time for this
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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 23d
We do not need balance on the absolutely insane bullshit coming out of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Just say it’s bullshit
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Anna Nicholson @transponderings.bsky.social · 23d
I like this explanation of what ‘pushing through’ can mean for a disabled person.

www.stickmancommunications.co.uk/post/pushing...

#disabled #disabillity
Two-panel cartoon. Panel 1: When a non-disabled person says ‘push through’ to a disabled person. Image: stickman in a green ‘comfort zone’ pushing through a red barrier to ‘possible but difficult’ zone that has a slightly uneven floor. They are saying, ‘Just push through, you'll be fine! It's just a bit challenging!’ At the end of that is a second red barrier, beyond which are spikes and a warning symbol labelled ‘Actual harm zone’. Panel 2: REMEMBER: the disabled person may be in a very different place to them! Image: identical to the first, except barrier 1 is a small pile of rubble, and an exhausted stickman is at barrier two, saying, ‘Um … really not a good idea.’ StickmanCommunications.co.uk. Copyright Stickman Communications Ltd. 2025.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 24d
A spokesperson for the Great and Powerful Worm said: “Our beloved holy parasite has finally taken his throne. Now his glorious work can commence on eradicating vaccines and removing fluoride from the water.”
Vaccines cause autism, says worm that ate RFK Jr’s brain
The worm that infiltrated and feasted on RFK Jr’s brain has claimed that vaccines cause children to catch autism.  The Great and Powerful Worm, 15, which faked its own death over a decade ago, has sin...
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Anna Nicholson @transponderings.bsky.social · 26d
It was disappointing, I’m afraid. Maybe I missed the best bits, I don’t know, but what I saw felt like paying lip-service to the idea of neurodiversity. Felt othered and pathologised.
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Anna Nicholson @transponderings.bsky.social · 28d
Caelan Conrad tells an important story in this video.

Be prepared, though: it’s pretty grim.

CW: suicide, child death, grooming, killing, AI, ChatGPT

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRm...

#ChatGPT #AI #LLMs #suicide #grooming
Is ChatGPT a Killer?
YouTube video by Dr. Caelan Conrad
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · Sep 16
The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.
Stephie, arms crossed, saying The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.
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Anna Nicholson @transponderings.bsky.social · 28d
It would be nice if you corrected the obvious error, Zack. You’re not the leader of the ‘UK Greens’, there being no such party.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28d
Spoke tonight with the Financial Times. 👇🏼
https://www.ft.com/content/46875865-55fd-4b21-8fbe-ebda5b7ba22a
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Anna Nicholson @transponderings.bsky.social · 28d
Images of “Donald Trump and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein” were projected on the walls of Windsor Castle earlier, according to the BBC’s royal correspondent.

Why not “sex offenders Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein”?
The image of the two sex offenders projected on one of the curved walls of the castle. From Reuters.
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 29d
The Online Autism Discourse was Different 9 Years Ago

Part of why I struggled to accept the undeniable truth in front of me (that I am and always have been Autistic) was how non-autistic people...
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Anna Nicholson @transponderings.bsky.social · Sep 14
Feel a bit bad after getting a complimentary ticket to the #StanfordNeurodiversitySummit, but really struggled yesterday with the general attitudes in a supposedly neurodiversity-informed conference.

So have decided not to return today or tomorrow. Going to conserve my energy.

#SNS25
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