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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 20h

Oh 100% agree!

HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 1d

The irony of really wanting to be able to continue to use male facilities, as a trans man, on a day where I have had the misfortune of having to actually use them 😂 (my main office has lovely lockable gender neutral cubicles which are clean and don't smell!) Good luck GLP.

Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

We’re publishing key documents in our legal challenge against the interim guidance issued by the EHRC in the wake of the For Women Scotland decision 📄
https://goodlaw.social/6a5g

An update in our judicial review of the EHRC’s interim guidance | Good Law Project

We’re publishing key documents in our legal challenge against the interim guidance issued by the EHRC in the wake of the For Women Scotland decision.

goodlaw.social

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using one one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand.

🐑Lamb (I mean, any meat, but particularly lamb, sheep are awesome)
🧙‍♂️Harry Potter (obvs)
✝️Shine Jesus Shine (it's just the worst hymn ever written)

Sophia Jetta @werkoderko.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

🥦Fennel
🎥Animal Farm
🎶Born to be alive

🐺 Were-Felix 🐺 @ratstar.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

🍕 blue cheese 🙂‍↔️
🎥 grave of the fireflies 😭
🎶 blurred lines 🤢

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not sure what they are, but some lovely flowers today in Cardiff Bay for #WildflowerHour

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 3d

Ha! I think trans men have an unspoken dress code!

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 3d

Why yes I am tired, why do you ask?
Took myself for a walk in Cardiff Bay this morning. Nice and blustery and cold! I love being by the water and away from people and noise. It lets me settle and my emotions come to the surface. Learning to work with my neurodivergent brain, not be limited by it.

A white man with a scruffy ginger beard, orange beanie hat, dark red jumper and brown jacket. He is standing in front of the sea in Cardiff Bay, with calm water and some piers and ships in the background.

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #Caturday from me and Cyril, who has had to sit through yet another documentary about the Cold War (weirdly he finds my nuclear weapons documentaries very soothing...)

A ginger cat curled up asleep on a white fluffy blanket

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 5d

On his autumn cushion.

A ginger and white cat looking very curious. He's sat on a cushion with leaf print.

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 5d

"You can't vote for someone as a Traitor just cos they've got better vocabulary than you." Savage from Alan Carr!

HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 6d

He is the best boy.

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 6d

I am tired and sad so please enjoy two of the funniest photos ever taken of my cat, Cyril
#cats #CatSky 🐈

A ginger cat looking mournfully down at his empty food bowl (which was just full...)

A ginger cat with a squishy face and his little fang protruding like a vampire

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 7d

But please can we maybe be a little less tone deaf?! (*End of rant, goes to bed.*)

HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 7d

We must work together and fight intersectionally! Sometimes that means we must draw attention to our struggles, and that's right to do so. But sometimes it's about recognising what else is going on too. I don't mean we all have to post about everything, we all have our capacity for what we can do.

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 7d

We are facing horrible things like the upcoming EHRC guidance, a rise in hate, political parties openly discussing us, but it's the same thing driving it that's also being expressed in violent far right protests or Daily Mail columns about "immigrants" or Meghan Markle breathing the wrong way.

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 7d

Over recent times I've seen quite a few fellow White trans people post things like "this debate would NEVER be allowed to happen about race!"
And my dude, I'm sorry but have you seen the news? It does. Every single day. Maybe not in the same way, but it's the same fight.

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 7d

Just filled this survey out - super quick and really important! Trans history week is brilliant, I always learn so much from it myself as well as being able to gain inspo for work.

Marty Davies @smartypantsmarty.com · 8d

Help steer Trans+ History Week next year.

This is your chance to let us know what which history stories need more attention next year.

The lessons from our past should help inform our present and our fight for our future.

So which stories need to be told? Tell us 👇

Trans+ History Week @transhistoryweek.com · 8d

Help shape Trans+ History Week!

Please complete our annual story survey and have your say on what kinds of stories we tell next year with @wearequeeraf.com

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 10d

Yeahhhhh this! All you achieve if you do that is giving the nonsense peddlers attention. Just block and mute, block and mute, make a cup of tea, read a book, go for a wee, just anything apart from repeating nonsense so we all have to see it too!

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10d

I once again beg all y'all not to screencrap nonsense from the former Twitter and bring it here to dunk on it, that's like inviting a vampire in to tell them their fangs look stupid, maybe you're right but they're still going to fucking eat you

(also "screencrap" was a legit typo but I left it in)

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Marty Davies @smartypantsmarty.com · 10d

Silence can be very isolating. It’s comforting to see public care and solidarity.

Solidarity to my Muslim friends experiencing violence in the streets and hate online as disgusting people celebrate an attack on a Mosque by two people in East Sussex.

This is not the Britain I want to live in.

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 10d

And these lads.
Grinders bulldogs.
Like DMs but better and half the price!

Screenshot of black Grinders bulldog 10 hole black leather boots

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 10d

Continuing the queer joy, yesterday I bought some Ricky Rain Frog pride badges!

Ricky Rain Frog pride badges in trans flag and rainbow colours

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 10d

@obtownsend.bsky.social and I have created a special human rights wall in our hallway. It acts like garlic on vampires, repelling any R*form candidates who may knock on our door...

A poster with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights articles on it. The article headings are in bright pink, bold font. The poster is white.

Three posters on a white wall. The closest is of rainbow text saying "resist" in a rainbow, 1970s style swirl pattern. The middle top is of the "Pits and Perverts" gig poster in black and white. The bottom is an underground-style map of Newport.

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 10d

This is Cyril, looking very vampiric...

A ginger cat with a squished face and a little fang sticking out

HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 11d

You don't! ❤️ I feel very passionately that none of us *need* to consume news at the moment. We can do whatever we feel able to. Otherwise we'll just exhaust ourselves.

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HP 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌱🐱🍂🎵 @ursusminimus.bsky.social · 11d

Done! ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Screenshot of a reply saying "Awesome, you've responded to all tiles on Public Consultation on Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds."

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 12d

In memoriam...

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