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wondermark.com
Sometimes you just gotta zig when everyone else thinks you'll zag.

Wondermark #779; The Breakthrough
[[two men are singing outside, caroling]] left man: Jingle bells! right man: Jingle bells! both: Jingle them halfway! left man: Oh what fun-- right man: What's wrong? [[right man looks concerned]] right man: Listen, man. I've been thinking. I know this is crazy, but hear me out. right man: What if we -- this is gonna sound stupid-- right man: What if we jingled right man: ALL the way? [[LATER]] [[both men are now nesltled among many large bags labeled with dollar signs]] right man: Wooooo {{header: oh what fun at WONDERMARK.COM}} {{alt-text: The future is written by the ones who follow the craziest ideas.}}
December 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
Happy Friday

@throwingmuses.bsky.social playing the amazing "Static" from the absolutely perfect "Purgatory/Paradise”

you're welcome

🎶 @kristinhersh.bsky.social
🎥ElRat Designs

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Be the Strange

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Throwing Muses "Static" Esquires Bedford 27th August 2025
YouTube video by ElRat Designs
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December 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
You're a slippershell and you can go to hell
Maybe see me there

elratdesigns.co.uk

Be the Strange

@kristinhersh.bsky.social @throwingmuses.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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goodlawproject.org
The legal challenge to the NHS’s clinical trial of puberty blockers is funded by a pressure group backed by Russian oligarchs and linked to the far right. goodlaw.social/1jop
From Russia to the far right: the shadowy forces challenging the NHS puberty blockers trial | Good Law Project
CitizenGO is backed by Russian oligarchs and linked to the far right. Good Law Project’s undercover investigation shows that it’s ramping up its work in the UK.
goodlaw.social
December 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
If you need any @kristinhersh.bsky.social , @throwingmuses.bsky.social , @50footwave.bsky.social , Or @elratdesigns.co.uk things please order before the 18th. I may be able to stretch to 19th or 20th, but can't guarantee

The website will remain open throughout

elratdesigns.co.uk

Be the Strange
December 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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mahoukarp.com
Its almost crisis 🎅
#art #sharks
Illustration of a shark saying happy crimus its chrismun merry crisis merry chrysler
December 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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igdoods.bsky.social
Disney told a father he couldn't have Spider-Man on his 4 yr old's gravestone, but they just signed a billion dollar deal with OpenAi the plagerism machine 🐁✨
December 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
Shipping today! @throwingmuses.bsky.social university logo Shirt

personally approved by @kristinhersh.bsky.social & directly funds studio time

If you need anything before the holiday, please order ASAP, shipping always gets precarious at this time of year🖤

elratdesigns.co.uk

Be the Strange
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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wondermark.com
terrifying if true!

Wondermark #1020; The Unknown Knowns
A guy with a Napoleon III mustache is consulting a newspaper and speaking with a fellow sporting epaulets. FAUXPOLEON: I heard — and I don’t know if it’s true — that DOGS are just genetically modified HUMAN INFANTS. Isn’t that OUTRAGEOUS? Who DID that? What ELSE don’t we know about dogs?? E’PAUL: That is not true. FAUXPOLEON: I don’t KNOW if it’s true or not. But just think of what it MEANS! People EXPERIMENTING on BABIES! E’PAUL: Indeed. Good thing it’s not true! FAUXPOLEON: You gotta ADMIT that it’s SCARY to think about! E’PAUL: As a thought experiment? Okay. As a falsehood examined AS a falsehood on its face? Okay. E’PAUL: As a valid piece of actual real information worth debating as if it WERE true when it is demonstrably NOT? No. FAUXPOLEON: It MIGHT be true! E’PAUL: It is not. FAUXPOLEON: It might be SOMEDAY. E’PAUL: Okay. FAUXPOLEON: What should we DO about it? E’PAUL: Nothing. FAUXPOLEON: You’re so PASSIVE. You never want to take a STAND. E’PAUL: For… for DOGS BEING INFANTS? This is the hill you want to die on, huh
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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goodlawproject.org
An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.
So far as her other comments are concerned, they were impermissible manifestations of her belief and were in our view what amounted to an incident of harassment by the claimant of the second respondent related to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, reasonably perceived by the second respondent to be so, and were a breach by the claimant of section 26 of the Act and of the Bullying and Harassment Policy. The second respondent was entitled to view the actions of the claimant in those particular regards as being such harassment, or as a “hate incident” within the policy, and the first respondent was entitled in principle to act on the complaint made, but the detail of how it did so depends on all the circumstances as more fully addressed below. The second respondent was also entitled to regard the claimant’s actions as a breach of the second respondent’s Article 8 rights, so far as the claimant’s expression of her beliefs was impermissible. 1034. We also considered that the claimant had acted deliberately to be able to challenge the second respondent whilst they were alone. What she did was to wait until other members of staff had left the changing room, and for the second respondent to leave the cubicle, before raising her own beliefs directly with the second respondent in the manner we have set out. 1035. Whilst the claimant had not been informed as promptly and in the detail we considered appropriate, and the first respondent did not consider whether to revoke permission at all, the claimant did not herself raise any formal grievance under the policy. She is an experienced member of staff who had access to union advice. She knew, or ought reasonably to have known, that the first respondent having granted permission to the second respondent she required to have raised her concerns with the first respondent as the decision-maker rather than with the colleague to whom it had been granted, and in any event ought not to have done so in the manner that she did.
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
Shipped this week @throwingmuses.bsky.social CNC laser cut keyring. Made by a local company in the UK. We have a few left on the website

More designs coming soon

personally approved by @kristinhersh.bsky.social , directly funds studio time

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Be the Strange
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
Thank you to all the Strange Angels out there. We have a couple of exclusive T-Shirts just for you, more in the pipeline. Every shirt is hand printed using eco friendly water based ink, and directly funds @kristinhersh.bsky.social studio time.

elratdesigns.co.uk

Be the Strange(l)
December 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
We have a massive range of @throwingmuses.bsky.social , @50footwave.bsky.social and @kristinhersh.bsky.social solo shirts here at @elratdesigns.co.uk, every one of them directly funds KH studio time.

Support the art you love 🖤

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Be the Strange(l)
December 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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igdoods.bsky.social
who've you been listening to this year? 🎶
December 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
Another @kristinhersh.bsky.social "Your Ghost" lyric shirt. Handwritten by Kristin Hersh, and only available from ElRat Designs.

Hand printed to order using traditional silk screens and eco friendly water based ink

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Be the Strange 🖤
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
Happy Friday!

@throwingmuses.bsky.social playing "Kay Catherine" from the album Sun Racket, Bedford 27th Aug 2025

Happy Hershmas

🎶🎧🖤

kristinhersh.com/tour

if you want an ElRat shirt before the holiday you need to order early since I print to order

elratdesigns.co.uk

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Throwing Muses - Kay Catherine - Esquires Bedford 27th August 2025
YouTube video by ElRat Designs
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December 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
Thanks to @tinystrings.bsky.social for the heads up here. @throwingmuses.bsky.social
Show from Thursday night at RRR will be online Friday aedt 7pm, that's 8am Friday UK time, make sure you check your times and listen in people. @kristinhersh.bsky.social 🎶🖤
www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...
Programs: Live at RRR: Throwing Muses, Live at RRR — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
Hear a special set from Throwing Muses in the Triple R Performance Space, hosted by Fee B-Squared of Maps.
www.rrr.org.au
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
The One @kristinhersh.bsky.social is bringing @throwingmuses.bsky.social to Australia/NZ this week

5th – Melbourne
6th – Sydney
7th – Brisbane

9th – Wellington
10th – Auckland

“Soap and Water” from the UK tour
We are lucky to have these chances, don't miss yours!

kristinhersh.com/tour
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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throwingmuses.bsky.social
AUS/NZ tour starting now…dates at kristinhersh.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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goodlawproject.org
There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50
Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
goodlaw.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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quaker.org.uk
A Liverpool Quaker climate activist is appealing her conviction after a judge warned the jury against following their conscience, violating the centuries-old principle of jury independence, established in a landmark 1670 case involving Quaker defendants.
Quaker climate activist appeals conviction after judge threatens the jury
A Quaker is appealing her climate conviction after a judge threatened the jury with contempt of court if they found defendants not guilty according to their conscience.
www.quaker.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
RIP IT UP
LIVE IT DOWN
MAKE IT BIG
KEEP IT CLEAN
SHAKE IT OFF

More @throwingmuses.bsky.social "Hook in her Head" Shirts out this week.

personally approved by the One @kristinhersh.bsky.social, directly funds studio time.

elratdesigns.co.uk/products/elr...

Be the Strange
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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igdoods.bsky.social
sorry to be the bearer of bad news
December 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
At ElRat Designs, every shirt is hand printed, every print personally approved by @kristinhersh.bsky.social & directly funds studio time

‼️Only available from elratdesigns.co.uk, if you see ElRat things anywhere else, please send me the link, so I can take affirmative action. Thank you, El🖤
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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elratdesigns.co.uk
Happy Friday!

The awesome @throwingmuses.bsky.social playing "Sunray Venus" from the excellent purgatory/paradise. live the Cluny Newcastle on the 19th May 2025

@kristinhersh.bsky.social is bringing them to Australia and New Zealand in December.

kristinhersh.com/tour

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Throwing Muses - Sunray Venus - Newcastle 19th May 2025
YouTube video by ElRat Designs
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November 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM