Binni Brynolf (they/them)
@brynolf.bsky.social
Proudly trans & queer, killjoy feminist, grumpy vegan, Trekkie. Libraries, trade unions, music & friends 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇸🇪🏴🖖 Wallasey (also tech.lgbt/@brynolf sometimes)
A favourite music genre of mine is *crying while dancing* which is pretty much every other 1960s Motown recording, but this one sums it up perfectly, it's The Miracles' "I Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying" from 1963 (a Holland-Dozier-Holland number). youtu.be/t74U_DxYeFs?...
I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying (Alternate Stereo Mix)
YouTube video by Smokey Robinson - Topic
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I just played my mum the voice note that JEDWARD sent me in May 2023 where they said I was “chic” and “elegant” but she wasn’t very impressed. How very dare she.
One of my all-time favourite songs to dance to and I bet I look as least as good as these kids do #TOTP #IFeelLove
Did I know that Showaddywaddy had two drummers? I may have been distracted by all the colours because I was little at the time #TOTP
On the train home today I spotted a bisexual pride flag in one of the windows in my block and now I want to find out who it belongs to
#LondonTransPride watch out there are terfs about just “asking questions” only to start with “but how do you define a woman”. I held my own and walked away but it was unpleasant
This morning's get up and go soundtrack includes 'Grazing in the Grass' by The Friends of Distinction. Altogether now: I can dig it, he can dig it, she can dig it, we can dig it, they can dig it, you can dig it! youtu.be/T_tffjrItC4?...
The Friends Of Distinction "Grazing In The Grass" on The Ed Sullivan Show
YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show
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Today’s “let’s get going” soundtrack is Body Beat: Soca-Dub and Electronic Calypso (1979-98). It’s just so good, I’m dancing at my standing* desk 🕺 (*my standing desk is a regular desktop with extra long legs from eBay. Cheap and simple, and allows spontaneous desk dancing)
My look today is inadvertently Robin Williams in the Birdcage although my chest isn’t as hairy and my moustache is mere bum fluff in comparison, but it’s a good look!
Well that was tense 🥵 #NationsChampionship #ARGvsENG
The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ
Scientists of Bluesky! Is it possible to replace nighttime sleep which I’m bad at with naps during the day which I’m very very good at?
If we ever need to shelter in underground train stations again, I can highly recommend Hamilton Square station where it is pleasantly cool with a breeze. There’s even wifi so I might just bring my laptop and work here this week.
The eventual outcome of a Tory PM supporting gender self-ID in 2017 is a Labour government in 2026 enthusiastically presiding over the introduction of the most transphobic legal framework in the western world - without any debate or vote in Parliament For Labour, a moral stain worse than Section 28
Nadia Whittome MP@nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 4w agoDespite more than 1 in 4 MPs signing my motion against the Code, it is due to come into force without any debate or vote in Parliament. I have written to the Minister for Women and Equalities urging her to withdraw it now. 2/2
#dream I was watching Graham Norton interviewing Madonna and she started sounding exactly like Moira Rose
This must be remembered: ALL Labour’s transphobic measures, from harming/killing children by withdrawing healthcare & introducing state-sponsored conversion therapy to an attempted national toilet ban worse than anything from Trump/MAGA were imposed without a single vote in parliament.
🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?
I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
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On my way home from a staff away day in Glasgow where I met loads of coworkers in person for the first time. I discovered that even though I no longer work in libraries or have a library role, I still answer “what’s your background?’ with “I _am_ a librarian”…
Calling all UK & US #publiclibraryworkers! Please consider completing this timely and important research survey by my UCL Department of Information Studies MA student @juliagmac.bsky.social, examining #publiclibrary "neutrality" amid cuurent cultural-political polarisation. #critlis #librarysky
@juliagmac.bsky.social · last mo.Reaching out to US+UK public librarians with a survey! Public libraries are increasingly navigating complex social issues. This study examines how librarians apply neutrality in such contexts. Please share! qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... #library #critlib #libraries @dralicecorble.bsky.social
If you see this it's your sign to drink some water right now 💧.
Cute Cat Drinking Water from Faucet
Alt: Cat Drinking Water from a underneath a tap.
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I picked a great day to spend an hour getting braces 🥵
After 2260 days, I’ve just finished the Welsh course on Duolingo. That does include a restart and a spell of doing the maths course but even so how come dw i ddim yn rhugl eto?
It’s 22 degrees outside where I live yet 30 degrees inside. Have we hit a rift in the space/time continuum and are slipping into a parallel universe where everyone lives inside a sauna?
Listening to Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave. I would dance at my desk but it’s too hot 🥵 Now it’s “Westbound Number 9” by Flaming Ember. It’s not supposed to be a deliberate heat wave playlist…
If you like 80s synthpop with both a dark edge and a tv show theme tune feel, then hop on over to tv.theindiebeat.fm RIGHT NOW to listen to my bestie ASH NOODLE reworking some tracks live for your listening pleasure
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I am celebrating Captain Picard Day by drinking hot Earl Grey tea brewed in my Bodum teapot from my Bodum mug. Make it so!
