Kevin Marks
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Reading your thoughts, as long as you tell me where you're writing them first this week. https://xoxo.zone/@kevinmarks Sheffield, UK - Don't try direct messaging as I am blocked by daft UK legislation unless I'm on a VPN.
I am reiterating an offer that I made years ago: I am available as a resource to look into internet archive matters in a more deep research way or to answer questions for users who have complicated issues they require additional attention to unpack. My email is jscott@archive.org. Be specific.
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...
Mass Lobby for Trans Equality - 9th September 2026
The law around trans equality is fundamentally broken. Government inaction is hanging trans people and organisations out to dry - with a confusing mess of challenging rules and lawfare.
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The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now in force, telling organisations that provide services they can no longer be trans inclusive. This will have a devastating impact on the everyday lives of trans people. So we’re backing a legal challenge against it: https://goodlaw.social/pmbo
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project
The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
goodlaw.social
My statement on the harmful EHRC guidance coming in to force today 🏳️⚧️
THREAD 🧵🧵🧵🧵 Two of the main lies in the Cass Review used to justify the puberty-blocker ban; 1. The lie that puberty-blockers have a long-term negative effect on bone density. 2. The lie that puberty-blockers have a negative effect on cognitive ability. Both have been shown to be false; 1/4
I am using the goodweeplace.com scripts & have them printed off
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Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 15h agoEHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.
I've told this story before and I suppose now it's time to do it again. When I was in 9th grade, my English teacher was the elderly sort of man who always wore a gray flannel suit and had a cigarette before class and a cigarette at the end of class every period.
Sarah@sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 20h agoIt seems like assigned reading, especially summer reading, should include titles from different genres, with different tones, from different eras. (And as a former sulky Anne Rice-reading teen, I advocate for some over-the-top moodiness in the mix with realistic problem fiction and happier tales.)
Can I get a fuck the BBC for this awful definition: "a transwoman, a person born a biological male who identifies as a woman"
New guidance on single-sex spaces comes into force
The code covers spaces open to the public, such as toilets and changing rooms in England, Wales and Scotland.
bbc.co.uk
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Suggest where to have Cycle Parking in North Tyneside
To support active travel in North Tyneside, our Sustainable Transport team are proposing to install cycle stands at some new locations around the borough. These stands, commonly known as Sheffield sta...
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How would I get by without AI? If I need a factually-dubious opinion expressed in a cliched manner with unearned confidence, I’ll just talk to a straight white cis man. I can get by on small-batch, locally-sourced, artisanal mansplaining, the way we always used to.
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Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
I listed a cargo bike for sale at the beginning of the summer, thinking the timing would be right for people interested in warm weather adventures. Crickets, then 8 inbounds the past 2 weeks. Turns out everyone is shopping for new school commutes. Bikes are infrastructure.
Also the trope of England supposedly not having been successfully invaded since 1066 is largely an invented tradition. We ignore the 1215-17 French and 1327 Scottish invasions altogether, and pretend the 1153 Angevin and 1688 Dutch invasions and seizures of the throne were voluntary domestic affairs
Lewis Baston@lewisbaston.bsky.social · yesterdayThe borders of the U.K. have been in place since 1922.
@flushes.app was one of the first examples of a totally unique ATproto app that was clearly built for fun. And a good protocol encourages people to create fun toys. But now it's back wit a new version... with a fundraiser in support of @trevorproject.bsky.social . Kudos to @dame.is on the relaunch.
Flushes@flushes.app · yesterdayWelcome to Flushes 2.0 The Internet's Bathroom. All-gender, always. 🏳️⚧️ Built on @atproto.com, Flushes is a silly app for sharing when you're flushing. You know what's not silly? Bathroom bills. They target & harm trans people. Try Flushes & join our fundraiser for @trevorproject.bsky.social:
they’re calling it a movement
Flushes@flushes.app · yesterdayWelcome to Flushes 2.0 The Internet's Bathroom. All-gender, always. 🏳️⚧️ Built on @atproto.com, Flushes is a silly app for sharing when you're flushing. You know what's not silly? Bathroom bills. They target & harm trans people. Try Flushes & join our fundraiser for @trevorproject.bsky.social:
Welcome to Flushes 2.0 The Internet's Bathroom. All-gender, always. 🏳️⚧️ Built on @atproto.com, Flushes is a silly app for sharing when you're flushing. You know what's not silly? Bathroom bills. They target & harm trans people. Try Flushes & join our fundraiser for @trevorproject.bsky.social:
Flushes
The Internet's Bathroom. Post your flushes, see who else is in there, and keep every record in your own AT Protocol repo.
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We walked around the Llanberis Slate Mine (disused since the 60s). I was expecting Dr Who backdrops. It was much more postindustrial/deracinating. Like walking through Tarkovsky's Zona.
One the eve of Burnham’s Bathroom Ban, remember this. You are loved and there will always be people willing to fight this nonsense. Use whichever facilities you feel safest and most comfortable using. Surround yourself with supportive people as much as you can. And most importantly-
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
