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i like doing my silly little hobbies, sleeping and cuddling my cat in my 30s, in the UK, they/them only genderqueerdo
jump scared by seeing caroline criado perez casually mentioned as if she's a normal person and not a quiet terf we used to be pals! like not just mutuals, actual *friends*. she was inspired to get her dog (in part) by me and Clover. stopped talking when she went terf, obviously.
got an even newer hobby and that is carving stuff (mostly rubbers, attempting lino too) 🌷 art babey
Repeating (as it's going unreported) that novelist China Miéville last night donated his £10k Goldsmiths Prize to the striking staff of Goldsmiths College, and made some sharp comments about the dispute. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/16/s...
Staff strike at Goldsmiths is now the longest in UK university history
Students say they are not receiving marks or feedback, as dispute over the institution's restructuring programme has dragged on for 130 days
theartnewspaper.com
been sleeping so much lately but literally always feel like i need some more sleep, what's it like having energy
a ban on third country removals would in fact place america to the left of the u.k. in terms of immigration, as an indicator of how evil things have become in the u.k.
Norm Charlatan@normcharlatan.bsky.social · yesterdayOne of the first congressional bills needs to be a ban on third-country removals and to facilitate the return of everyone who has been subjected to one back to the United States.
Sandie Peggie managed to get it registered in a court case that she was the only nurse in the entirety of Scotland to raise issues with trans staff. This is the reality of all of this. A tiny number of obsessed bigots creating strife and suffering, inflicting their hatred on everyone else.
listen up democrats: we did not vote for you for y'all to find common ground and reach across the aisle. we voted for you to crush our enemies, to see them driven before us, to hear the lamentations of their women
seen another of them "repost this or you'll have a horrible month" things going round so just in case that gives you Bad Brain
If a UK citizen, you owe these folks a read of their stories after yesterday's indefinite leave to remain news. Many of the headlines have focused on the carve-out being made for care workers, but this remains an exceptionally cruel set of policy decisions.
Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️@chenchenzhang.net · 4d agoa little browsing on skilledworkersUK subreddit tells you that people's lives are upended for no reason. it's hard to imagine anyone who's not limited by family or relationships is not gonna leave. "I'm going home, so I guess the reform voters won".
What refugees “contribute to society” is that they’re living human beings
Painfully ironic that despite being told by Republicans and centrists for over a decade that Muslims wouldn't support people like me, the most prominent politicians standing up for trans people in America are all Muslim.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 4d agoYesterday, in a hostile 60 Minutes interview with a Bari Weiss acolyte who once called trans kids a “social contagion,” El-Sayed refused to budge on trans rights. “A failure to show up and fight for that right is a failure to show up and fight for your own.” Subscribe to support our journalism.
if you're cis and you're going to post or even repost direct quotes from horrible transphobes the very least you can do is cw it jfc
I'm really fucking devastated right now so instead here's the picture Patrick Stewart posted nearly 13 years ago to the day with the caption "happy halloween" of him dressed as a giant lobster in a bathtub.
rest in peace to Dolores Huerta. after a lifetime of organizing, in her last year on earth, she chose to be brave enough to change the historical record; in doing so, she set an example for generations of feminists
Dolores Huerta, pioneering labor activist, dies at 96
Dolores Huerta helped lead strikes, boycotts and a movement for change.
axios.com
The Burnham government is happy to listen to transphobes galore but will move mountains to avoid listening to any trans people.
Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you thought the Conversion Practices Bill is already bad thanks to all the loopholes and allowances it provides, then don’t worry - it’s about to get worse. The Government are hearing “evidence” from anti-trans campaigners Helen Joyce, Dennis Kavanagh and the LGB Alliance this week.
If you are celebrating Lula's reelection, or just feel relieved that the fascists didn't recapture Brazil, then you should also recognize the role of trans people in the socialist and working class movements, and act accordingly.
We need to abandon the fiction that Labour do their horrible anti-immigrant reforms to win over Reform switchers: they do them because they're a xenophobic party led by xenophobes.
UK's Burnham says he agrees with principle of migration reform
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday he stood by the principles of reform to the immigration system set out by his interior minister, following speculation that a political backlash ...
reuters.com
i am about to watch the new renny harlin shark movie and i'm stressed it's going to be bad
watched the new v/h/s movey and as usual, what an extremely mixed bag
also i’m really hating a LOT of men’s responses to this- seen so many people like “it’s a joke” as expected but also “if you think this is bad i’d hate for you to see my group chats” and you know what? i’d hate that too! you’re all fucking dangerous!
Leona@editor.scot · 2w agoI wish I could believe Angelone’s apology is sincere. I think making that joke in the first place was a calculated risk. He thought it through. The fact that he balanced the risk against the exposure he could potentially get for it: to me that’s almost as disgusting as the joke itself.
new season of 9-1-1 my dudes what absolute nonsense are we going to deal with for the tenth series
had my flu jab yesterday and i still feel like i've just been freshly kicked in the arm
called the dr about a nurse appt for my pill check and they don't have anything for a full month even on the phone "lol"
