I have a new lodger. Herring gull chick, fallen into my garden from the roof of large commercial buildings nearby. He will require tinned fish and scrambled egg for two or three weeks, until he's mature enough to get himself off the ground.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains (I'm counting on someone else covering OK Computer and Dummy...)

Legal C@legalclaret.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden,Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains

Here is Magdalen Burns talking in 2018 about how, unless we act, we will be unable to use reality-based languages, lose right to free speech, not be able to gather as lesbians. Her video was in response to Dennis, one of the men in this case against Kirralie Smith. youtu.be/dE_-96DiX54?...

Re: What is a TERF?

YouTube video by Magdalen Berns

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Colin Lawson@colindlawson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Men who claim to be women are not oppressed or marginalised. They are using ideologically captured institutions to have power over women & punish anyone who steps out of line by saying “no”. I stand with Kirralie Smith.

Moi? Bury this in your veg garden? I would never!

Flame, 2019 by Andrea Kowch, US painter #WomensArt

Fucked that there are a million songs about love but only one about baking me a cake as fast as you can

"Name ten books"

nick (he/him)@nlbray.bsky.social · 3w ago

How much time have you spent with scientists?

Check out the truly deranged hostility in the replies to this...

Tim Janicke@timjanicke.bsky.social · 4w ago

In a new #Viewpoint we argue that the binary definition of #BiologicalSex based on gamete size is a scientifically robust framework that is entirely compatible with the diversity of sexual phenotypes and human gender identities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Only a phone camera shot, but rather cheerful.

Another huge whopper of an untruth from @amnestyuk.bsky.social It claims the 'gender critical' organisations making up 51% of its sample are 'anti-rights'. Including: @labwomendec.bsky.social @filiacharity.bsky.social @womansplaceuk.bsky.social @forwomen.scot

Welcome everybody to international 'Belgians Don't Buy Their Own Drinks' week.

Given how thrilled we all were by a complaint about the quality of copper, this is very exciting!

Nicholas A. Christakis@nachristakis.bsky.social · last mo.

So exciting and miraculous. Researchers using AI and advanced imagine achieve first complete reading of ​a scroll burnt at Pompei 2,000 years ago. The breakthrough marks a ‌major step toward deciphering hundreds of ancient manuscripts. We might find lost texts by Euripides, Aristophanes, and more.

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

Terrifying, and surely a war crime.What's the point of launching missiles at residential areas?

Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is not a movie about meteor showers before the apocalypse; this is Russia bombing Kyiv last night. A city with several million people in it - children, the elderly, and normal families just like yours.

The University of Life churns out yet another massive wanker

Anyone have a few quid they can spare to help purchase interceptor drones?

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Russia launched 600 Shahed/decoy UAVs at Ukraine on May 25; air defense downed/suppressed 549. Let’s boost that rate. I’m raising for 3 STING interceptor drones built to hunt Shaheds, incl. jet variants. 🎯 $6,600 | 🗓️ 50 days | Runs until 7 PM, Jul 13

Fresh from the birdbath

Ian, Don’t: The continuing disappointment of political commentary on sex & gender @voidifremoved.co.uk From @sarahditum.bsky.social Dunt & Lynskey are mansplaining article to an excellent one by Dave, who I’m very happy to explain where these lads get it so wrong. www.voidifremoved.co.uk/p/ian-dont

Ian, Don't

The continuing disappointment of political commentary on sex and gender

voidifremoved.co.uk

Made the mistake of opening a packet of crisps in the garden...

That these posters always attribute the threat to other, bad men is part of the protection racket nature of patriarchy. Other variants: "if you go out dressed like that you're asking for it" "if you make him angry you're going to get hurt"

Unbelievable.

Garret Beggan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@garretbeggan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Does she want counselling or doesn't she? What do you think counselling is? What part of it involves asking your counsellor to show or describe her genitals? On what basis would a shelter interrogate a woman to see if she is trans? What do you think a shelter is? You see how daft you're being?

Look, all I'm saying is if some bitch wanted to prick my finger so I could sleep uninterrupted for a few years I wouldn't be all that mad about it

Bluesky today is certainly not short of middle-class middle-aged men having their first foray into the subject of women's rights! By which I mean trans rights, obviously. Women aren't real.

This old girl has been visiting my garden for at least five years now. Multiple litters of kits have taken their toll on her plumage! I suspect her of chewing the water pipes in my loft, but we politely skirt around the issue.

I was looking for a seat and then I found a seat and heaven knows I'm miserable now

Give any of them time in the job and they will achieve uselessness

I'm really not sure a net is the tool for this particular 'job'...

A study from the University of Oxford found that trans-ID murderers outnumbered trans-ID murder victims by a similar ratio to males overall. It also found the BBC published more than four times as many articles on trans murder victims as they did on perpetrators. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Me: I'm thinking some people were maybe meant to be alone, and maybe I am one of those people. Barber: I meant in terms of your haircut.