Joy
@joymiriam.bsky.social
Psychotherapy, spirituality, neurodiversity, literature, cats, nature, how do we stay present to suffering and beauty?
Any cis women who are disgusted by the Burnham government's transphobic policy of segregation can sign the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition, which is now closing in on 110,000 signatures. notinourname.org.uk
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Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
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This is correct: Farage was recruited by the press to 1) front up their endless outrage campaigns over nothing, and 2) troll the Tories from the right. Under no circumstances was he employed to 3) become the editors’ boss and control things like press regulation. So they’re revoking his legitimacy.
Less grumpy about not getting to sleep in the hot weather when it means I got to see this guy in my garden
“Following For Women Scotland, the EHRC was tasked with updating its guidance on sex discrimination to provide standards for everyone to follow. The EHRC was not required to make its guidance as trans exclusionary as possible, though that is what it did.” www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
Statement on the Anti-Trans and Anti-Intersex EHRC Code of Practice in the United Kingdom
June 20, 2026 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security condemns the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) updated Code of Practice for services, public functions, and a...
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Love that 20k people signed this on day 1 Why? Because we’re DONE Tech companies profit from hate & disinformation every day & face zero legal liability because they’re classed as “platforms” not publishers An insane loophole that needs closing NOW PLS SIGN you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Sign the urgent petition
Tech billionaires shouldn't get to hide behind a legal loophole while their algorithms push dangerous content for profit. MPs are demanding emergency laws to finally make them liable for the harm they...
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As is so often the case @quaker.org.uk are showing the way.
Quakers in Britain@quaker.org.uk · 2mo agoQuakers in Britain has released the following statement on the EHRC's draft code of practice around the UK Supreme Court's ruling on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act . 👇🕯️❤️ https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quaker-response-to-draft-guidance-around-definition-of-sex
Thanks to all who have signed. Sadly my MP in Leicester East is letting her constituents down. If you haven't written to your MP, please do so.
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance@transsolidarity.bsky.social · 2mo ago🏳️⚧️ Thank you to every one of the 98 members of Parliament who have put their name on record against the EHRC’s unjust and unworkable guidance. Motions to annul or disapprove don’t often get this big, especially when led by backbenchers. This sends a clear message ❤️ edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
When we're living in a Children of Men kind of universe, threads like this are balm for the soul.
Angry People in Local Newspapers@apiln.bsky.social · 3mo agoOne thing has led to another, and now I have a folder full of news headlines about people getting beaten off. I offer no apology at all.
Got to hang out with Hort the tortoise yesterday and it may have been the best thing ever. @westcotthousecam.bsky.social
You know what I'm sick of? Being labelled 'weird' or 'radical' or 'extreme' for literally just wanting to live in a world where we just bloody leave animals alone. Isn't it actually the least extreme position to hold to want as little harm and suffering as possible?..
I wrote a thing for @shibbolethmag.bsky.social and they were very kind about it. Then I subscribed because the values on the page were calling out to me. Also Midna struggles a bit with all the words but it turns out she loves a good picture by @nakedpastor.bsky.social
Once again I repeat my motto: "Don't comply in advance, but also, don't cry in advance."
Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division. goodlawproject.org/s/4ca10b
Misan Harriman Handraiser | Good Law Project
Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division.
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🚨 The collapse of our natural world is a direct threat to the UK’s national security. 🌍 The Nature + National Security Bill is a new, urgent, science-led response to this emergency. 📣 Ask your MP to choose the #NNSBill in the private members’ bill ballot. Head to 👉 zerohour.uk/write
I'm a very flawed feminist, not an official theologian (whatever that is) and stubbornly agnostic. Which is all to say that this gathering of people is for anyone who thinks that feminist theology could have something to offer them as they consider their faith and/or spirituality.
This is the church that has provided a refuge for so many, including this survivor of religious trauma. I don't know where else my wistfully agnostic faith would find a home.
Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe thing about St Nicks is that the diocese now measures the success of a church by how much money it makes, so we've been told we'll never have a priest again. The other thing about St Nick's is that on Sunday we'll be baptising 3 adults, confirming 6 adults, and receiving 1 adult into the CofE.
A tsunami of anti-trans hate to be published in the UK legacy press tomorrow. All designed to put maximum pressure on the government to cave to the obscenely hateful demands of those calling for trans folk to be excluded from public life. Remember you're loved and only you define your identity.
My favourite musician (aka my youngest offspring) performing with their beautiful band in Leeds on Thursday
I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere
"Even though our roles as therapist or clients are well defined, transformation is not limited to the client’s experience. Therapists would do well to remember this humbling truth, in order to examine their role in this relational giving and receiving."
Lucia Sarmiento Verano@sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚨 NEW BLOG: Reflections on Therapeutic Love Beyond what we have learned about therapeutic skills... What does it mean to BE WITH others in ways that don’t reproduce current views on the individual? southoftherapy.com/reflections-...
“And this debate is, I think, less about gay people than it is about who gets to hold that power.” @arusbridger.bsky.social writes about the scandal that is the collapse of LLF. 🕯️✝️
The Church of England is still treating gay people as second-class citizens
Bishops voted 34-0 to block gay couples from being blessed in standalone ceremonies. At what point do we call this discrimination?
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Visiting youngest offspring and it turns out Bolton Abbey looks great on a drizzly February afternoon
New episode up now. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis, with guest Doctor Rowan Williams. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/257...
257. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis — Backlisted
Dr Rowan Williams, theologian, poet and former Archbishop of Canterbury, joins Andy and John for a thoughtful and moving discussion of Till We Have Faces (1956), the last novel by C.S. Lew...
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This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services. Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you. Please do keep sharing! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
