friends fear they've taken up another expensive hobby

Goodnight sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! (yes I have a spare pair, yes I am about to drop £500+ on lenses alone because my eyesight is fucked, no I can't order cheap lenses online because my lenses are very high powered & need a human to line up the lens with my pupil)

The way AI is going to “kill everyone” is just by manufacturing consent for ever worse outcomes & conditions, like many governments do. It is a governing technology after all. And like bureaucracy it launders responsibility so the people & institutions who deploy it aren’t accountable for the harms

I love how organised Guiders are! Printed songsheet with trans-inclusive lyrics is delightful

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️@whatthetrans.com · last wk.

🔴 Guiders Against Trans Exclusion protest - a live thread Today, we are here in London to report on the @guidersfortrans.bsky.social protest against Girlguiding's ban on existing trans girls in Girlguiding coming into effect... tomorrow (Sunday 6 September) 🧵 A thread

Cancelling all transition-related surgery - with no scrutiny, no records, no democratic oversight, no nothing - just a mandate from heaven to crush trans people's rights.

Cwiar Cymru@cwiar.org · 2w ago

We have begun looking into the circumstances of the Joint Commissioning Committee's decision to cancel all gender-affirming surgeries in Wales. 🚨 Despite having to meet in public, there is no record or minutes of how this decision took place. You can help ⬇️

Returning to this article by @lauraclancy.bsky.social and @hannahyelin.bsky.social on public academia, the neoliberal university and digital hate journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Universities love academic visibility but rarely positioned to support the labour & risk of being in the public eye

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Thinking a lot about Jason Arday. Our time at Roehampton overlapped but I didn't meet him. However, I do know his former colleagues and they are deeply grieving. At the heart of this is a man - perhaps a flawed man, but a deeply human one. I don't want to lose sight of his humanity 1/

This is my little sister! I've had a sneaky preview of the book and it is great - buy one for the small curious people in your life and also one for yourself!

Jen Gupta@jengupta.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm barely on social media anymore but thought I should pop up on here to say that my first book is out today! Your Expert Guide: The Universe for Young Scientists is now available anywhere you buy books, illustrated by the wonderful Ola Szpunar and published by Wayland in collaboration with the IOP

Watched the eclipse from Coniston Water! It was incredible - absolutely magical to watch the light dim, our shadows grow fainter and feel the air chill around us.

Frankly unnecessary to coll eut mu; PhD reoearo1n

New-Cleckit Dominie@ncdominie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

lads I think I have a solution for England's defence. Good news, she's eligible for the over 18s squad!

An interactive atlas of the British Empire's civil service: ~16,000 Colonial & India Office careers (1820–1966), every move an arc across the map. Rebuilt from the digitized Indian and Colonial Office Lists with a knowledge graph. WIP, feedback welcome: jimclifford.ca/col_matching/

What I would give to be a tiny baby tortoise no larger than a raspberry

Woodland Park Zoo@woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's berry season and you have the tiniest friends. These critically endangered babies are Egyptian tortoises that hatched on July 4 and 6, 2026. Currently, our Egyptian tortoises are living behind the scenes in a warm and cozy habitat with lots of attention from their dedicated animal keepers.

18 days to go! Trans people and friends - please can you help us find the volunteers we need to carry the @transunityquilt.bsky.social?

Signal on the tube was a mistake. No one wants to hear someone else's very loud tiktok videos

@nfdykes.bsky.social are you aware of this and if so, what are your thoughts? youtu.be/j4k-ZMtMsyc

the chain by fleetwood mac but it's ao3 titles

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Crochet and exam boards, name a finer seasonal combination. This will one day be a big scarf - it's not staying this short!

Thoughtful, creative, angry and REDACTED conversations today with a wonderful community of REDACTED scholars. It is very sad that, in this political environment, I cannot speak about this openly for fear of reprisal or attack

Loved #CADS2026 Find all your fellow CADSers here! Get at me in replies/DMs if you're not in this starter pack and should be go.bsky.app/AT6KX6X

Delighted to be at #CADS2026 in a disconcertingly sunny and hot Lancaster. I'll be presenting work co-authored with Alon Lischinsky - come along if you want to find out about princes, pervs, hotwives and waitresses in erotic fiction

Important for everyone in the UK as we go into a week of very high temperatures and humidity, but especially for trans and non-binary people who use binders: limit how many hours you bind, try to keep your skin as dry as possible, drink lots of water, and stay as cool as possible

Some practical tips for keeping British homes cooler during the heat wave: - close curtains during day to keep out the sun - close windows throughout the day - open windows *only* at night, if it's cooler outside! - close doors on hot rooms if you can - divest in fossil fuels - abolish capitalism

Lime bike users: delighted that you're cycling and hope you're having fun! Delighted also that you've stopped at a local cafe and are enjoying their coffee! However, leaving your extremely heavy and unwieldy bike blocking the path is really fucking annoying and could you just fucking not 😡

what she says! 👇

Permanent lectureship in International Relations at @rhulpir.bsky.social! Particularly interested in people who can broaden our range - people working on Russia, China, Race/Ethnicity & Environment/Climate Change very welcome Deadline is 20/8/26 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Over 100 MPs have now signed Early Day Motion 240, which calls for the EHRC's government-backed segregation charter to be "disapproved". Is your MP among them? If not, you can write to them, call them, or demand a meeting about this today!

Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament

That the draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations, a copy of which was laid before this House on 21 May, be disapproved.

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What I want to do: read the papal encyclical, eat ice cream on my balcony, see friends, continue reading a 1000 page book on the 1918 flu pandemic What I'm going to have to do: email my MP because this small-minded, petty, cruel government wish to stop trans people being treated as actual humans

3/3. Thinking specifically of that Independent piece designed to drive a wedge between disabled and trans people (ignore the massive intersection) - please don't fall for it. Don't mistake gladiatorial media framings for real world possibilities. The EHRC has repeatedly failed us both. Join forces.

2/3. Your agent gets a message that you've got a booking waiting for you - so long as you're happy to parrot the oppositional argument that the editorial team wants. It's a deliberate game designed to drive engagement, and there are always people happy to play the game for their own personal ends.

1/3. Reminder to anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of dealing with the UK press: there's going to be a lot of divide-and-conquer around new EHRC guidance, and that will be deliberately editorially driven. You get approached to write an article/spout a viewpoint along set oppositional lines.