A friend told me her first relationship ended because the guy wanted her to shave her armpits. She had no interest in doing it, but he was really insistent. She said, "Ok, we'll compromise, I'll shave one armpit, so we'll each have one we like." He got really agitated then and said "That's WORSE!"

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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Petition: Require venues to have full, up to date accessibility info on their websites.

To improve disability rights, there should be a legal requirement for all venues, businesses and shops to publish easy to find accessibility information on their websites and/ or social media, even if...

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Other eastern European fisheries just use nets, but it's the approach you guys take that does it for me. Leaping into the water and punching the tuna in the face until they give up and flop into the boat with a sort of defeated, damp sigh? Unparalleled.

Be advised, it's much nicer when it's Jekyll Park Corner.

Talking Pictures TV@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 8h ago

Changes at Hyde Park with the construction of the underpass in the late 50s. LOOK AT LIFE: HYDE PARK CORNER (1959) 3:30pm on #TPTV

You should always leave a little bit of the harvest in the fields as tribute. The poor were allowed to glean food from this excess. Leave apples on the ground for the fairy folk. 🎨Arthur Rackham redbubble.com/shop/ap/3377... #WyrdWednesday #art #illustration #folklore #harvest #lammas

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Apple Blossoms and Honey - Irish Fairy Tales - Arthur Rackham Gorgeous illustration for Irish Fairy Tales, published in 1920. Please see other prints from this series in my shop

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The important thing to know about boots is that Dr. Martens was bought by a private equity firm a while back, the boots are now garbage in terms of construction quality, but Solovair set up to make similar boots on the old equipment in the old factory and their versions are much better quality.

Will Wilkinson@wlknsn.xyz · 6h ago

My take on boots discourse is that we face a lemons problem with many consumer goods, given the acquisition of many storied brands by companies aggressively milking accumulated brand equity for higher profits, such that price and reputation for durability does not reliably predict higher roi.

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

Here is a starter pack of people and organizations working for trans rights in the UK, plus people who regularly post on the topic. The UK press is hopelessly anti-trans, so give these folks a boost: bsky.app/starter-pack...

The EHRC code has become law and I'm actively pissed so in leiu of this we're raising money for LGBTQIA+ Switchboard and we're going to be streaming until we reach the goal of 10K. BOOST THIS STREAM LIKE CRAZY WE CAN HIT THE GOAL. www.twitch.tv/lottsoflottie

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Hi, I'm Lottiescanlines! You can call me either Lottie or Skitty! Both work!I'm a transwoman who streams, I do a bunch of different content from the worst mascot horror cashgrab slop to some genuinely...

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It’s unboxing time as I get my hands on beautiful Burgundy-bound copies of my new baby, Nights Out In The Kitchen, a sequel to Nights Out At Home. Published Sep 3. Find a link to preorder in my Linktree in bio.

just had a horrific vision of the future in which Zack Polanski and Kemi Badenoch have a podcast and now I need a lie down

"If they turned off the thieving lying environment destroyer that you've never used and that you have massive moral objections to tomorrow, how would you cope?" Cope? I'd celebrate

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 14h ago

I have one answer.

On Saturday, my partner and I are tieing the knot (literally) and as part of our handfasting we are trying to raise money for a local wildlife charity. What Cuan do is fantastic, so it would be wonderful to help support their work! www.justgiving.com/page/amy-cal... #wildlife #wedding #charity

Amy & Calum's fundraiser for Cuan Wildlife Rescue

Help Calum Campbell raise money to support Cuan Wildlife Rescue

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Look I know I am not saying anything new here but I am *raging* that a bunch of self-proclaimed 'feminists' are in fact doing the work of patriarchy by trying to force us all back to a place where women must conform to a narrow set of stereotyped standards. FUCK OFF. I LIVED THROUGH THE '90S.

Today is a frustrating day. Medication has been "delivered" - while I was out with the dog, so been taken in by the one neighbour who has extreme high security and never answers the door. I've lost an earring. The dog is being a knob. Might just go back to bed and see if I can start again.

Look there's hundreds of these, and I could easily pick 3 or 4 from just this one film, but: Like A Prayer in Deadpool & Wolverine

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 21h ago

Name your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.

I am similar: have muted LOTS of terms like Trump, Elon, Farage, Yaxley for being rage-inducing... but somehow Badenoch stays just so insane she's funny that I don't mute mention of her. Serenely looking forward to not seeing any replies to this post because they're all bound to have muted words in

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“Badenoch” is just about the only political word I haven’t muted, because everyone needs to have a good laugh at something.

Its maddening that so many people cannot join the dots to see the swastika forming over the UK. Rises in hate crime are across the board because hate is being weaponised to exploit us. Trans segregation is inextricable from this. Its all the same fascism. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients

Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff

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They're writing Polanski's campaign material for him at this point.

Quelle terrible journée pour avoir des yeux

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 23h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Nothing drives growth like letting people hit their spouses

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 23h ago

Net zero/environmental criteria, and demands like tackling domestic violence and improving local high streets, will be scrapped from new social value model Haigh & John Healey will also direct Cabinet to “maximise the use of public procurement... to deliver innovation & growth in every postcode”

I know I keep saying this but I'm a summer where the country is LITERALLY ON FIRE cutting back environmental criteria on stuff is ABSOLUTE MADNESS.

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 23h ago

Net zero/environmental criteria, and demands like tackling domestic violence and improving local high streets, will be scrapped from new social value model Haigh & John Healey will also direct Cabinet to “maximise the use of public procurement... to deliver innovation & growth in every postcode”

This is what they expected and wanted to happen: that members of the public, shown the cops would take their side if they kicked off and went mental at anyone they suspected of being a transgender, would then start going apeshit en masse and enforce their wacko ideas for them.

The Wellington Arcade, a 1970s horror. It was meant to have a car park on the roof but once they put all the recycling facilities for the shops in you can only get like 10 cars up there so the local taxi firm has exclusive use of it now

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 17h ago

tell me about your town’s weird mall

The unworkable EHRC Code comes into effect today - A reminder to all my lovely trans+ fam… It’s designed for organisations, not you! It does NOT make it a criminal offence for you to carry on using whichever loo best suits you/ your needs. If someone complains, that’s the orgs problem, not yours!

Guess we'd all better develop a taste for Soylent Green

Futurism@futurism.com · 16h ago

"If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5 degree C limit of the Paris Agreement before 2030."

I've spent my entire life being warned that this was coming and wondering if humanity would see the light and fix the problem before it was too late. Kind of terrifying to realise that we're just about there, if not already past the point of no return.

Futurism@futurism.com · 16h ago

"If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5 degree C limit of the Paris Agreement before 2030."

If someone asks you “What is your sex?” In a toilet, they are the weirdo. If they ask you “What sex were you assigned at birth?” They want to know what your genitals looked like when you were a baby. I would look at anyone doing this in the same I would look at Rod Liddle talking about porn.