Starfleet Headquarters is actually a sewage treatment plant that has also appeared on Murder She Wrote

Every single one of these stories is an absolute gem. No exceptions.

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 10h ago

Shortlisted in the Firefly Prize, "the day after you bury him in the garden" by @wordsfromemorra.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

I Ching Found To Be More Accurate Than AI Story at 11

Sending my biggest love to all my trans friends today. I’ll be here for you and will keep fighting for as long as it takes. You are my siblings and my community, and my world is a better place with you all in it. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Happy Segregation Day everyone! Today will eventually go down in history as an infamous mistake and breach of human rights but not before it's caused huge amounts of pain and trouble. This Government will be remembered as the worst for trans rights ever, as bad as Thatcher's Section 28 if not worse.

"The Equality Act always discriminated against trans people, we just read it wrong for fifteen years" is right up there with the standards of jurisprudence we're coming to expect from the Anglosphere these days.

Tram, LRT and Train travel.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

You broke records at our last lobby day. Let’s break them again. Government want this to quietly go away. We have to keep showing up. www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...

Mass Lobby for Trans Equality - 9th September 2026

The law around trans equality is fundamentally broken. Government inaction is hanging trans people and organisations out to dry - with a confusing mess of challenging rules and lawfare.

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This is what an actual *hero* of Irish music looks like:

Looking back on a year of transition, she can't help but feel proud of how far she's come. There's a long and difficult road ahead but she's starting to feel ok about where she is already.

i really loved persona by @ravineangel.bsky.social. fell asleep reading it, had troubled dreams, woke up & finished it & got emotional

If questions about publishing poetry have been spinning in your head, come to this seminar on Sunday, August 16th! sophieklahr.com/registration !

Everything you need to know about the state of media in the UK is that this mournful post is about a man who was a violent abuser who routinely wrote bigoted screeds about marginalised and vulnerable communities.

Just watched Bound in a theatre via a 35mm print. First time, only streamed before. Please can we bring back print movies, the skin tones were hypnotic! And Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly, oh my! & the Directing! Special mention, Joe Pantoliano sold me on every aspect of Caesars arc in this movie.

That "men should be allowed, without judgement or consequence, to do an amount of harm to women and girls that I personally deem acceptable" seems to be a genuine opinion still held by too many people in the year two thousand and twenty six is incredibly grim

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to BlueSky

ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ@ciara2001.eurosky.social · 2d ago

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to BlueSky

People have been yelling at Roz for several days now. Can we give it a rest? Roz has been in queer and trans activism longer than I have been alive. She doesn’t speak over activists now, but damn well has a right to speak from experience. Can people not just disagree on strategy and move on?

Roz Kaveney@rozkaveney.bsky.social · 2d ago

I've already made it clear that I'm not interested in continuing a struggle session into a second or third day. Do what you like but I will simply mute you rather than waste all our times. I regard myself as accountable, true, but there are more useful things I can be doing.

The ghost of my dead plant watching me go to Lowe's gardening section

On the 5th of August Trans + people and allies will tell the UK government to Bog Off! Cheere Mark from the Daily Record for our battle cry! 😉

I realise this is a hella long shot, but does anyone have a copy of Gail Jones' essay “Without Stars: A Small Essay on Grief”, which was featured in HEAT magazine volume 7? I've come across the citation in my current research and it would be incredibly helpful to read for this project.

sorry, but if your film involves a character moving from one place to another while experiencing challenges, it is a retelling of the odyssey. i don’t make the rules.

even with the best of intentions this is a very, very bad idea.

Fun thing I learned: If you save a file as .doc instead of .docx, you’ll be able to use classic WordArt.

In the last week I found around 9 articles in Irish media with non-trivial mentions of #trans topics. - 4 on ex-teacher - 1 on healthcare - 1 on research - 3 on matters abroad/children's author

Thank you so much Laura, for letting us publish your amazing piece! Defo check it out ✨

Laura Besley@laurabesley.bsky.social · 4d ago

I'm absolutely delighted to have a new piece published in @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social titled: LOVE HEARTS. Huge thanks to Head Editor, Leia Butler, and Guest Editor, Lowena Oliver, for selecting it. #fiction #microfiction #hybridfiction #amwriting www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2026...

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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The HSE are doing a survey for trans people accessing trans healthcare and general healthcare in Ireland. If you're trans it's worth filling out. gcn.ie/hse-survey-s...

I just moved all of my creative writing newsletter stuff from Substack to Beehiiv for those of you that want to sign up to be notified whenever my next book, "Ghost in the Machine," comes out next year. Or just keep following me here on Bluesky; whatever floats ya boat. bigeasypress.beehiiv.com

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)@deecherrywriter.bsky.social · last wk.

Nope it's a novella about grief and addiction that follows a 20-something who uses augmented reality tech to live the life he always wanted with his dead fiancé and becomes addicted to living in this fake world, set in a future version of NOLA where Big Tech has taken over. Think Black Mirror.