Jesus fucking christ, The Americans, why do they have to spoil everything? And I bastard hate football

Some of you had inquired how the Bambi BBQ (raki firing) went the other day. I think she came out looking delicious! Introducing 'Bambi'. Amateur botanist, woodland icon, garden grazer, originator of the 5 mile diet. What animal would you love to see in raku? #sciart #art #pottery #furryart

I need to be better armed for face-to-face convos with transphobes. It’s much easier to be caught off guard IRL. I have some stock phrases saved up, but I don’t feel it’s enough. What reliable resources would help me keep the key facts in my head? My memory is awful at the best of times

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

Wait folks are now mad about The Odyssey movie? A 2700yo fantastical tale about mythical creatures and magic and the Gods and translated/ debated/ taught in 100 different ways? Y'all sit down. It's a damn movie. Things can be enjoyed. It will put students in our classes. It seems great!

The Cat Distribution System has spoken. It has been mutually and cordially agreed that the neighbours' cat is now officially our cat. She's a wriggly, bitey ball of chaos, which is probably why on her first night sleeping on the bed, I dreamt that she was in fact an albino cobra called Julio.

Ever look at all the pointless objects in the world and get a kind of existential vertigo from the scale and futility of it all? Anyway, here are some flaars I picked from m'garden

Top tip heatwave, kids: I have spent today slathered in Biofreeze to survive the heat, then suddenly remembered agua de colonia exists and is basically what I used to douse myself in when I lived on the continent. Far safer than accidentally getting menthol on your flaps and briefly seeing God.

Want to go out for a sea swim but I haven't been in the sea/rivers in years b/c it's turned into a game of 'log or not?'. Open-water swimmers: do you find those live maps genuinely reliable, or are they more of a rough guide alongside rainfall, tide, and local knowledge? I dunno whether to risk it.

About to start up new TikTok and IG accounts for our workshop, which frankly gives me the ick. I’m not about to start narrating my brilliant life b/c my life is just as shit as everyone else’s. I know we need FB to pull in the local crowd but how do I deter all the racist aunties from coming over?

There’s a loneliness in holding a truth that others never witness or refuse to see. Narcissistic abusers are very good at being charming. That doesn’t diminish the abuse you suffered, or make it untrue. Doing that work for yourself while helping someone else really brings home how common it is

Jesus, this country's governance disgusts me. Disabled rights are our rights are your rights are my rights are trans rights. It is a circle.

Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@stephaniejane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As of today’s Supreme Court ruling, disabled people must be feeling the same.

The BMA is proposing to ballot GPs in England on an alternative model for general practice. If general practice is collapsing, the answer is proper funding, not a dental-style subscription model. We shouldn't be turning access to a family doctor into a two-tier service

I say!

Postcard From The Past@pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Eaten out twice.

Have a slot to present at the big giant conference in my academic field in July and I have mostly been really hoping, throughout the year, to get enough work to pay for it. This has not happened. If you do have the disposable funds to help I would be very grateful.

Dr Inigo Purcell@inigopurcell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

gofund.me/ba3121e45

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Chives are my favourite of the onion family. Not of all plants... just inter allia. 😬

“This is not a hypothetical. You are less free now. Your security, dignity, and safety is in the hands of nasty, petty, monumentally stupid bigots. They can take it from you at a whim. And that should bother you.” Save this article. Share it, again and again.

The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

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Also: if you must walk your dog in a heatwave, do it first thing in the morning. The hottest part of the day is usually between 4-5 and it doesn't even really start to cool down properly until the small hours of the morning. Most heatstroke cases I have seen were late afternoon / early evening.

Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 2mo ago

This reminds me: Basically every year when I was still in vet clinical practice someone would tell me that to help their dog in hot weather they shut them in the utility room with a fridge / freezer door open. Obviously refrigeration doesn’t work like that, so don’t do this please?

I'll be at the Bournemouth Bug Show next Sunday, selling prints, postcards and greetings cards. It's at the Littledown centre.

The reason the sunny weather makes me feel depressed is the same reason NYE used make me feel like shit-it's the idea that if you don't have the best time ever then what's the point of you? Like, fuck off, Debbie, I'm ginger, I'm staying out the sun cos I dont want a face like a leathery old handbag

Literally no one is going to guess what we're doing today (except for those in the know)

Found a tiny friend amid the rubbish outside the workshop today. Had to move the rubbish but cobbled together a wee hoos and garden in advance of the heatwave. Meet my new pal, Persephone

Fucking hell, men, you've no idea how lucky you are that sexuality isn't a choice otherwise we wouldn't go anywhere near your ridiculous genitals

AskAubry 🦝 🐆@ask-aubry.com · 3mo ago

The dudes who are in their feels about women voting.

Legend has it Poundland adopted the laurel wreath as its logo because Scipio Africanus used to love to pop in to pick up some glitter pens and a multipack of Tangy Toms for the lads in between Punic Wars.

And how the merry fuck are they going to police that then? I’m not going to carry a gender ID for anyone, neither am I going to show them my fanny. Leave trans women alone, ffs.

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

‘Trans women must be barred from female toilets, changing facilities and sports teams, new official guidance is to state’ www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Ella is a magical fly agaric toadstool Gnome, just arrived in the #GnomeVillage ... folksy.com/find/item/86...

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Would you like this notebook? Know someone who would? 😍 Shares appreciated, thank you!

Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 3mo ago

New handmade pocket sized notebook! Yours for only £30 (+£5 UK p&p). Extra heavy clothbound hard covers stitched into the open-spine binding. Morris-style endpapers. Nice paper. Bonus bookmark and blotting sheet. 160 pp. & approx 9 x 13 cm. Speak up if you want it!