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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I mean yes I love spontaneity and yes the fridge did need defrosting but I don’t like this

Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

In a lifetime category first, I just got cold called by a human salesperson and was gendered appropriately #transitionGoals

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Today was intense. Woken by an insistent cat: what was he insisting? Do something about the pigeon. What pigeon? Oh hells. Not just a pigeon, but a pigeon with strong views on my intended intervention. After the pigeon debacle I had to run to a photoshoot underdressed and underprepared […]

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

You know when you start a new job and you get to the first payday and the part of your brain that was holding on to the fear it might all have been an elaborate identity theft scam finally relaxes? Ahhhhhh.

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

#Deliveroo took my money and ran last night, their support is AI-triaged, and also their support triage AI is down. I think that's how an app dies. I should also probably just get on my own frickin bike to go not-very-far to the takeout place #firstWorldProblems

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Another (short) boat move done and boat & I live to cruise another day! 🙌 #boatstodon #boatLife

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The treatment of Jason Arday was massively out of proportion to his faults. People who have committed terrible crimes have received less scrutiny, yet I don't believe anything he did or said even crossed the threshold of criminality. How many of us would have survived what he was put through? 🧵

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Wearing the suffragette colours in 2026 and being scrupulously friendly and polite to #trans people is a lot like being #antiRacist and not having any Black friends.

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

@bookstodon Just finished holiday reading the first; Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H. I fished my copy out of the marina trash and I’m glad I did. It’s a compelling and wise memoir that interleaves stories from the Quran with queer coming-of-age episodes. There is so much compassion in this book […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 11/08/2026

to paraphrase Warren Buffett on leverage, If you know what you're doing you don't need LLMs and if you don't know what you're doing then it's too risky for you to be using them

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

A day where I am reminded that there are some family members who it’s not safe to be #queer or #trans around. They might smile and be nice and polite but every now and again the mask slips and you realise there’s some amount of pretence going on there. Maybe there’ll be an apology, maybe there […]

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

#gig alert! Back at the #cav with #MaryBurgersAndTheWorks at the end of August. Last time sold out and it was a scream. High energy tunes. Happy people. Wardrobe malfunctions. Cake _everywhere_. maryburgers.bandcamp.com/album/throw-me-a-party

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

So in the middle of all of this #jobhunting business I -also- self-taped a #bass audition for the best metal band I’ve ever heard. This progressed to a meet the band vibe check…. and now they’ve booked me in for a rehearsal tryout the day I get back from holiday. 🤩 honestly, winning at life just […]

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Woke up this morning in an unfamiliar bed with a whole load of unfamiliar sensory input, which my consciousness eventually resolved into ‘hey, you’re on #holiday, there is nothing you need to do, relax’. Cue immediate panic response from that part of me that needs to be busy to feel safe. Good […]

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Sitting in the departure lounge, having completed all the pre-holiday tasks. There’s a feeling that’s a bit like vertigo, but for time not height, that I experience when I’m looking back over a busy week. I’m feeling that now, like I’m looking at last Thursday through the wrong end of a […]

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Kay Elúvian @kayeluvian.the.voiceover.bar.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

@afloatingbea it could all have been solved at a stroke by parliament, BUT they didn't want to to deal with the gendercritters and the Right so they abdicated responsibility to the courts wherein best resources/most expensive lawyer tends to win. Fuckers.

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Happy #EHRC guidance goes live day to all my disobedient #trans siblings here on #terfIsland. Citing reasonable concerns, hypotheticals and outliers, ‘gender critics’ used money, influence, and the courts to create a permission structure to exclude us from gendered spaces. The only people who […]

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

I don’t believe in revenge, but I have a long list of people I’ll be delighted to outlive, and it just got one shorter.

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

First in person #yoga class in more than six years. Ohhhh that’s good. And also ohhhh that’s gonna hurt 😂

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Bravery and cowardice are two ends of a spectrum, and fear is part of both. The brave are not fearless. The brave overcome their fears. Cowards never do.

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annajayne 🏳️‍⚧️🙏🏳️‍🌈 @annajayne.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

RE: mastodon.world/@paninid/11702134381… I cancelled my monthly donation to Amnesty because of this. I've been a regular supporter for several decades, but if they aren't willing to stand up to bullies I'm done.

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

One of the shifts I’ve observed in myself in this era of #misinformation and #vibecoding is a hard swing back toward #embodied activities and #mysticism, i.e. the witchy stuff. Five years back my whole personality was perfecting code and getting praised for it whilst remaining as invisible to […]

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Feeling pretty badass after this morning's job #interview- I was able to show the panel a bug in production they'd not spotted and we fixed right there on the call. That felt like a flex 💪 😜 Ultimately I don't know if I have enough of a backend lean for them- but I'm gonna keep my fingers […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Pro-Palestine protesters, who sprayed red paint and broke some windows, are about to be sentenced as *terrorists*. Neither they nor the jurors were told of this possibility during their trial for criminal damage. So they were unable to defend themselves against this far more serious charge.

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Exhilarated and jittery having just turned in a self-tape for pretty much the most exciting thing I’ve ever done an #audition for, and got an instant positive response. I’m not gonna jinx this by tagging the band haha Now I have about 80 mins to become a completely different person for a tech […]

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

#introduction time! Hi, I'm Bea. I seem to be leading a highly squiggly life that's led me through a wild range of experiences, has, at this point been going on for Some Time, and fortunately shows no signs of stopping yet. Currently, amongst other things, I'm a #coder, a #boater, a #music […]

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

The collective everyonehateselon_ made this in London, UK. 👾😆

Subverted bus shelter ad by everyonehateselon_ at Carnegie Street in London, showing an older man in dark glasses above the words, “Glasses for people who don’t do consent. AI glasses | Meta.”

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

I was not expecting the value of chipmakers to start tumbling so soon, after those are among the very few companies that are profiting from the AI bubble. If investors feel the party is already over for them then the great AI Ponzi scheme is very close to unraveling.

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Bee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

A little while back I learned something cool about my maternal grandmother, who I knew in life as a retired florist whose life revolved around her husband’s interests in a very traditional cishet way. Turns out she had a whole other life before marriage and working with my grandfather, and what […]

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Two hours in to being on a properly maintained and populated instance and it’s very clear this is a different Mastodon experience. 2k character posts! Spontaneous follows! Posts, boosts and follows all work first time! I can engage with high traffic accounts without DDoSing my instance! […]

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Bea @afloatingbea.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Really impressed with the #mastodon account migration process. #libre forever! Also I think I was probably a bit behind the times running 4.1.4, not to mention a bit vulnerable. Ahhhh the sweet taste of someone else doing the tech work. Thanks, hachyderm admins! (and I'll be donating in due […]

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